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Posted on 06/04/2009 6:52:46 AM PDT by laotzu
They say they have a cast of a footprint 5 inches wide and 15 inches long.
A group of Bigfoot hunters claim to have found footprints and heard calls of the legendary creature in Oklahoma.
About 30 people spent Memorial Day weekend on a Bigfoot hunt in the Kiamichi Mountains in the southeastern part of the state, the Tulsa World reports. They say they have a cast of a footprint 5 inches wide and 15 inches long.
"The toes were clearly visible on the cast after it was lifted up," said D.W. Lee, director of the Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center.
Bigfoot or Sasquatch is described as a large human-like creature. While sightings are most frequent along the Pacific Coast, especially in California and Washington, reports have come in from Pennsylvania, New York, Florida and many other states and several Canadian provinces.
Lee described Bigfoot "vocalizations" as imitation bird calls, including whippoorwills and owls, the newspaper reported. He said one searcher was hit by a rock just after someone had spotted two large animals.
Over many decades, Bigfoot hunters have failed to come up with evidence to convince non-believers.
“Are enough food resources in the thousands and thousands of square miles we are talking about to support 4-6 thousand more moose? Of course, there is. “
I don’t think there are enough food resources in Oklahoma.
“Do Bigfoot (Shouldn’t the plural be ‘bigfeet?’) Have a Language?”
What a hoot.
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I know people who claim to have seen weird stuff. Hell, I’ve seen weird stuff. Still, bigfeet and UFOs just strain credulity beyond the breaking point.
But I certainly see a large, North American Ape being a possibility.
One of my favorite naturalist and explorers, William Bartram, talked about seeing two Apes in the 1770’s in Florida.
It just seems unlikely in the extreme that such an animal could have avoided detection until this late date.
“They say they have a cast of a footprint 5 inches wide and 15 inches long.
Roughly equivalent to an average NBA player.
There was the Skookum cast that the BFRO people made, but I'm about 85% sure it was an elk lying down that made the impression in the mud. Ive camp and hike in the Skookum meadow area and the place is loaded with elk. And I've seen someone do a virtual model of an elk haying down in the same spot and he fit the cast like a glove. I do think there is a good possibility Bigfoot exist, but I'm not sold on that Skookum cast, and I look at all evidence with an objective mind.
Given the population densities which the Sasquatch researchers are hypothesizing, there are probably no more than 3-4 dozen Sasquatch in Oklahoma. They aren't talking about thousands of Sasquatch in Oklahoma. IIRC, the Sasquatch researchers hypothesize a total population of less than 10,000 spread from Alaska to Florida with the bulk of the population in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest states.
Three or four dozen Sasquatch probably wouldn't require more food resources than a couple of hundred more feral hogs. Lord knows Oklahoma already has enough feral hogs and I think most people would agree that the resources are there to unfortunately support even more.
As an Oklahoma, I offer my apologizes to all the world for this continued FARCE. What an embarrassment!!!!!
Not to mention the critical minimum number of creatures it would take to sustain a population. You can't just have one or two of them in a region.
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Bigfoot are all right, but ivory billed woodpeckers are better.
“Given the population densities which the Sasquatch researchers are hypothesizing, there are probably no more than 3-4 dozen Sasquatch in Oklahoma.”
Not unless they all have cloaks of invisibility.
They would have been discovered by now.
If you go back to my post in this thread, I said I remain a skeptic about Sasquatch. I concluded a long time ago that if Sasquatch existed, someone, somewhere would have discovered a body, shot one, or provided provided some form of irrefutable physical evidence of the Sasquatch. While I remain a skeptic about Sasquatch, I'm not convinced by the food argument. It doesn't seem valid to me for the reasons I stated earlier.
I find crypto-zoology interesting, so I follow developments casually. I would be surprised if Sasquatch is discovered and shocked if most other crypto-creatures are discovered. The exception is the Tasmanian Tiger. My hunch is that someday, probably soon, there will be confirmation that the Tasmanian Tiger survived extinction. Of course, the big difference is that we know for sure that at one time (prior to the late 1930s) that Tasmanian Tiger existed unlike Sasquatch.
Okay. Me too, pretty much. Except that having spent a lot of time in Oklahoma, I’m pretty skeptical about the food.
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