This strikes me as incredibly naive or just straight up silliness. It also strikes me as a desire to believe in the unbelievable, bigfoot. I can walk out my back door right now, and within 150 yards find numerous "stick structures". Branches break and fall all the time, all on their own accord. And the wind helps with that process, as does temperature and humidity. Limbs break, fall and pile up. It's a completely natural process, and for all the decades that I have been seeing this stuff, never have I attributed it to some higher mentality causing it to happen. I have never thought that bigfoot or anything else had done the arranging. More than that, it cracks me up that anyone even has labeled the random, natural piling of branches as "stick structures". What an absolutely stupid term. What an absolutely stupid straw to grasp at to try to make bigfoots real. Having gone into the woods on occasion and never having seen branches piled up, well, too bad for you, dod didn't see a bigfoot nest, or road marker, or baby cage, or whatever else you might want to consider them as. But I have them on my own property, I have seen with my own eyes as the branches fall and pile up. You could say that I have seen "stick structures" as they were actually being "made". I didn't see any bigfoots making them, so maybe they were cloaked while doing their handiwork, eh?
An unusual "heat signature" huh? Really? What's a "heat signature"? And because it was 8 feet tall (you say), it couldn't have been a 6'6" tall man with headgear (say) because, well, 8 feet? Whose tape measure did you use and are you sure it wasn't centimeters and not inches? So sure that you're willing to create an entirely new species of primate out of thin air because of it since you can't "visualize" where an imaginary (leftover?) 12 inches in your "heat signature" could have come from?
Hey if he says its an unknown species of huge hairy ape, it's an unknown species of huge hairy ape. Who are we really to say otherwise? He was there and saw it and he knows and we don't. We "skeptics" need to get over ourselves and stop this refusal to admit it exists because we...umm...why do we refuse to admit it exists? Oh right there's no evidence.
It's weird that you watched it for 15 minutes as it walked around and you only saw the head but not the body. It walked 200 yards and yet you never saw the thermal glow of the body. The entire time the only thing visible was the head above the foliage. The foliage concealed the body's thermal signature.
The photo is cropped or composed in such a way that very important clues are unavailable.
Yes, they make sure to mention he's only a rodeo cowboy, as though he's one saddle short of a single digit IQ. It's a thinly disguised argument from ignorance -- believers are astonished that a mere rodeo cowboy could be so creative and talented. I get the very same reaction from new people who see some of my daughter's artwork I have on display in my cubicle. Whaaat, she's only in high school???
What skeptics (at least this one) are truly interested in is the production of an actual bigfoot. I'd be on board again in a heartbeat. Until then, believers have nothing to crow about and skeptics have nothing to prove.
