Some would gather from my previous posts that I don't believe in bigfoot. I neither believe nor disbelieve in bigfoot. I have a scientific mind, and believe in scientific method. Show me irrefutable proof of anything and I will make an attempt to corroborate your "proof", and apply scientific method to it. I will say, that with the proliferation of cameras in our society, and we STILL have no good photo's of ...well... anything out of the ordinary, makes me think more towards the negative side of things.
Well if 100 people in different places see a sasquatch run across the road, and all of these people describe what seems to be the same type of animal, the reasonable man may conclude that sasquatches run across roads from time to time. If 10,000 people over 200 years apart report sightings of a creature that is too large to be a man-in-a-suit, and without knowing each other, correlate patterns of similar behavior, like running on two legs, then the reasonable man may conclude that sasquatches behave this way. If a zillion people report coming across bent or twisted trees in the woods which are held down by something (in other words wind or snow loads didn't bend the trees) and if these bent trees lines are followed through the woods and they always lead to water, the reasonable man may scratch his or her head and wonder who is making these thousands of markers throughout our woods?
Photo wise, I've got a great set of blurry photos collectively known as the "backside of the animals" that I've seen. Bears, foxes, wolves, bunnies, qual, a fisher (that was cool), et cetra. I see them and fumble around with my iPhone trying to get the camera on in time (and I swear I cannot get the camera on when there is something rare or unique running away). Try to take a proper photo of a random animal you do see in the woods that is close enough to see features and not a blurry blob. I've come to the conclusion that unless a person is lucky, and unless somebody is walking around with a DSL camera equipped with a telephoto lens that is on the whole way, you'll quickly find out just how hard it is to take a photo of anything other than an occasional bird or squirrel or deer.
Check out this video below: At the 5-6 second mark outside the window, past the cars and garage. You only see it for about a quarter-second, but in that quarter-second you something big, taller than the eve of a garage that it walks behind. You can clearly see it take about a five or six-foot step. Ask yourself what is that?
We can take my side-by-side and pop into the Paul Bunyan at about 10:30 PM in late July through August at night, go deep and make a fire on the side of a trail and listen. Inevitably as we sit down on some folding chairs facing our fire and drink beer, we'll be joined by something 100 yards away that cracks sticks. Whatever it is, it is noisy as if it wants us to hear it. Maybe we'll get that feeling we're being watched, and maybe we won't as it depends on the night. Slowly the stick-cracking will draw closer. And the stick cracking will circle us and slowly draw closer again. Then something else cracking-sticks will join us on the other side of the trail as we listen and feed our fire. I'll hand you another beer and smile. Maybe you'll think it deer making all that noise, but I'll know better.
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