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Much like Nod mentioned above I vaguely remember Bigfoot being on TV when I was very young. My dad took me to the movies to see that Leonard Nimoy narrated documentary. When I got older I grew out of monster stories. Every now and then some documentary would pop up on TV and I would watch it. I would watch it since I found the idea of a hairy ape-man running around intriguing and, I suppose, watching those shows sort of channeled the inner child a bit. I never thought about Bigfoot once the program was over. That pretty much sums it up until Finding Bigfoot hit the air waves. I tuned in for the reasons I have already mentioned. I was initially quite shocked to see Moneymaker, et al saying things like Bigfoots are known to do this, or that. And I thought to myself how can they say something so definitive about something that is not confirmed? Or was it possible that Bigfoot had been confirmed and I missed seeing it on the news or something? So I started to try to learn more. To try and see if there had been great progress since the early days of Bigfoot that I remembered from my childhood and passing attention I paid to infrequent documentaries. My curiousity was not driven by any personal experience. I have never seen anything in my countless hours hiking that I ever for a moment thought might be Bigfoot related. The notion simply did not even appear on my mental radar. So I downloaded every documentary I could find and watched them all. I started talking about Bigfoot a bit with the wife. She would roll her eyes and I would say things like, no it's possible I think. There is this phd, Meldrum, who thinks it is an extant species, G.Blacki. What did I know about extant hominids? It sounded plausible. He has a phd, knows vastly more about this than I do. So, while I did not buy into it hook line and sinker, I was tentatively speculative about it. So I kept reading and watching. I bought any ebooks that I could find on the subject. I even paid 50 bucks to have Bindernagels The Discovery of the Sasquatch mail ordered to me. Read that as well. By this time I had found my way here and to several other Bigfoot forums and blogs and, of course, found the two infamous Bigfoot Youtube researchers in my area--Timbergiant and Toejam. I became more skeptical as I became exposed to all the nonsense in this topic. Before that I had no idea what the Bigfoot freezer hoax was or any other hoaxes. I also opened my ears to the skeptical side of the topic. That began to make more sense to me. Posts by Saskeptic here were quite effective in my early skeptical leanings. The large amount of hoaxes and dishonesty did no favours for the proponent case. I read lots and lots of witness reports. Again,some of the more radical and completely unsupported claims also served to shore up my skeptical leanings as well. Every big Bigfoot event that comes and ends up in failure time and time again ebbed away at any lingering notions I may have had about the possibility of Bigfoot being real. Eventually the skeptical teachings won out and my curiousity shifted to a conclusion that until something much better than the current body of evidence showed up that there is no such thing as a Bigfoot. That, of course, remains my position and my conclusion based on the evidence and readings that I have done so far. One thing I have learned that seems to be quite true is that there is always some new train wreck lining up to happen just as the current one is going down in flames. When I first started looking into this there was Daisy in a box and then the Ketchum study. These were going to bring about the Year of the Sasquatch. Proponents were brushing off their crow recipes anticipating the banquet to follow. Well Daisy was a hoax ( big surprise) and Ketchum became a huge embarassment. Now we have the Sykes study. When that fails to deliver no doubt there will be some other big thing appearing on the Bigfoot event horizon. Doubtless that, whatever it happens to be, will crash and burn as well. There is no shortage of trainwreck spotting in Footery it seems. I remain interested in the topic. Mostly that interest now is just in the phenomenon itself. Not the alleged creature. I find the personalities attracted to Bigfoot to be interesting for whatever reason. So I stick around. I enjoy debate and discussion and get engaged in topics and find myself arguing the skeptical view point because well that is my view point and my opinion is all that I have to contribute after all.

CNN day one: BIGFOOT IS REAL CNN day two: HOW COULD THEY! No good deed goes unpunished. Sticking your neck out is a good way to get your head cut off...

I'm doubting your contributions to this thread. If your intent is to stop the flow of earnest conversation by people genuinely interested in explorring the BF phenomenon, then congrats. You're neat-o.

^Are you doubting my report was a Bigfoot? If I suspect it to be a Bigfoot and someone else can verify with a similar account, then it's probably a Bigfoot.

Rude.

I just want to learn about what i saw, nothing else really. All the rest is pretty much irrelevant for me but unfortunately my temperament gets me involved in silly things on the forum as i can't resist giving my $0.02. But ultimately, overall, i just want to learn more about what i saw, what it does, how it does it, when it does it, what it is and how on earth has it been able to avoid the best part of 400 plus million people for so long..