The amazing persistence of the Bigfoot/Yeti/Sasquatch/Wildman legend

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Fearing what we can't explain .... man goes missing in the woods, blame bigfoot ....

Blake
 
McLaren'sAngel
Hiya! :D :embarrassed: :lol: Meow! (='.'=)

mmmm I thought they would be bigger than that. :guilty: The size I was expecting is longer than 3 football fields. :embarrassed:
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Well, if teh first cat species ever found was a kitten, but you didn't know it, you wouldn't think it is a small species would you? Years later someone may find a tiger and say, "Great googily moogily that's big!"

This could be a young one. Besides that, I have don't get a true sense of size from the pictures due to the depth and poor lighting. Nothing to compare it to makes it hard to truly get a sense of. The tentacle was like 8 meters long though, so it sounds pretty big.
 
FoolKiller
Well, if teh first cat species ever found was a kitten, but you didn't know it, you wouldn't think it is a small species would you? Years later someone may find a tiger and say, "Great googily moogily that's big!"

This could be a young one. Besides that, I have don't get a true sense of size from the pictures due to the depth and poor lighting. Nothing to compare it to makes it hard to truly get a sense of. The tentacle was like 8 meters long though, so it sounds pretty big.
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Hiya! :D: O :lol: Meow! (='.'=)

If the first cat species were ever found, I would say how small, cuddly, and cute it is! :embarrassed: If I were to find a tiger and didnt know about it....I would probably go:

"Whoa thats a big kitty! Come here kitty I wanna...."

"ROAR!!!" *me dead*

mmm...thinking about that 8 meter tentackle again....Your are right! That is pretty big. I can imagine myself trying to swim for my life if I see a tentacles 8 meters long trying to grab me. :guilty:
 
McLaren'sAngel
Hiya! :D: O :lol: Meow! (='.'=)

If the first cat species were ever found, I would say how small, cuddly, and cute it is! :embarrassed: If I were to find a tiger and didnt know about it....I would probably go:

"Whoa thats a big kitty! Come here kitty I wanna...."

"ROAR!!!" *me dead*

mmm...thinking about that 8 meter tentackle again....Your are right! That is pretty big. I can imagine myself trying to swim for my life if I see a tentacles 8 meters long trying to grab me. :guilty:
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They said it wrapped itself around the bait much like a boa constrictor wraps itself around its prey. Not only do tentacles suck but apparently they crush too.

In the old Disney "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" they actually had teh tentacles wrap around a guy like it was trying to crush him and he screamed. Maybe they weren't too far off after all.
 
Awesome video! 👍 It wasn't a size of a house or anything, but 26 feet's pretty big. :ill: Like Foolkiller said, if the first one we captured on film was 26ft, I think it's safe to say there are lot bigger ones in existence. I have the "20,000 League Under the Sea" on DVD, but never made it to the squid part(book was great, btw). Now, I'm gonna have to finish it. :D
 
Well they say from the size of the suckermarks on Sperm Whale that they are estimated to grow up to 50 meters long. That would be insane!

Blake
 
Hiya! :D :embarrassed: :lol: Meow! (='.'=)

I think we forgot Godzilla......:lol:

No I am just joking! :embarrassed:

Is it possible that we can see if a BIG giant squid actually exist by using underwater Sonar? :odd: I thought there is a method of using sonar to see the shapes of things in the ocean. :embarrassed:
 
McLaren'sAngel
Hiya! :D :embarrassed: :lol: Meow! (='.'=)

I think we forgot Godzilla......:lol:

No I am just joking! :embarrassed:

Is it possible that we can see if a BIG giant squid actually exist by using underwater Sonar? :odd: I thought there is a method of using sonar to see the shapes of things in the ocean. :embarrassed:
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I'm just guessing here, but I think in order to see the "shapes", the target has to be stationary. If sonar worked on moving objects, navy subs would have something like that to get the visual on enemy subs.
 
From the Yahoo News story:

Writing in a British scientific publication, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Kubodera and Mori describe how they also used sperm whales as a guide.

Whale watchers on the Ogawara Islands, in the North Pacific, had long noted the migratory patterns of sperm whales, observing in particular how the mammals would gather near a steep and canyoned continental shelf, about 10-15 kilometers (six to nine miles) southeast of Chichijima Island.

By attaching depth loggers to the whales, the watchers found the creatures made enormous dives of up to 1,000 metres (3,250 feet) -- just at the depths where the giant squid is believed to lurk.


One...thousand...meters...deep...

Good Lord. That's as amazing as the photos. Whales are incredible.
 
Wow, that's huge. Imagine the pressure down there ... How can the whales survive such huge differences in pressure? :confused:

Blake
 
Blake
Wow, that's huge. Imagine the pressure down there ... How can the whales survive such huge differences in pressure? :confused:

Blake
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It's all about the blow holes.

Actually I have no clue, but I figure large bone density and lots of blubber may help. It has to be something special for them to keep the air from being forced out of their lungs.

So, giant squids appear to be pretty awesome, so what does that say about sperm whale when you consider that they eat giant squid?


And on a side note, if we can begin to catch them alive and find them in abundance does this mean that I will one day have calamari fillets? I love me some calamari.
 
I know its a big thread bump but this should go in here.

The BBC just aired a new storyville documentary on BBC4 called Shooting Bigfoot: America's Monster Hunters

The documentary was seriously creepy, SERIOUSLY CREEPY. I tuned on to it by chance and its on BBC4 so I thought its going to be a proper thing.... it was normal at the start but then it got worrying and descended into the Blair witch project.

I'm having one of those 'what did I just watch' moments! Was the whole thing staged from the start?, were the British crew involved or did they fall fowl of a twisted setup?..... or was it real. It was messed up, especially the last half hour or so.
 
Creepy in the way it was presented or creepy in that it could have been real?
 
PeterJB
Creepy in the way it was presented or creepy in that it could have been real?
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Creepy in the way it was presented... or rather the people that they followed around, seriously how you could spend a night out in the woods with some of them would take nerves of steel. Just the whole tone was creepy.

I don't know if this was a mockumentary/movie, the end bit certainly tried to make it feel real.
 
I'm not really sure what to think about Bigfoot. It could quite easily be real, but how an animal of that size would avoid human contact so much in a country like America is beyond me. Plus, God only knows how it ended up being the only Ape species (other than Humans) in North America.
 
I take the amusing view that while many around the world, even university professors, believe Bigfoot is real, there has NEVER been a single one captured, killed or in any way scientifically observed, either alive or dead. So while Bigfoot may be real enough, it is also ephemeral, vanishing like smoke without notice. These characteristics give Bigfoot a specification exactly equal to the UFO phenomenon. Both phenomena exist, but neither can be caught, trapped, killed or studied in a laboratory or prison cell. This is because they are shapeshifting electromagnetic (dense plasma, pure energy) phenomena which exist in the human consciousness and mythic imagination just as much as they exist in reality. They are alien beings okay, maybe some with a will of their own, but only partially alien because they are connected to our minds, our DNA, our history, and precede us here on Earth.

Disclaimer: This post is for purposes of entertainment only. Enjoy, but do not worry.
 
I don't know what to think about it, I mean it doesn't really make sense that he hasn't been caught yet but anything is possible I guess.
 
Robin.
Creepy in the way it was presented... or rather the people that they followed around, seriously how you could spend a night out in the woods with some of them would take nerves of steel. Just the whole tone was creepy.

I don't know if this was a mockumentary/movie, the end bit certainly tried to make it feel real.
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I watched it the other day, obviously staged that end bit. Oh look, the bigfoot just happened to look in the camera! Whether the British crew knew it was staged, I doubt it.

The dog owner who clearly cut the dog's throat...

As for Bigfoot, etc, nah, just human imagination.
 
Fun Fact: BRIAN BLESSED believes in the Yeti

Says there are vast areas of the Himalayas unexlored and untouched, and this could be their abode.

And there it occurs to me, when I went gender neutral with 'their'. There must be more than one, and at least one of each gender, for such a species to survive this long. Same with the monster of Loch Ness, there's no way just one plesiosaur is there, if at all it is true.

Another point on Loch Ness, considering it is not even close to being the deepest or largest lake in the world, I'd investigate Baikal, Vostok or the Caspian.
 
Nessie, Bigfoot, UFOs, it's all the same.

You Brits also have "Big Cat" stories to tell.

Call it paranormal - a transitory morphing of reality with imagination.
 
Sureboss
I watched it the other day, obviously staged that end bit. Oh look, the bigfoot just happened to look in the camera! Whether the British crew knew it was staged, I doubt it.

The dog owner who clearly cut the dog's throat...

As for Bigfoot, etc, nah, just human imagination.
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Yeah that kid with the dog... creepy as hell. The people involved are more worrying than the myth!

If the English guy did know boy he really did sell his suprise, so maybe they didn't know it was going to happen.

Dotini
You Brits also have "Big Cat" stories to tell.
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Yeah a while back there were sightings of this lion sized cat in Kent :lol: and even one which was just a stuffed toy that the Police has sniper rifles pointed at!

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Liquid
Fun Fact: BRIAN BLESSED believes in the Yeti

Says there are vast areas of the Himalayas unexlored and untouched, and this could be their abode.
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Watched a three part programme on British TV a few months ago about a scientist investigating bigfoot/yeti claims. One was in the US, one in Russia and the other in Tibet. He's an expert in DNA analysis and was going to take sample from local 'experts'/enthusiasts who claimed to have seen and found evidence for the creatures existence in the form of hair samples etc. The ones from the US and Russia were found to be bunk. But the Himalayan yeti was found to be from a previously unknown subspecies of the polar bear.

The best part of the show was when the guy confronted the locals (most of which had dedicated their existences to finding these creatures) and proved their evidence was just hair or tissue samples from wolves or horses etc. I've never seen people look that crushed before. Hilarious.
 

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