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Minuscule stacks of wood and twigs in a major metropolitan US city are causing some to defend the supposition it's constructed by a 600lb. unknown primate. It's beyond the pale.

No. Maybe hoax, maybe not, but not trolling. What you do is trolling. From Merriam-Webster: Definition of troll. 2 :a person who intentionally antagonizes others online by posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content. Internet trolls. You have not offered a single thing of value, you just run around belittling others, derailing discussions. You don't even ask intelligent questions, you just accuse. Look in the mirror: you're the troll, not ioyza. MIB

Or one could aim to poke fun at the community from the inside by noticing something that really beggars belief and present it as the result of bigfoot solely to highlight the credulity of the average footer. Especially when that extends to something as utterly ridiculous as this claim. This particular claim is so outlandish that it is hard to take the presenter seriously. I have to say it is working. If someone would believe this stick pile in the middle of Chicago is the result of bigfoot, then there probably is not much they wouldn't believe in regards to bigfoot.

You think I'd share the real name of myself or any colleagues in this context? Goodbye. Haha at least we're thinking outside the box now! I like it, hadn't thought of that one... I doubt that's it though. For one, I'd expect more of a circular teepee surrounding the trunk (although that IS closer to what they looked like last winter). Also, the structures last winter were in heavy precipitation (and potentially this one, if it was built one night earlier than I thought), so the timing doesn't add up. Beyond that... I dunno, they built something then got cold feet and just left it there, four times, without actually lighting anything? Regarding the exchange between norse and OS, I don't think it's unreasonable to accept BF in Bachelor's Grove, Des Plaines River corridor, etc but reject them passing by UoC on location alone. Frankly, there IS sufficient forest for them to live and hide in those areas (and apparently sufficient food, as long as they move around), and there's not even enough cover to travel through here unexposed. Again, I was similarly dismissive when the first one appeared a year ago, yet my intuition about it made my heart skip a beat. Alarm bells went off Tuesday morning. It just looks right - doesn't anyone else have a sense of the aesthetics of their structures? I realize that's not a scientific approach, in a field that everyone seems desperate to approach scientifically, but honestly I've had a lot more tangible success following my intuition than trying to think through things. (Tangible meaning structures, encounters, glimpses - heck, ALL the findings and encounters at one of my main areas in Colorado would never have happened had I not gone back on instinct alone) ShadowBorn, the structures never get touched as far as I can tell. Ah wait, not true - one of them had little strands of reed tied to it in odd places a day or two later (interpret that how you will). But humans don't seem to notice or care. The wind knocks them down eventually, and it looked like this one was already in a bit of disrepair as I drove by it this morning. And yes, if they can cloak like the Predator, a trip through Chicago would be a breeze, but these topics are best left for the (vv) other section of the forum, understandably.

I'm not sure which is more far fetched: aliens created bigfoot, or bigfoots detour into Chicago (and somehow know their way around), stopping only to arrange a small pile of twigs, and then porpoise their way out. You decide.

Eh, I can't say I really take offense, though I'm not quite sure where OS arrived at the conclusion I'm messing with anyone. It's not "low" so much as paranoid/delusional. Well, shall we get back to the usual business of analyzing the PGF and arguing about what probabilistic reasoning says about the non-existence of bigfoot? I'll keep you posted if I find anything else and you can all re-regurgitate your gifs and witticisms.

Well, if nothing else I suppose it's been interesting seeing how a calm explanation of detailed observations and some original thoughts about them trigger folks' egos and paranoias.