Injured Sasquatch Reports

[Woodslore]

I was reading over the topic of Reports on all fours. Covering the question of are there any witness reports of Bigfoot on all fours. It got to wondering are there any reports by witnesses of injured Sasquatch? Now I do not mean cuts, scars that sort of thing. I mean are there any reports of Sasquatch missing limbs. Reports were Sasquatch is missing a hand, arm things along those lines. I know it sounds weird or foolish to ask but hear me out. I have seen photos of bears, deer, coyotes, wolves all missing a limb and living in nature. There is even a video of a bear with three legs on Youtube ( link below). I have even seen photos of apes surviving in nature missing a limb. So I was wondering are there similar reports of Sasquatch.

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[Guest]

Hello Woodslore, I read a number of BF reports and I don’t recall any such reports that I can readily pull up and show. Good video and interesting question though.

[Guest]

In nature, creatures either learn to live with the injury, or they die. I feed birds year around, and I have seen many birds hopping around with only 1 leg. 

 

Most creatures can survive with 3 limbs, 2 limbs, not so much, they would not be able to hunt, and be would preyed upon themselves.

So they become adept on 3 limbs, or die.

Edited January 9, 2015 by SweetSusiq

[MIB]

SSQ -

 

Good point ... so I have to offer a counter-point / alternate angle.   If they are primarily bipedal, loss of a lower limb is a bigger deal than it would be for a quadruped especially if they don't build / use tools a lot.   To survive, they might have to switch to a more four-footed locomotion which could put stresses on the lower back (bigfoot chiropractors, anyone?), recognize and use natural "crutches" or actually fashion crutches, or become very heavily reliant on the group.

 

Pondering those options leads deeply into wondering what they really are, questions of culture or not, etc. 

 

MIB

[Guest JiggyPotamus]

When you consider just how many times one will witness a normal or known animal compared with an injured or unusual animal of the same type, there should expect a large number of "regular" bigfoot reports to a very small amount of reports documenting injured sasquatch. This is self-evident. There are also a set number of sasquatch, a certain percentage of which are seen by humans over a period of time. We know that the odds of witnessing a bigfoot are slim because of this set number and other factors. We know that there would be fewer injured animals than regular, healthy animals. Taking all this into consideration there is a good chance that many of the injured animals would go without being seen by a human. There are just too few of the injured type, when the healthy type themselves are elusive. Then of course there are a certain number of sightings that are never reported or documented. My only point is that just because we may witness injured animals of the known persuasion, we may not see the same types of sasquatch. The known animals are simply witnessed much more often in comparison.

 

With all that said, I'm sure there are reports of the type you describe, although I cannot recall any offhand. What I do remember is the majority of eyewitness reports I've seen of injuries involve a sasquatch being injured during the sighting. Such as getting struck by a vehicle. Of course even if such reports were hoaxes we would still expect injured sasquatch, as you've pointed out, and they are bound to be seen and reported eventually. So I think you should expect to find a very small number of such reports, but you should be able to find at least a few. Another thing to consider is the severity of the injury. If the injury sustained is quite severe, the sasquatch probably would not be in a position to be sighted by a human. It would likely be holed up somewhere considering that it is hard to move around when severely injured. If the animal can still move around despite its injury, it may not be severe enough to be noticeable. As far as birth defects, missing limbs, etc., these are not the same as injuries, and would likely exist at a different rate within the population. Now the loss of a limb due to injury is interesting. I'm not sure an animal could survive the loss of a limb without some type of medical attention, but it depends on how the injury was sustained. If there is blood loss for instance, you would expect an animal to die if the bleeding cannot be stopped. I'm sure that none of this really helps you, but I just wanted to offer up some thoughts in another direction, and stress that we cannot really tell anything about the legitimacy of sasquatch based upon comparisons with known animals, at least not in this case. Of course you were not addressing the legitimacy of sasquatch, but I'm sure someone could try to use a lack of injured sasquatch reports as evidence for non-existence...even though that doesn't make sense, lol.

[BobbyO]

I've never read reports of visuals of injured ones.

Read plenty of reports of less than 5 toed tracks though.

[Trogluddite]

Can think of one report in the northeast out of 675, 6-footish (i.e., not overly large), gray hair, visibly limping.  Either Connecticut or Mass, can't recall which.  Witnesses were children at the time, which raises a variety of concerns as to reliability, and it was reported well after the fact, which raises concerns as to recollection.  That being said, it did not appear to be a wildly embellished report.  

 

Again, I don't have a separate "Yes/No" column for injured, but I do note such peculiarities in one of two comments fields and this is the only report of an injured Bigfoot I can recall.   

[Guest]

A few 'injured foot'' ones, though footprints, that seems to be the most common injury is to the feet.

[Trogluddite]

^^

I trust you're not counting the Bossburg cripple foot, right? 

[Woodslore]

Thank you everyone for the in put. Thought it interesting the idea of a sighting like this. Though let me ask you this. If a sighting such as this was put forth would it make Sasquatch more believable do you think? 

[HOLDMYBEER]

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=1772

[Woodslore]

Thank you Holdmybeer. 

[NCBFr]

I read a report of a BF with a serious jaw injury and another report of 2 BFs fighting to the death with the loser pretty beat up.  They are ought there if you look hard enough.

Edited January 19, 2015 by NCBRR

[Trogluddite]

Ok, this is pure self-promotion, but I ran across the injured Bigfoot report I mentioned a few posts above when I was finishing up my work on Vermont.  When posted on a map, it was quite interesting - there was a cluster of Bigfoot encounters to the northeast and a cluster to the southwest, and this injured Bigfoot was all by itself in the middle, away from those two clusters.  

 

I would think that an injured, or older and slower, apex predator would want to get away from the other apex predators if it could not compete.  That's exactly what that encounter looks like when mapped against other encounters in that timeframe and area.  

 

Head over to the sightings in Vermont, download the PDF and skip to about page 30 (the last section before the conclusion).  Premium members can read the account itself in the archives - it's My Skunk Ape Story (not mine, that's what the poster titled it). 

[Guest]

Not to get to far off subject but there is a report on the BFRO website of a mentally handicapped bigfoot being seen often by children who lived on a farm where an unwanted habitation was ongoing for several years with several different bigfoot. It seemed the handicapped one was often seen watching the children play and even tried to join them.