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Large mammals enter big cities all the time. Many times they go undetected...and if/when they ARE detected, you get stuff like this... See above and below.

I hear about bears in Chicago all the time, especially when watching the sports news.

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.

Not a hijack, JKH! Totally on point. And that picture of the deer streaming past the parked cars was quite beautiful, as hiflier said. And I loved Cotter's pics, too. I live in a very urban area and was privileged to see a coyote racing down a city street late one night. He seemed a little freaked out, poor guy.

I understand why people are recommending this, but I think it would backfire.... All those park employees have bosses, and all those park employee bosses are part of the suppression game. If you report this, someone will create a fake backstory to account for what you found. And they'll make sure to publish the fake story somewhere, to get it into the public record. And then for years and years going forward, people will point to this Official Published Account of how what you found was part of some normal operation that happens normally on the 15th of Norm-vember every year. Don't tell 'em!

For the record... I just left Mr. Rick Shaheen a simple voicemail. From his message he seems to be in charge of public skating schedules... I can't wait to hear from him. Also, reading ioyza's posts I've come to the conclusion that he is one of those 'special' people who encounters sasquatch everywhere he goes. Not jmo, a record here on forum. I'll let you know what Mr. Shaheen says... wrong thread. transfer that last part to ioyza's chicago bigfoot thread in GD please. too late for editing

Sure, let me try to show you the big picture of what I'm thinking as it relates to their known (or alleged, depending on how you read reports) forest preserve routes: Not sure on whether it would be yellow or green, but they're both rail lines so equally viable (if they're viable at all - this is applicable to everything I'm saying here so I'm going to omit these concessions from here on out if that's ok). The red is the North branch of the Chicago River, and it makes sense that if they're moving along the rivers (Des Plaines and Fox), they would have made a circuit like this, rather than just going up and down. Imagine the area before Chicago, with just the Potawatomi to contend with - it's only been a handful of generations. The red line terminates at the North at Sidney Yates, where I found a number of structures and other sign over the summer. Why would they go all the way down there from the North, into this little swampy patch of woods in the suburbs, almost in the city, if it's a dead-end? If they arrive from the South and make their way North, it makes a lot more sense. They're giving these areas time for food resources to replenish. Calling the park district - I hate making weird phone calls like that haha, but ok, you're right it's probably an idea worth pursuing. I guarantee I'm going to get the phone convo equivalent of a very weird look, but if they fire back confidently with a mundane explanation, I'll be back right away to eat crow and admit to an over-active imagination, that I promise.

Forget that!, if I thought for a second that this was happening, I'd be calling the cops, and telling them to warn the children that there is a 600 pound omnivore wandering through the park, creating useless stick structures, indicative of a deranged mind. How can Ioyza sit there while this potentially murderous creature is in a park full of children?

Hi Ioyza, If the stick structures you found are in Midway Plaisance Park? Why not call Rick Shaheen the park supervisor at (312) 745-2470 and ask him if he knows anything about the stick structures? http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Midway-Plaisance-Park/

I'm guessing that biology is not your focus? Animals driven by evolution will take the path of least resistance. Even animals driven by intelligence would not behave as you have posited. They simply would have found a different route. What you are proposing is absolutely ridiculous and beyond consideration. There is no reason whatsoever to give your, uh, let's be generous and call it a "theory" any consideration at all. Perhaps in support of your theory you might want to see if there is a precedent of other large mammals making their way through metropolitan Chicago undetected. Perhaps a bear, or a moose, or two? No?Just bigfoot? Well, bigfoot is pretty special being imaginary and all. Thanks for highlighting that.

Even if bigfoot was a known, confirmed species, there is just no reason to think a random pile of twigs in a public park, in the middle of a major North American metropolis, could be the result of that animal. Why in the world would a bigfoot even enter a large city? And how on earth could it possibly do so undetected?

As long as you ignore all the timings and circumstances involved, you're right.

Maybe BF placed it there as bait and is watching you on his own trailcams.

I live in Grizzly bear country, plus Cougars, Blacks, Wolves, etc could be waiting for me in the darkness. I respect the danger of the situation, but a rifle and a dog are powerful allies. Bigfoot being real is just another creature to look out for. I dont fear it otherwise I would sell out and move to a condo in a big city. Little green people as you put it, would hopefully be friendly, but as advanced as they would need to be for interstellar travel? They would probably view us as ants to be stepped on.

"Belief" isn't part of my equation. When someone asks if I "believe in" bigfoot, the answer is "not exactly: I've seen them. It is not mere belief, it is knowledge." MIB

Howdy all......need to get used to posting again, I've been hitting the woods quite a bit, and lots to catch up on! Here are some recent pics.......Lulu the Wolf will be 7 this year, can you believe?

I just visited the Cryptomundo site, that has posted some pictures alleged found recently but taken in 1966 of a Bigfoot and his family. I didn't even look at the video with the photos and went straight for the comments, which were both dismissive and snarky. It made me wonder if the vast amount of hoaxes, whether through photos, videos, footprints or whatever, hasn't made the people who honestly think this creature exists just a bit TOO cynical. We KNOW what can be done in the realm of photoshopping and editing, and we've been "burned" so many times, that now we "default" to a position of skepticism. That's an understandable position, of course, but it might lead to a closed mind and some missed opportunities down the road. What if some of these "obviously" fake photos aren't fake, but we just throw them in the hoax basket because it's easier than getting our hopes up and being burned again? There's no way to know of course, because none of them are definitive and until there's real physical proof, photos will just be a sideshow. But I wonder if for instance, the PG film were made today, would anyone even believe it? One of the strongest arguments for it being real is the fact that the tech didn't exist back then to hoax that convincingly. Well, now the tech has advanced quite a bit (though we still can't reproduce the PG) and we all know it so are we doomed to be blinded even in the fact of something authentic? Just curious.