Bigfoot, or Sasqautch if you will... what is it?

My own view is that it is some type of unknown hominid. I read somewhere that Westerners thought that gorillas were mythological, until a German explorer caught one in Africa in the 1890s and took it to a zoo in Europe. So who knows?

I actually spent a day or so pondering the legend.

My conclusion was that, if there was such a creature, it must be an extraterrestrial. I am not saying that I believe in bigfoot. I do think that it is not a natural animal. With current technology, there is almost no way a primate of that size could exist without detection. Not in most of the places it’s been reported…

In my mind, only a very intelligent animal could avoid human detection in the places it is said to live. Many people who are on the run from law enforcement agencies will hide in large, forests, and mountains. Bounty hunters, or other LEO’s always find them.
If a person who doesn’t want to be seen,can be found, I have little faith in an animal successfully hiding. Plus, there have been no bodies, or any camps, or any evidence at all recovered… All evidence has been debunked.

So….. Either there is no such animal (most likely), or it is probably some alien, that can avoid detection, and lives in some cloaked spaceship, or something fantastic like that…

Sorry. There just aren’t going to be animals that big wandering around without us seeing them.

Gorillas, in the 1800’s is a poor analogy….

If you want to talk about the possibility of a legendary tree frog, or spuder, living in the Amazon, that’s far more realistic. But there are no 7ft tall monkeys running around North America….

Imagination run wild.

It probably is—or was—an over-sized or possibly mutated bear or some other animal very adept at hiding.

I fought the urge just to say it’s Trump but, as you can see, I lost the fight.

A hoax.

Man in suit.

A myth. There is no possible way such a creature could have existed for ~ millions of years and yet we find absolutely zero evidence of it.

A hillbilly’s wet dream.
That is a genuine sincere serious answer & if you don’t believe me ask my butler…

I am with @Pachy – some type of bear, possibly seen when fur is very light brown or even an albino.

I hope we never find out.

This sort of mystery is good for humanity. Keeps us wondering. And more believable than the bible.

A figment of drunken campers after midnight. haha
I agree, there is no way these creatures could be foraging around and reproducing without proof positive detection. Somebody, somewhere, would have found skeletal remains of a abandoned baby Bigfoot or some, real, viable, evidence vs a handful of fuzzy photographs.
Yep, most likely a bear, or a man in a gorilla suit.

Edit” skeletal remains or an abandoned baby Bigfoot….

@Coloma…or a gorilla in a man suit…

Damn naysayers, raining on my booger man parade. Oh, well – better than that creepy Mandela crap.

You know, this kind of stuff was fun to believe in and get all excited about when I was 13.

@gorillapaws Haha, that too!

Always with the negative ways…he’s out there I tell ya! And so is the Skunk Ape. You folks ain’t from around these parts, I can see.

My husband kind of looks like a yeti in the dark.

@Dutchess_III Damn girl, that’s just cold blooded!

LOL…I know an Engineer, Mr. Logical, facts only type that believes in Bigfoot. Takes all kinds I guess. haha

@Coloma Oh yeah? Well… well I, uh… for your information, I…. hey look, a possum!

Not in my house again I hope @NomoreY_A.

@NomoreY_A So you’re one of those easily distracted types ey? hey, you can’t get any more easily distracted than me, I’m a left handed blonde. My middle name is distraction. “Focus” for me is the original F word. lol

I have always thought Yankees call it Big Foot, and us Canucks call it Sasquatch.
I would truly like to think the creature is real but with todays technology of satellites , inferred , and other means I highly doubt it could go undetected for this long.
So it most likely is just a myth but a myth I hope lives on for many years to come.

I call it…Harry.

@Coloma Easily distracted, moi? Not in the least. I was only saying that…what was the question now?

I don’t think they are all the same thing.
Koalas get called bears, but they are not bears.
I think any unexplained, large, hairy mammals gets called bigfoot.
There are native American healers who are required to live for a time isolated in the wild. These men get very hairy and dirty before they return.
A woman in… I think Siberia was reputed to be a yeti, and had a child by a human.
I believe there could be hominids in hiding. And, lots of criminals on the run never get caught.
Yeti could have a very different birth rate than us.
So, I believe their could be hominids of ancient origin, and that for the most part they remain undetected, and that some reported sightings could be hoax or mistaken identity.
They would not have to be terribly intelligent, just resourceful.

)Patty_Melt You, I like : )

They don’t exist. Next.

It’s a myth, like vampires, zombies, werewhatevers, angels, nymphs, and so on.

It’s very interesting to read and ponder about it, but it’s a myth.

The jury is still out, IMHO. To be sure, there is no proof that the sasquatch/yeti/Bigfoot exists; by the same token, there’s no definitive proof that it does not exist. I think it’s the same with most other cryptids, from chupacabra to “Nessie”, to mermaids and unicorns.

How can anyone prove that something does NOT exist???? How would I PROVE that Santa doesn’t exist, or the tooth fairy? How would you @Strauss

@Dutchess_III Possibility vs. probability. Anything is possible but is it probable? Is it probable a fat little old man can deliver billions of toys, all around the world, in a single night, in a standard suze sleigh drawn by flying reindeer? I think not. lol
Same goes for Bigfoot. Is it probable some 8 foot tall apelike creature has been living in the woods undetected for centuries. I think not again.

@Strauss Oh my God not that song again! :D

And unicorns do exist

@Sneki95 Yes! They have powerful magic!

Here is the video with modern image stabilization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEJBk7kje-w

Looks like a man in a gorilla suit walking in the forest.

I can see how the legend grew to come about. My aunt and uncle in Seattle snatched up some woodland in the 1960’s. Like, 5 acres. It’s now surrounded by housing, but you can’t see them. When you’re at their house you just feel so isolated. And man, you get up in the mornings, it’s chilly, it’s so silent, it’s foggy, water is just dripping off the trees…man, I could just about see that damn Yeti, lurking behind the fog! I scampered back in the house and slammed the door.

It is merely a hoax. All of the alleged “evidence” is fakes. If such beings did exist, some genuine evidence would have been found long ago. For some reason, some people passionately want too believe Bigfoot exists. It is best to remain calm and objective about such matters, of course.

My favorite Yeti

What do you mean no evidence? I hear its VERY stinky. That stench must be from something.

Yeah, like a big wet dog.^^

Sulfur and rotting meat so the reports say. The Faulk Monster and the Florida Skunk ape are the worst

I hear it is very tall. That tallness must be from something. Also, hairy. From hair or something.

Everything we’ve seen or smelled may be a hoax, but they are emulating SOMETHING that therefore must exist. If they were trying to recreate a creature that did not exist to convince us dullards, they would be showing NOTHING for evidence.

@Yellowdog – that’s the same argument people use to argue that god exists.

And it is just as spurious and unproven.

I hear that all the time in church.

God is Omnipresent, Omniscient, Almighty or all-powerful, immutable, and exists.

The fact that existence is one of God’s attributes proves that God exists.

@Yellowdog – that’s a tautology and proves nothing

It proves that tautologies exist.

^Nice.

Why does the conversation always turn to boobs?

Cause we men, that say enough @Dutchess_III ??

LOL!! Do girl Sasqwatch have boobs?

They have 2 columns of 4.

And one big one in between those.

LOLL!

She just haaaddddd to ask, didn’t she? ; )

That’s a lot of hairy boobs…

There is no firm evidence. Jessica Simpson is stinky. Maybe someone mistook her for Bigfoot. Achilles was 13.5 feet tall and a character in legends. Fiction can make any claims it likes.

Washington State Dept of Transportation caught Sasquatch on a traffic cam

If there is any place that has Sasquatch, the Pacific Northwest is it! My Aunt and Uncle live in…someplace outside of Seattle. They bought some acreage in the country in the 1960s, that’s priceless now. Just priceless. It’s a patch of Sasquatch heaven in the middle of a forest of development. I sit on their back deck in the mornings, drinking coffee, looking into the foggy, dripping trees and ferns and moss, and scare the crap outta myself with my own imagination!

But then Sasquatch might be just a robot: https://bionic.fandom.com/wiki/The_Secret_of_Bigfoot

NOOOO! It’s Donald Truuuuuummmmpppppp !!!!!

No he could be a distant relative but we don’t think he is the Sasquatch.