Moderated Bigfoot- Anybody Seen one?

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If we were close to main post ( ie the NCO and EM clubs) I would think much more likely but even then that didnt explain the overall size very well. Its the distance and gating that really makes me doubt that scenario.
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Were you at ground level or lower/higher when you spotted it? Where were you observing from?
 
makaya325 said:
Considering there are thousands of them, 10ft and 1000 lbs is not rare, and would occur at least once in every national park/Wildlife Center.
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Stating fact, there are 10 ft. tall, 1000 lb. grizzlies where grizzlies are found (zoos/wildlife preserves out of their natural habitat notwithstanding). That is a big grizzly specimen. It isn't an average sized grizzly.
 
Found One...


Bigfoot is big fake in Fairfield
By Genevieve Reilly
staff writer
Updated: 07/01/2009 11:54:08 PM EDT

FAIRFIELD -- It goes by many names: Bigfoot, Sasquatch -- the legendary half-human, half-ape creature that, according to legend, prowls the great northern woods of the U.S. and Canada.

Some insist, however, that the hairy beast is real. Sasquatch "sightings" have primarily been reported in the Northwest.

Until now, that is.

A woman driving on Unquowa Road about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday called police to report that she "almost hit Sasquatch," which was standing in the middle of the road. She said it was 8 feet tall and very hairy, with a large body and "legs like tree trunks." When she switched her headlights to highbeams, she said, the creature covered its face and ran into the woods.

The driver told police it was "human like," but more "like an animal."

Unlike other Sasquatch sightings, where the elusive beast melts back into the deep woods, this one was located in Fairfield.

Bigfoot turned out to be a big joke -- a 16-year-old dressed in a gorillalike costume, police said. The teen told officers he was standing at the intersection of Unquowa and Sturges roads, waving at passing cars while friends watched.

A police officer escorted the sham Sasquatch back home and turned him over to his parents, who, the police report states, agreed he should have shown better judgment.


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A woman driving on Unquowa Road about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday called police to report that she "almost hit Sasquatch," which was standing in the middle of the road. She said it was 8 feet tall and very hairy, with a large body and "legs like tree trunks." When she switched her headlights to highbeams, she said, the creature covered its face and ran into the woods.

The driver told police it was "human like," but more "like an animal."
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Bigfoot turned out to be a big joke -- a 16-year-old dressed in a gorillalike costume, police said. The teen told officers he was standing at the intersection of Unquowa and Sturges roads, waving at passing cars while friends watched.
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Obviously the woman must have seen a real bigfoot and not the kid in the costume. Because her description is of something that would have been much larger than the average teen. And you know, eyewitness descriptions are never mistaken about details like that. :rolleyes:
 
LT,

Would it be possible for someone to copy and send your encounter stories to me in PM here on the JREF? I'm asking you in case you do not want this info getting around. I cannot access the BFF to read that thread because they have my IP address blocked.I am pretty much lost as to what is going on in this conversation now.
 
WGBH said:
No, I noticed no trace evidence at all. But, I was a boy and could have overlooked something of course.
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Except your sighting. You see that's what puzzles me. You are willing to agree that the human mind is a less than perfect recording machine and the human eye is a less than perfect optical instrument except in that one instant where you saw BF, there you have perfect certainty.

Why do you exempt that vision of BF from all the rules on logic and common sense. In spite of the fact that there is not enough food in the area to sustain a viable population of large mammals nor enough cover to hide them, you insist that they're there, all on the basis of a brief view of something unknown.

All efforts at a rational explanations are waved off.

Your commitment to this seems to me more religious that rational.
 
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WGBH said:
LT,

Would it be possible for someone to copy and send your encounter stories to me in PM here on the JREF? I'm asking you in case you do not want this info getting around. I cannot access the BFF to read that thread because they have my IP address blocked.I am pretty much lost as to what is going on in this conversation now.
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If you dont get it PM me and I'll hunt it up for you
 
Spektator said:
Obviously the woman must have seen a real bigfoot and not the kid in the costume. Because her description is of something that would have been much larger than the average teen. And you know, eyewitness descriptions are never mistaken about details like that. :rolleyes:
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I think that most people can tell the difference between a 5ft shrimp and a towering titan from 50 feet away. :mad:
 
Why do you exempt that vision of BF from all the rules on logic and common sense. In spite of the fact that there is not enough food in the area to sustain a viable population of large mammals nor enough cover to hide them, you insist that they're there, all on the basis of a brief view of something unknown.
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Your commitment to this seems to me more religious that rational.[/QUOTE]


There is more than enough food for them in certain areas, but not small parks.
 
WGBH said:
I think seeing a wolf could be neat, as long as it didn't try to eat me.
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We have our own species of wolf here, the Vancouver Island wolf. They are rare, elusive, shy, and very smart. People visiting Pacific Rim National Park Reserve are warned to keep their dogs close to them lest Fido be a lupine chew toy. When I surf at a place called Long Beach there is a wolf warning sign as you go in from the parking lot.

OK, you live in Virginia. Let's say money is not an issue. Where do you go to see wolves in the wild?
 
kitakaze said:
We have our own species of wolf here, the Vancouver Island wolf. They are rare, elusive, shy, and very smart. People visiting Pacific Rim National Park Reserve are warned to keep their dogs close to them lest Fido be a lupine chew toy. When I surf at a place called Long Beach there is a wolf warning sign as you go in from the parking lot.

OK, you live in Virginia. Let's say money is not an issue. Where do you go to see wolves in the wild?
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Yellowstone National Park looks nice.


http://www.ypf.org/projects/wildlife/wolfEducation.asp
 
makaya325 said:
I think that most people can tell the difference between a 5ft shrimp and a towering titan from 50 feet away. :mad:
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I don't know. I've mentioned the lion that supposedly is prowling a nearby county. Four people saw the beast and got a photo of it on a cell phone--a three-hundred pound African lioness! They all agreed.

Except the photo turned out to be a neighbor's house cat--twelve pounds, not three hundred. "You could even see the collar," the owner of the cat pointed out.

Edited to add: Oh, about thirty miles from that sighting, a woman reported that the lioness killed her horse. She even found paw prints. Biologists and a vet went out to check. The horse died of natural causes; the prints were from the woman's own dog.
 
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I haven't seen one cos I live in UK but I think if they did exist we would have more evidence by now, not just witness accounts.

What does intrigue me about it all though is the fact that Yeti have been spotted in the Himalayas and Sasquatch in North America.

Does anybody know any sort of timeline on which was reported first? I looked on Wickipedia it was hard to tell because it seems they are essentially considered different creatures.
 
John, I have sent the following emails under the heading "Great Dismal Swamp primate?" to the Professor of Biology for the Elizabeth City State University and officials for the Great Dismal Swamp Wildlife Refuge:

ESCU:

Dear Prof. Sekender Khan,

I am contacting you in regards to an important question regarding Great Dismal Swamp wildlife. I am a member of the forums for the James Randi Educational Foundation which is an organization which promotes skepticism and critical thinking. I have a friend and fellow member who is completely convinced that in the Pasquotank River area in 1982 while inside a deerstand on a hunting trip he saw an extremely large primate standing on its hind limbs and feeding on the leaves and fruit of a mulberry bush. He is quite adamant that he did not see a bear and said there was no snout or ears visible. He is also quite certain that the creature he saw was roughly nine feet tall and spanning six feet at the shoulders. Just before the sighting he said that he experienced a terrible odour. There are apparently similar and more recent reports from the Great Dismal Swamp area.

More details of his claim can be found here:

http://blogsquatcher.blogspot.com/2009/04/round-mulberry-bush.html

This person was apparently deeply affected by the experience and seems to be suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. He currently is the member of various Bigfoot enthusiast organizations including one that conducts searches for evidence of such a creature in Virginia and North Carolina. As there has never been reliable evidence for such a creature existing anywhere in North America, I am highly skeptical of this claim. I would like to know if you can provide any insight into the possibilty of such a creature existing undetected in the Pasquotank River and Great Dismal Swamp area. If you could forward this email to any member of the ECSU faculty who has expertise on the environment and fauna of the area, it would be most appreciated. Good day to you and thank you for any assistance you may provide.

Kind regards
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GDSWR:

Dear sir or madam,

I am contacting you in regards to an important question regarding Great Dismal Swamp wildlife. I am a member of the forums for the James Randi Educational Foundation which is an organization which promotes skepticism and critical thinking. I have a friend and fellow member who is completely convinced that in the Pasquotank River area in 1982 while inside a deerstand on a hunting trip he saw an extremely large primate standing on its hind limbs and feeding on the leaves and fruit of a mulberry bush. He is quite adamant that he did not see a bear and said there was no snout or ears visible. He is also quite certain that the creature he saw was roughly nine feet tall and spanning six feet at the shoulders. Just before the sighting he said that he experienced a terrible odour. There are apparently similar and more recent reports from the Great Dismal Swamp area.

More details of his claim can be found here:

http://blogsquatcher.blogspot.com/2009/04/round-mulberry-bush.html

This person was apparently deeply affected by the experience and seems to be suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. He currently is the member of various Bigfoot enthusiast organizations including one that conducts searches for evidence of such a creature in Virginia and North Carolina. As there has never been reliable evidence for such a creature existing anywhere in North America, I am highly skeptical of this claim. I would like to know if you can provide any insight into the possibility of such a creature existing undetected in the Pasquotank River and Great Dismal Swamp area. I would also like to know if you or anyone from the GDSWR are aware of reports or sightings of such an animal in the area. Good day to you and thank you for any assistance you may provide.

Kind regards
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Hopefully there is some reply.
 
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