Snuau, welcome to the board. What did you do, read this page only and decide to jump in? It would appear you are the latest in a long line of poorly informed bigfoot fans to appear here and underestimate the depth of discussion and the knowledge of it's participants.
ahhh the phenomenon of human denial of things not fully recognized yet even when objective scientific data is available that supports the contrary. I'm not saying it's definately real but you need to read some scientific literature before forming an opinion based simply on whether you think it looks like a guy in a suit or not.
Holder of the Truth, maverick thinker, please direct us denialists to this objective scientific data that supports the existence of bigfoot. Please point us to this scientific literature that you are under the assumption that we are unfamiliar with. Please keep the words 'peer review' and 'reliable evidence' in mind when doing so.
The best book I've read is Sasquatch Legend meets Science by Jeff Meldrum. He's an anthropologist and specializes in locomotion. It's written very objectively and facts supporting and disputing its existence are debated. It made me believe that there is likely a large primarily nocturnal primate living in North America that has a very large roaming territory in typically high elevation areas.
Jeff Meldrum? Never heard of him.
First of all, snuau, this thread is 245 pages to date. Try putting the word 'bigfoot' in the search engine here. You oddly seem to be under the impression that you're sharing new information with us. Most of the people participating in this thread have copies of Meldrum's book and are well informed on his 'science' regarding bigfoot. S:LMS has been discussed in great detail countless times here. It is certainly not the scientific literature you speak of.
Here are four reviews of the book you should familiarize yourself with before continuing to tell us about the book:
Bejamin Radford reviews Meldrum:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/sas-lms-review1/
Michael Dennet reviews Meldrum:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/sas-lms-review2/
Matt Crowley reviews Meldrum:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/sas-lms-review3/
David Daegling reviews Meldrum:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/sas-lms-review4/
They probably live longer than humans and mate very rarely and a primate of this size would likely be very intelligent.
On what do you base the statement I have bolded?
There's been attempted re-enactments in recent years that can't compare to the 1967 supposed ape-suit being worn.
We have shown countless times that there is nothing in the PGF that can not be accounted for by a man in a suit. It's good to familiarize yourself with a discussion before joining it. BTW, have you seen the Harley Hoffman video I posted?
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=3256655#post3256655
Furthermore Indian tribes in western Canada have recognized the sasquatch in their ceremonies for hundreds of years.
Please provide an example of a native tribe that agrees on having ceremonies involving bigfoot. Please do not provide an example of a Native legend that has been interpreted by bigfoot proponents as representing bigfoot unless the tribe itself agrees with that interpretation. Raincoast Sasquatch references do not count.
One tribe dresses as animals and all the animals are known creatures except the sasquatch or buk'wus as they call them.
Thunderbirds are known creatures?
They just consider it another primate and think nothing strange about its existence.
Evidence please.
Most people just think an animal of that size couldn't exist without being scientifically recognized but this is simply naive thinking. The wilderness in sasquatch country is extremely rural and could easily support and veil the existence of a creature that large living nocturnally.
Who's naive? Poor footer logic. Bigfoot is reported all over the continent, often in areas far from remote. Is it naive to think that a giant animal reported from Alaska to Iowa to Florida should have been scientifically recognized? Ask bf2006, one of the bigfoots he claims to have seen was from his balcony in Georgia and the other in front of a house in an unwooded area in Mississippi.
Keep the change.