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Not one carcass. Zero. Nada. Zip. Same for skeletal remains. Not even a single bone to study.
Not one indisputible piece of film or tape. Not one killer photograph that proves their existence.
And yet the world-wide phenomenon continues. The legend of the giant hairy bipedal hominid wildmen, known by so many names, persists.
How many names have we given them? In North America we call them Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Skunk Ape. The Himalayan version is called Yeti (or, for a time, Abominable Snowman). In Australia they are Yowie. In China they are Yeren.
Smaller versions of the big guys are said to be out there. In Indonesia they are the Orang-Pendek. In Africa they go by various names, and locals claim they barter with them, trading fruit for shiny trinkets!
Take a year or two to do some serious Internet searching, and you can probably find 25,000 sighting reports to read. A biologist at the University of Utah can show you forty or fifty plaster casts of footprints that are so anatomically correct its hard to write them off as fakes. Eerie recordings of their bellowing shrieks have been made. Even Jane Goodall herself thinks its time to do some serious research on the possibility of their existence.
But where's a piece of one of them? Anything will do. We'll take a good bit of fur, any little bone, or a scrape of skin that we can do a DNA analysis on. Don't hold your breath. I think we'll all grow old and die before we see some DNA evidence.
So how do you explain the persistence of the phenomenon? How do you explain the 19th-century newspaper articles about "Wildmen" sightings? Do a Google search for "bigfoot" or "sasquatch" or "yeti". Go to this site and read a thousand of the ghost stories...I mean sighting reports: http://www.bfro.net/
Go to this site and read a few hundred newspaper articles: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles.htm
Man, we want to believe, don't we? What's our story?
Not one indisputible piece of film or tape. Not one killer photograph that proves their existence.
And yet the world-wide phenomenon continues. The legend of the giant hairy bipedal hominid wildmen, known by so many names, persists.
How many names have we given them? In North America we call them Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Skunk Ape. The Himalayan version is called Yeti (or, for a time, Abominable Snowman). In Australia they are Yowie. In China they are Yeren.
Smaller versions of the big guys are said to be out there. In Indonesia they are the Orang-Pendek. In Africa they go by various names, and locals claim they barter with them, trading fruit for shiny trinkets!
Take a year or two to do some serious Internet searching, and you can probably find 25,000 sighting reports to read. A biologist at the University of Utah can show you forty or fifty plaster casts of footprints that are so anatomically correct its hard to write them off as fakes. Eerie recordings of their bellowing shrieks have been made. Even Jane Goodall herself thinks its time to do some serious research on the possibility of their existence.
But where's a piece of one of them? Anything will do. We'll take a good bit of fur, any little bone, or a scrape of skin that we can do a DNA analysis on. Don't hold your breath. I think we'll all grow old and die before we see some DNA evidence.
So how do you explain the persistence of the phenomenon? How do you explain the 19th-century newspaper articles about "Wildmen" sightings? Do a Google search for "bigfoot" or "sasquatch" or "yeti". Go to this site and read a thousand of the ghost stories...I mean sighting reports: http://www.bfro.net/
Go to this site and read a few hundred newspaper articles: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles.htm
Man, we want to believe, don't we? What's our story?
Meow! (='.'=)
They must be in the deepest part of the ocean possibly. 
