A thread for general discussion and sharing of resources about the alleged entities going by those names. It's probably best if we keep reported sightings to the Cryptozoological accounts thread though, unless there's something particularly revealing about the nature of these creatures in the account.
Here's a resource to kick things off: When Bigfoot Gets Artistic – Or Doesn’t by Nick Redfern at Mysterious Universe. It's a somewhat ambivalent article which seems to want to present a possibility that might not really be true, but it's interesting at any rate: the possibility that "striking and consistent stick and tree structures in the forest, especially in areas with a long history of Sasquatch encounters", are "signs of Sasquatch habitation" and that whereas some researchers "assume they are markers of territory or acts of aggression", according to some Native American Elders and First Nation Tribes of Canada they might also be "mark[ings] and commemorat[ations] [of] the birth of a new member of a Sasquatch Family or a Marker of a colony".
Quote:I did contact a "Bigfoot team" that showed up within 72 hours of this. No evidence was found. No footprints, hair, nothing.
Lon then asks of the account - by "a retired special forces sniper" in Maud, Oklahoma on 15 April 2010 - that he has just retold:
Quote:Could this have been (what I refer to) an interdimensional Sasquatch? Here are links for those who have not read it - Interdimensional Sasquatch and The Bigfoot Paradox. I've maintained, for over a decade, that Sasquatch and other cryptids may be something other than just a flesh and blood terrestrial beings. There have been countless sightings (including myself) of these creatures as compared to the amount of physical evidence retrieved. This fact has forced me to question the true nature of these beasts. Is Sasquatch a multidimensional entity? Is it possible that Sasquatch has the ability to move in and out of this plane of existence into an alternative universe? Perhaps this creature and other cryptids are simply not an earthbound entity because it is actually extraterrestrial or of alien origin. Or maybe it has traveled back from the future earth and is a creature that will one day inhabit our planet. Then again, is it possible that those alien beings and strange entities that are witnessed everyday in our present world are simply our descendants from the earth's future who are just paying us a visit?
Quote:Several people visiting a hiking destination in Oklahoma over the weekend claim to have spotted what they believe may have been Bigfoot. The weird spate of sightings occurred at the Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area, which is a spacious piece of undeveloped land in Tulsa that has become a particularly popular outdoor escape for residents who have been exercising self-isolation at home in response to the coronavirus crisis.
However, it would seem that those who recently ventured to the site got more than merely a breath of fresh air. According to a social media post from the administrators of the wilderness area on Monday afternoon, "over the weekend, we received dozens of calls and messages reporting a 'sighting.'" Attached to the statement were a series of visitors' photographs, of varying quality, that appeared to show a hairy bipedal creature lurking in the wilderness.
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I'm not too good at this topic (of trying to identify creatures in the woods from a distance), Steve001 will vouch for that. I can see it's not a wild boar (I lost all credibility last time with that stab at it)
It looks to me like a bloke in a big foot costume heading into the trees to relive himself.
I should add that I've never seen any evidence that I personally find compelling around Big Foot, but that's just my opinion.
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(2020-04-05, 03:45 PM)tim Wrote: I should add that I've never seen any evidence that I personally find compelling around Big Foot, but that's just my opinion.
It has seemed to me that people like a good story, it may be true, it may not, but it is the story itself which excites (some) people, hence it gets shared, acquires legendary status.
On the other hand, in the few instances where there has been something solid and substantial to investigate, it turns out to be a boar bear or something quite ordinary.
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Quote:Some Bigfoot evidence is just too good to be true.
A seemingly great batch appeared in Oklahoma on March 30, 2020, when the Tulsa River Parks Authority shared a group of images on their Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area Facebook page.
Quote:Unfortunately, it just turned out to be some guy — that is, Ryan Howell, who wore a Bigfoot costume as part of a Tulsa River Parks viral campaign to remind everyone to practice social distancing while out on the trails.
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Could we, though, going forward please keep sighting reports like this to the Cryptozoological accounts thread unless they shed light on the nature of these alleged creatures?
Edit: I've renamed that thread to "Cryptozoological accounts and sightings" for clarity.
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Quote:Beatty’s own Bigfoot journey began in the 1960s, when, after getting grounded by her parents, she hiked up Stissing Mountain in nearby Pine Plains to be alone.
The rebellious teen had set up camp when she heard a “godawful scream” that caused the blood to “drain” out of her, she recalled. Fearing for her life, she ran back down to her house “white as a sheet.”
However, it wasn’t until 2011 that Beatty realized the provenance of that unearthly sound. While doing the dishes as the show “Finding Bigfoot” was on TV, she heard the same noise that she had heard on the mountain all those years ago.
Curious, she Googled “bigfoot sightings” in Dutchess County, pulling up a daytime road crossing of Bigfoot seen by two women on Lake Road in Pine Plains.
Beatty then started talking to hunters, anglers and other outdoor people, and they would tell her stories, motivating her to probe further.
“I started going out with my friends just out of curiosity and we started finding tracks, structures, hair on barbed wire fences up on a farm, all kinds of evidence,” said Beatty. “It was just unbelievable.”
Quote:The new documentary film “American Sasquatch: Man, Myth or Monster” pulls together the most compelling evidence that the hairy, and supposedly mythical, monster believed to inhabit the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest is not only real but has been reported all over the world for centuries.
“Bigfoot” is the nickname that caught on. Sasquatch is just one of the names given to the legendary beasts by Native American nations.
“I think I have 100 different names from different tribes and First Nations groups about what they call hairy man, Bigfoot, (other names not transcribed correctly),” Paulides told 8 News Now Chief Investigator George Knapp.
It runs the gamut. The bottom line is, almost every tribe believes it’s another tribe of people. They don’t think it’s an animal.
Here's the trailer for the film (I haven't watched it yet, but it looks interesting):
Quote:Bigfoot sightings are typically associated with remote forests and deep wilderness, not quiet residential streets. But on the night of May 10, 1982, multiple witnesses in the suburban Orange County city of Buena Park reported seeing something they couldn’t explain: a massive, hairy, loud creature estimated to stand about 9 feet tall.
“First we hear a noise, then we all look,” Raymond Hinsley told SFGATE by phone. “... And then a foul odor came by.” Hinsley was 16 at the time, hanging out with his 18-year-old brother and friends in the back of his apartment complex, when the mysterious creature caught their attention about 30 feet away in a drainage ditch.
Hinsley imitated the sound the creature made next, vocalizing a snarling growl into the phone. The manifestation, he recalls, stood upright like a large person. “It got bigger as the roar got louder.”
He believes it had to have been Bigfoot — or, if he must concede, a bear at the very least. “It was not human at all,” he said.
“It was scary. It was real. Nobody will make me change my mind with it,” he said. “Me and three other guys really seen it, smelled it, heard it. I really think it was the real deal. ... I really believe it to this day.”
(I'm making an exception to the thread's no-sightings general injunction here, mostly because it's an historical sighting of note because it occurred in an urban area).
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