And it can suffer alopecia.
Posted on 09/30/2016 9:35:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The surrounding forest was quiet Thursday morning, but organizers and exhibitors at the annual Honobia Bigfoot Festival and Conference were already setting up.
"All of the vendors will come in today," says festival director Jolly Winsor. "All of the campers will come in."
She had guys moving chairs.
The T-shirt stand was up, and a jar set out for the scholarship fund.
That's right.
There is a Bigfoot Scholarship.
Winsor says, "In this area the economy is so depressed so we wanted to figure out a way to help the kids get a higher education."
A little more than 30 miles to the east Senior English students at Clayton High School busied themselves more with Olde English in the Canterbury Tales as opposed to the old legends of Bigfoot.
Tyler Mancon has already heard all the local legends.
"Bigfoot is a big part of the mythology of this area," he points out.
Both he and fellow senior Whitney Davis have college plans in place for next year.
"I want to go to Eastern Oklahoma College and do the nursing program," she says.
Seniors in three Southeast Oklahoma communities can write essays and dip into a Bigfoot Scholarship fund that's raised more than $18,000 in the past four years.
"It helped me out a lot because, growing up, I was poor," says scholarship recipient Katie Austin.
Austin and another local college student, Kylee Simpson, were among the first to receive the scholarships.
It might look a little funny on their college resumes but Bigfoot money is still green.
"It may be funny but they don't have to do that," continues Katie Austin. "They don't have to give scholarships to kids around here for stuff like that and they do so it's super helpful."
Think what you want about whether Bigfoot is a real creature roaming among the Kiamichi Mountains.
Local investigator Farlan Huff is sure he saw one right after last year's festival.
"I can't tell you for sure it was a Bigfoot," he says, "But I can't imagine what else it was."
Students around here, in particular, like to think he's waving to them from the trees, wishing them good luck on their higher education.
For more information on the Honobia Bigfoot Festival or their scholarship program go to www.honobiabigfoot.com
Bigfoot Scholarship? Okay..That’s something I would keep private, unless there was an academic connection. Maybe a scholarship for Anthropologists looking for the Missing Link.
Folks, this appears to be a place in Oklahoma.
Hiked all over those mountains from Clayton to Mena as a Scout. Never did see Bigfoot but sure did see a lot of copperheads and a few rattlers. Bear had not made it back into that area 50 years ago. They have again now.
Hiking the ridges, not a drop of water. Walk all day and then all evening down to the bottom to find water then back up to the top. Those mountains are nothing but rocks, clay and trees and hot in the summer.
Drag a dead crayfish though a GOP meeting and you never know what will turn up.
More people believe in Bigfoot than believe Hillary is honest
http://www.aei.org/publication/more-people-believe-in-bigfoot-than-believe-hillary-clinton/
Sounds like fun.
More people believe in Bigfoot that believe Hillary is truthful.
“A recent NBC News poll found that just 11 percent of Americans say Clinton is honest and trustworthy. To put that in perspective, 14 percent of American voters believe in Bigfoot.”
This country has a vast amount of land that hasn’t seen a human footprint ever....
Does Bigfoot exist ?
I don’t know, but it would not surprise me if we actually find one at some point...
Unlikely if not impossible.. You would need at least 10,000 individuals to sustain a viable population. If they ever did exist, native Americans would have hunted them to extinction not long after first contact just as they did with the other large mammals on the continent.
——You would need at least 10,000 individuals to sustain a viable population. -——
Why would you say that?
There are numerous examples of other animals sustaining a population with well under 10,000 in an area...
I have came to the conclusion that Big Foot is real. It now resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C.
“I don’t know, but it would not surprise me if we actually find one at some point...”
I’ve always had an open mind of such subjects, it’s refreshing to see someone else that does. Bigfoot is presumed to be a natural beast, and yes, there should be significant evidence of his existence such as a captured subject, remains of a dead one, foot prints, etc.
But what if they are supernatural, whereas there would be no body, no colony, no natural habitat to be found with evidence of their actual existence?
Not as much as you might expect. I once followed a Mt lion over some rough country for most of a day. I was convinced I was the first human to set foot on the mesa I found myself on - until I came across an old campsite with arrowheads and a fire ring of stones. Similar things have happened to me on several occasions. In this part of the world sheep herders and prospectors have been pretty much in every corner.
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