SFR Aliens, Bigfoot, and other unexplained phenomena!

Sorta fishing-related
I used to mock BF stories until a close friend shared an experience that clearly rattled him, and is extremely difficult to explain in a rational way. So I'm willing to cut some slack to those sharing similar experiences here - unless of course they're yanking our chains in which case kudos for the intriguing yarns 🤪.

Anyway, just to be clear I don't "believe", but after hearing my buddie's account, and seeing how it clearly affected him, I can't discount the possibility, however remote, that such a creature exists. The subject interested me enough at the time (20-ish yo) that I did some reading. The one takeaway I got from that rabbit hole was the hypothesis BF is a remnant population of the largest known primate from the fossil record.

Gigantopithecus Blackii was a real animal, and went extinct (?) relatively recently (100-300k years ago). Although the fossils are essentially fragments, there is enough to reconstruct an animal that is potentially a dead ringer for samsquach. One (of many) problems is those fossils are from N. China. Even so, they date to times when the Bering land bridge to N. America was open.

All that said, I'd have to see one myself to wrap my head around the idea such a beast has avoided official detection so far.

Enjoying the continuing stories and mockery in the meantime. 🥳
 
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Rainforest Gump said:
Maybe the Pueblos inspired Hemingway to write “A Farewell To Arms”
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"the right to keep and bear arms"

vs

"the right to keep, and bear arms"

Grammatically they may mean the same thing, but there are perhaps differing interpretations.

Amendment two of the constitution was no doubt written with Cryptids and Cryptid hunting in mind: you can keep the arms and you can have (ie retain) what back then they might have assumed were "bear arms." Meaning the hairy upper appendages of the crytpids because without them, the arms, they are obviously incapacitated.

Curious on Evans's (sic) take on the Constitutional grammar here.
 
Wadin' Boot said:
"the right to keep and bear arms"

vs

"the right to keep, and bear arms"

Grammatically they may mean the same thing, but there are perhaps differing interpretations.

Amendment two of the constitution was no doubt written with Cryptids and Cryptid hunting in mind: you can keep the arms and you can have (ie retain) what back then they might have assumed were "bear arms." Meaning the hairy upper appendages of the crytpids because without them, the arms, they are obviously incapacitated.

Curious on Evans's (sic) take on the Constitutional grammar here.
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Like this?IMG_7975.jpeg
 
SilverFly said:
All that said, I'd have to see one myself to wrap my head around the idea such a beast has avoided official detection so far.
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Actually it doesn't help. Like @Travis Bille said, I've spent 30 years trying to get a grip on it. I've seen lots of bears, only one cougar, a wolf once, and I'm just as certain I saw a bigfoot.
Totally irrational, I know.
 
Back to UFO’s

Summer 1981 or 82, two friends and I were hanging out at the neighborhood park. The park was bordered by woods to the east and south, and situated near the bottom of a small valley. 5 acres or more of gently sloping open space, mostly grass with a few trees.

At the bottom of the slope on the flat land was a structure we called the “mushroom”.
It had an 8’ diameter “stem” with a bench around the perimeter. 10’ or more to the bottom of the roof structure, and projected 12’ out from the stem. It was concrete underneath to the edge of the roofline, which was octagonal in shape.

We had been skateboarding, playing frisbee, throwing things at each other, being teenagers. Once it was getting dark we sat on the bench under the mushroom. We were smoking some pot and listening to Van Halen 1.

We all 3 saw it. Initially it looked like a car coming over the tops of the trees to the south east. As neared the edge of the forest and the park clearing, I stood up and walked to the edge of the concrete to get a better look.

As soon as I hit the end of the concrete a light lit the grassy area, not all at once but in a rapid scanning pattern. It started at the top of the slope and quickly worked down and across. I managed 1 step back and remained in the shadows of the roof. My 2 friends remained seated.

When it went over head I could see it was a diamond shape, an elongated square. It made no noise and continued on quite slowly.

I still wonder if something would have happened had the light hit me.
 
Evan B said:
Kinda what I was saying in my post a page or so back. With infrared, drones, and a long list of other technologies; we have the means of finding SOMETHING. I can't imagine an 8' tall ape is that good a hiding, but I'm often (usually) wrong about things.
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Daniel Boone claimed to have killed one.
 
Aufwuchs said:
Daniel Boone claimed to have killed one.
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Evan B said:
No, he claimed to have killed a "Yahoo." Totally different animal.
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A ride in the wayback machine turns up a fair bit of folklore along these lines. Entertaining reads even if they are just colorful yarns spun by bored frontiersmen.

This one is possibly the best campfire ghost story of all time:

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Teddy Roosevelt and The Montana “Incident” - FEATHERS & WHISKEY

In 1889 a book was published titled The Wilderness Hunter, written by future president and avid sportsman Theodore Roosevelt. It told of his life and sporting adventures in the American West some eighteen years before becoming president. In the the book one story stands out among the others and...
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Another classic, campfire-scare-the-crap-outta-kids story:

 
Tom Butler said:
Actually it doesn't help. Like @Travis Bille said, I've spent 30 years trying to get a grip on it. I've seen lots of bears, only one cougar, a wolf once, and I'm just as certain I saw a bigfoot.
Totally irrational, I know.
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Ditto, my head still isn't fully wrapped around it. 20 year later and I still think from time to time that I must have been mistaken. But, when I think about it, there's just no other explanation.

But it's odd that we don't have a body yet. There's actually some pretty convincing physical evidence. Tracks have been found with dermal ridges (essentially fingerprints) and sweat pores. There's an anthropologist at Idaho State who I think became interested in the subject after being shown a footprint going up a hill that showed evidence of the toes curling in some mud to dig in as it's foot slipped.

But the more outlandish the claim, the better physical evidence is required. Nothing short of of body, or a piece of one, will suffice as proof of sasquatch.

I think a substantial percentage of sightings are nighttime road crossings. I'm very surprised that one hasn't been hit by a truck yet.
 
Travis Bille said:
Ditto, my head still isn't fully wrapped around it. 20 year later and I still think from time to time that I must have been mistaken. But, when I think about it, there's just no other explanation.

But it's odd that we don't have a body yet. There's actually some pretty convincing physical evidence. Tracks have been found with dermal ridges (essentially fingerprints) and sweat pores. There's an anthropologist at Idaho State who I think became interested in the subject after being shown a footprint going up a hill that showed evidence of the toes curling in some mud to dig in as it's foot slipped.

But the more outlandish the claim, the better physical evidence is required. Nothing short of of body, or a piece of one, will suffice as proof of sasquatch.

I think a substantial percentage of sightings are nighttime road crossings. I'm very surprised that one hasn't been hit by a truck yet.
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With the numbers of trail cameras in the Blues you would think an image would be be available. That's the thing that gives me doubts. And like someone said, some drunk dipstick should have one strapped to the hood of his international by now.
 
Want To Trade: Multiple cougar, bear, wolf, deer and elk, fisher, murrelet and spotted owl sightings for one partial bigfoot sighting...blurry pics not acceptable.

According to Rich G, I live in a well known hotbed of samsquanch activity, with 5 known 'families' residing within 25 miles of me, plus living a year on the upper Duckabush, where sightings are 'common', activity is 'high', and 'sign' is frequently found...and not so much as a house slap or wood knock.
Which is really too bad, because I want to see one...but as I get older it's increasingly more difficult to do the off trail exploring that seems to be the golden ticket for samsquanchers out here.
 
Travis Bille said:
I think a substantial percentage of sightings are nighttime road crossings. I'm very surprised that one hasn't been hit by a truck yet.
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That is basically my friend's experience. He lives in the CR Gorge. He was still shaken when telling me, possibly the next day. I know the exact spot he claims it happened. I said to him "coming around the corner, you had to see more than a pair of eyes (8' above the road) in your headlights". He just looked at me and said "don't make me say it".

And if anyone is wondering, my friend does have a sense of humor, but not one to make people look foolish. He's no dummy, very level headed, and I know him well enough to say he is relaying a truthful account according to what he saw.

For all I know, the rest of you here might be completely full of sh1t, he's not. Why he chose to tell me I'm not sure, but I got the distinct impression he had to tell someone.

So thanks buddy for putting me in the position of having to at least consider BF isn't simply folklore fantasy and prime target for mockery. :rolleyes:
 
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