Why I'm Fascinated By Bigfoot
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Tyler W., someone who's curious about Bigfoot.
I grew up in rural Utah, camped and hunted often, am an eagle scout, and studied Biology and Chemistry at the University of Utah with an emphasis on genetics and comparative vertebrate morphology. Went to medical school at ATSU in Missouri. I am now an internal medicine resident near Columbiana county in Ohio.
Like most footers, I started young. I became skeptical as I grew, and now have started back on some of the 'kool-aid' with some of the recent and up and coming investigations. From my point of view, there are 3 reasons to think that squatchin' is fascinating.
First: the possibility that there is an undiscovered ape/human/protohuman/extradementional alien transplant (take your pick) out there. The amount of witnesses, the fair amount of consistency, and the long history that even the aboriginal groups have reports makes this something to consider. Now, with this strong, objective scientific backing, plus the chance to have samples directly from so many searchers could be the end of many years of questions. Even with just a few equivocal findings, the mystery and possibility will remain a long time.
Second: the possibility that the entire thing is based on hoaxes. We know that the vast majority of evidence that surfaces is found to be faked. Logic demands that we consider that all of it might be. I can see why people feel the need to set up fake evidence. The chance to become famous, make a few bucks, have a laugh at peoples reactions etc... is very much a part of human nature. How amazing would it be to find that we have been faking each other out for centuries? You have to imagine even indigenous people would have to have gotten a kick out of watching fellow tribesmens eyes widening as their buddy ran through the trees wrapped in an animal skin.
Third: the chance that our brains make us see it. Pareidolia is thrown around like a cuss-word when people start talking about sasquatch. Our brains do not like chaos or nonsensical stimuli. Schizophrenia and other hallucinatory situations (including chemically induced ones) are simply our brains taking pathologic or random neuron firing and interpreting them as something sort of meaningful. We see faces on rocks on mars, we see a cat when people draw Garfield, and just maybe there is something hardwired into us to see giant apes when in the woods? Why don't we see dragons, unicorns, or fairies more? I don't know. Just food for thought.
im just here for the shit storm that will ensue when the patty suit is revealed.
ReplyDeleteHi Kitakaze how are you?
DeleteThe suit you speak of is in Al Deatley's house and it's a replica.
I'm doing fine actually.Just got finished giving Tontar a reach around as he was pounding my taterhole.Thanks for asking!
DeleteTontar is the skeptic suspected of hoarding the Elbe tracks. Could be true, and reports the hoaxer was from the believer camp may have been a misinterpretation of the fact he is a BFF member. Threads concerning the issue are closing faster then Blockbuster video franchises, but Randles talks a little about the matter on "why hoaxers do it thread" for anyone curious.
Deletethey do it because beelevers are ripe suckers for the pickin. what a joke Bigfoot and its believers are!!
DeletePathetic, even a doctor is a beelever now!!
"they do it because beelevers are ripe suckers for the pickin"
DeleteSo what you're saying is you like sucking beelevers.Wow,got to give it to you for coming out of the closet there my friend!
THIS JUST IN
ReplyDeleteBigfoot fascinates me too....
It's truly fascinating that people can be so retarded as to believe in a mythical man ape that has no evidence to support it's existence, and is only 'seen' by drunk rednecks or mentally ill people. LOL
Megaphone Man
You are such a dumb shit I kind of feel sorry for you.
DeleteMegaphone Girl,I think you need to go back to your job of giving blow jobs so you can buy some more crack for that addiction you have.
DeleteSincerely,your Dealer.
Ps.I can't keep spotting it to you until you pay your tab,bitch.
We have hoaxed video evidence, Hoaxed photo evidence, hoaxer's testimony, eyewhitness testimony of hoaxes, we have hoax scat, hoax audio, hoax stuff like masks, suits and feet, there are hoaxed foot prints, hoaxers DNA, we even have a body proving that hoaxes are true (with all due respect).
DeleteBasically any class of evidence used to "prove" bigfoot exists can also be applied to the body of evidence to prove it's a hoax. The Hoax body of evidence is significantly more substantial then the evidence for bigfoot.
What's your point?
DeleteSaw a squatch. What part of leftist PhD scientist who does not drink or smoke do you not understand? Living in the forest with the squatches sounds better than living with hewmans sometimes.
DeleteThat's like saying that everyone in your math class in high school was Mentally ill or rednecks- right. I know 7 people personally who have seen them including 3 relatives and 2 close family friends and none of them fit your "mentally ill " or "drunk rednecks" profile moron. You seem to fit the bill Anon 12:28 as a mental drunk redneck. To catorgize thousands of witnesses into these two profiles shows how low on the intelligence scale you come from!
DeleteHey, Hurr Durr, I think Megaphone Man forgot to mention one other category, that being the "inbred rube" category. Does that help out your categorization of Bigfoot adherents? There are more categories, by the way.
DeleteStank Ape^.
Delete"Why don't we see dragons, unicorns, or fairies more?"
ReplyDeleteWe do (worldwide) - check Europe for the latter. Look into Celtic folklore
Yes, but those sightings have all but stopped in recent decades right? I mean the Celts as a people were centuries ago, and most of the myths were VERY old by then.
DeleteActually, A strain of seeing what one wanted to see ran in the genes of Celtic people. If I worry about something long enough, I can see it like it were real. Hearing the stories around the peat fire in the cabin from very young was sure to instill the descriptions of things like Gruagachs, Brownies, Banshees and whatnot, giving a continuity to their visions. However, from personal experience, the big man is flesh and blood, not a vision.
DeleteHaven't seen unicorns or fairies, but I've seen a dragon and they are awesome.
Delete
DeleteI have seen a dragon fly, a house fly and even a horse fly.
Why are you people so hateful? A bunch of people who never leave the privacy of their bedroom in mommy's house would be an accurate answer. Keep debating, believers and skeptics. Scientific method. All the haters sound like descendants of the flat earth individuals centuries ago. I hope bigfoot exists, but even should it prove otherwise, the search is fun. Haters, you can go back and ask mommy to get you the latest WOW game for your 40th birthday. Thanks for the article Tyler.
ReplyDeleteTyler^
DeleteThanks! It was fun.
DeleteThat's a really good looking track in the pic above. Where's it from?
ReplyDeleteDoofus!^
DeleteIts from a fake foot.
Delete"Glam Shots" at the mall.
DeleteIts from the elbe trackway fakes, courtesy of Big Jim Jr.
DeleteLooking forward to gimlins confession, I will have a lot of respect for him when he does.
ReplyDeleteStill has nocturnal dreams.^
DeleteAre you trying to say "wet dreams" or "nocturnal emissions"? Everyone who sleeps at night and dreams has "nocturnal dreams".
DeleteWait a minute. Is this Hurr Durr? LOL.
^^^Wanna be Dr.Kinsey^^^
DeleteI have a sasquatch family living in my barn. one of them is injured. What should I do? Should I leave them be or try and help?
ReplyDeleteRun in quickly and stick your index finger a quarter of an inch in his asshole, count to 5 and scream bloody murder... this will scare the bejeezus out of them. They will run away fast... trust me.
Delete