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I've become bitter over time. It's been at least 7 years now, maybe 8, that I've been involved in this whole thing. I came here all bright eyed and bushy tailed long ago. My family is Native American, I saw and experienced things that even people here would find extremely hard to believe. I had a good sense that even then there were two kinds of sasquatch, the real one, the elusive spirit of the woods, powerful medicine and at the edge of our understanding, yet a link between us and the natural world. Then the one that people made, out of desperation, or fun, or justification, the majority of what is called evidence. I kept that close to my chest though. But I liked the people involved, even though I felt most of the stuff was hoaxed, but I tried to get along with those who put so much belief in even the fake stuff. But there was something else going on that made itself clear. Some people, that put a big financial investment into it, that promoted it, demonized those who had doubts and not only expressed those doubts, but especially those who provided evidence that what was being promoted wasn't what it was claimed to be. They developed a division line, "Believers" vs. "Skeptics". They spread paranoia and propaganda, that those who cast doubt on evidence were calling others "Liars", that the whole reason sasquatch, and hence people that believed in sasquatch, wasn't taken seriously was because of the "Skeptics" and their "insidious agenda", when in reality it was what it always was, people talking about and even researching this subject and the evidence. People looking, and finding, explanations other than the mystery. I saw those I thought I respected creating lies about those they persecuted, and I saw them use their influence to create divisions to outright ostracize normal people who only got involved out of a mutual interest, so that they can make a buck. It's no longer about research, it's no longer about the search for truth, if it ever was. It is about entertainment, the TV show, and using fiction to present something as real. It's about doing anything to prove the fake sasquatch is real, with it's wooden feet and dynel fur and mixed up anatomy, while the real sasquatch, if there is one, hides safely tucked away at the edges of human perception, unseen, unheard, and unknown. Perhaps that is for the best.

Such as -? Besides, we're not talking about "all over the world"...we're talking about animals here in America, especially large, 'hard to miss' species. I mean, can you scour the internet for a newly discovered subspecies of flat worm that was "previously unknown to science!" Probably, although 90% of those are actually not 'discoveries' so much as 'identifications' of subspecies based on taxonomic standards that are often high contested even among the concerned taxonomists). Can you show me a species of large animal that lives in fairly well populated areas where people are hunting, driving cars and trucks on modern highways, carrying cell phones and other cameras, setting up trail cams, etc. etc. and show me one that -gasp!- nobody knew existed and of which there is nothing in the fossil record like it? No, you cannot. That's my "position".