It's official.Big Foot is real.Problem haters?
And he's got beautiful hair!
>>263808Oh you.
Based on the Sketch, we're dealing with Alan Moore.
>>263810with 6 fingers
I saw Big Foot YEARS ago. Put on one hell of a show.
I propose that we give everyone a cell phone with at least a camera so that when stuff like this happens they can at least try to take a picture.
>>263811It's his astral form, obviously.
TBH, I'm actually a believer in Bigfoot/Yeti/Skunkapes/Fauke Monster. I mean, if it took us so long to discover gorillas, and if these things are smarter and fewer in number than gorillas, it's possible that they're out there and just good at hiding.
>>263827I believe they bury their dead.
>>263827God damn it, 174 MPH? That's some fast fuckin nasal spray.
Don't worry guys; if one of those things comes at you, all you have to do is jab a stick in its direction and say, "GIT!" Just act as much like Jed Clampett as possible and you should be fine.
My GOD he is a fucking caricature.
>>263827You and me, we're in this together.
Here is his 911 call.He seems distressed.
>>263827Don't worry, one of the smartest people I know insists that the moonlanding was a fake.
>>263947ENUNCIATE, FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST.
>>263882BROTHERS
>>263992Okay, we need to set out to the woods of the Northwest. We need cameras-night vision, motion-activated, thermal vision, the works-computers, solar panels and batteries (we can't have any generators-too noisy), a satellite hookup, and these. If BF is anything like a great ape and/or what I've seen in Legend of Boggy Creek, they're shy, gentle, but ferocious if provoked, and more than able to tear a grown man in half without trying. This here is the Big Horn Armory Model 89 Lever-Action Carbine in the 500 S&W Magnum cartridge. The 500 S&W has killed elephants out of a handgun with a nine-inch barrel...I figure that the same round out of an 18 inch barrel ought to be able to handle anything that comes our way.
>>264006>Legend of Boggy CreekAlright, but I'm not wearing short shorts.
>>264009But don't you wanna wrestle in the mud? :D
>>263840Actually, humans sneeze at over 220 mph.
So I take I'm the only one who believes in the existence of Bigfoot?
>>264028Read the thread dude, there's at least three of us in here.
>>264029Ok, let me rephrase that:So only Tora, Prof. and I believe in the possibility of an arboreal great ape living in Washington State through British Columbia?
>>264030I was serious when I said I thought they bury their dead. Nobody is digging for bigfoot corpses in the woods. If elephants are capable of mourning for their dead and attempting weird ceremonial looking behavior for their dead (scattering bones, trying to cover the dead with bushes and twigs) then I don't see why giant-man-ape-creatures can't be capable of hiding their own dead.
>>264030I believe in the possibility of Bigfoot. I've always been big on cryptids, no matter how implausible, but Sasquatch isn't that far out there. And I like Max Galactica's theory. Y'all need to read some of John Green's books.
>>264035If these beings are intelligent enough to bury their dead, we should have come across a grave or two by now. Let's give you that, let's say they're similar to Neanderthal. We should have found a grave by now. You might say they have a very small population, but there comes a point where a small population cannot support a species. And even if it were to be a viable population, they'd be inbred worse than Cheetahs.The odds are stacked vehemently against their existence.
>>264093To be fair, no one has ever found a bear skeleton in the woods. It's literally picked clean and spread over five kilometers in two hours.
>>264095But, we're saying that Bigfoot buries it's dead much like other hominids have, like Neanderthal. The destructive scavengers wouldn't get to a corpse. And even in the event of the destruction of the corpse, you still find some skeletal remains.
>>264097They can get in if it's a shallow grave, or they bury it in a swamp.The bone thing is true, though some animals have evolved means to crush and digest bone.
>>264098Even then, some skeletal remains will still survive, especially buried. Small bones such as the phalanges, carpals, and tarsals could be scattered away. Especially if the enemy was dug up out of a shallow grave, you may still have vertebrae in that case. There ought to have been a clue, more so than just foot prints. How about a den? No matter how stealthy or secretive an animal is, they still leave some hints behind.
Well this thread took a turn I didn't expect.
>>264107
>>264102My swamp theory still stands. That, or they ritualistically cannibalize their dead.
>>264110There still ought to be some evidence more than just foot prints. If a Giant Squid carcass can wash up on shore, I think a few remains of a Bigfoot would survive.While it certainly is cool to think that some big mysterious creature like this exists in our backyard, I gotta say the evidence is against it, and I see no reason to hope against the odds in this regard.
>>264113Come to think of it, we never knew gorillas existed outside of mythology until the sixties. There was nothing at all to support their evidence; habitat, description, even skeletal remains. Then one guys derps into them, and yeah.
GET AWAY FROM HEREGETGET
>>264006>>Using guns to hunt a potentially endangered speciesNot cool bro.
>>264121>Using guns in self-preservation against potentially hyper-aggressive Chewbacca-Apes.Still not cool, but acceptable.
>>264123Whatever, Bossk.
>>264030Nope. You guys are stuck with me.
>>264124Sorry, man, I'd rather be the Trandoshan with a Wookie pelt than that one Trandoshan in that bar with hands and feet jutting out of my shoulders and hips.
>>264110I thought about that too but was kinda worried that maybe, just maybe, it was starting to sound TOO retarded.BIGFOOT IS REAL DAMMIT!>>264125I've seen those beef jerky commercials! No one should fuck with those things unarmed!
Maybe they're just...naturally blurry?
>>264132Their atoms vibrate at a different frequency from the rest of the world and are, in fact, creatures from another dimension.This is why we never find their remains outside of footprints they leave behind from their appearances in our own realm of existence.
>>264133No, I mean, what if it isn't the photographer's fault? What if we're dealing with a species that evolved the defense mechanism of being constantly out of focus?
>>264130Who's talking unarmed?
>>264134'Sup, Mitch.
>>264137whoops, I meant >>264124
>>264109I believe a large ape species may be found in North American Rockies and the mountain ranges in Asia.Call me crazy.
Fun Fact: Gigantopithecus, the species that most resembles Sasquatch and Yeti, is known to science only by it's teeth, and a few jawbones. Even though it lived only 300,000 years ago, there are virtually no skeletal remains.
>>264207>in what is now China, India, and Vietnam>HimalayasReminder that Native Americans moved from that area and that there are stories and drawings of giant ape men going back many thousands of years while Gigantopithecus is a recent discovery, so it's not like Bigfoot is tacked onto Gigantopithecus but rather the other way around.Gigantopithecus (proof) is tacked onto Bigfoot.
>>264110I'm gonna go with the ritual cannibalizing, or at least ritual flensing and breaking up of the bones. If they eat most of the meat and organs, then there's little for scavengers to find and dig up. Plus, the breaking up the bones and then burying them (especially in a swamp or other area where they'd be more likely to decompose) would a) facilitate decomposition (surface area to volume and whatnot), and b) make it less likely that a biologist would correctly identify the bone fragments. And that fits with >>264207 Giganto only being known from jaws and teeth, since those are harder than other bones to burn or break up with rocks. Plus, no delicious marrow, so it'd be a wasted effort if they are indeed cannibals.
>>264207That's my exact point. Never mind bea skeletons, it's practically impossible to find a gorilla skeleton that wasn't poached by a human.Case in point: I found a dead bird once. It was fresh. Walked by it, came back an hour later, and it was absolutely picked clean. Came back another hour later, it disappeared.
>>264115>Come to think of it, we never knew gorillas existed outside of mythology until the sixties.It's like you get stupider the more you post.
>>264236yeah, it was during the mid-1800s. Still relatively recent but still ALOT further off than the 60's....
>>264237>>264236I blame typos, and sleep deprivation.
The conceit that the natural world has already been fully explored is nothing but an illusion. In fact, science is constantly discovering new species of animals in environments ranging from rainforests to deserts. Recently discovered species:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bili_Apehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-mantled_Tamarinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosavi_Woolly_Rathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_rock_rathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-faced_Sengihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_Muntjachttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Blossom_Bathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Dorcopsishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion%27s_Tree_Mousehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-mantled_Tree-kangaroohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_David%27s_Long-beaked_Echidnahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Bernhard%27s_Titihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Nash%27s_Titi1 in 10 known mammal species were discovered in the past 15 years. In 1963 the Titi monkeys comprised three known species. Now the number has risen to 28.
>>264235But, again, we have the dental remains if Giganto. There may have very well been a species of large ape that lived side by side with humans eons ago and it's memory has been passed down via tradition, but there's no evidence of any extant species of large ape on the North American continent, save for it's obvious hominid inhabitants.
>>264267We have one complete jaw from a species that existed from one million to (supposedly) three thousand years ago (ancient Sumerians may have had contact).It's not far fetched that it also survived for those three thousand years or that some members of it followed the Native Americans in their trek across the Bering Strait.It's so non-far-fetched in fact, that it's pretty damn likely.
>>264237Maybe he meant the 1860s....I sometimes say things like "The 90s" in reference to the 1590s.
>>264267Yeah, but if we have one bone from the period of 2 million to 300,000 B.C. is it that unbelievable to find no bones from 300,000 B.C. to present?
>>264299It could simply be that no one's found it yet. Think of "Lucy" or "Ardi", or the dozens of prehistoric hominids we know only from the fossils of a single or two or three individuals. I doubt anyone's seriously looked in the Pacific Northwest, or in the Himalayas, for hominid fossils. But in myth the Sasquatch, Yeti, Yeren, Orang Pendek, etc., have been around for millenia. It's just that we once dismissed all such things as myth, like stories of dragons, goblins, and fairies, and are now just barely beginning to go "wait, all these myths have a lot in common, and there's this extinct ape that fits the description to a tee..."Also, the Patterson film. I've watched it dozens of times, speed up, slowed down, enhanced, analyzed, and I'm convinced it's not a man in a suit. The arms, the gait, it's just too inhuman.
>>264299If we only have one such specimen, then I'd bet on that species being extinct. They could very well be like the Coelacanth, but this is a very slim chance.There comes a point where you have to admit the likelihood of this being an extant species is extremely low. Even if it means admitted this about something awesome.I fucking wish Thylacine was still around.
>>264307Not to derail or anything, but Dragons are in every civilization's mythology, even in those that don't have reptiles in their ecosystem.I'm just saying.
>>264314Oh, I admit the chances are low.But theres two reasons I say it's still worth research:1) Not all species are created equal. If we found a Yeti, it would be totally awesome. If we found a new kind of stink beatle, not even stink-beatle-ologists would care.2) As with most phenomenon like it, being able to definitively prove the alternative would be almost as mind blowing. I mean, think about what that says about us, as humans, that we've seen /thousands/ of collosal apes lumbering around our woods, when there are zero.Oh, and my point with the Jawbone is, if this thing left litterally a handful of fossils, over the course of over a million years, it seems possible that it would leave no bones in a few thousand.
>>264315Dragon lore arose from discoveries of dinosaur fossils, which are pretty much everywhere. Of course there's stories of Mkole-Mbembe or Thunderbird still kicking around today, but yeah.
This moth drinks blood. I'm just sayin'. Nature doesn't give a shit about what you think.
Most of the new species we're discovering are either quite small, live in remote, uninhabited areas, or are close in appearance to other species. Most of the Bigfoot myths fit at best one out of three.No, I won't say it's impossible, but I find it extremely implausible. The only way I can possibly see it happening is if they're severely inbred and about to die out anyway.
>>264319What about the Inuit?
>>264315Well we did find dinosaurs, didn't we?
>>264333Man sized ape found in the Congo?Congo is seven times smaller than Canada and twice as populated, most of the population lives rurally, the country has been populated for millenia.The Bili Apes were a cryptid for many years before being proven with video. Researchers couldn't secure funding due to being labeled loons and had to waste entire life savings on the find.The thing that bothers me most is that people like you are going to disappear into the woodwork when you're proven wrong, so I'm not going to get a chance to yell "I Told You So!" in your face.
>>264343Before you start throwing around phrases like "people like you" and assuming you know how I would act, please take the time to actually find out what I actually would do in that situation.Because I can tell you now, you are wrong. I would not disappear into the woodwork.
>>264345Yes you would, because we both know what you are.Kate Moss
>>264343Similarly, remember all those people claiming that Indonesia was inhabited by small, bipedal apes?Yeah, me neither.
>>264348No, I know what this poster is, and why he would not dissapear into the woodwork.He's Bigfoot
>>264351>implying I can't disappear into the woods or blur out right in front of you>>264134>>264133I thought about something like that. You know it's very well possible that Bigfoot is actually SMARTER than humans. For them, phase disruption cloaking fields may be a reality.There could be entire floating cities in those forests, blurring just barely out of visible focus of the human eye.Think about it.
>>264359And then Bigfoot was Gorilla Grod.
>>264397>grodwas just thinking that.
>>264359>that picture...P-principle Snyder?!
>>264417He was an alien in disguise the whole time.
>>264343>Man sized ape found in the Congo?Kind of like a dog sized Golden Lab, amirite?
>>264343Thats a pretty weak comparison. Canada is worlds away from somewhere as shitty as the Congo. I think people are more concerned with not being slaughtered than they are about species of ape.>Researchers couldn't secure funding due to being labeled loons and had to waste entire life savings on the find.Yeah, because if theres one great place to send researchers, it an african warzone.
>>264467You gotta admit, some of them have been packing it away. Shit, they could stand the exercise.So could I..
>>264464What?No, kind of like an arctic fox sized canine. Try to pull up comparisons which don't make my mind full of fuck.>>264467>development of a nationAaaaaand now my brain is full of fuck again.
>It had beautiful hair. >duck calllol white people.
>>264591>ISN in /baw/RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>264734I dunno, man. I had pretty much the same reaction, and I am the whitest white person.lol white people indeed.
>>264734ISN?
>>264759You don't want to know.
>>264759You know I used to like China before he showed up.
>>264314I'd heard that they're working on cloning some with unmounted ones they have in the freezers at the Smithsonian or something like that.
>>264775Yep.
>>264775They won't manage to clone it thoughhttp://www.smh.com.au/news/Science/Clone-again/2005/05/14/1116024405941.html
>>264769Now I really want to know.
Hmm.