How will they recognize it in that urban jungle? Gonna be tough....
Posted on 06/27/2007 5:15:20 AM PDT by Daffynition
Researchers will visit the Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the hairy manlike creature known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch."
The expedition will center in eastern Marquette County, following the most recent Bigfoot eyewitness account, said Matthew Moneymaker of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.
"We'll be looking for evidence supporting a presence. ... We hope to meet local people who might have seen a Sasquatch or heard of someone else who had an encounter," Moneymaker told the Daily Press of Escanaba.
Most experts consider the Bigfoot legend to be a combination of folklore and hoaxes, but there are a number of authors and researchers who think the stories could be true.
Among all U.P. counties, Marquette County has logged the most reported Bigfoot sightings with four, Moneymaker said. Bigfoot encounters also have been reported in Ontonagon, Baraga, Dickinson, Luce and Schoolcraft counties.
In all but three of 30 expeditions in the United States and Canada, BFRO investigators have either glimpsed Bigfoot or gotten close enough to hear the creature, Moneymaker said.
Dr. Grover Krantz, a scientist specializing in cryptozoology, believes Bigfoot is a "gigantopithecus," a branch of primitive man believed to have existed 3 million years ago.
But mainstream scientists tend to dismiss the study as pseudoscience because of unreliable eyewitness accounts and a lack of solid physical evidence.
How will they recognize it in that urban jungle? Gonna be tough....
if that investigator isn’t careful, Bigfoot just might shake his moneymaker.
bump
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big ole bump
Gomer Pile in training....
Researchers will visit the Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the hairy manlike creature known as “Bigidiot” or “Sackocrap.”
What would they consider reliable? There has been thousands upon thousands of eyewitness accounts from normal everyday people for hundreds of years.
I’m with you lowbie ... and the same is true for the Loch Ness monster. Someday ...someday ....
Living in the Northwest, talking with witnesses and going on several non-sponsored Bigfoot expeditions myself, I would give the possibility of the creature being real a pretty darn good chance. BUT - BFRO has at times made wild claims that are hard to believe. 27 out of 30 expeditions having an encounter? I don’t see bear signs 27 out of 30 outings to the back country of Washington and Oregon, and how many more thousands of bears are there than Bigfeet? Heck I have been on many a deer hunt where I would have a hard time finding proof that they exist. 27 out of 30 to me seem to be just an enticement for novice first timers to pay BFRO’s high cost for a 3-4 day expedition.
somebody awhile back already took credit for “bigfoot” and the fact it was a hoax.
While I’m not so involved as you, I think that it is dilatory to lump all these creatures together as inconceivable to exist.
I'd put the chances at over ten million to one. There is simply no credible evidence that a bigfoot type creature ever existed in North America. Besides that....factor the number of individuals required to sustain a viable population and you'd probably have numerous incidents of Bigfoot roadkill anually. When someone kills one with his pick-up truck I'll believe it. Until then, it's almost as silly as the notion that a population of pleasaurs exists in a Scottish lake.
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