Trying not to sound breathlessly moronic and relentlessly off kilter must be hard work. The stream of people calling themselves Bigfoot researchers — an astounding number of them PhDs, college professors and scientists from any number of fields — droned on all day, talking about satellite imagery, global rainfall patterns, Bigfoot territorial behaviors and specialty field work searching for Bigfoot signs. Even the crowd of believers was nodding off by the afternoon. I was asleep and drooling down the front of my shirt.
That would be a six-foot, seven-foot, eight-foot or even nine-foot long body, weighing upward of 500 pounds. The size depends on which eyewitness account we choose to believe because no actual Bigfoot ever has been located, dead or alive. And therein lies John Bindernagel's problem. Bindernagel has a doctorate and is known for having written a book famous — among believers — for its accuracy about Bigfoot/Sasquatch. He spoke at the conference, too.
"My book didn't generate any scientific dialogue," Bindernagel lamented. He was shocked. "The papers I've submitted have been routinely rejected. It's my subject. I had described the anatomy, etc., of an animal not yet discovered." That could put a chill on any response. And it raises this question: If it's yet to be discovered, how could he describe what it looked like and what it ate? Or its breeding habits or where it lives?
