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SASQUATCH: fact or fiction?!!
- Thread starter pacojas
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As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a government assassin.
Unfortunately, Im not a fit candidate for brainwashing.
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Any particular government you want to kill?
I can say no more on the matter. Im sure there are many, though.
Likely so
I used to work with a guy named John a few years back, I used to call him Joey Ramone, because he was about 6'6", 150 lbs. and looked kind of like Joey right before he would get a haircut. Here's a story I heard from John:
This guy lives out in BFE on what some may consider a farm, not really a farm by rural PA standards, but there is a cornfield, hayfield, barn, some chickens and such.
One evening just as it's getting dark John and his wife are in the house and the dogs start going crazy with their barking. John's wife runs up to him and says she saw someone run behind the barn. John grabs a shotgun and goes outside. He says the first thing he noticed was a horrible smell, then he saw a figure run from behind the barn into the nearby cornfield. John gave chase until he got to the edge of the cornfield. It was close to harvest time and the corn stalks were above John's head. John said that he could see the creature's head sticking out from corn stalks. That when John became frightened and went back inside.
The next day John went out to investigate. He says he didn't find any tracks, but did see the path the creature made from running thru the cornfield.
It would seem that BigFoot doesn't have a great reproductive record.
For years,nay decades they have been very rarely seen.
and only one at a time.
Nobody is sure what they eat. Because nobody has ever observed one eating anything.
Speculation abounds.
As time progressed, the "carnivore' theory became more popular since they supposedly roam all over the continent
which includes places where the food sources are absolute minimal...
For along time they were thought to be vegetarian.
But there's not a lot of vegetation)if any at all) in some of the areas they are supposed to inhabit.
They are not "grazers' and would not be seen on all fours
eating grasses like, say, a cow.
I doubt they are carnivores because:-
They have "long chain" abdominal digestive systems similar to an ape.
Most meat eating carnivores have "short chain" digestive systems ( length of digestive intestines etc") so they can pass the digested material quickly.
Human beings are basically long-chain.
The breeding rate of Bigfoot seems to be at best minimal...
No spikes in population in "good" years etc etc.
It's always the singular rare sighting
Many of the sightings are right in the back yards of people's dwellings and rural homes.
And apparently they like hanging out at cemataries.
They can wander with ease through urban areas mostly undetected it seems.
But we can't find one if we go looking.
Camouflage ability and "shapeshifting" are two different things.
Bigfoot isn't all that well camouflaged....it has no chameleon abilities and it's the same color all the time.
Put one in the middle of Mall Of America and it ain't going to be hiding anywhere......
Average daily caloric intake of a fullgrown Bigfoot?..............I'm guessing at minimum 4000.....
For years,nay decades they have been very rarely seen.
and only one at a time.
Nobody is sure what they eat. Because nobody has ever observed one eating anything.
Speculation abounds.
As time progressed, the "carnivore' theory became more popular since they supposedly roam all over the continent
which includes places where the food sources are absolute minimal...
For along time they were thought to be vegetarian.
But there's not a lot of vegetation)if any at all) in some of the areas they are supposed to inhabit.
They are not "grazers' and would not be seen on all fours
eating grasses like, say, a cow.
I doubt they are carnivores because:-
They have "long chain" abdominal digestive systems similar to an ape.
Most meat eating carnivores have "short chain" digestive systems ( length of digestive intestines etc") so they can pass the digested material quickly.
Human beings are basically long-chain.
The breeding rate of Bigfoot seems to be at best minimal...
No spikes in population in "good" years etc etc.
It's always the singular rare sighting
Many of the sightings are right in the back yards of people's dwellings and rural homes.
And apparently they like hanging out at cemataries.
They can wander with ease through urban areas mostly undetected it seems.
But we can't find one if we go looking.
Camouflage ability and "shapeshifting" are two different things.
Bigfoot isn't all that well camouflaged....it has no chameleon abilities and it's the same color all the time.
Put one in the middle of Mall Of America and it ain't going to be hiding anywhere......
Average daily caloric intake of a fullgrown Bigfoot?..............I'm guessing at minimum 4000.....
Would a supernatural being necessarily conform to our ideas of diet & reproduction?
If it were telepathic could not its method of camouflage be making you believe you didnt see anything?
If it were telepathic could not its method of camouflage be making you believe you didnt see anything?
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I suppose the limited food supply might be the only thing that keeps them engineered towards lower breeding numbers. Other than that, it sounds like they have no natural predators, are highly intelligent, and are capable of time travel and levitation, which would otherwise make me wonder why they aren't the dominant species on earth.
I knew this guy, he was very short, not dwarf short (is that the right term these days?) but approaching that, lived in his car in front of my house for a little while (with my blessing briefly). He also lived with his dog in his car.
He once came into the house to use the phone and the smell of his barefeet hit me like a wall and my instant reflex action was to yell at him to get the hell out of the house and forcibly turn him around and propel him out the door.
The stink of his few footsteps into the front of the house infused the entire house up for a couple days. It was all I could do to prevent myself from hurling when the smell hit, I've never smelled something so rank and so strong, and I've been around skunks and dead bodies.
I never once considered that he might actually have been a goblin. Long story for not much of a point... smell doesn't mean your friend didn't see a homeless human.
the creature i saw looked very close to "Caesar" in the latest POTA movies. again,.. from the typical description i assumed this was a young female,.. tall & slender.
what was very apparent was, whatever was standing behind the tree-line on my 2nd run-in was much bigger & stronger. the weight of the foot steps, the force that was exerted while banging a branch against a tree, defied all conventional wisdom.
There are guys you sometimes encounter at the liquor store that can easily clear the room by their smell ... and I wouldn't be surpried if they crashed someone's barn to maybe sleep there or try to find something to eat ... combine that with darkness, an exited or scared guy, barking dogs etc, and no wonder there will be perceived sightings of scary, smelly "creatures".
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Having spent a fair amount of time with the chronically unwashed, I can attest to the potent musk that can be left, and I too have been exposed to corpses and skunk.
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Grizzly versus Bigfoot?
Wolves versus Bigfoot?
Cougars versus Bigfoot?
Wolverine versus Bigfoot?
Large black bear versus Bigfoot?
Ferral dog pack versus Bigfoot?
And in some places:-
Boa constrictor (or other constrictors) versus Bigfoot?
Croc or Alligator versus Bigfoot?
Ferral hogs versus Bigfoot?
and then there's old age and disease.
The old of many species often fall prey to predators as do the young.
Disease or accidental injury or genetic glitch resulting in functional impairment....no Bigfoots sighted yet with these maladies....
Stomach contents of North American Vultures.......no-one has said "Look at this.......Big foot bones and hairs in this Vulture stomach and Vulture poo..."
Nor in the stomach/poo contents of any other predator for that matter....
Grizzly versus Bigfoot?
Wolves versus Bigfoot?
Cougars versus Bigfoot?
Wolverine versus Bigfoot?
Large black bear versus Bigfoot?
Ferral dog pack versus Bigfoot?
And in some places:-
Boa constrictor (or other constrictors) versus Bigfoot?
Croc or Alligator versus Bigfoot?
Ferral hogs versus Bigfoot?
and then there's old age and disease.
The old of many species often fall prey to predators as do the young.
Disease or accidental injury or genetic glitch resulting in functional impairment....no Bigfoots sighted yet with these maladies....
Stomach contents of North American Vultures.......no-one has said "Look at this.......Big foot bones and hairs in this Vulture stomach and Vulture poo..."
Nor in the stomach/poo contents of any other predator for that matter....
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Using his laser vision Sasquatch has the drop on all of those apex predators. Really the werewolf is his only true threat as it's common knowledge that silver smelting releases toxins that are deadly to him, thus denying Sasquatch access to forging bullets of the aforementioned element.
Pacojas asked if anyone had stories, and I relayed one that I heard; which is what one does on an internet forum. I simply repeated a story I was told by an acquaintance. I don't know what John saw that night, but John believes that it was not human.
I have an undecided opinion on whether or not Bigfoot exists. I have never seen any proof, but believing that as humans we have discovered everything that exists is a very arrogant way of thinking. I am open to the possibility, so I find the tales of real experience more interesting than insulting posts.
btw,.. the reported sightings along the PNW number in the thousands, so out here, i am just a normal country boy who happened to see BF! my experience wasn't as exciting as some others. it's really not that unusual these days. the Shasta location has had dozens of reports in that area. not so many the Mendocino Co.,.. in Humbolt wayyyy more.
google a map from California up to Washington and tell me BF couldn't blend in sucessfully! you can walk clear up the coast and never cast a shadow!
google a map from California up to Washington and tell me BF couldn't blend in sucessfully! you can walk clear up the coast and never cast a shadow!
I foresee an arms race among the world's top predators. I wonder if Halliburton can get in on the action? I think it's in the constitution we have the right to arm bears.
