Moderated Bigfoot- Anybody Seen one?

[I Am He]

Video of a sneering sasquatch; I can't say I'm convinced.
http://www.ghosttheory.com/2011/04/11/amazing-footage-overlooked

What? You don't think that crystal clear video taken by such an expert cameraperson with those very sharp images of Footie are not convincing? Why that video puts Patty's to shame. I think that Sweaty could prove it in one stroke of his crayon.



I Am He

 

[darkwing]

Bulletmaker had a story, bout one of his neighbors retelling a shooting that happened several years before. According to the story, this good ol boy emptied a twelve rd mag from his 22 long gun, and six from a thirty eight, during a thirty yd charge.
I pleaded with Bullet to take JREF member Darkwing to the spot, so DW could search the area with cadaver dogs, surely a good ol boy didnt miss with the thirty eight, from what would have been point blank range by the time he emptied the 22 into the charging beast.

I was mysteriously banned from all Bulletmaker threads at MABRC following that.

Man Drew, you sure like to convort the facts. You were never banned on the MABRC forums for anything related to Bullet. You sure flip flop worse than a bass laying on the bank after being pulled in.

 

[Drewbot]

I was banned from Bullets threads, you checked on it and couldnt figure out why, The next day I got access back. I am not saying you did it, I think BM locked me out of his forum section.

 

[Old Hickory]

LOL...banned for asking questions?..or banned for asking the wrong questions?...after reading the various BF related threads how could a person prove there is a BF to the skeptics of this forum?...pictures, video or a dead corpse?...

 

[Skeptical Greg]

Yes, yes & yes... ( see the ' Unambiguous ' thread.

 

[The Shrike]

Well it happened - I finally had a bigfoot encounter, and I think it might be BFRO-worthy. Here are the deets:

I was owling yesterday with another guy (5 am; the moon was just setting and it was dark enough that we could see the Milky Way) and these two other dudes who arrived at the same place separately. We were in a natural area with trails but this is probably the biggest block of dense, mature forest we've got in the whole county.

After getting in position along one of the trails, I started doing my screech owl imitation. After a couple of minutes of this, we heard some rustling in leaves about 50 m away, followed by the determined sound of bipedal footfalls that came straight toward us and stopped just behind some brush about 5 m off the trail. It was very difficult to imagine someone walking so purposefully through that tangle of shrubs and greenbrier in the darkness, but we assumed it was one of those other dudes messing with us so we just kept up with the owl calls.

About 10 minutes later (presumably with whoever it was just standing there near us), we saw the flashlight from the other guys emerge from the woods about 150 m away and pop out onto the trail. BOTH guys came out on the trail and walked up to us. We exchanged pleasantries and discussed the owls (none had responded), and then explained the mysterious footsteps to the other dudes.

Emboldened that there were now four of us, I flipped on my light and hopped into the brush to try and see who (or what) was there. I saw nothing.

After all agreeing that we had just had a freaky-weird experience of some kind, we proceeded down another trail deeper into the woods and kept on owling without incident.

I do not have an explanation for what we experienced, and it was disconcerting. It's easy to see how someone who has an experience like this and does some Internet searching to learn about bigfoot could end up convincing themselves that they had had an encounter with the North American Wood Ape.

 

[Drewbot]

predawn/early dawn, a squirrel taking repeated hops through the leaves can sound incredibly like someone stomping towards you. try deer hunting over corn, just before dawn the squirrels make it sound like people are closing on your position.

 

[HarryHenderson]

Well it happened - I finally had a bigfoot encounter...<brevity>...an encounter with the North American Wood Ape.

And that's the thing, you DID have a Bigfoot encounter. Not the actual beast (of course), but what you had was 'the real deal'. Note how your experience makes you now think there could be something more to it than a mundane explanation. Not that you actually think think that, but the thought has now crossed your mind when it didn't (and likely couldn't) say just two days ago. There is no Bigfoot the Ape, but there really is Bigfoot the Shape.

 

[The Shrike]

There is no Bigfoot the Ape, but there really is Bigfoot the Shape.

I was really hoping to see something in the shadows I could make into a head or perhaps get some owl eyeshine or something. Alas, it was just the footfalls.

Drew, I'm with you on a quadraped sounding like a biped (I much prefer that explanation to anything involving a human doing that) but squirrel isn't right. Maybe a fox bounding into a hole I couldn't see? I'm not really looking for an explanation, I just wanted to share a weird experience and illustrate how easily people could have a few blanks filled in and next thing you know, you've got a 100% truthful person claiming they had a bigfoot encounter.

 

[William Parcher]

It's easy to see how someone who has an experience like this and does some Internet searching to learn about bigfoot could end up convincing themselves that they had had an encounter with the North American Wood Ape.

I just wanted to share a weird experience and illustrate how easily people could have a few blanks filled in and next thing you know, you've got a 100% truthful person claiming they had a bigfoot encounter.

I would suggest that maybe an honest but non-critical thinking person could conclude that they had a Bigfoot encounter.

 

[The Shrike]

I would suggest that maybe an honest but non-critical thinking person could conclude that they had a Bigfoot encounter.

You have more faith in humanity than I thought!

 

[CptColumbo]

I saw a big foot once, but then realized it was a yard stick, and it was actually 3 (regular sized) feet.

 

[DennyT]

By now bobo has done gone and made hisself a Bigfoot-owl call and is filming a new episode "new scientific findings indicate Bigfoot speech sounds like owls".

 

[William Parcher]

You have more faith in humanity than I thought!

So would you say that a meaningful percentage of people who experienced what you did would conclude that they had an encounter with a Bigfoot? If so, what sort of percentage are you thinking?

 

[William Parcher]

Vermont Sod Granny...

Ohio Sod Granny...

 

[The Shrike]

So would you say that a meaningful percentage of people who experienced what you did would conclude that they had an encounter with a Bigfoot? If so, what sort of percentage are you thinking?

Yes, though I'd have no idea how big that percentage would need to be before considering it meaningful. By BFRO standards, I had a "Class B" encounter.

I can envision someone without much woods-savvy having the experience we did and being 100% convinced that something on two legs approached and stopped just out of sight. If even on a lark such a person typed "bigfoot" into Google, the top hit is the BFRO with its database of dozens of stories of similar experiences.

 

[William Parcher]

...bipedal footfalls that came straight toward us and stopped just behind some brush about 5 m off the trail.

It stopped 16' away from you and then was completely gone?

 

[Drewbot]

Why didn't you charge the beast for science? Even if you just grabbed a clump of hair, You would have been the greatest biologist ever, and, I might add, have a great story to tell at the paid speaking engagements.

 

[Drewbot]

It stopped 16' away from you and then was completely gone?

Did you hear a 'Bzzt' before it disappeared?

 

[The Shrike]

It stopped 16' away from you and then was completely gone?

That is an accurate description of our perception of this event, yes.