This item is written by a a chap who is pretty fresh to the topic and
he has picked off a few recent examples which are a long way from the
best information available. Otherwise, what is really happening is
that the show and other events is allowing the media to openly tackle
the topic and simply get up in the morning and try writing up the
individual stories as they come in. That is very welcome.
What the show has certainly done is to wake up everyone to the fact
that there is one near you. It is not just a West Coast curiosity.
I would like to make a few general observations.
1 The Sasquatch is becoming far less shy of us generally. In cases
it is coming to the point of interaction .
2 The population has increased hugely over the past century. Before
then they were competing directly with humanity for game and much
lower deer herds existed during the nineteenth century and also
before. Now they have the equivalent of easy living.
3 This has triggered way more sightings and they are now encroaching
on our living spaces.
4 It is plausible that there is a second creature that is often
mistaken for a Sasquatch. It is rarer by far and any prints would be
mistaken for a bear. Unfortunately it is noticed for what it is not.
It is not a bear and it is also when clearly seen not a Sasquatch.
So it only gets better the more data you have.
5 At this point, the number of high quality reports is in the
thousands and if we add in those in which the creature was never
eyeballed then we have ten thousand. High quality generally means
unimpeachable observers.
5 What is better, the improving acceptance has flushed out a lot more
high quality reports from folks who may never have come forward.
One of the criticism I wish to address is the apparent poor quality
of most images. Most will be shot through vegetation unless the
creature is totally unaware. That is very rare. We are all
beginning to understand just how incredibly lucky Patterson was. As
it is one mostly has just enough time to overcome one's shock and
grab a camera and get a single shot of before it is over.
This will only change when a specimen decides to accept food as a
gift.
'This is Finding
Bigfoot': Never-Ending Search for Sasquatch
By NEAL
KARLINSKY (@NealKarlinsky) , BRANDON CHASE and DAN PRZYODA
Nov. 14, 2012
Bigfoot. Sasquatch.
Yeti. Ape-man. Man-beast. The shaggy, towering, yet elusive, creature
goes by many names and there has been no shortage of tales of
unexplained sightings in the woods.
People really want to
believe Bigfoot is real, and for decades, dozens of Yeti hunters have
tried to prove its existence. Never mind the fact that the only thing
anyone knows for certain about the legendary beast is that it has
been wildly successful at filling tabloids, being the subject of
terrible B movies, and generally serving as an all-around punch line.
But Matt Moneymaker,
Cliff Barackman, Ranae Holland and James "Bobo" Fay are a
ragtag team of globetrotting researchers who are as serious about
Bigfoot as the Pope is about religion.
Watch the full story
on "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET
With every bit of
cutting edge technology – night vision gear and all the sensors
they can get their hands on – this group of Bigfoot hunters travels
the world investigating Sasquatch sightings.
"Beliefs are
things you can't see and you can't prove," Fay said. "Sasquatch
is a real living entity that will be proven soon enough."
"It's more than
one," Moneymaker said. "Remember it's not Bigfoot, it's
Bigfoots. There's a misconception out there that we're looking around
for this one thing."
Their adventures and
investigations make up two, and soon to be three, seasons of the
Animal Planet series, "Finding Bigfoot," which airs on
Sundays at 10 p.m. ET. Interestingly, one member of the group,
research biologist Ranae Holland, isn't quite sold yet.
"I'm still
skeptical," she said. "We used to think the world is flat,
we didn't think pandas existed. You know, in the idea of discovery,
you're always testing, accepting theories... It's all about answering
the question and the pursuit of that and that's what I'm behind."
Holland wants to know
just what the rest of us are wondering: If Bigfoot is real, where is
it?
A lot of the group's
evidence falls under the umbrella of sketchy ambiguous photos and
video. One famous Bigfoot video, known as the Patterson-Gimlin
film, was taken in 1967, and in one episode of "Finding
Bigfoot," the group studies it and tries to re-create it to
determine if it was staged.
Moneymaker believes
there is no way the Sasquatch in the film is a man in a monkey suit.
"When you see it
in motion, you see parts of the anatomy," he said. "If you
know what somebody in a costume looks like and you see that in
motion, you know that doesn't really look like a person in a costume.
That looks like a real animal."
They study tracks,
too, evidence, they say, of an unidentified large primate-like beast
with -- you guessed it -- a very big foot. They also claim to have
identified a Bigfoot call.
All of them but Ranae
claim to have had real life run-ins with a Sasquatch over the years,
though none of them has anything to show for it but an undying
passion to convince the world that it -- whatever it is -- really
does exist.
"We all have
different opinions on what they are," Fay said. "We're all
guessing, but I think they're more like a person, a wild, kind of
primitive man that can talk. I've heard them talk in the woods."
The "Finding
Bigfoot" crew isn't alone in claiming Bigfoot sightings. There
have been numerous reports, even just in the past year. Click the
arrow to hear some recent claims from people who believe Sasquatch is
real.
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