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Wow you're a special one. I think you're absolutely full of it personally as I've seen this "professional of data analysis" in action don't forget and have only just cleaned up the absolute train wreck you made of the data you added in the SSR. And by the way, you haven't just elimated the BFRO in one analysis and you even thinking you have let alone saying that you have just shows an unhealthy self obsession of yourself and a probable fantasy land that's being lived in.

After 9 years of intense interest in this topic, I still remain firmly entrenched in the "I want to believe camp." I am by no means a serious researcher, in the sense that I don't spend every weekend looking for them. However, I'm an avid outdoors-man and have been fortunate in that I've been able to travel in pursuit of my hobbies. I've spent significant time in Bigfoot areas and have never come close to finding any sign or evidence of their existence. I remain hopeful and will continue to keep my eyes open. This article if very well written and author makes some very legitimate points and he appears to have a good sense of what's going on in Bigfoot culture. The only reason I believe in the possibility of Bigfoot is simply because of the eye witness accounts. Some are so compelling that I can't discount them as being the result of an overactive imagination. However, its incredible we don't have DNA evidence and even more incredible that we don't have a ton of photos and/ or video by now. I don't buy into the belief that BF are aware of game cameras and are able to avoid them. If BF were such shy creatures then we'd have no witness reports and certainly not in the quantity we've been seeing lately. We have no legitimate evidence and that's very odd, considering the quantity of witness reports that occur on a daily basis. This puts me in an uncomfortable position as a "would be believer" as my emotional desire for them to be real is becoming overshadowed by the simple reality that we have no real evidence. So; where is the middle ground for those of us that have not had the privilege of seeing one in person? My only logical conclusion, that allows me to keep my hope alive, is that Bigfoot are not only elusive, they are extremely rare. Otherwise, it's hard to explain the lack of hard evidence. However, the belief they are very rare, tends to negate the volume of witness testimony. In short, It's getting harder and harder to find hope of their existence. I'll hold out for as long as possible but the old arguments and ideas just don't hold up to scrutiny. We either need an entire new approach or a body, by any means possible.

What is true is true whether one believes it or not, It is true because it is, not because some belief of what is. Sasquatch exist, that is true because they in fact do exist, no conversation concerning that reality matters to their existence. If you have trouble with that supposition, to argue here is a pointless endeavor. To disprove they exist one must undergo the same rigor of investigation that one might attempt to prove they do exist. We cannot simply discount the 1000s of eyewitness reports, footprints, vocalizations, and other evidence of their existence, by saying I do not believe this evidence proves they exist, no but we can say it proves we cannot deny they exist. It is the difference between saying I cannot prove they do not exist, just as simply as saying I cannot prove they do exist. You see none of us can prove anything conclusively in either direction, the only thing that is conclusive is the number of reports from eyewitnesses suggesting they might exist, corroborated by other evidence that suggest they probably in fact do exist. Beyond that it takes personal experience to know they exist.

Incorrigible1, that "esteemed member" has stated that the reports are NOT proof many times but rather that the pile of reports is enough to convince him that the creature is real. There's a difference there.

I look at it differently. I think you've got to be smoking bad dope to truly see a person on a wheeled device in that vid. I can see not buying into it being a bigfoot. "I'm not convinced" is a good answer. I'm a proponent but I'm not convinced this time. I don't see any reason an honest skeptic can't feel the same way. Taking it too far, making up ridiculous stuff that's just stupid considering the setting ... looks desperate. Looks like a faux-scoftic trying to convince themselves they don't believe. Do the denialists really need to go that far down that path? MIB