A short history of Bigfoot sightings and lore
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A similar story for the migration to Australia.
As far as we know, other big apes and hominids never crossed some big water barriers and never reached America or Australia. There are no bones. There are no footprints, ...
So your idea is possible, but it's very unlikely.
A lot of sightings are proven hoaxes so the out of focus images no doubt were intentional. I doubt an extra dimension reptile would somehow be restricted to a random lake in Scotland. Now if people started sighting Nessie in London...
My favorite that I’ve heard thus far is that humans are a product of alien genetic engineering combining alien and primate DNA. This supposedly involved multiple “steps” to get what we know as humans with protohumans (e.g. Neanderthals) being previous “steps” or attempts. Bigfoot is either one of those “steps” or attempts. I’ve also heard a theory that Bigfoot was a “happy accident” and carries out duties for the aliens.
I think the latter has come about as a way to explain some supposed connection between Bigfoot and the missing 411.
The thing is, when you think about it, reality is probably much stranger than you give it credit for. All we know about reality is what we perceive and infer from those perceptions... among which is quite a bit of knowledge about how fallible our ability to perceive reality actually is. Most of what you think you know is inferred from memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and/or relayed by others, which is at least as unreliable. And the kicker is, our understanding of what reality is relies on the assumption that reality is even understandable to us in the first place, which is not a given.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-hunt-for-one-of-g...
I guess it’s a social thing? Humans have a fundamental need to bond and feel part of a bigger “us” and these things serve as a substrate for it.
Intelligent Alien living happily in their original planet or nearby: Nobody know, but probably yes. There are more unknows unknows step here. I'm particularly worried abbot the prokaryote-eukaryote transition, but there are more steps and more unknow steps. So let's hope that the universe is big enough and say "probably yes".
Intelligent Alien visiting us in flying saucer: Nobody know, but probably no. The distances are too big. There is no hard evidence like a crash from time to time. We don't receive any electromagnetic weird signals, and electromagnetic communication is so efficient it would be weird that they use other means to communicate between starships. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but let's say "probably no".
Bigfoot’s big marketing advantage is that he could be living in any forest, anywhere, greatly increasing the total addressable market for believers.
Their plan for a news conference was foiled when the ice encasing their Bigfoot “carcass” melted too fast and exposed the frozen rubber suit.
The hosts go into it open minded, and come out believing it is real.
Along the way they speak to the surviving people who were actually there and involved, AND to a Hollywood film maker and creature FX person who was making high-end costumes in the 60s. He says the technology to make a costume that good at that time was not in existence. Furthermore, he says nobody has yet been able to produce a costume of similar quality.
Also, when you look into the proportions the human body, they don’t match those of the being in the film.
Also, there are many indications in the film itself that it was an impromptu shoot.
AND the guy who claimed to have been the man in the monkey suit had a beef (motive) with the man who shot the film, AND the costume he described wearing doesn’t match what appears on the film, AND the lengths of his limbs don’t match those of the creature in the film.
And the other guy who was present when the film was shot is known to be highly respected and full of integrity. A real straight shooter.
Lastly, check out BFRO.org to see the thousands of sightings that continue to occur every year across the USA. Sure, some are probably bears... but some are up close and personal, and involve police, forest rangers, military, etc.
Also strange that the video evidence is so spectacularly subpar that the most convincing of it requires significant anomaly hunting to persuade anyone.
I don't know. Not arguing bigfoot exists but I like the idea that even in modern times there's still stuff we can miss even though it feels like it would be impossible.
You knew him personally? What is his name?
>Furthermore, he says nobody has yet been able to produce a costume of similar quality.
Really?
Yes, really. They can do it with computer graphics, but not costumes. Computer graphics didn’t exist when the film was made. Spandex didn’t even exist yet.
Bear costumes in the 1970s is also quite hard to imagine.
Amazingly not a single one by people with phones to take pictures with. Huh.