The
problem is a serious lack of observation.
Yet again we have a string of reports going back forever. Let us start with a list of characteristics.
1
We
are seeing a fur coated primate with human bipedalism. Thus Homo Erectus is powerfully indicated as
a reasonable starting point.
2
Other
observed variations are possible though likely mis - observations of long
hair. No one appears to be getting a
good looksee.
3
The
same creature has also been reported in North America including Central
Park! This powerfully suggest a clever
primate quite comfortable in penetrating our living space, very unlike Bigfoot.
4
It
is also sporting near human intelligence in its behavior. Folklore strongly supports their initiating
mutually beneficent trade.
The reason we
even begin to accept the existence of Bigfoot is its tracks. If those tracks were simply human sized, we
would still be in the dark. Any tracks
by this creature will be dismissed as human even though no human is likely to
be bare foot at all today simply because it requires weeks of bare foot
trekking to be able to operate properly in the woods.
Again the
population is small and they live on plants and small game such as rabbits and
even deer. There is no evidence of
spears or other stone tools. That still
leaves the thrown stone to bring down deer in the woods.
They likely
operate in small family groups with extensive hunting grounds. That I am sure is an excellent reason to
visit Central Park. There will be lots
of rabbits been released there.
The key
observation is its human like gait. This
separates them from released pets and the like who are now showing up in our
woods.
The Little
Bigfoot Phenomenon
Friday, 22 November 2013
We’ve all heard about the antics of Bigfoot,
but what about Littlefoot? Certainly, it’s an undeniable fact that many reports
emanating from Britain tell of encounters with not just large and lumbering,
hairy entities, but with distinctly smaller critters, too. Centuries-old Welsh
folklore, for example, tells of the Bwbach, an approximately three foot tall, hair-covered
humanoid perceived by the folk of that era as a brownie or nymph [sprite].
Supposedly, like so many of similar ilk, they would undertake chores and little jobs around the homes of humans, providing they were the recipients of two things: respect and nourishment, the latter usually in the form of oats, milk and cream. And they had a deep hatred of those who avoided alcohol and who led teetotal lives
Wirt Sikes was U.S. Consul to Wales, a noted expert on Welsh folklore, and the author of an acclaimed 1880 book, British Goblins. In its pages, Sikes wrote of the hairy little Bwbach that it: “…is the good-natured goblin which does good turns for the tidy Welsh maid who wins its favour by a certain course of behaviour recommended by long tradition. The maid having swept the kitchen, makes a good fire the last thing at night, and having put the churn, filled with cream, on the whitened hearth, with a basin of fresh cream for the Bwbach on the hob, goes to bed to await the event.”
Sikes continued: ”In the morning she finds (if she is in luck) that the Bwbach has emptied the basin of cream, and plied the churn-dasher so well that the maid has but to give a thump or two to bring the butter in a great lump. Like the Ellyll which it so much resembles, the Bwbach does not approve of dissenters and their ways, and especially strong is its aversion to total abstainers.”
The Bwbach is largely forgotten today, but encounters with small, hairy, man-like figures in Britain are certainly not. Jon Downes – director of the Center for Fortean Zoology – says of such matters: “I have many similar reports of such creatures being seen in Devonshire woodland. And the following one is a real cracker because it has so much separate and credible corroboration to it…”
The location, Jon reveals, was Churston Woods, which is situated close to the English holiday resort of Torbay: “Over a six week period, in the summer of 1996, fifteen separate witnesses reported seeing what they could only describe as a green faced monkey, running through the woods. Granted, some of the descriptions were quite vague, but most of the witnesses told of seeing a tailless animal, around four to five feet tall, with a flat, olive-green face that would run through the woods and occasionally would be seen swinging through the trees.”
Jon concludes: “Now, to me at least, this sounds like some form of primitive human, but, of course, such things simply cannot exist in this country – and yet they seem to. And this area – Devon, Somerset and Cornwall – is rich with such tales.” Matters don’t end there, however.
In November 2008, an extremely strange story surfaced from Wanstead – a suburban area of the borough of London. According to witness testimony, a small Bigfoot-type creature was supposedly seen wandering in Epping Forest, a 2,476 hectare area of forestland which, by name at least, was first referenced in the 17th Century, but that has existed since Neolithic times and which, in the 12th Century, was designated as a Royal Forest by King Henry III.
British cryptozoologist and author Neil Arnold describes how the distinctly odd story began: “The animal was first sighted during early November by eighteen-year-old angler Michael Kent who was fishing with his brother and father in the Hollow Ponds area of Epping Forest, on the border of Wanstead and Leytonstone. The teenager claimed that whilst walking towards his brothers, he heard a rustling in the bushes and saw the back of a dark, hairy animal around four feet in height, that scampered off into the woods.”
Another of those that caught sight of the diminutive beast was Irene Dainty, who claimed a face to face encounter with the thing on Love Lane, Woodford Bridge. She told the press:
“I had just come out of my flat and just as I had turned the corner I saw this hairy thing come out of nowhere. I really don’t want to see it again. It was about four feet tall and with really big feet and looked straight at me with animal eyes. Then it leaped straight over the wall with no trouble at all and went off into the garden of the Three Jolly Wheelers pub. I was so terrified that I went to my neighbour’s house and told her what had happened. She couldn’t believe it and asked me if I had been drinking, but I said of course I hadn’t – it was only about 3.00 p.m.”
Further reports subsequently surfaced, some of which were far more of a four-legged variety, maybe even bear-like, rather than actually being suggestive of Bigfoot. But, it was this issue of the “really big feet” that kept the media-driven controversy focused on matters of a mini Sasquatch-type nature. Ultimately, just like so many similar such affairs, sightings of the beast came to an abrupt end and the matter of the Epping Forest monster was never satisfactorily resolved.
Juvenile Bigfoot entities? Escaped monkeys? Unclassified animals? The cases are many, but in terms of definitive answers we have – forgive the pun! – very “little” to go on!
--What the descriptions are describing is something like the Pukwudgies as they are sighted here, about 3 feet tall (2 1/2 to 4 feet usually) with a large topknot of hair and a sort of a ruff of hair around the head or neck, short even fur all over the body, and it can be green from the algae. About like a very large monkey on its hind legs, especially hopping or leaping great distances, with its disproportionate, outsized webbed froglike feet (traditionally said to be like duck feet or to have no toes). The ears can be described as large and fanning out, one imagines much like a chimpanzee's ears. The face is drawn out into a sort of snout or muzzle and has sharp front teeth sometimes sticking out, and the nose is long but low to the face, and the eyes are large and can be glassy. The feet are perhaps half again as large as human feet for their size, as going from some given estimates. Calling them "Littlefoots" is a misnomer, but I have heard of "Little Bigfoots" before.
In folklore they are called Brownies or
Water-Brownies, Boggarts, Water Sprites, Water Goblins or just Gobins : and
they seem to be a very close match for Tyler Stone's theoretical Freshwater
monkeys. They are apparently usually naked and hairy but they mimic humans and
they can wear old discarded clothing in imitation of humans. These
Goblins seem to have their hair slicked down.
Some goblin depictions have froglike features while
others are quite definitely froggy in appearance, which goes along with
the category being the same as more modern sightings of Swamp Monsters,
Frogmen, Thetis Lake Monsters, Loveland frogs and so
on.
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