Bigfoot

Isn't the legend origanlly native american?

 

I don't know, but it could be anything. An ape, a bear, another human that under certain conditions was seen as a monster and grew into a legend.
Sorta like Kraken is (probably) just a giant squid

 

... Reviving old threads.... is never good... Think about my blood topic... But I see why it happened... It's fine...

Well that film seems like pretty hard evidence. You always see pictures of bigfoot but this guy caught a video. A legend? Say it was based on a bear. It would be described as larger around the waist and not walking on two legs. Also, the kraken legend started because someone saw a giant squid. This is probably the same thing. Someone saw bigfoot and it became spread quickly and some things may have been distorted, but it still exists.

 

Dark. Shush. Shush about your locked topic. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

But on the Patterson video... I dunno. It looks kind of real, kind of fake.

I do have to read up more on it because I've always thought this was the coolest possible video of senior Sasquatch.

 

The topic was necroposted it was merged with a new thread.

Someone could've seen a bear rearing up and misinterpreted it, over time legends get distorted.

 

That's mostly irrelevant to what was being sense, but apart from that, you've practically backed up what I was saying. You cannot criticise a theory for not being guaranteed to be true.

And yes, I am aware that gravity is still a theory.

 

Gravity is a theory????? I didn't know that...

Besides, I've watched and read many things based around that video and most of the people analyzing it say it's impossible for a human to have a walking stance like that one, and be on something that makes you taller. Watch the video, imitate the knees and arms, and go try walking at that speed for that long of a time. Extremely tough.

 

Bigfoot is like the Loch Ness Monster or the magical Bunyip. Nice stories for kids bedtime stories.

 

What's the bunyip? Never heard of bunyip. Maybe the Loch Ness monster was just a giant sea snake or something.

 

The Loch Ness Monster was a prank... And that's been proven.

As for the bunyip... It's basically just an animal from Aboriginal and Australian folklore, much like Bigfoot or the Abominable Snowman, but dwelled in billabongs and creeks and such. There's not really a unified description of one though, unlike Nessy, Bigfoot, etc.

 

Well if it's been proven a hoax, then it's a hoax. But bigfoot hasn't been proven a hoax. The only thing keeping people from believing are these stupid jerks who fake it just to get a few days of fame, and then everyone hates them because they lied. If no one ever faked bigfoot, then it might just be believed and eventually proven if it exists. Besides, all the sightings of bigfoot have about the same description.

 

I don´t believe in bigfoots, they are such liers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

countless 'sightings' of bigfoot have been proven to be hoaxes.

Or, no one would believe in bigfoot because without the hoaxes, they would have no reason to

 

The sightings by people have been proven hoaxes, but no one has ever led an expedition team to go out and try to get one, and get a hair sample or something. Just because the jerks who got the five minutes of fame faked it, doesn't mean every sighting was fake. Like UFO's, so many people have sighted it, taken pictures and videos of it, how can it be fake?

 

Because one jackass does it as a pratical joke, someone hears about it and repeats or someone misintrepets what people said and thinks it to be true so someone else tries to scare them because they know they believe in it and it spreads like wildfire.

The reason nobody has sent zoologists to investigate is because they haven't found any physical evidence that has been proven beyond reasonable doubt to justify the cost.

 

The vast majority of the sightings have been proven to have been fakes, and the most famous footage, being the footage that probably got the whole thing rolling, was admitted to being a prank. Although every single sighting hasn't been proven to be a hoax, no sighting has been proven to be completely legitimate.

If no-one ever faked a Bigfoot sighting, then no-one would have ever heard of it. It's not as though people have been faking dog sightings, so people start thinking that dogs aren't real, because all the sightings are fake... It's as though someone faked a Triantiwantigongalope sighting, and people start believing it's real. To put it in simpler terms, it's not something real that's being denied, it's something fake that's being promoted. All these things, like Bigfoot and Nessy, originally started as pranks, or hoaxes. That's how they became popular. Now if I were to pull a prank on someone saying that I saw a Triantiwantigongalope, does that mean there's still a chance it's actually real? Of course not.

Of course they do. Who the Hell's going to say they saw an umbrella-shaped Bigfoot?

 

"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become? "

 

I have to repeat my point which is, there have been such an abundant of sightings and although most are fake, some are real. Remember my "Ghosts" thread? So many reports of ghosts, while most are fake, there are real ones. This could be the same with Bigfoot. Even if the claims are hoaxed, it doesn't mean the entire animal could be fake. Just because you didn't know something existed, doesn't mean it isn't real.

 

You don't know if some are real, you just think... If a sigthing has been proven authentic, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Imagine this thread being called "Giant Squid"...

 

No, there are reports that have been proven to be hoaxes, and there are reports that are inconclusive. Don't confuse an inconclusive report with being an authentic report.

Ok, well going by that logic, do you now believe in Triantiwantigongalopes now? Just because you didn't know the Triantiwantigongalope existed, it doesn't mean it isn't real.

Oh, and awesome point, GMG.