The few USFS co-workers I mentioned these things to, simply shrugged of my disclosures to them and told me, "I'd be careful who you mention this to". I can tell you of many area where I know there are different family groups in the local USFS managed lands adjacent privately-owned timber lands.
Locals in the area know of the "Big Guys" that live on and around their properties. The local residence only speak locally amongst themselves due to the fear of ridicule and for the protection of the local forest inhabitants. I would talk to Mr. Guttenberg if he wishes to get in touch with me. This area is in a forest not mentioned above. Making Bigfoot part of an April Fools joke, just not make Bigfoot a myth. However, most employees are on the need to know basis, and most of them have been judged to have no need to know.
The secret about the secret is that Bigfoot is paranormal. Which makes finding them and recognizing when you have found them, quite a difficult matter. Neal B is right. Fall of in zip code me and four others saw a big foot run across the road in front of our car.
Humans never believe anything unless they witness it themselves. We did. It is good that the US Government is finally releasing information about Sasquatch being real, too man people have said they have seen Sasquatch only to be humiliated by the public at large. As a human we need to protect Sasquatch from the crazy gun totting redneck types that think shooting one will bring fame and wealth. Somewhere along the way humans and Sasquatch have been well aware of eath other, but because of differences the Sasquatch have had to become invisible to survive.
We humans have destroyed anything we didn't understand. May there be peace on earth to all ofus. The legends of Bigfoot go back beyond recorded history and cover the world. In North America — and particularly the Northwest — you can hear tales of seven-foot-tall hairy men stalking the woods, occasionally scaring campers, lumberjacks, hikers and the like. Bigfoot is known by many titles with many different cultures although the name Bigfoot is generally attributed to the mountainous Western region of North America.
The common name Sasquatch comes from the Salish Sasquits, while the Algonquin of the north-central region of the continent refer to a Witiko or Wendigo.
Other nations tell of a large creature much like a man but imbued with special powers and characteristics. The Ojibway of the Northern Plains believed the Rugaru appeared in times of danger and other nations agreed that the hairy apparition was a messenger of warning, telling man to change his ways. DP: By and large, all of the evidence for these really strange cryptids is from eyewitness testimony. People are fooled by their senses, especially sight, because we are notoriously bad witnesses.
One of the sightings of the Yeti, or the abominable snowman, turns out to be a rock outcrop. The guy saw it move the first time and then he had to leave. He came back finally a year later--after his sighting had been all over the media--and it turns out that it was just a rock he was shooting pictures of. DP: Lately cryptozoology has been connected to creationism in a lot of ways. People who actively search for Loch Ness monsters or Mokele Mbembe do it entirely as creationist ministers.
They think that if they found a dinosaur in the Congo it would overturn all of evolution. It wouldn't. It would just be a late-occurring dinosaur, but that's their mistaken notion of evolution. All rights reserved. Does Bigfoot exist? What about the Loch Ness monster? Or the Yeti? Or Mokele Mbembe , the Congo dinosaur? First of all, what is a cryptid?
What can science tell us about cryptids? All the cryptids that you discuss in the book — Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, Mokele Mbembe — are very similar to things that exist or existed in the past: bears, primates, plesiosaurs, sauropods.
Why the similarity? So Mokele Mbembe definitely does not exist? That sentence -- the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence — occurs a lot in the book. Do you ever encounter people who say, "No, I saw it! What do you think the connection is between people believing in cryptids and the level of scientific literacy among the general public?
Is there any one cryptid that you wish was real? DL: All of them. DP: I'm a paleontologist. I'd love to have Mokele Mbembe and a plesiosaur! This interview has been edited and condensed. Follow Rachel Hartigan Shea on Twitter.
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