Moderated Bigfoot- Anybody Seen one?

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This guy wouldn't lie or hallucinate or make a mistake.
"It took three months to get it from my head to his (the sculptor's) head," said Clifford LaBrecque, 73, of the fiberglass-and-fur model of Bigfoot he commissioned in 1976 at a cost then of $9,000.

"It's accurate to the inch," LaBrecque says.

The striking model of Bigfoot stands 8 feet tall in the dining room of LaBrecque's home. He says it depicts accurately what LaBrecque remembers from sightings and a physical encounter with a Bigfoot specimen on June 18, 1977, and from many descriptions of the creature prior to his experience.

The encounter happened, according to LaBrecque, between 9-10 p.m. near a woodpile behind LaBrecque's home in the Windsor Heights suburb of Des Moines, Iowa. Prior to the altercation, LaBrecque says he observed almost nightly a Bigfoot specimen — about 8 feet tall — that sometimes appeared with two apparently juvenile Bigfoot creatures.
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parnassus said:
This guy wouldn't lie or hallucinate or make a mistake.
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I grew up in Des Moines, and saw that sculpture at the Iowa State Fair when I was 10. I remember people talking about him being a loon, and a hoaxer back then.

The most telling thing is the location of his supposed sighting. Bigfoot would have had to make it through miles of suburbs, unseen, to get to where the incident took place.
 
Deacondark said:
I grew up in Des Moines, and saw that sculpture at the Iowa State Fair when I was 10. I remember people talking about him being a loon, and a hoaxer back then.

The most telling thing is the location of his supposed sighting. Bigfoot would have had to make it through miles of suburbs, unseen, to get to where the incident took place.
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And yet, he saw Bigfoot! I'm glad he makes it clear who he won't listen to. "I'm not going to listen to anyone who doesn't know crap telling me I don't know crap" LaBrecque said. Apparently, he knows crap. Such a well spoken guy. Obviously an animal lover too. He shoulda been Marlin Perkins' replacement on Wild Kingdom™.
 
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HarryHenderson said:
And yet, he saw Bigfoot! I'm glad he makes it clear who he won't listen to. "I'm not going to listen to anyone who doesn't know crap telling me I don't know crap" LaBrecque said. Apparently, he knows crap. Such a well spoken guy. Obviously an animal lover too. He shoulda been Marlin Perkins' replacement on Wild Kingdom™.
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He also claims to have a video of one, but won't show it to people because he doesn't want to hear anyone talk crap. If it's such a clear video, who could talk crap?
 
LTC8K6 said:
Strangely similar to bear behavior...
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Being Iowa, (and having grown up in Iowa) I would say it was a Badger. They pull the bark from trees and eat the grubs they find between the bark and the tree. Badgers can get pretty big, and if he saw one on top of the woodpile, in the dark, and as we know he was already a "bigfoot researcher", his mind probably instantly went into Bigfoot overdrive mode, and nothing will change what he thinks he saw.

But yeah, I'm going with a Badger as the most likely explanation.
 
Deacondark said:
Being Iowa, (and having grown up in Iowa)
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Me too. The year he commissioned the bigfoot statue I graduated high school in Marshalltown. Won the state wrestling title in Des Moines that year at 112 lbs, yikes. I was in all the Des Moines high schools back then for sports. It's about the last location you would pick for a bigfoot sighting. But he's from Des Moines, so that's why bigfoot was seen!

I would say it was a Badger.
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I imagine he's telling an altogether tall tale. I don't remember him at the fair.

The best thing at the fair back then was the ride that chewed up all the people and spit them out in pieces into dump trucks out back. I forget the name of it. In the arts & crafts place. It won awards. Real funny sculpture. The "people-eater" or something. Everyone is in a long line out front eating popcorn and all. Mom, Dad, and the kids. Then the pieces are coming out the back, all bloody and hacked up.
 
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AlaskaBushPilot said:
Me too. The year he commissioned the bigfoot statue I graduated high school in Marshalltown. Won the state wrestling title in Des Moines that year at 112 lbs, yikes. I was in all the Des Moines high schools back then for sports. It's about the last location you would pick for a bigfoot sighting. But he's from Des Moines, so that's why bigfoot was seen!



I imagine he's telling an altogether tall tale. I don't remember him at the fair.

The best thing at the fair back then was the ride that chewed up all the people and spit them out in pieces into dump trucks out back. I forget the name of it. In the arts & crafts place. It won awards. Real funny sculpture. The "people-eater" or something. Everyone is in a long line out front eating popcorn and all. Mom, Dad, and the kids. Then the pieces are coming out the back, all bloody and hacked up.
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I don't remember that one! Would have been cool to see. I want to Saydel all through school. Spent a lot of time outdoors, never saw a bigfoot. Saw every other animal native to Iowa though.
 
News Flash: There are no skeptics of bigfoot. I learned this in a fascinating and original thread on the BFF in which the OP could not imagine why a real skeptic would visit there.
 
The Shrike said:
News Flash: There are no skeptics of bigfoot. I learned this in a fascinating and original thread on the BFF in which the OP could not imagine why a real skeptic would visit there.
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I saw that, amusing....

As a NONskeptic, that dump gets a little sadder every day.
 
The Shrike™ said:
News Flash: There are no skeptics of bigfoot. I learned this in a fascinating and original thread on the BFF in which the OP could not imagine why a real skeptic would visit there.
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At least you're always learning. And seriously, no really I mean it, here's a laurel and hardy handshake for the shrike The Link™. No. Wait. So couldn't it be argued that there are in fact no Real Bigfoot Skeptics™? That 'we' are all instead Bigfoot Bleever Bigots™? I mean, there is no beast, there never was any beast, nor was there even the possibility of such a beast, and we all know it. So we're not skeptical of Bigfoot, we're skeptical of Bigfoot bleevers' intelligence. I know for a fact we don't say 'There is no Bigfoot' near as much as we say 'Is Meldrum actually brain dead?' :jaw-dropp

mikeyx said:
I saw that, amusing....
As a NONskeptic, that dump gets a little sadder every day.
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Call me confused (or just call me, damnit), but where exactly do you, Mr. X, stand on Bigfoot at this 'juncture'? Just curious.
 
HarryHenderson said:
At least you're always learning. And seriously, no really I mean it, here's a laurel and hardy handshake for the shrike The Link™. No. Wait. So couldn't it be argued that there are in fact no Real Bigfoot Skeptics™? That 'we' are all instead Bigfoot Bleever Bigots™? I mean, there is no beast, there never was any beast, nor was there even the possibility of such a beast, and we all know it. So we're not skeptical of Bigfoot, we're skeptical of Bigfoot bleevers' intelligence. I know for a fact we don't say 'There is no Bigfoot' near as much as we say 'Is Meldrum actually brain dead?' :jaw-dropp


Call me confused (or just call me, damnit), but where exactly do you, Mr. X, stand on Bigfoot at this 'juncture'? Just curious.
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Saw something I cant easily explain, disgusted by the amount of BS online. Not getting into it further. Are we good?
 
Got sent this pic as evidence on the BFF (before I went down in a blaze of glory over there with the lunatic fringe)
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The guy who sent it to me said it was caught on a game cam and wasn't very happy when I pointed out the polyester make up of the suit fabric....

Some people just will never face the truth. How could anyone think this was an animal?
 
mikeyx said:
Saw something I cant easily explain, disgusted by the amount of BS online. Not getting into it further. Are we good?
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Thank you. We be.

LogicFail said:
Got sent this pic as evidence on the BFF (before I went down in a blaze of glory over there with the lunatic fringe)
http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv240/macheesmo3/badbigfootpic.jpg

The guy who sent it to me said it was caught on a game cam and wasn't very happy when I pointed out the polyester make up of the suit fabric....

Some people just will never face the truth. How could anyone think this was an animal?
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Well, we know Mikey didn't see this particular 'beast' because this one is easily explained. :p
 
LogicFail said:
Got sent this pic as evidence on the BFF
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Bigfooters never lie, so this must be a real bigfoot.

Bigfooters never get duped by hoaxers, so this must be a real bigfoot.

Bigfooters never mistake other animals for bigfoot, so this must be a real bigfoot.

Conclusion: that's a real bigfoot.
 
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