Sasquatch

[RecycleMichael]

Maybe the big foot was on a diet.

You should go back and try putting a salad or some rice cakes by the side of the road.

[xjay]

Hey, jdb, at least you are getting out there and doing a little investigating yourself.  You may luck out and have a road crossing encounter, but most likely your chances of an encounter will increase the farther from the road you get.  I have visited with folks who "claim" to have had an encounter with Bigfoot.  These folks are from Heavener, Talihina, Poteau, Honobia and the town at the end of the drive...Mena, Arkansas.  Just goes to show you.  Don't give up so easy, it's only your first try.  A little half hearted, but a try none the less.

Set your VCRs:

Fri. 11/17 @ 7 pm & 10 pm
Sat. 11/18 @ 9 am

The Travel Channel "On The Trail Of Bigfoot"

[xjay]

Here's a new documentary that may make light of the Bigfoot subject.  National Geographic has had two shows on this subject and one made light while the other did not.  So, we'll find out together:

11/20/06 @ 7 pm on the National Geographic Channel- "Russian Bigfoot".

[xjay]

Time will show that liquid water on Mars will not be the only thing that the scientists were wrong about.  "When you succeed you are a genius, until then you are labeled a kook."

[jdb]

That's funny.

I went South for the week to travel some roads and to just be exploring in general.
Had nothing to do with hunting BF's.

Like a dumb tourista, I popped off with the BF stuff every chance I got - as a tired joke - with all the locals that were either smaller than myself or that I felt couldn't run as fast.
That was the extent of my investigation.

There was one station owner who was leaning against his pump, while chewing on what looked like a curious shaped pinky bone, but I kept on riding after hearing some twangy, Banjos out back.

Until then, your a Kook.
Sincerely, jdb

[xjay]

I see your "Sincerely", and raise you a "Cordially yours".  Keep investigating, this was only your second try at it.  With some luck you may still get a road crossing encounter.  

Twangy banjo music, huh?

[AngieB]

I watched a show on Discovery the other day called "Sasquatch Legend Meets Science" or something like that and it was really interesting. The memorial day footage was very compelling.

My dad grew up in Leflore county in the 30s/40s and I figured if there was a bigfoot in Oklahoma in that area he might have heard talk about it. He said he never heard anything like that. Of course, that doesn't mean anything really except you would think if Bigfoot existed, he has been around for many many years and there would have been talk even back then. I dunno.

I still don't know if it's for real or not, but like I said before, it's fascinating in that Coast to Coast AM/Art Bell kind of way --  like alien abductions and paranormal investigations. []

[xjay]

Hi TulsaMINI.  There are several stories out of LeFlore Co. from many years back, even as far back as when the Spanish Explorers were in the region.  Before the terms Bigfoot/Sasquatch were coined, anyone who encountered one of these creatures would have referred to it as a wildman or wildwoman.  Instead of risking ridicule from others, most folks kept these encounters to themselves, and that might explain why your dad never heard any talk about these creatures.  I know that these creatures exist and do not simply believe they exist.  Seeing one for yourself is what it will take to convince you that they are real.  I understand this and I am never offended when someone has a healthy dose of skepticism.  When the scientific proof does come in, some of the information on the program you watched, "Sasquatch: Lengend Meets Science" will be taught in Middle School biology classes.

[Rowdy]

quote:Originally posted by xjay

Hi TulsaMINI.  There are several stories out of LeFlore Co. from many years back, even as far back as when the Spanish Explorers were in the region.  Before the terms Bigfoot/Sasquatch were coined, anyone who encountered one of these creatures would have referred to it as a wildman or wildwoman.  Instead of risking ridicule from others, most folks kept these encounters to themselves, and that might explain why your dad never heard any talk about these creatures.  I know that these creatures exist and do not simply believe they exist.  Seeing one for yourself is what it will take to convince you that they are real.  I understand this and I am never offended when someone has a healthy dose of skepticism.  When the scientific proof does come in, some of the information on the program you watched, "Sasquatch: Lengend Meets Science" will be taught in Middle School biology classes.

There are way too many people in North America covering more geographical distance than ever before to have not seen a hairy creature and capture it legitimately on some sort of evidentiary device.  Yet here we are, years and years later and society is still stuck with grainy footage of nothing concrete.  I am more apt to find DNA evidence of the Lewinsky scandal in the woods than I am to find Bigfoot taking a leak against a tree or the Soggy Bottom Monster hoofing it over a fallen branch.

[xjay]

Howdy Rowdy!  Autumn Williams recently stated that after one sees a Bigfoot it is no longer a question of does one believe in them, but more at, what are they?  Technology is catching up with the evidence at hand and it is just a matter of time before we get that Bigfoot DNA sample.  It's going to get a little harder to ignore the evidence, even grainy footage is being enhanced by the same software used by NASA.  We have hair samples of an "unknown primate" but without a Sasquatch to match them to they have to remain unknown.  So...if these hair samples do not match any of the known primates of the world, what do you suppose they belong to.  Keep in mind that scientists have stated that they are primate, but not any primate that is known to science.  All the evidence needed to launch a serious scientific and well funded research project has already been presented, but not accepted.  There are footprint casts dating back to the 1960s that have dermal ridges that run the opposite direction of human footprint dermal ridges, hair samples of an unknown primate, eyewitness encounters by law enforcement personal and people of all walks of life, and "grainy" video and photos.  Soon there will be a way to get a DNA sample and still science will require a body.  I already know that Bigfoot exists and I am just as curious as anyone to learn how it is that we don't know anything about them...scientificly, that is.

[Rowdy]

I still remain most highly skeptical but am open to anything.

[xjay]

That's pretty much all that we ask.  I don't know of anyone who claims to believe 100% that Bigfoot does exist unless they have seen one...so the research continues pretty much by those of us who have seen one.  I do not care who brings in the hard evidence to prove that these creatures exist, but I do care about how it is done.  I am not pro-kill.  I am hoping that someone will get the perfectly clear video/photo along with some DNA and from there a serious effort for more video can be launched by CNN, Fox, ABC, etc. instead of having to kill one.  National Geographic will have to take its tongue out of its cheek and get serious about it too.  Skeptics keep the researchers honest.

[xjay]

quote:Originally posted by xjay

That's pretty much all that we ask.  I don't know of anyone who claims to believe 100% that Bigfoot does exist unless they have seen one...so the research continues pretty much by those of us who have seen one.  I do not care who brings in the hard evidence to prove that these creatures exist, but I do care about how it is done.  I am not pro-kill.  I am hoping that someone will get the perfectly clear video/photo along with some DNA and from there a serious effort for more video can be launched by CNN, Fox, ABC, etc. instead of having to kill one.  National Geographic will have to take its tongue out of its cheek and get serious about it too.  Skeptics keep the researchers honest.

Here's a great new article: http://earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=1184&category=Environment

[bingo]

Sasquatch sized people show up the Golden Corral on Breakfast Days. Also at the Wal-Mart in Sapulpa you see him on the 1st and 15th every month. All kidding aside you find all kinds of strange folks out in the woods. We drove to the South of Eufaula Lake and made our own road. No trail just crashing thru trees and brush. We figured that nobody would be out where we were at. The Game Warden followed our tracks and asked us "What you boys up to?". Have seen other things when working on 2000 Census. There are some strange folks out in the sticks.

[xjay]

I've seen plenty of strange folks in several metropolitan areas too...even beyond strange.  I don't quite know how to take a grown man wearing rubber boots with shorts, a blonde wig, lots and lots of red lipstick and riding a bicycle.  City strange -vs.- country strange will even have some over lapping grey areas, I'm sure.  There are even a few reports of Bigfoot sightings in neighborhood yards, but no sightings have occured at a Starbucks...as of yet.