Smithsonian Casts Negative Light On Bigfoot
A recent article about bigfoot on Smithsonian.com casts a negative light on the creature's existence.
Sixty years ago this fall, Bigfoot first stepped into the public consciousness. “Giant footprints puzzle residents,” a headline in the Humboldt Times announced. The small Northern California newspaper reported that a road construction crew had discovered humanlike footprints that were a massive 16 inches long. The paper was the first to give the mysterious animal that made the prints its memorable moniker—“Bigfoot”—and the creature has been stomping through the American imagination ever since.
Today, the legendary beast seems to be everywhere: You will find Bigfoot looking awfully cute this year in two children’s films: The Son of Bigfoot and Smallfoot. Animal Planet recently aired the finale of its popular series “Finding Bigfoot,” which lasted 11 seasons despite never making good on the promise of its title. And the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization lists at least one report from every state, except Hawaii, over the past two decades. The most recent sighting, in June 2018, was by a woman in Florida who reported a creature that looked like “a large pile of soggy grass.” Other evidence in the database includes supposed Bigfoot scat, nests and noises. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, it may not make a sound—but it seems someone will report that a Bigfoot knocked it over.
“Interest in the existence of the creature is at an all-time high,” the paleontologist Darren Naish has observed, even though “there’s nothing even close to compelling as goes the evidence.”
Of course, Bigfoot is not the first fabled hominid to roam North America. Sasquatches long populated the mythologies of American Indian tribes in the Pacific Northwest, but those 1958 footprints transformed the myth into a media sensation. The tracks were planted near Bluff Creek in Northern California by a man named Ray Wallace—but his prank was not revealed until his death in 2002, when his children said it had all been “just a joke.”
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listen, just because some tosser named Ray Wallace said he planted tracks 60 years ago now every bloody skeptic will use that as a way to discredit every other bigfoot sighting - that is total bollocks captain ! All we need is one true sighting, just one true sighting from the thousands and thousands that have been reported to make bigfoot really exist ! i'm guessing that there have been far more sightings that do not go reported because of fear of ridicule but now the tide is turning and people aren't so afraid to come out and speak the truth just like in hollywood with all the pedos running around and speaking of which i'll bet stu get's his knickers in a knot every single night hoping and praying to his Porcelain statue of james Randi that bigfoot isn't real. Sorry Pedo Stu Savile, you and the bloody Smithsonian can go jump in the Thames . sod off the lot of you non believers !
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DeleteHow’s this for logic... The fact that Native Americans, a culture oppressed and largely seen in an unfavourable light by Europeans who colonised North America, have reported the same thing as modern cultures for thousands of years... Means Bigfoot doesn’t exist. Thousands of years of anthropological data for the existence of Bigfoot doesn’t matter, because that data means it doesn’t exist. Think about that a minute.
DeleteAnd apart from the referencing popularity of the subject and pop culture, which again, illogically is somehow to the detriment of the subject (yes, quite incredible isn’t it?) we have Darren Naish referenced (eyes rolling). Just for context... Even though this genius Darren Naish acknowledges the evidence, he doubts that, “the data we have at the moment – this includes tracks, hairs, vocalisations, photos, and the innumerable eyewitness accounts – provides support for the notion that Bigfoot is real.” Meaning that even though the data exists, Bigfoot still doesn’t regardless, because Bigfoot doesn’t exist.
“Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, "circle in proving"; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. The components of a circular argument are often logically valid because if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true.”
And then the icing on the cake. Ray Wallace. Regardless of the fact that Bigfoot tracks have been documented for hundreds of years...
"If anyone still has any doubt as to Long’s motive and they think that he wasn't on a witch hunt from the very beginning, let me share just one more thing worth your consideration. On page 442, Greg Long wrote about the death of Ray Wallace. Wallace owned a construction company that was involved in building a road in Northern California in the late 50’s. Long reminds us that it was Jerry Crew who was the bulldozer operator for Wallace who had found giant tracks on the ground around Wallace’s construction equipment. Long goes on to tell the reader how after Ray died, the Wallace family told how Ray would go around pulling pranks on people by wearing some wooden fake feet carvings he had in his possession. Greg Long ends the Wallace story by saying, “And so the Bigfoot film legend, which enjoyed a long and lively run, is now completely dead.” In typical fashion, Greg Long didn't even bother to check any of the basic facts surrounding the actual subject matter. I have to assume that Long never knew that because such large tracks were being found on the Wallace construction site, Ray was reported to be having trouble keeping workers on the job. Maybe I should point out that construction company’s work on a deadline and it makes little sense to me that Ray Wallace would want to sabotage his own living."
- Bill Miller
Good job Smithsonian. You really showed everyone how stupid the subject of Bigfoot is, alright. I’ll agree with you on Finding Bigfoot though... That show has genuinely done much of the job for you.
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DeleteThnx for the link Iktomi ! Even a fool like Pedo stu can clearly see the difference between the hoaxed print which is very basic and rudimentary and totally lacking in any general knowledge of what a real print would look like. Then add prints that have a mid tarsal break and you would need someone with advanced anatomy knowledge of what an 8 ft 500 pound being would need to walk with . So unless there are some anthropology students out there going around hoaxing it just doesn't sound sane that some if not most of the prints out there are genuine .
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DeleteYeah, I think the Smithsonian knows more than you
DeleteNo, they clearly f’n don’t.
DeleteA lot of people, including have acknowledged that Wallace was an enthusiast, and I think his family coming forward with the prosthetic after his death may have been a way at saving the family name.
Wallace the enthusiast;
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eh....yeah they do.
DeleteOoooooooooooooooooooooh, no they don’t!
DeleteNo one cares about the stupid Indians lktomi. We bitch smacked them around once and we will gladly do it again.
DeleteAnd you’ll be telling me via another sockpuppet somewhere down the line, that I’m guilty of cultural appropriation (again).
DeleteNo psycho, your pathetic little attempt to sock puppet a hateful comment and attribute it to me won’t assuage your guilty conscience after you’ve appropriated native culture in such an outright racist manner. You’ll continue to lose sleep over it, I’ll make sure of that.
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Argh right on cue! Switch to the cultural appropriation jigg! I’m even giving you sockpuppet cues based on experience and you’re actually taking them! Say, that’s a very radical left wing stance you have there all of a sudden PS, or does anything go when you’re trying to get off?
DeleteLosing sleep? Jeez... you do get a laugh sometimes.
Oh... and it’s very simple. I go to sleep when I’m tired, and when I wake up, I respond to comments. If you’re in the US as you claim, then you’re the one usually worried about sleep at 11pm-12am while I’m hammering in the last nail in your coffin.
DeleteWe do like to project, don’t we PS?
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DeleteAs the top Federal disinformation agent over on cryptozoology.com, who was also a secret administrator, stated late one night, "Of course Bigfoot are real. There are just too many reports for them to not be real!" And then he deleted it within the next 5 minutes. It should be added that the skills of this disinformation agent were without equal, as in just two paragraphs, he could get you to question whether you were ever born. He knows who he is and he is still there.
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