What Do Friends/ Family Think About You& Bf ?

[Doc Holliday]

since were here to discuss the sasquatch debate,i was wondering about this aspect.

my family & some friends know im interested ,but i dont bring it up much around some of them. i usually get from my wife,w/a little smile & my kids think its cool{can we go see one dad?}

they see me w/BFF on the PC and i suppose your friends & family know youre interested as well.(unless youre hiding under the steps w/ a laptop )

so heres the question,whether you think squatches are real,fake,or undecided, how do your loved ones react to your interest in Sasquatch ?

[BobbyO]

My Dad's aware of my interest & luckily although not a believer, he's at least open minded to the Animal's existence & i hope he doesn't just say that for my benefit..

My Friends, close Friends only, know of my interest, no more than that, they see the Books obviously in my Book Case ( about 20 of them, it's a kind of giveaway & my Plaster Casts that i bought of Patty & the Cripple Foot Casts which are also in my Living Area of my House..

But they aboslutely rip me if i'm honest but i'm thick skinned & don't really care..

My argiement generally is that they've known me 20 Years plus some of them & do they really think i'd be so interested in something if it was just a Myth ??

hat gets them thinking a little i hope if nothing else..

It's a little different for me too, i'm from London, England & the idea of BF just simply isn't even up for debate let alone a topic of conversation, which can be a tad frustrating for me to say the least but it is what it is..

Edited September 10, 2010 by BobbyO

[Guest Spazmo]

My Dad and brothers give me a ton of crap about it. They buy gag gifts, too, but last year they actually did some research and bought me a nice Bushnell trailcam.

So...maybe they're warming up to the idea a little. But they still raise their eyebrows and try to change the subject if it comes up. I think once they realized that I'm approaching things sensibly, they've eased off a little.

[Boris Khan]

Good question Slick.

My wife doesn't care, she's interested and is open to the possibilities but I also don't think she fully accepts the evidence. Either way, she lets me entertain myself with the books and videos. We also just got back from Bigfoot Days in Willow Creek, CA. We have attended it for the past 6 years now just as a camping getaway and she never complains about going.

My oldest boy was interested but has lost that interest and is undecided. My middle son is more interested than he lets on and watches the shows with me. My youngest believes whatever dad (me) believes, ha ha. He is the ost accepting of it and talks with his friends about it.

As for friends, I've discussed it with some of them and they are interested and a few even related stories back to me. I had posters hanging up in my workplace so visitors would sometimes ask and I'm always willing to discuss the matter. I'm sure some think I'm a kook but most seem indifferent or say 'that's interesting'.

Boris Khan

[Guest]

Nobody has said much yet.

[Guest Sean V]

I tell everyone about my interest in it, & have never really cared what those near me think about it.

My immediate family is not all that bothered by it, as I have been active with it for so long. The rest of my family (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) give me the *Huh....., okay whatever* kind of look. One friend openly laughed at me because of it, saying that I was chasing something that I was never going to catch. I told him that we had something in common there, except that he was trying to catch a female. I told him to give up, he was chasing something he was never going to catch (I will not post his response to that, at least not here.)

The rest of my friends either do not care about my interest in this or they are mildly curious about it, but not curious enough to come out and spend a night in the dark mountain forests.

[Guest Strick]

I suppose that both believers and skeptics get s%@t in equal measures from just having a keen interest in this subject. Having the BFF on the screen at work is a dead giveaway and the bashers will bash, no matter what your personal stance on the mystery happens to be.

I had a partner once who had a very negative view of my Bigfoot interest, despite the fact I've always been skeptical. In the evenings I used to have to pretend I was looking at porn instead! Of course, when we finally broke up, the Bigfoot thing was presented as key evidence of my general weirdness.

[Guest]

My fiance is accepting. My friends believe as I do (which is cool). My Dad always looks at least mildly amused if I say anything. I don't think he's a believer but he never ridicules me. Thats a hard thing for him to do as he's a smart ass like me. So I think if he thought it was completly ridiculous he'd have some funny things to say about it. Never get any guff from him though, so maybe the jury is still out for him. Though he could swear Roger Patterson admitted hoax on his death bed. Then I have to let him know that that was the Surgeon's Photo of "Nessie" and Robert Wilson with the confession.

[Guest Grazhopprr]

My friends and family know I'm a tech junkie, and have put up with my forays into "what's this thing do" research for many catagories. They all nodded knowingly, in that patronistic way, until I showed them my full screen stabilized footage of Kennedy's head being blown off, that took 6 months of single frame by frame enhancement and zooming, trial and error, till you could see details that made them urk a bit. Was a victory for me back in the early 90's with the limited computer power of that time. The same reactions from them about why digital cameras see "ghosts", my research into CCDs, infrared, and dimensional physics, and the results of seeing crystaline wave forms moving in a cemetary. They smirk till they see the results. Bigfoot is just a current research area they giggled about till they saw my Youtube videos of what my cams can do. They may giggle about the categories, but appreciate my results.

[Guest Creekfreak]

My family has been intrested in what I have to say about it I only see them ownce a year at thanksgiveing so we dont get a lot of time to talk about it the good thing is they support me no matter what I do as long as I am doing something constructive its cool with them .

Tne one thing I do regret is I never talked to my Dad about it .

My friends are with me about 98 % the 2 % that are not will eat there words soon enough so I dont worry about what they say I have people that I have never met before ask me about bigfoot so overall I have more support then not .

I am very devoted to my research and I am willing to share with anyone that shows an intrest I am the kind of person you can stop on the street and I will forget about anything I am doing to talk to someone for hours about bigfoot .

I just hope that someday everyone will enjoy the experience as much as I have see ya in the swamp my friends .

[Guest]

The only person outside of my BF friends that know are my wife and kids. My wife sort of thought it was cute...running around the woods...looking for bigfoot. Then a couple weeks ago she was out at a "hotspot" with me and we both heard clear loud knocks in the deep woods with no people around. Her eyes got huge...LoL.

Now she wants me to get more evidence.

[Terry]

They laugh their ***** of at me.

Hey, the new forum looks great. I did like the old one though. I musta missed why it was changed and didn't know it was going to be. Now I feel like the new guy again.

t.

Edited September 10, 2010 by Terry

[Guest]

Here is what happened to me when I started talking about my encounter. My encounter happened on Labor day weekend 1982. I started talking about it openly in May 2008.

Where to begin?

1. My immediate family.

My Mother- She knows I would not lie to her, but is still not convinced about Bigfoot. She immediately made the connection between the encounter and my sleep issues. Immediatly.

My Step Father- Was deceased when I started talking.

My older sister- Could care less and never even mentions it at all.

My two younger brothers- Have a big issue with my story and think I am lying for attention. They even attempted a silly "Bigfoot intervention" with me. I stood up and walked out.

My nieces and nephews- Could care less and never even mention it at all.

2. My ex girlfriend- Thinks I am lying. I suspect because of all the other stupid man lies I told her over the years. Never mind the fact that she slept beside me for 20 of those 26 years and witnessed my sleep problems better then anyone. I think she can't get past the fact that I would never talk to her about the reason for my sleep problems. I was just keeping things from her AGAIN.

3. My friends (non Bigfooters) Most have the same attitude as my brothers and ex-girlfriend. Some of them even participated in the Bigfoot intervention. Now we have a sort of truce where the topic is not brought up because it usually ends up in a argument and my walking out.

4. My C0-workers- Someone at work heard a radio interview I did and the "comedy" spread around the work place like wildfire. I work for a Fortune 100 company in a building that at that time had over 800 employees. To this day, I cannot walk to the restroom without people staring, pointing and giggling. The immediate people I work with (around 20) are not so bad and some even ask me questions about what happened to me and what goes on when I head out on Bigfoot expeditions. Some were even supportive when they saw negative news articles about me and excited when they saw me on TV.

Thoughts?

[Guest Lesmore]

I don't believe in the existence of Bigfoot, but I do have a strong interest in the BF issue.

My wife knows of my interest, so do my children. They regard it as just part of me. There are occasional BF jokes that we all enjoy. But we don't discuss it out of the immediate family.

I don't mention it to my friends. My circle of friends for the most part are from the professional ranks and university educated.

They would tend to view the idea of Bigfoot as a myth and would question, why anyone would even pursue this odd myth...even if it's just out of interest, as in my case.

Therefore, though I don't regard BF as a living, breathing entity.....even my strong interest in the issue is liable to be viewed as whacko.

As a result I keep my interest in this area to myself.

Edited September 10, 2010 by Lesmore

[Terry]

RE: JohnCartwright Post

I would immediately think your encounter was sleep issue related since you did mention it a few times.

t.

Edited September 10, 2010 by Terry