Come on Saskeptic! We all know that when the woods go eerily silent... it means some unspeakable horror (monster, ghost, hockey-masked killer, etc) is creeping up. Probably from behind too, so that just when you spin around, a second too late, you will...
SHUDDER. Sorry. Creeped myself out there.
As to what this Forum has done for me? It has shown me that a lot of the folks who are open to the idea of BF are, in fact, a hard sell when it comes to folks trotting out new photos, videos, sighting reports, etc. I am sure some of the "skeptical crowd" are gnashing their teeth to hear me say it, and please note... I said SOME of the folks who are open to the idea of BF, not ALL of them (there are some very credulous "believers", I admit!). But I have to grin when the latest BF photo or video or whatever is run by the crowd here... they come up with means of debunking, questioning, challenging, that would never occur to me (of course, that is a pretty low bar!). And some of the toughest in that crowd are drawn from the "fence-sitter" group. They aren't hostile to the IDEA of BF, per se, but they aren't checking their critical faculties at the door.
Not what a lot of folks would expect, I suspect. I bet a lot imagine a "Bigfoot Forum" would be filled with folks EAGER to be taken in by the latest "guy in a monkey suit" shakey-cam video. Not so.
Shadow