With my process of going from skeptic to witness, getting to the point of accepting evidence was probably the biggest step for me. Sure I had seen all the casts, read the books, been to conferences, seen the blurry pictures, etc. But I had all the typical skeptics doubts about authenticity. But it was not until I found my first footprint, that could only be a BF because of its size, location, and timing of the find, that it really hit me. These things are real! They are out there. Those who have examined the evidence and from that deduced that BF exists have my admiration. A witness is just a person lucky enough to be there at the right time and place. In some cases where the experience was terribly frightening, they probably do not think they were lucky at all.