Strongest And Weakest Evidence For Bigfoot.

[Guest DWA]

Yep.  Plussed.

[norseman]

I get tired of repeating this......

HOBBIT

This is one of the most exciting discovers in our lifetime! And did the natives tell stories about little hairy men running around in the woods? Why yes...........yes they did.

And while this does not prove anything it certainly lends some credibility to myths and oral tradition.

[Oonjerah]

One best evidence for Bigfoot is Common Sense, which still is oddly lacking for many people. 

 

I've believed that Bigfoot exists since I was a credulous teen; I wanted to believe it.

But since then (1960), has maturity altered my opinion? Nope. 

 

Ivan.

I first believed in Ivan T. Sanderson's Abominable Snowmen. Back then, I was quite

naive; never occurred to me to question the work of writers and reporters, nor to find

a way to do my own research. Research was done by looking things up at the library,

especially in an encyclopedia; that's all I knew about how to find facts. Sanderson's

book was not encyclopedic, but still, I just accepted it at face value.

 

(It'd take me a long time to realize that many non-fiction writers weren't necessarily accurate;

not even those who wrote for reference books. OTOH, some fringe writers would turn out

to be pretty insightful. Some of the things that we take for granted today about archaeology,

for instance, were not accepted by mainstream science in the 50's-60's. If I'd known this as

a kid, confusion would result. Like, how do I know who to believe? Ignorant, I mostly believed

what I wanted to believe. Bigfoot should be real; so he was.) 

 

Patty. 

Then when Patty showed up, I had my proof. She looked, then and now, plenty real to me;

never occurred to me that most people can take a quick look and see "a guy in an ape suit."

Really? A suit?  ...  Yet, even some with a well-trained eye can still see a suit. 

 

Rumor: Who created the Patty suit? "Johnny Chambers, who was the Hollywood make-up

artist of much fame" & who had done Planet of the Apes" released 1968, after the Patterson-

Gimlin film. But ... I've read that when asked if he had done it, Chambers replied, "I was good,

but not that good!" 

 

If all of Bill Munns' analysis of the film can't convince you it's authentic, then nothing will. 

 

Tracks.

I suppose Dr. Meldrum was as skeptical as anyone until he first saw tracks that looked

absolutely real to him and then talked to Grover Krantz. Why would respected scientists,

such as they, go off into monster limbo and damage their reputations by endorsing those

tracks? Two reasons I can think of: 1. The tracks are real. 2. It is so fascinating to break

new ground and make discoveries.  

 

Those of us who believe probably always will, 'cause you can't prove a negative. 

 

Many who don't believe can only be convinced by Bigfoot walking up to them. If "everyone

knows there's no Bigfoot," that's flat-earth thinking. Popular opinion, in my lifetime, hasn't

had a very good track record, as one "impossible" thing after another (mostly from serious

science-fiction) has come to be real. 

 

These days, with so many consistent sightings, the reality of Bigfoot just seems a more

sensible view. 

[Guest DWA]

The problem with the common-sense view is that most think they know enough just from hearing the barest sentence about it.

 

The common sense comes in for those who have paid attention to the evidence.

 

I've never seen loads of animals in the wild but I accept that they're out there.  I don't have all the evidence for sasquatch that I have for those; but I have more than enough to tell me the evidence points to the reality, and that all that evidence being some kind of false positive just doesn't scan when one applies, well, common sense.  People just aren't that way.

 

To just flat come down on "this ain't real" when scientists vouch for it; say why; have written books about it that make, well, sense; thousands of trackways that defy any theory of human manufacture have been found; and thousands of people with no outward "crazy markers" are on record with sightings is...well, this is when one applies common sense; recognizes that this is how the world works; and realizes that the things that don't "seem right" make total, well, you know, sense when one applies oneself and thinks about them.