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Posted on 01/23/2012 9:50:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
In the new Animal Planet reality TV show optimistically titled "Finding Bigfoot," a team of experts examines video of an alleged Sasquatch spotted in the Canadian Rockies. The video, shot by a man named Todd Standing, shows something large and dark, standing atop a wooded ridge and then ducking back behind a bush. It could pretty much be anything, and when the experts concluded that the subject was probably not a Bigfoot, Standing expressed his frustration: "No video is ever going to be evidence, ever. It's never going to be good enough…"
Standing, like many Bigfoot researchers, misses the problem: It's not so much that any Bigfoot video is inherently worthless, it's that his video, like all that have come before it, is of such poor quality that there's no way to know what we're seeing. It could have been anything — a guy in a dark jacket (or gorilla costume), a bear or even Bigfoot. The fatal flaw in Bigfoot photos and videos is the image quality, not the image subject. If Standing, the "Finding Bigfoot" team, or anyone else shot well-lit, clear video of what was obviously a 12-foot-tall, hairy bipedal creature in the woods, that would be compelling.
But even the highest-quality photograph or video can't be considered definitive proof of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or any other mythical beast. Similarly, if the goal is to simply make scientists and the general public take Bigfoot seriously, then some verified remains of the creature – be they hair, teeth, blood, bones or something else — would do the trick.
In the new Animal Planet reality TV show optimistically titled "Finding Bigfoot," a team of experts examines video of an alleged Sasquatch spotted in the Canadian Rockies. The video, shot by a man named Todd Standing, shows something
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I eat some almost every day. I get the little $1.00 sticks and have them handy. The shelf life isn’t bad, either.
Yep, those commercials are funny.
I know that on a hunting trip in Oregon I heard something unexplainable.
My brother had that experience and he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks.
That’s what the 45/70 is for.
Big Foot ping
He's comin' right for us!
And yes some fossils were found in Scotland.
Something happened once when I was camping in Northern Michigan, but I’m still not ready to share it.
But within the recent fossil record?
With out a body or some type of absolutely valid DNA. Science will never believe it. I imagine one will walk out in front of a logging truck, then we will have our evidence.
Me too.
I know what you mean. The same thing happened to me.
Careful, he might shoot back.
Shooting at poorly identified hominid shapes in the woods strikes me as the epitome of poor judgement. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Is she pretty?
There was a debate over the legendary Scottish Jumping Cat—that had back legs like a rabbit and would hunt by jumping. Lots of people thought it was a myth and just a story—until someone shot one. and proved they exist.
If a beast that big undergoes any kind of accident, or just has a sudden heart attack, you'd see at the least a skeleton in the wild. Birds, beasties, bugs will eat the flesh, but the bones persist until buried and demineralized (and even that leaves a fossil). Supposed Sasquatch territory should be searched for such skeletons.
I spend lots of time in the woods of the Pacific NW. Haven’t seen a Bigfoot - but have never seen a skeleton of anything either. I’m guessing probably due to the thick brush. But perhaps also the bugs, soils, critters as well. In Eastern Washington state where it is dry you see LOTS of skeletons of stuff.
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