Posted on 11/23/2004 7:13:14 PM PST by lowbridge
I know!
I never understood why.
I would love to jump on the "there is no bigfoot" bandwagon...however I live here in Western Wa. and I know more than a few Locals from the tribes that swear they have seen them.
You have to be careful though, these Natives are great at yanking your chain without letting on they are doing it.
I'd go with the .50 cal muzzelloader from what I hear, or maybe a .380
Great, now any sasquatches that happen upon this thread will turn into celibates and they'll die out...
no, thats big mouth, not bigfoot
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"Now if someone could just produce a body."
My answer to that question that always comes up is; 1) Bodies decopose very quickly in the forest, eaten by insects and other animals very quickly, leaving only scatterd bones. 2) If I were to ask you to give up your job for an entire year so you could go out to any of the Washington forest and bring me back a cougar skeleton which has a population of 2,500, or one of a black bear, which has a population of 25,000 I don't think you could do it, and you would be seaching full-time. How much less likely are you to find something that maybe has a population of less than a hundred in WA?
I have spent many days deer hunting and hiking in Washington, and I can tell you, many days I would have a hard time prooving deer exist. And the only bones that I ever ran across were that of an elk, and they were scattered over an area the size of a football field.
So I would not rule out the possiblity that BF exist. To many repesctible people claim to have seen one.
Too many professional and amatuer wildlife photographers stalking those areas for too many years for one or two creatures to not have passed in front of a waiting camera to record crisp, clear and compelling images.
Skeletal remains should have been uncovered by archaeologists excavating Indian sites as well as geologists.
How would they winter? Do they hibernate? They must because if not, they would certainly have to migrate to lower country or Westward to take advantage of marine heating. Thus, their winter range should be much reduced making it easier to detect their presence. If they don't hibernate, what do they survive on through the long winter months as their is no indication that they use tools, control fire or store food?
These things make fun campfire tales and may even be a distant echo of native experiences with Asian apes (Giganto-Picathus) prior to their migration into this continent.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Wonder how many people will take me serious.
No, my good friend, that picture is not real. Don't tell me you believe in aliens? Are you a scientologist?
LOL!
They met Cousin Hootie!
"These things make fun campfire tales"
I think when you actually meet these people and hear their story first-hand, the story is allot more convincing than hearing it on a late night Art Bell radio show, or in print someplace. The 3 people in the story below (1 adult and 2 boys) I meet in the summer of 2003 and I heard their story first hand. It was at the filming of a documentary for the Outdoor Life Channel. I have no reason to think they were making it up. Also in Aug of 2001, I and two friends were tent camping in a very remote area SE of Mt St Helens and we were awoken by loud vocalizations at around 2 in the morning. I can't say for sure it was a Sasquatch, but I do know from experience it was not a cougar, bear, elk, owl, or anything I have heard.
Now, I'm not one that believes much in the supernatural or strange encounters. I do not believe in the Bermuda Triangle, place little faith that there is a Nessee, or real ghost, and give UFO's (from another planet) only a slight chance of being real, but I do give Bigfoot a 80% chance of being real.
This is from the www.bfro.net web site, which is one of the best sites for the serious study of this creature. They do a good job screening out phony reports.
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 ravine 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 defiantly 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.
ALSO NOTICED: No
OTHER WITNESSES: 2 - My 13 year old son and a friend of his who is also 13. We had just shut the boat down and was getting ready to fish on the point
TIME AND CONDITIONS: 11:15AM - Clear & sunny
ENVIRONMENT: It was in a clear cut down by the lake
I don't deny they think they saw or heard something. I just believe that if I was with any of these people at the time, I wouldn't have seen anything or, would have a very different account of what I saw.
Aren't they a protected species?
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