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Link to the paper: http://1drv.ms/1BnR9hm I am away from WiFi access until Saturday. I do hope you enjoy the research! Original thread. http://bigfootforums.com/index.php/topic/50970-what-about-the-bones/

I'm pretty sure that little foot casting (in the above photo) is one of Paul Freeman's. It's about 6 inches long. I've always thought his castings looked pretty fake, especially the wrinkle foot ones, but the 'experts' sure do seem to like his stuff.

I borrow it every now and again Doc, but should have credited you, sorry..

Correct. FWIW, when I had my encounter, I didn't think one way or the other about BF- they simply weren't on the radar at the time. I agree that logically, they should not exist, assuming our logic is that we are the supreme intelligence on the planet. But that may not be true - ask Samuel Clemens My problem is I saw not one but two, real close up in good lighting. Prior to that I had no opinion. Now I know, which is different from opinion. So knowing that they exist, my explanation, while very possibly not being correct, is at least logical... for what that is worth which isn't a lot.

WRT to museums, I can tell you from personal experience that things go missing. I volunteer as photo/media archivist and graphics specialist at the Montana Military Museum at Fort William Henry Harrison a couple of miles west of Helena. We are a very small institution with a paid director and all else done by volunteers, most of us Vietnam veterans or spouses/relatives of veterans. I began my tenure there in mid 2011, and in early 2012 our long time curator passed away taking with him mountains of institutional knowledge. Most of our collection not on display is housed in two small buildings and some Connex storage units. We regularly find things we had no clue were there and sometimes cannot find things we know are there somewhere. We are slowly digitizing our records but it is a slow process and at 64, I’m the youngest person on board and I have chronic health challenges, our eldest docent is a WWII veteran who just passed 93. The museum has been in existence roughly 25 years. We likely have a higher percentage of our collection on display than most museums as our display area is larger than our collections department. Most museums are like ice bergs with the display items the part above water. With most if not all major U.S. museums having been in existence since the 19th century it is not difficult to believe that things slip through the cracks with no conspiracy required. Money wouldn’t make things happen faster unless warm bodies accompanied it, we’re a pretty dedicated bunch but can only do so much. WRT to the Glacial Lake Missoula Floods and with no disrespect to SWWASASQUATCHPROJECT as they are a special interest of mine, they were more recent than, but every bit as devastating, as he relates. At its maximum, the lake backed up by a glacier blocking the Clark Fork River in present day northern Idaho contained some 500 cubic MILES of water. When the water level approached the top of the glacier dam, estimated at 2000 feet high, pressure forced water into cracks in the ice according to the latest research. The ice dam failed catastrophically and that huge amount of water emptied across Idaho and eastern Washington and down into northwest Oregon over a period of 2 to 3 days. The flow was greater than that of all the current rivers in the world combined. Some of those stones in the Willamette Valley originated in the Canadian Shield, were carried to Montana in glaciers which calved into Lake Missoula, thence carried by the floods to their final resting spots. Current estimates are that this process repeated at least 36 times during the last ice age, with the latter releases diminished as the glaciers shrank. The time period was likely from about 12k to 9k years BP, and they may have repeated as often as every 30 or 40 years. Anyone who has driven through eastern Washington has seen the evidence of this deluge in the plains and promontories of lava stripped bare of soil. Anyone interested in learning more about this subject would enjoy “Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods†by Geologist David Alt, available here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_26?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=glacial+lake+missoula+and+its+humongous+floods&sprefix=glacial+lake+missoula+and+its+humongous+floods%2Cdigital-text%2C215

Acidic soil doesn't explain the bones left in the rest of the US and Canada. If we are to believe that these sightings are real then the bones should be all over the continent. The 'Smithsonian conspiracy' is a convenient excuse to explain it away, but that was long before we had the excavation equipment we have now. Think of how much excavation has happened since then and how many more bones should have been found. Remember also that Bigfoots are supposed to be still be thriving since the Smithsonian days, and still leaving dead bodies and bones all across the country- which would mean a continuous supply of fresh specimens. ^^This^^ is why I think people came up with the 'alternate dimension' and paranormal garbage. To explain away the logically unexplainable.

If you do a Google search you'll see that a lot of people have come across cougar bones in the wild- https://www.google.com/search?q=early+human+bones+united+states+found&biw=1366&bih=580&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=d4NZVa2bBsmDsAWC8YC4Cw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg#tbm=isch&q=cougar+bones I'm sure cougar bones have also been unearthed from all of the land excavation that goes on every day in this country, including their prehistoric ancestors. Now either Bigfoot could be an exceptionally rare species like you say, or it could be seen all across the US like other people say. You simply can't have both. An exceptionally rare species isn't going to create tens of thousands of sightings. Even if there were only a handful of Bigfoot on this planet, each one would still need two parents, and those parents would each have two parents, and so on, and so on. Over the years that becomes a lot of bones to be found, and given their size they shouldn't be easily overlooked. You know I'm all for the existence of Bigfoot, but when you start looking at the numbers and the every day reality of things, it starts to look really dismal. I'm on the fence because I look at the PGF and I just can't see certain aspects of it being hoaxed. It's really that compelling. When I look at just about all the other reports though nothings seems very convincing.

If bf exists there is really no logical reason why at least one wouldn't be caught on a game cam at some point in time. The many reasons (from the looney to the not so looney) we hear of why bf aren't captured by game cams really don't hold any water with me and it's one of the reasons I am skeptical of its existence. t.