Leaderboard

While I believe there might be supernatural and paranormal things in this world, I don't believe it applies to bigfoot. The belief of the supernatural bigfoot associating with aliens or tree portals or anything else that many have now hasn't affected my belief that it's an animal of flesh and blood living in the forest. In over 40 years of hunting, I've had deer and other large animals disappear on me inexplicably only to show up a short distance away. There was nothing supernatural about it, it's just that light, shade, and shadow, along with how the human eye works, made it possible for the deer to move without me noticing somehow.

Can you elaborate on the term "being in a simulation"? Isn't that in itself "woo"?

Ah, now isn't that cute! He's trying to troll me! Digging up a five-year-old thread... you must be really, really bored. I know I am.

Amazing. I no sooner finish writing about my frustrating research journey than Medred, opining on this very bear mauling, expresses his own frustration with the exact same thing, and even highlights the word I found universally used in the news media: https://craigmedred.news/2023/10/04/banff-bear-deaths/

Also I’d like to say thank you for this topic @PNWexplorer. This has invited some great discussion about a topic that I think is pretty divisive in the community around Bigfoot. I’d love to put my two cents in on it. I personally am in the flesh and blood camp. From what I’ve heard from the Woo side seems to be an eagerness to explain any seemingly “unexplainable” aspect with supernatural or paranormal explanations. I’ve heard things like Sasquatch can drain camera batteries. Which to me sounds like someone forgot to charge them and doesn’t want to look like a fool. I’ve heard about portals and orbs and UAP’s dropping them off. I heard a researcher say when they take out believers on their expeditions that every bump in the night, every snapped twig and every shadow is a Bigfoot. I think when there is a willingness or a want to see the Woo, you attribute things to it or misidentify them. Now people outside the community may say that’s the pot calling the kettle black. But I feel like the Occam’s razor approach of reducing assumptions will benefit us in the long run of research. But this all isn’t to say that anyone is wrong, should be second guessed and not trusted. And if the Woo is true then I think we’d have an even more fantastic and interesting discovery than a relict hominoid living around the world

Around 2019 back when I was doing Sasquatch studies, I ran into possible woo in a remote area located in southwestern Oregon. This incident startled my wife and I. Prior this, I read several Sasquatch reports that centered in this forest area. Their is a gravel driveway to an old cabin, a rocky creek flowing down the side yard and forest trees all over. My wife and I heard at least five faint whistles coming from the dark flat forest next to an abandon cabin. In the past someone on the BFF or BFRO mentioned this is a behavior of BF. Bigfoot may whistle to a group of others hunting during dark nights. The unseen Sasquatches were due for a treat of apples. I had hung some apples from young growing fir trees along the only gravel road. The whistles spooked me so we walked down the narrow gravel road to the pickup. I looked back up to where the whistles came from and saw a thick silver flash dive into some brush. This incident of possibe woo caused me to rethink Sasquatch investigations.

The space force is an interesting topic by itself full of woo or the paranormal. If Sasquatch has sight, hearing, and detecting scent that is five times better than humans, this is exceptional but not paranormal. When does scent detecting become paranormal? If Sasquatch can detect the scent of a human during a windless day in the forest 300 feet away this ability might be normal for this primate. If BF can smell humans 2000 feet away on a calm day, this becomes paranormal in my opinion. What's your viewpoint? Sasquatch might be about a basic primate that has keen senses, forest survival intelligence and enough physical power to defeat bears but not paranormal. This physical power has enabled BF from becoming extinct early on. Woo or paranormal attributes may not be in Sasquatchs' bag of tricks reported by hikers, hunter, or campers. Its bag of tricks includes ambushing or chasing down speeding animals, jumping straight up 14' to pick off a critter in a tree for lunch, or throwing a volley ball sized rock 50' to knock out a deer or bear. These attributes seem paranormal but are normal for our forest primate. The other theory is about a supernatural primate that might have paranormal attributes such as cloaking or becoming invisable at will. Some believe or claim that Bigfoot or BF cloaks.