Is There Bigfoot in Georgia?

WTVM9 ^ | 5/17/06 | Jon Kalahar

[Waco]

I've seen a lot of strange lookin critters workin in Waffle Houses. Kinda like bird-watching but more hair raising.

[Awestruck]

Thanks...I just ate..

[Fighting Irish]

I'm one of those hopeful it IS real.....even though not a shred of evidence backs it up.

[Physicist]

Bigfoot went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a sole to steal...

[lowbridge]

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[Non-Sequitur]

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[tet68]

HaHAHAH! I used to smoke dubes with "Bigfoot" down in Whitesburg.

[pcottraux]

Even though not a shred of evidence backs it up.

There's plenty of evidence, but there's no proof. Proof and evidence are two different things.

[pcottraux]

I have been an enthusiast in the Bigfoot phenomena since the early 1970’s...

Would you like to be on the cryptozoology ping list?

[NavyCanDo]

"Would you like to be on the cryptozoology ping list?"




Sure, put me on it.....

[pcottraux]

We need more real enthusiasts. Too many people post pictures of Helen Thomas and Janet Reno. It gets old fast.

[ryan71]

"Alex McRae is a columnist for the Newnan Times-Herald. He's written three stories about these sightings...a large hairy person walking upright. He doesn't doubt the eyewitness reports."

Large, hairy, upright walking men in the woods are quite common in Newnan. They often carry 12 gauges.

[fso301]

I'm one who thinks that the existance of Bigfoot is a possibility

I'd like to think similarly but even if the creature is so elusive, it must leave footprints. Why isn't there any credible evidence of footprints? I may walk in the woods and never see a bear or a deer but I know they are present because of their tracks. A deer track is a deer track. The track of a buck will differ from that of a doe but both will be immediately recognizable across the continent. Some larger, some smaller but all are immediately recognizeable as deer tracks.

With respect to bigfoot prints, the castings of all alleged bigfoot prints I've seen when examined side-by-side start looking like hoaxes because they don't resemble one another.

[ErnBatavia]

Ya know, I'm just cruising this thread at around 8pm on a 100 degree night, and I scrolled to that pic....as a result, have just made a "back porch hurling deposit" of my #2 combination platter, for which I paid dearly...you owe me, maggot! Bigtime....

[NavyCanDo]

Why isn't there any credible evidence of footprints?

Oh there is credible evidence of footprints, They have been seen and photographed by too many people not to believe they exist, it's identifying what left the prints that is the question. I would agree there are many fake prints out there and even a few people have came foward claiming they have left footprints. That may explain many of them but not all. Some prints with dermal ridges have been examined by a fingerprint expert with the Police Department. His conclusion, it was left my a large primate. The best documentary is called Sasquatch: Ledgend Meets Science. After seeinf that maybe you won't feel so strongly that there is no evidence that prints exist.

Here is the link to that video
https://secure19.activehost.com/legendmeetsscience/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=2


Below is one of the most believable sighting report I have read from right here in my area of Washington. I have meet this fisherman and the 2 boys and have heard their story in person and have no reason to doubt that they are telling the truth. Many reports like this can be found on http://www.bfro.net/ which does a fine job screening reports to make sure they do not list the nuts that call or write, and believe me they weed out many of those.

YEAR: 2002

SEASON: Fall

MONTH: September

DATE: 14th

STATE: Washington

COUNTY: Lewis County

LOCATION DETAILS: There was actually a highway closer than SR 12 but I don't know what it is called. We put in on Riffe Lake @ Mossyrock State Park and ran all the way up the lake to Kosmos. We were at a point in view of what is called the "fishing bridge" and there is a highway there.

NEAREST TOWN: Mossyrock

NEAREST ROAD: SR 12?

OBSERVED: It was Saturday, 9/14/02, at around 11:15AM while fishing on Riffe Lake. I had my son and a friend of his in the boat with me. We had pulled up to a point and shut down to start fishing when I scanned the clearcut like I always do looking for deer or elk. About 150 yards off of the shore, I noticed something walking. My first thought was "it sure is awful warm to be bundled up like that" and then immediately thought "your coat sleeves are really long". I then said to the boys, "hey look, a sasquatch". They both spotted it and it was walking away from us at a 45* angle looking back over its left shoulder. It went behind a big stump and we didn't see it for several seconds. It came out from the other side and stood facing us and just looked at us for probably 30 seconds. At this point we all got serious because we could tell that it didn't appear to be a human and I know it was not a bear. It turned and started walking away from us looking back ever so often. It stopped just before going down a little raven and stood looking at us again. It went down in the ravene and up the other side then disappeared into the timber. The boys were very "excited & nervous" by now. We discussed this amongst ourselves and I guess we watched this thing for close to 5 minutes. I am originally from Arkansas, just a farm boy who has hunted and fished all of my life. I have heard people talk about these things for years and haven't given them much thought one way or another. What we saw definetly was not human, it was hairy from head to toe and was large, I don't know how tall. It walked with long strides and it's arms & hand swung in an long swings as it walked. At approximately 150 yards, coupled with the amount of time it was in sight, we had a pretty good look. We are going back to the lake this Saturday and I am going to get out and look around. This time I'm taking binoculars and a camcorder. I'm not one to get caught up in myths, but what we saw wasn't ordinary.

[Inyo-Mono]

Roger Patterson fabricated the entire event.

No he did not: Wasn't this all shown to be a fake?

[Inyo-Mono]

But wouldn't one think, after all of the alleged sightings over the years, that there would be at least one hair sample or fecal sample available for testing?

There have been many. Most have come back from tests as from an "unknown animal." See: Evidence

[S0122017]

Your comparishon with bears falls hort.. Bears may be difficult to find on occasion but at other times you can find them at a dozen.

Plus people managed to.. shoot some, catch some, photograph them very clearly using telens or hidden cameras, tag them with transmitters, observe them for extended periods of time, find lot's of feaces with bear DNA, bear hair, find animals killed with bear bite marks, hear and record bear mating calls, find bodily remains, find fossils indicating they go way back, find ancient drawings of bears in caves ETC ETC.

Absolutely none of this applies to bigfoot. So what are bigfoots? Ghost of a long dead humanoid? Every animal leaves traces. Species can only remain 'undiscovered' when they are very small or look a lot like common species. Bigfoot is supposed to be bigger than a human! Come on, it ain't possible. Common sense tells me that... Bigfoot in Tibet? sure. A previously unknown species of bear probably. But in america? Pure fantasy.

If you want something interesting, how about the Israeli naked mole rat, who can detect rocks in it's path while digging tunnels underground by scanning fluctuations in the earths magnetic field!

Or the horseshoe crab whos eyes become a million times more sensitive to light at night, so it can see equally as well at night as during daytime!

I like it that you guys are so passionate about something, but there are plenty of things that are known to exist that are interesting to study. I just hate to see people waste time..

[NavyCanDo]

In your opinion we are waisting our time, but at least we are in good company of believers, including professors of anthropology, Eye witness Police Officers, Forest Service workers, Medical professionals and even Military personnel. People who's professional opinions should be taken seriously, and eye witness testimony should be taken with all seriousness. This list includes even one very notable Primate researcher Dr. Jane Goodall who in an interview said she was convinced they exist.

One thing we believers at all levels agree on - One thing for certain - the mystery is far beyond the possibility of a "hoaxing." Mainly, there are just too many credible sightings over too vast an area, over too many years, to even consider this possibility.

In early November, 2003, Richard Noll interviewed Dr. Jane Goodall.
In the interview Dr. Goodall explains why she is convinced that bigfoot/sasquatches do exist, and the importance for science and academia to appreciate the best existing evidence and the need to obtain more. She states that a body will not be necessary to prove their existence if there is good enough photographic/video evidence.

[S0122017]

Yeah... there are some academics that believe it.

There are also some academics that believe that 9/11 was performed by the Bush administration, that HIV does not cause AIDS but anti AIDS medications do, and that americans never landed on the moon. Get my point?

Scientists are humans, they can be wrong or they can be right. MOST anthropologists do NOT believe in a giant ape walking undetected in american forests. Why? Cause there is no evidence what so ever. Jane Goodall herself admit that there is no conclusive data.

It is a simple case, american forests may seem very wild to many people, but really they are not that big or wild.
They have been pretty thouroughly investigated. Unless those bigfoots can make themselves invisible they would have been caught by now.

A single escaped ape or wild indian could probably account for the old accounts. The modern sightings are just wishfull looking. Do you know that some guy that flew over Tibet claimed to have photographed dragons? An asian believes in dragons and sees dragons. An american believes in bigfoot and sees bigfoot. Not that different.

You show me a good footage, and I will give it a second thought. Right now I wouldn't want to bet a nickle on bigfoot's existence.