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Someone I know has always been a **** believer in the existence of Bigfoot, and personally, I think this is psychotic to say the least.

So I just can't help wondering, generally speaking, who else out there genuinely believes in Bigfoot.

Are you a believer?

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Similar to all the claims of aliens being eveywhere, I believe in the possibility but not the probability.

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Originally Posted by Scott Terry:

Similar to all the claims of aliens being eveywhere, I believe in the possibility but not the probability.

Given how insanely HUGE the universe seems to be, I do believe that life exists elsewhere. But given the things I've seen about space travel, I can't comprehend how another biological entity could possibly travel such distances in the great toxicities of space and actually live to make it here. If anything, I could accept that mechanical hardware might be in all the cloud of secrecy, but I hardly think anything 'living' made it here.

Bigfoot on the other hand; I can't even imagine why anyone across the entire planet would ever keep such an existence secret from the whole world. And if there truly was hard and factual evidence of this creature's existence, then there'd be no controversy and our kids might read about this thing in science class as they're studying the rest of earth's creatures.

This person I know who genuinely believes in this has come back home a few times suggesting they've seen Bigfoot in the surrounding countryside where they live. Well, I've personally traveled that countryside that there's all kinds of 'game' wildlife there. I'm thinking that if something like this mythological "Bigfoot" truly existed in these parts, then this wildlife I regularly see there (including free roaming dogs) simply wouldn't exist. And as much as I've footed the hills myself, I've never personally seen any graves or anything suggesting the existence of anything other than the expected wild life. Yet, this person insists they've seen it. (Which brings me back to psychosis)

I'd sooner believe in aliens than I would Bigfoot. And I know, because they proved it on The X-Files! (shakes head)

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hmmmmm.... nah.

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Having lived, hunted and fished the greater Northwest of the US, I can tell you definitely that there are some strange things in the woods. Things that even the Forest Serves Employees I know can't even explain. Whether it is a Bigfoot or Sasquatch or whatever name you want to use,  I can't tell you.

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some of the strangest things I've seen in the forest are forest service employees.

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Originally Posted by Jann Morrison Kostka:
some of the strangest things I've seen in the forest are forest service employees.

^^^LOLSHIF

Two things I've seen in the woods that gave me the heebie geebies:

1) A rope that was left hanging when a man hung himself. (Whispers in the winds?)

2) Me in a friend built circular hut in a tree formation that coolishly (coolishly?) formed a circle. Then one day we came back to find it literally ripped apart. That kinda freaked us out because we knew we built it fairly well and it would have taken something strong to tear that up like it was. That one person I know jumped to the "IT'S BIGFOOT" thing. But my friend and I figured it to be a black bear. What gave me the heebie geebies was the thought of being in the hut when the bear found it and ripped it apart.

Other than that, things in the countrysides here seem - normal as expected.

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I believe in harry big footed homeless people, that you can smell from a distance even before you see them.

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Originally Posted by John Dohnut:
I believe in harry big footed homeless people, that you can smell from a distance even before you see them.

I wear a size 13 shoe and I have big thumbs. Does that mean I qualify as a bigfoot with fat thumbs?

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Originally Posted by Shawn Ishness:

Originally Posted by John Dohnut:
I believe in harry big footed homeless people, that you can smell from a distance even before you see them.

I wear a size 13 shoe and I have big thumbs. Does that mean I qualify as a bigfoot with fat thumbs?

no, but I bet it would help your odds of get picked up hitchhiking

and if not at least you can walk there faster then your average small footed forest gnome

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I used to work with a guy that was deadly serious about Bigfoot. I MISTAKENLY teased him about it once because he used ALL his vacations on it. I then had to listen to hours of unwanted information about it.

I am highly skeptical but anything is possible....I figure we know very little about what may exist on our planet and elsewhere

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Oh yes, I believe......even dated Bigfoot's stanky sister back in high-school.

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Without a doubt, I don't just believe, I know life exists elsewhere ... it would defy all probability if it weren't true.

But getting back to Earthly confines, I'm skeptical about Big Foot and alien visits because there's really no concrete evidence to back up years and years and years of reported sightings.  The two things don't jibe.

And when it comes to alien visitors, forget two way travel.  The math behind being able to travel just in one direction ... to travel here from somewhere else isn't in favor of it happening ... unless a great number of civilizations have figured out how to travel across space at multiples of the speed of light.  Or they would have to master the creation and management of wormholes.

Either would be pretty fantastic achievements ... possible but not probable.

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Originally Posted by Scott Terry:
Without a doubt, I don't just believe, I know life exists elsewhere ... it would defy all probability if it weren't true.

But getting back to Earthly confines, I'm skeptical about Big Foot and alien visits because there's really no concrete evidence to back up years and years and years of reported sightings.  The two things don't jibe.

And when it comes to alien visitors, forget two way travel.  The math behind being able to travel just in one direction ... to travel here from somewhere else isn't in favor of it happening ... unless a great number of civilizations have figured out how to travel across space at multiples of the speed of light.  Or they would have to master the creation and management of wormholes.

Either would be pretty fantastic achievements ... possible but not probable.

I wish I could find the video, but it escapes me now. But whatever video it was, they discussed how some of the toxicities of space damage cell tissue/structure with long-term exposure. They said that without finding a way to preserve or protect our bodies from this destruction, then in time any offspring born in space could become mutated if they even survived, let alone the problems with conception with damaged reproductive cells.

Regarding life on Earth, a friend who studies the variety of things associated with all creation or the big bang theory genuinely believes that 'life' is simply a freak happening - nothing associated with any understanding of God. I find it hard to believe that we're a freak happening because and for example, when you look at any mammal, you have specific functioning organs; how could that possibly happen by 'chance'???

But going in another direction, in the argument that we're designed by God, some Doctors I've spoken with have suggested design flaws. One doctor described the human spine as a poorly designed machine. Regarding design flaws and research done on early primate remains suggesting such animals existed with severe degrees of arthritis due to poor upright bipedal design, it seems to me that evolution could be God's work in progress.

Anywho, back on Bigfoot and the fact that new species of animals and bugs are still being identified, I can't bring myself to believe that some land-living mammal as big and powerful as Bigfoot is suggested to be has gone unseen. Where on God's Green Earth have humans left land unexplored?

Granted, many areas of land aren't covered in great detail on Bing Maps, but, many times on Bing Maps (a completely user-free service) things ARE in really good detail and I haven't seen anyone come forth yet with a Bing Map image saying "I FOUND HIM!" Ok, maybe that's a silly example. More realistically, many different species of wildlife desperately wander into townships at night prowling for food because their usual food options in the wild occasionally run scarce. This is caught on video regularly. Why hasn't Bigfoot wandered down some Bumblesvillian main street picking through garbage cans seeking food because chub is scarce in out Bigfoot land?

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Originally Posted by Shawn Ishness:


Anywho, back on Bigfoot and the fact that new species of animals and bugs are still being identified, I can't bring myself to believe that some land-living mammal as big and powerful as Bigfoot is suggested to be has gone unseen. Where on God's Green Earth have humans left land unexplored?

To this point ...

The new species being discovered largely are things that haven't been observed or reported.  Or if they were thought to have existed, there sometimes is a fossil record and they were thought to have been extinct.

Big Foot doesn't fit into this pattern.  Unlike the other species discovered, he's been sighted all over the world.  But a specimen's never been taken and there are no fossil records.  Not even a single hair.