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You pose a good question .. several of them. I think the number of reports would increase. I suspect there would be less perceived value to the hoaxer in hoaxing so if anything, I think it would decrease. (Example: where's the "gotcha" in faking the existence of green crayons if green crayons really exist?) This could indeed be an issue for those running bigfoot related web sites. You may recall that during the Ketchum "stuff", even the BFF had to lock down access to existing members only to keep the web servers, etc from being overwhelmed as people searched the 'net for info about bigfoot. To stay up yet publicly accessible, a number of sites will have to expand server capacity. I perceive these as 2 separate questions. First, regarding reporting, when Finding Bigfoot, for example, hit the air (or cable :)) waves, report volume increased. It was not all new reports, it was reports of older events people had not previously filed .. either to avoid ridicule or simply because they didn't know where to file their report or even that filing a report was a thing. So yes, I think simply by increasing awareness, there would be an increase in honest reports. Second, I don't think "I told you so" would drive an increase in reporting, rather, I think it would drive an increase in queries against the various groups' databases. That's where the substance backing up "see, I told you" is to be found, not in increased reporting. Probably. Yes. Almost certainly. In a sense. There are some opinions I think are just "bat guano crazy." I suspect the existence of more solid evidence would drive some of the more outlandish opinions into hiding leaving those opinions seemingly more aligned with whatever science we have at the moment in the forefront. That's hard to say. I think it depends on the public whim of the moment .. on whatever already has momentum defining the canvas that the discovery picture gets painted on. That .. current? .. shifts with public views / attention / interest of the moment. Building on your question, I wonder about those things and whether the answers are different in the short run vs the long run. I could see a major fuss coming out of discovery but I don't know that it would last. We, collectively, don't have much attention span, especially when the issue seems half a continent away vs the thing in our personal back yard that we have to deal with daily. For me it's hard to predict how, or even whether, it affects resource extraction industries in the long run, or whether it affects conservation efforts in the long run. I definitely see short run pressures, I just don't know whether they persist after the initial clamor. My instinct is they fade out but I recognize the possibility that I have it backwards, that there's a sort of positive feedback loop, and the impacts instead grow almost boundlessly. I think an aspect .. sort of unpredictable / uncontrollable .. depends on what sasquatch prove to be biologically. How close they truly are to us. It could change the impacts completely. Could change which agencies have anything to say about it completely. And so on. Thanks for a very insightful set of questions. MIB

MIB: I agree with you. It became pretty clear to me that they study humans, they have probably been doing that for as long as we've coexisted. I think they are quite aware of my habits and predict my behavior. They probably do it with everybody, makes sense, they need to stay vigilant. There have been events that pushed things a bit too far for my brain, when that happened I would leave the area for a while. I think it's a form of testing us, seemingly like, "Let's see how much she'll accept, how/will she will react to it?" Some things seem to be pretty clear to me now. (Kind of like they made an effort to answer some questions I had about them.) Some people won't like hearing it so I don't put it out there. The biggest thing about WOO is that it just may be a matter of the inability of science to explain such things at this time. People need to drop the negativity about the WOO and become more curious about it, it seems to be a big part of the puzzle. I'll be very clear, I do NOT search for them. Things happened (and happen) and I guess they made sure that I understood some things. I am kind of relieved to be honest, lessened my fear. But I still don't go out late a night, whenever I do something weird happens. I don't think they are intentionally trying to frighten me but to a human it would be startling and make a person uneasy. I don't want a heart attack! LOL! The only weird thing that I've done is gone out to the yard and ask them out loud not to frighten me, my family, or my pets. No coming into the house, no harm. I felt silly doing it but I did it anyway.

I have had a secret love affair with air boats since watching an early Florida everglades TV series in the late 50's early 60's. The show had a very original title, LOL: "The Everglades."

Darryl.

Ahhh, great choice of Beer! Curiously most of the Cryptid themed alcoholic drinks I've had are IPAs.

At their size, I call them "Sir". Sasquatch

Thank you very much for that. Most intriguing!

Totally, TOTALLY agree with this. Science is not static. To look at all of the things we've accepted as scientific truths yet later discarded / replaced as we learned more, and to think that process is now done, that we won't have to ever rewrite "the book" again about a piece of scientific information, is just .. insanity. MIB

Welcome to the Forums!, Bern1808 from the Big Apple, Tahoma from the Great White North, and TheTallOnes from the Pacific Northwest.

I'm from Washington State with the you tube channel The Tall Ones. I signed up to mainly do research regarding all things Bigfoot. This is one of the only pre-facebook Bigfoot repositories that still exists.. lots of good information compiled here.

Here's the video up on NorthWind's channel. We also came back the next day and measured and explored for evidence and comparisons.

When yah shot him? Yah let all the air outta him!

I'd agree .. it seems that way. What, how .. mechanism, not sure. The simple answer is we telegraph a lot via our subconscious actions. They might well suspect we know if we are looking into shadows more than other humans, looking at tracks, reacting to specific sounds, etc in ways most people in the same settings do not. The only implication would be that they're a lot more aware of us, better students of us, than we are of them. That whole notion seems to be too unsettling for some people to accept. For me, it's simpler than "woo." MIB

A couple of mine. My go to Survival knife is my Kabar Becker BK9, and the other one is a Schrade Schf 36, I bought 6 years ago or so. Seems ok. Both carbon steel.

i really enjoyed this directors cut. les is good people and honest. standing may be a hoaxer but he is a hoaxer that has seen bigfoot and knows it exists so im sure stoud learned something from him either way.

No matter what these things are, people, aliens, apes, imaginary, you shouldn't trust them because they aren't human. You shouldn't trust most humans for that matter. If they're animals, nope. If they're "people" they're not our people, no matter how optimistic you are. You are not part of that tribe. There's plenty of reports about missing humans to dissuade you from the notion of trust.

Bobby O, My daughter does scientific data collection on Monkeys in the Amazon jungles of Ecuador. Moon Phases are noted and collected as a data point. She has noted less animal activity during full phases of the moon and more activity in new phases of the moon. I am not aware if there is enough data that reaches a statistical conclusion. She hypothesizes that certain prey animal activity diminishes as predator advantages increase with more available light.