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So you measure the importance of Bigfoot events by how much media attention they receive? No wonder you don't believe BF exists.

He lost his marbles?

Here's one that I recorded from my bedroom window & heard regularly for a few years. To me there was no doubt about what it was. I've never heard another one exactly like it.

I would beg to differ, they haven't all been proven a hoax. People can find some reason to disbelieve just about anything, and or believe just about anything. The evidence speaks to people in different ways, and not always through the cold eye of science. The folly is in trying to control what people believe. Personal experience, intuition and the collective picture the body of evidence presents will always compel certain individuals who have faith that not all people who claim to have encountered BF are lying or mistaken. I think the BFskeptic's version of proof should be no different than what the proponents would be held to, and not confused with the possibility of a hoax.

So, being on the Steering Committee now has new meaning.

Regarding the original question .. I think scent is irrelevant. I assume they know I'm around, often precisely where I am, so attempts to be stealthy including hiding my scent are entirely wasted and likely counter-productive if it's obvious I am indeed attempting stealth. Much better to just go to a good spot and be myself, in plain sight, do what I do, and hope it attracts curiosity. In other words, **I'm the bait**. MIB

^If that's the mask that Kitakaze posted then it's a flawed mask. That mask was created from the outline of Patty's hair. A reproduction with no hair should not be the same size as the original with hair. Once you put proper hair on it then the shape and size increases.

See that's where the problem lies. Over the entirety of the Sasquatch legends existence, these handful of P.T. Barnum like events have come to shape the impression of the story of Sasquatch. You get hundreds, if not thousands of reports of Sasquatch encounters and sightings, then a denier tosses in, "But what about Dyer, or What about Marx" and so on and so on. When one comes right down to brass tacks, neither side has any better proof than the other of the existence or non- existence of the creature, yet extremists on both sides are sure they have the definitive proof to back their stance. I find it hard to believe that there are that many people running around in the forests and woods making fake footprints, and sometimes miles away from any habitation by man, just in the hopes that someone will run across them and think it's a Sasquatch. I find it equally hard to believe that there are that many people, in the hundreds and thousands who misidentify what they see in the forests and woods also. One can try and justify all of that as a mass conspiracy to hoax the general public to themselves, but I think there just might be something to some of these encounters and sightings. If anyone thinks they are all just hoaxes, then I say Prove It. don't just sit back and deny it, but PROVE IT, to the same level of proof that you demand from those who claim they have seen something or have foot casts or whatever the evidence is. I want the proof as bad as anyone, but I'm not naive enough to think everything is a hoax, sham, or misidentification.

I guess that depends on what you consider "the BF community". This site regularly calls out frauds, charlatans, liars and all sorts of ne'er do wells. Anyone who wants in "the BF community" or is already a part of it is doing themselves a dis-service if they don't join in here to find out exactly what is going on.

There are undoubtedly plenty of those. There are also many who have had close encounters where the proximity would make such an error difficult. If you are however of the mind set that every sighting is mistaken identity then we are at an impasse. The debate is dead before it began.