Guest brucescotland Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 We have already established that there is more chance of elvis being found alive on mars having lunch with the Loch Ness Monster than there being a BF in the UK, but look at this map, (not sure how accurate it is,didnt think Norway and Sweden were so densely covered) the green areas representing thick forest. Look at scandanavia, Finland in particular, the balkan counties maybee?... Does anybody know if BF type creatures have ever been reported there....any "hard" evidence like footprints and the like? Bobby are you familure with anything?? the reason i ask is that there is nowhere in europe more than 4 hours from me now..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VioletX Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Well, I think it would be really cool if there was, I like many have seen the connection between ,Bigfoot and wildmen and the Greenman,etc. If Bigfoot was pushed out of most of Europe too bad you cannot invite them back. Otherwise, they have left you your Faeries and Elves and Trolls and other undesirables Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Owl Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 My unfounded belief and opinion is they migrated across Asia with the Native American ancestors.....hence you have the Yeren, Yetti etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kronprinz Adam Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 We have already established that there is more chance of elvis being found alive on mars having lunch with the Loch Ness Monster than there being a BF in the UK, but look at this map, (not sure how accurate it is,didnt think Norway and Sweden were so densely covered) the green areas representing thick forest. Look at scandanavia, Finland in particular, the balkan counties maybee?... Does anybody know if BF type creatures have ever been reported there....any "hard" evidence like footprints and the like? Bobby are you familure with anything?? the reason i ask is that there is nowhere in europe more than 4 hours from me now..... Dear BruceScortland!!! I remember I have read a few reports of european creatures..a couple of years ago there was a website called more or less "cryptids of europe" which provided a few accounts of apemen creatures and others (like the Tazelwurm, a rarely seen medium-sized reptiloid or amphibian from the alpine regions of Central Europe). There was a few strange stories of apemen in the UK, and another from the ex.Yugoslavia region (I do not remember very well if it was in Croatia or Slovenia, just that some young people went to explore some rocky region with lots of caves, but they detected that they were not alone...because they found a hairy apemen living on these rocks, which scared them a lot...). There was also some videos from Poland, in the Tatra Mountains...(I recalled a friend that went there and told me that when hiking, they hear a very loud animal noise that scared them a lot, but they never knew if it was bear, wolf or wild pig...of course I'm just retelling what he told me, without making connections with any apemen)... I recall that I have read a few reports from Scandinavia, but in the far north, and several stories from Russia, the Karelia Region (between Russia and Finland), about "snowmen"....besides Russia (and UK), apemen stories in Europe are very few...I think these creatures (asumming they exist), they need real wilderness, far away from human activity. But if we check back in time, Woodewasa stories were widespread in Middle Ages, there was also a christian version of hairy hermits, people that isolated themselves from other human beings in order to search for holiness...in pre-christian europe, there was also lots of traditions and dances of hairy "bear-men" and similar creatures, which somehow resembled wild men, some researchers also think that satyrs and fauns from antiquity were also somehow connected with creatures similar to the caucasian Almasty... but I think we will never know until some extraordinary evidence could be found... Best regards. K. Adam. PD: I will try to re-locate the stories again, but It will be somehow difficult...I forgot the exact websites and some of them do not exist anymore!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catmandoo Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Check the adventures of Beowulf. He and his troops had missions with land animals, water animals, and flying animals ( 'long gliders'). He was busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MikeG Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 You need to be very careful with maps like that one. For instance, Spain & Portugal are arid, and the idea that they are heavily wooded is deeply mis-leading. They do have lots of olive and lemon groves, and some cork oak forests. However, being arid, these are very open woodlands, mainly planted and maintained as you would with any farmland. Frankly, I wouldn't take too much notice of this map. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shaun Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Honestly Bruce, you'd be better off flying an extra four hours to north america. There may be some form of squatch here in Europe, but sightings and evidence are scattered, rare, and unreliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Taylor Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 (edited) I recently moved to Europe and have given this some thought. Europe has been settled by modern humans (not indigenous people) for over two thousand years, while in North America, it is about 300. In Europe, major predators such as the bear and wolf were killed off generations ago. Not so in the US. Also, there is very little large forests left here, and the population is very dense. I believe there is no sasquatch in Europe. The interesting thing is I see images of sasquatch everywhere in paintings and in church carvings. Historians say it is the mythical "wildman" or man of the forest. But it looks like a sas to me, big feet and all. The first time I saw one in a statue, I was like, WTF! Bigfoot! So, I believe sasquatch was in Europe at one time but became extinct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_man Edited September 15, 2012 by Taylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyO Posted September 15, 2012 SSR Team Share Posted September 15, 2012 Not for me personally Bruce no, for reasons brought up already. Like Shaun said, you're better off focussing on North America.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest brucescotland Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Thanks for the responces guys. Just as i suspected. Must admit it was wishfull thinking, @Adam in particular, i have heard about wildman on the finland russian border, and remember seen a video i think was taken in poland a few years back. @violet.... sad aint it, you have BF,Wolfmen,Mothman and such like....we have Fairys,trolls and vampires!!!! @Mike g - yeah couldnt agree more, ive been to spain and portugal and never saw a tree the whole time i was there! very missleading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 There is as much chance of BF being in Eupore as there is in BF being in Texas or anywhere in eastern NA...none, zip, nadda, zilch...but loads of people will still believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VioletX Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 (edited) Bruce, you can take back Mothman, I myself have no use for him So perhaps there may be Bigfoot in some small areas on the edges of Europe, but my question to you European folk is : Are you still looking for Bigfoot anyway when you are out in the wilds, you know...just in case? Edited September 15, 2012 by VioletX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunflower Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 There is as much chance of BF being in Eupore as there is in BF being in Texas or anywhere in eastern NA...none, zip, nadda, zilch...but loads of people will still believe it. I know you are a skeptic from your posts but you seem very adamant about your statement. However, if you think your statement will rile the knowers up into a frothy mess, think twice. No amount of words from the skeptics will erase the sounds, sights and smells. But the only way that some of us found the hairy people was to actually get up from the couch. We know, and don't need verification at this point. Find a trusted friend (always better when there is more than one witness) and take a trip to the woods. Try to not act like a hunter just a visitor. They might even serenade you or you might get a blast of perfume, who knows? I was a skeptic and thought exactly like you many years ago. Good luck! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MikeG Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 Those of you who are advocating the possibility of their being a BF in Europe...........Have you ever visited? Large parts of it are extremely densely populated. Those of us who live here, sceptic or not, can comfortably say no, there is no giant unknown mammal here. If there is any chance, you'd have to be looking towards the Caucuses or Eastern Poland, in other words, the extreme edges of Europe, well behind what used to be the Iron Curtain. Notions of BF in western Europe are cloud-cuckoo land. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shaun Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 What Mike said^ I had a friend from Nashua come and visit me in the UK. She was astounded at the amount of major cities we passed in the two hour drive from the airport. Agriculture has had a hold over European land for well over two thousand years. Forests cleared, predators hunted into extinction. What people call the outdoors here, is mostly farmland. We have very few areas you could actually call wilderness in all of Europe. Where as you guys have most of northern Canada and great swathes of the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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