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Speaker 2: the grill. I didn't see any cars. All I saw
Speaker 2: was my dog coming over the fence.
Speaker 1: Happen?
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Speaker 1: During a recent roundtable discussion with some of the most
Speaker 1: prominent Sasquatch investigators in North America, a fascinating question was
Speaker 1: posed that continues to occupy my thoughts. Among the countless
Speaker 1: mysteries surrounding Sasquatch, It's possible biology, behavior, and even existence.
Speaker 1: This question stood out for its profound implications. If sasquatch exists,
Speaker 1: why hasn't one been definitively struck and killed by a vehicle.
Speaker 1: The discussion, which included some of the most well versed
Speaker 1: minds in sasquatch research, delved into numerous theories and hypotheses,
Speaker 1: blending documented animal behaviors, scientific possibilities, and speculative reasoning. Hundreds
Speaker 1: of eyewitness reports described sasquatch crossing roadways across the United States,
Speaker 1: often at night, yet not a single confirmed case exists
Speaker 1: of one being struck, fatally injured, and recovered. This absence
Speaker 1: is striking when compared to the millions of animal vehicle
Speaker 1: collisions documented annually in the US, involving deer, coyotes, wolves,
Speaker 1: and other large wildlife. As the conversation unfolded, the puzzle
Speaker 1: became a lens through which we explored the broader mysteries
Speaker 1: surrounding this elusive creature. To frame the mystery, consider the
Speaker 1: sheer scale of animal vehicle collisions in the United States.
Speaker 1: Each year, over one point five million deer vehicle collisions
Speaker 1: are reported. Deer are particularly vulnerable due to their behaviors
Speaker 1: and population density. They frequently cross roads during dawn and dusk,
Speaker 1: times of reduced visibility for drivers. Moreover, deer often freeze
Speaker 1: when confronted with an oncoming vehicle's headlights, a reflexive response
Speaker 1: known as tonic immobility. This behavior significantly increases the likelihood
Speaker 1: of accidents. In contrast, predators like coyotes and wolves exhibit
Speaker 1: more calculated and agile movements, but they too are struck
Speaker 1: by vehicles, particularly when pursuing prey across roadways. The common
Speaker 1: factor among these species is their coexistence with human altered environments,
Speaker 1: which increases their interaction with roadways. When viewed through this lens,
Speaker 1: the absence of a confirmed sasquatch vehicle collision becomes even
Speaker 1: more curious. Eyewitness reports suggests that sasquatch occasionally crosses roadways
Speaker 1: much like these other animals, yet no remains have ever
Speaker 1: been conclusively found. To unravel this enigma, one must consider
Speaker 1: a combination of factors including population dynamics, behavioral tendencies, physical attributes,
Speaker 1: and environmental context. A critical factor in explaining the absence
Speaker 1: of sasquatch and vehicle collision reports is the creatures presumed
Speaker 1: rarity Deer populations in the US number in the tens
Speaker 1: of millions, and even wolves and coyotes have established healthy
Speaker 1: populations across vast regions. By contrast, sasquatch, if it exists,
Speaker 1: is thought to have an extremely low population density. Most
Speaker 1: researchers hypothesize that sasquatch inhabits remote forested areas far from
Speaker 1: human habitation. This low density and broad territorial range would
Speaker 1: naturally reduce the likelihood of any individual encountering a roadway,
Speaker 1: let alone a vehicle. The statistical improbability of such a
Speaker 1: collision is analogous to rare sightings of endangered species like
Speaker 1: snow leopards or red wolves. These creatures, despite their large
Speaker 1: size and active ranges, are almost never reported as victims
Speaker 1: of vehicle collisions due to their scarcity. Sasquatch, if it exists,
Speaker 1: in similarly low numbers, would be even less likely to
Speaker 1: appear in such incidents, given its hypothesized avoidance of human contact.
Speaker 1: Sasquatch is often described in eyewitness accounts as highly intelligent,
Speaker 1: with behavior suggesting an acute awareness of its surroundings. Unlike deer,
Speaker 1: which react instinctively and often erratically, sasquatch seems to exhibit deliberate,
Speaker 1: calculated actions. Witnesses frequently report the creature waiting and watching
Speaker 1: before crossing a roadway, as though assessing the situation for safety.
Speaker 1: This apparent intelligence might allow sasquatch to recognize roads as
Speaker 1: dangerous and avoid them whenever possible. Additionally, sasquatch is often
Speaker 1: associated with nocturnal or crepuscular behavior, meaning it is most
Speaker 1: active during the night or twilight hours. This behavior not
Speaker 1: only reduces its exposure to humans, but also aligns with
Speaker 1: its reported ability to move stealthily in low light conditions.
Speaker 1: Eyewitness accounts often describe the creature appearing suddenly and disappearing
Speaker 1: just as quickly into the forest, suggesting a mass mastery
Speaker 1: of its environment. If sasquatch possesses enhanced night vision similar
Speaker 1: to that of nocturnal predators, it could easily detect approaching
Speaker 1: vehicles and avoid collisions. Researchers have speculated that sasquatch may
Speaker 1: possess acute sensory abilities, such as heightened hearing or a
Speaker 1: keen sense of smell, which could further aid in detecting
Speaker 1: and avoiding vehicles. These abilities would grant the creature and
Speaker 1: advantage in evading dangers that other animals fail to perceive
Speaker 1: until it is too late. By contrast, sasquatch sightings, of
Speaker 1: which there are hundreds, if not thousands, paint a very
Speaker 1: different picture. Witnesses frequently describe the creature as crossing roads deliberately,
Speaker 1: with an almost calculated sense of caution. Unlike deer, which
Speaker 1: react purely on instinct sasquatch appears to assess its environment
Speaker 1: before moving. It is often seen waiting for an opportunity,
Speaker 1: then striding across the road in a manner that suggests
Speaker 1: an acute awareness of the danger vehicles pose. This behavior
Speaker 1: immediately set sasquatch apart from the wildlife with which were
Speaker 1: most familiar. A critical factor in this mystery is the
Speaker 1: presumed rarity of sasquatch. Deer are abundant, with populations in
Speaker 1: the tens of millions, making collisions statistically inevitable. Even predators
Speaker 1: like coyotes and wolves, though far less numerous, have robust
Speaker 1: populations that increase the likelihood of such incidents. Sasquatch, however,
Speaker 1: is thought to be exceedingly rare, occupying remote wilderness areas
Speaker 1: far from human settlements. If these creatures exist, their population
Speaker 1: density is likely so low that the odds of a
Speaker 1: single individual encountering a vehicle are vanishingly small. This scarcity,
Speaker 1: combined with their avoidance of human activity, might alone explain
Speaker 1: why sasquatch vehicle collisions have not been confirmed. The discussion
Speaker 1: then turned to sasquatch's reported intelligence, which might provide another
Speaker 1: layer of explanation. Many witnesses describe the creature as displaying
Speaker 1: behaviors that suggest a high degree of awareness and problem
Speaker 1: solving ability. These accounts often emphasize that sasquatch appears to
Speaker 1: understand its surroundings and make deliberate choices to remain hidden
Speaker 1: or safe. For example, eyewitnesses frequently note how quickly sasquatch
Speaker 1: retreats into the forest after being seen, as though aware
Speaker 1: of the need to avoid human detection. This level of
Speaker 1: situational awareness could extend to roads and vehicles, allowing sasquatch
Speaker 1: to recognize them as threats and avoid them altogether. Another
Speaker 1: fascinating avenue of discussion compared sasquatch to humans rather than animals.
Speaker 1: If sasquatch is closely related to humans, as many researchers believe,
Speaker 1: its behavior might align more closely with ours than with
Speaker 1: instinct driven creatures like deer or bears. In the United States,
Speaker 1: human vehicle collisions result in approximately six thousand pedestrian fatalities
Speaker 1: and seventy six thousand injuries annually. Most of these incidents
Speaker 1: occur at night, when visibility is reduced. Urban areas, with
Speaker 1: their dense traffic and high pedestrian activity, account for the
Speaker 1: majority of these accidents. In rural areas, collisions are less
Speaker 1: common but often more severe due to higher vehicle speeds
Speaker 1: and delayed emergency response times. Humans, despite our intelligence, are
Speaker 1: still vulnerable to vehicles, but certain behaviors drastically reduce our risk.
Speaker 1: Pedestrians who exercise caution, waiting for traffic to clear, using crosswalks,
Speaker 1: or avoiding poorly lit roads are far less likely to
Speaker 1: be struck. Sasquatch, if it shares our cognitive abilities, may
Speaker 1: employ similar strategies. Witnesses often report seeing the creature crossroads
Speaker 1: in areas with minimal traffic, such as remote stretches of
Speaker 1: highway or back roads. It seems to avoid high traffic
Speaker 1: zones and urban areas entirely, further reducing its chances of
Speaker 1: encountering a vehicle. Another intriguing possibility involves sasquatch's social behavior.
Speaker 1: Some researchers speculate that these creatures may live in small,
Speaker 1: close knit groups. If true, it's possible that other sasquatch
Speaker 1: might actively remove an injured or deceased individual to prevent
Speaker 1: discovery by humans. This theory aligns with the descriptions of
Speaker 1: sasquatch as intelligent and potentially cooperative, capable of behaviors that
Speaker 1: would make them even harder to detect. An intriguing aspect
Speaker 1: of the discussion involved the few reported cases in which
Speaker 1: drivers claim to have struck a sasquatch, only to see
Speaker 1: the creature rise and retreat into the wilderness. If these
Speaker 1: accounts are to be believed, they suggest that sasquatch may
Speaker 1: possess extraordinary physical resilience. Witnesses often describe sasquatch as massive,
Speaker 1: with a height ranging from seven to ten feet and
Speaker 1: a weight estimated at several hundred pounds. Its muscular structure
Speaker 1: is frequently described as exceptionally robust, with eyewitnesses likening it
Speaker 1: to an ape or even a bear in terms of
Speaker 1: sheer physicality. Such attributes could make sasquatch more capable of
Speaker 1: withstanding an impact that would be fatal to most animals.
Speaker 1: Large dense muscles might absorb shock more effectively, while thick
Speaker 1: bones could resist fractures. If sasquatch possesses these traits, it
Speaker 1: might explain why it could survive a collision and retreat
Speaker 1: into the forest before human witnesses could confirm its identity.
Speaker 1: The natural environment where sasquatch is most often reported also
Speaker 1: plays a crucial role in explaining the lack of confirmed collisions.
Speaker 1: Dense forests and rugged terrain dominate sasquatch's presumed habitat, providing
Speaker 1: ample cover for a creature seeking to remain hidden. These
Speaker 1: environments are also effective at erasing evidence. Even if a
Speaker 1: sasquatch were fatally struck by a vehicle, the remains might
Speaker 1: quickly disappear due to scavenger activity, decomposition, and environmental factors
Speaker 1: such as rain or snow. This phenomenon is not unique
Speaker 1: to sasquatch. For instance, bare and mountain lion carcasses are
Speaker 1: rarely found in the wild the significant populations. Nature's efficiency
Speaker 1: in recycling organic matter ensures that even large animals leave
Speaker 1: little trace behind. In the case of sasquatch, this process
Speaker 1: would be compounded by its presumed rarity, and the remoteness
Speaker 1: of its habitat. Finally, the human element cannot be overlooked.
Speaker 1: In cases where people have reported striking a large bipedal figure,
Speaker 1: societal skepticism and fear of ridicule often discourage them from
Speaker 1: pursuing the matter. Some witnesses might dismiss the encounter as
Speaker 1: a mistake, rationalizing it as a bear or even a
Speaker 1: prankster in a costume. In other cases, the lack of
Speaker 1: concrete evidence, such as fur, blood, or a body leaves
Speaker 1: their claims unverifiable, relegating them to the realm of anecdote.
Speaker 1: Even in instances where physical evidence might exist, the stigma
Speaker 1: surrounding sasquatch research often prevents serious investigation. This cultural barrier
Speaker 1: ensures that many potential encounters go unreported are unexamined, further
Speaker 1: contributing to the mystery. The absence of a confirmed sasquatch
Speaker 1: vehicle collision is a riddle that encapsulates the broader enigma
Speaker 1: of the creature itself. Whether due to intelligence, physical resilience, rarity,
Speaker 1: or a combination of these factors, sasquatch appears uniquely equipped
Speaker 1: to avoid the fate that befalls so many other animals.
Speaker 1: This mystery not only deepens the allure of Sasquatch, but
Speaker 1: also keeps the debate alive, ensuring that researchers and enthusiasts
Speaker 1: alike continue their quest for answers. As we consider these possibilities,
Speaker 1: we are reminded of the complexity of the natural world
Speaker 1: and the tantalizing possibility that some of its secrets remain
Speaker 1: just out of reach. All these factors, population, rarity, intelligence,
Speaker 1: physical resilience, environmental context, and human disbelief converge to create
Speaker 1: a compelling explanation for why Sasquatch, if it exists, has
Speaker 1: never been definitively strung and killed by a vehicle. And
Speaker 1: stay tuned for more sasquatch ott to see. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back after these messages. The creature's ability to navigate
Speaker 1: its world with caution and intelligence, combined with its elusive nature,
Speaker 1: seems to grant it an extraordinary advantage in avoiding the
Speaker 1: fate that befalls so many other beings. This absence doesn't
Speaker 1: weaken the case for Sasquatch's existence. Rather, it adds to
Speaker 1: the allure of its mystery, reminding us that some secrets
Speaker 1: of the natural world may still be waiting to be uncovered.
Speaker 1: The Bigfoot tree structures controversy. On numerous occasions, bigfoot seekers
Speaker 1: have reported finding curious creations in areas where Bigfoot has
Speaker 1: been seen. Essentially, they are tepee like structures that appear
Speaker 1: to have been created by something with intelligence and a
Speaker 1: great deal of strength too. The latter is made abundantly
Speaker 1: evident by the fact that in many cases, the branches
Speaker 1: of the trees used to create these sometimes huge structures
Speaker 1: appear to have been wrenched off. In other cases, the
Speaker 1: branches appear to have been carefully bent over and intertwined.
Speaker 1: As for why Bigfoot might engage in such curious behavior,
Speaker 1: the theories are several. At first glance, one might assume
Speaker 1: they have been constructed to offer the beasts a degree
Speaker 1: of shelter, and particularly so during the cold winter months.
Speaker 1: In many cases, however, there does not appear to have
Speaker 1: been any attempt made to create a canopy or walls.
Speaker 1: In other words, the structures are open to the environment
Speaker 1: and all of its attendant harshness. Other theories are more intriguing.
Speaker 1: It has been speculated that perhaps the tepees represent territorial
Speaker 1: markers created by Bigfoot creatures to alert others of their
Speaker 1: kind that they are present in the area. They may
Speaker 1: also be a warning to man to stay firmly away,
Speaker 1: although of course the obscure nature of the formations effectively
Speaker 1: means that very few of us are likely to understand
Speaker 1: such a warning, never mind act upon it. Whatever the
Speaker 1: purpose of the bigfoot teepees, it must be said that
Speaker 1: they are very often found in areas where bigfoot has
Speaker 1: been seen. Personally, I have found such creations on several occasions.
Speaker 1: One was in two thousand and five, when, along with
Speaker 1: fellow creature seeker Ken Gerhard, I traveled out to Lake Worth,
Speaker 1: Texas to investigate the legend of the goat Man, which
Speaker 1: may well have been a white bigfoot. On a small
Speaker 1: island on the Lake Greer Island, Gearhart and I found
Speaker 1: just such a formation, along with the remains of a
Speaker 1: devoured fish and a large depression in the ground that
Speaker 1: gave the impression of something large and heavy. Having sat
Speaker 1: there for a period of time, I made a similar
Speaker 1: discovery in two thousand and eight when I traveled to
Speaker 1: Ray Roberts Lake, Texas with Lance Oliver of the Denton
Speaker 1: Area Paranormal Society or DAPs for short. In one particular
Speaker 1: heavily wooded part of the lake. We found numerous such creations,
Speaker 1: all of which appeared to have been fashioned with a
Speaker 1: high degree of intelligence, strength, and dexterity. All of the
Speaker 1: above notwithstanding, it's important to keep a sensible head on
Speaker 1: one's shoulders and realize that at least some bigfoot tepees
Speaker 1: are the work of Mother Nature. Jonathan Downs of the
Speaker 1: Center for forty in Zoology made a good point to
Speaker 1: me on this very issue in twenty twelve. I've always
Speaker 1: found the whole bigfoot tepee thing dodgy as hell. I'll
Speaker 1: give you an example. Just recently we bought a chainsaw,
Speaker 1: as there are places in the garden the trees that
Speaker 1: haven't been pruned in years, and there are bits and
Speaker 1: places where the branches have grown together in what look
Speaker 1: like quite a complicated way. This is in my little
Speaker 1: garden in Woolsy, England. You've got trees and branches doing
Speaker 1: odd things. And it is things like this that mean
Speaker 1: I've never been impressed by the bigfoot tepees. I think
Speaker 1: they are purely natural phenomena and nothing to do with
Speaker 1: bigfoot in Britain or anywhere. Indeed, it would be wise
Speaker 1: to keep an open mind, but always err on the
Speaker 1: side of caution when it comes to the controversy of
Speaker 1: the bigfoot tree structure phenomenon. On numerous occasions, bigfoot seekers
Speaker 1: have reported finding curious creations in areas where Bigfoot has
Speaker 1: been seen. Essentially, they are tepee like structures that appear
Speaker 1: to have been created by something with intelligence and a
Speaker 1: great deal of strength too. The latter is made abundantly
Speaker 1: evident by the fact that, in many cases, the branches
Speaker 1: of the trees used to create these sometimes huge structures
Speaker 1: appear to have been wrenched off. In other cases, the
Speaker 1: branches appear to have been carefully bent over and intertwined.
Speaker 1: As for why Bigfoot might engage in such curious behavior,
Speaker 1: the theories are several. At first glance, one might assume
Speaker 1: they have been constructed to offer the beasts a degree
Speaker 1: of shelter, and particularly so during the cold winter months.
Speaker 1: In many cases, however, there does not appear to have
Speaker 1: been any attempt made to create a canopy or walls. Words,
Speaker 1: the structures are open to the environment and all of
Speaker 1: its attendant harshness. Other theories are more intriguing. It has
Speaker 1: been speculated that perhaps the teepees represent territorial markers created
Speaker 1: by bigfoot creatures to alert others of their kind that
Speaker 1: they are present in the area. They may also be
Speaker 1: a warning to man to stay firmly away, although of
Speaker 1: course the obscure nature of the formations effectively means that
Speaker 1: very few or of us are likely to understand such
Speaker 1: a warning, never mind act upon it. Whatever the purpose
Speaker 1: of the bigfoot teepees, it must be said that they
Speaker 1: are very often found in areas where bigfoot has been seen. Personally,
Speaker 1: I have found such creations on several occasions. One was
Speaker 1: in two thousand and five, when, along with fellow creature
Speaker 1: seeker Ken Gerhard, I traveled out to Lake Worth, Texas
Speaker 1: to investigate the legend of the goat Man, which may
Speaker 1: well have been a white bigfoot. On a small island
Speaker 1: on the Lake Greer Eye Island, Ken and I found
Speaker 1: just such a formation, along with the remains of a
Speaker 1: devoured fish and a large depression in the ground that
Speaker 1: gave the impression of something large and heavy. Having sat
Speaker 1: there for a period of time, I made a similar
Speaker 1: discovery in two thousand and eight when I traveled to
Speaker 1: Ray Roberts Lake, Texas with Lance Oliver of the Denton
Speaker 1: Area Paranormal Society DAPs. In one particular heavily wooded part
Speaker 1: of the lake, we found numerous such creations, all of
Speaker 1: which appeared to have been fashioned with a high degree
Speaker 1: of intelligence, strength, and dexterity. All of the above notwithstanding,
Speaker 1: it's important to keep a sensible head on one's shoulders
Speaker 1: and realized that at least some Bigfoot teepees are the
Speaker 1: work of nature. Jonathan Downs of the Center for fourteen
Speaker 1: Zoology made a good point to me on this very
Speaker 1: issue in twenty twelve. I've always found the whole bigfoot
Speaker 1: tepee thing dodgy as hell. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1: Just recently we bought a chainsaw, as there are places
Speaker 1: in the garden the true trees that haven't been pruned
Speaker 1: in years, and there are bits and places where the
Speaker 1: branches have grown together in what look like quite a
Speaker 1: complicated way. This is in my little garden in Woolsey, England.
Speaker 1: You've got trees and branches doing odd things. And it
Speaker 1: is things like this that mean I've never been impressed
Speaker 1: by the bigfoot tepes. I think they are purely natural
Speaker 1: phenomena and nothing to do with Bigfoot. In Britain or anywhere.
Speaker 1: What whatever the truth of the matter, it would be
Speaker 1: wise to keep an open mind, but always air on
Speaker 1: the side of caution when it comes to the controversy
Speaker 1: of the Bigfoot tree structure phenomenon. Bigfoot as an inter
Speaker 1: dimensional interloper, There's probably no cryptid out there that is
Speaker 1: as sighted, talked about and as well known as Bigfoot.
Speaker 1: It is the rock star of cryptids, the one that
Speaker 1: even people with no interest at all in cryptozoology have
Speaker 1: heard of, perhaps only second to the Lockness Monster. Ask
Speaker 1: most people what they think these creatures are, and you
Speaker 1: will more likely than not get the answer that they
Speaker 1: are some sort of massive, undiscovered ape like animal that
Speaker 1: lurks in remote areas of the world. Yet, what if
Speaker 1: Bigfoot is, at least in some cases, no animal at all,
Speaker 1: or at least not like any known by us. What
Speaker 1: if these creatures are something from not only beyond our understanding,
Speaker 1: but from beyond our very reality. The traditional assumption concerning
Speaker 1: hary hominids such as Bigfoot is, of course, that they
Speaker 1: are biological entities, flesh and blood creatures of a species
Speaker 1: that has simply not been discovered and properly described by science.
Speaker 1: Yet In this paradigm, these are living, breathing animals hiding
Speaker 1: out in the remote wilds of our planet, skulking about
Speaker 1: in the shadows and skirting about just beyond our ability
Speaker 1: to find them, constantly evading and confounding us. In many ways,
Speaker 1: this seems to make sense. After all, there are many
Speaker 1: examples of such robust ape like creatures and early versions
Speaker 1: of Homo sapiens in the fossil record of some areas
Speaker 1: of the world that could provide a link to an
Speaker 1: explanation for what has been seen. There are also many
Speaker 1: fairly large animals throughout history that have managed to remain
Speaker 1: hidden and which long inhabited the same realm as cryptids
Speaker 1: before their eventual discoveries, such as those I have covered
Speaker 1: here before. On the surface, it all seems at least
Speaker 1: possible that relic populations of hairy bipeds could be out there,
Speaker 1: tucked away in the remote wildernesses of our planet, away
Speaker 1: from our prying eyes and rampant exploration. Yet in recent years,
Speaker 1: the age old entrenched idea that Bigfoot and other creatures
Speaker 1: like it could only be biological animals has experienced more
Speaker 1: and more criticism from both skeptics and a few cryptozoologists alike.
Speaker 1: The most commonly stated problem is a lack of any
Speaker 1: fossil evidence in many of the areas where some of
Speaker 1: these entities have been seen, such as North America, Australia,
Speaker 1: and bizarrely England. This is actually not a major setback
Speaker 1: in and of itself, as fossils tend to be very
Speaker 1: rare in the first place, with a rather incomplete record,
Speaker 1: and we are constantly finding whole new prehistoric species through
Speaker 1: newly found fossils. The problem is that there has been
Speaker 1: no reliable fossil evidence of anything even remotely like Bigfoot
Speaker 1: in many of the places where they are routinely seen.
Speaker 1: These creatures would not exist in a vacuum. There should
Speaker 1: be at least transitional species or something like a primate
Speaker 1: that could be somewhat connected to Bigfoot, yet there is nothing.
Speaker 1: In this sense, The problem is not necessarily that there
Speaker 1: are no fossils of Bigfoot, but rather that there is
Speaker 1: a complete void of anything in the record of North
Speaker 1: America and some other locations that could even be tentatively
Speaker 1: associated with something like it. With the rather sketchy nature
Speaker 1: of fossils to begin with, it is not necessarily the
Speaker 1: nail in the coffin for a flesh and blood bigfoot,
Speaker 1: but it is a rather glaring anomaly to contend with.
Speaker 1: Another thing that seems to be a strike against the
Speaker 1: notion of a biological Bigfoot is simply that these creatures
Speaker 1: have been seen absolutely everywhere and by scores of people
Speaker 1: from all walks of life in increasingly urbanized areas. Look
Speaker 1: through sightings reports archives from organizations such as the Bigfoot
Speaker 1: Field Research Organization or BFRO for short, and you will
Speaker 1: find that there are hundreds and hundreds of sightings of
Speaker 1: these creatures from all over. At times, it seems as
Speaker 1: if Bigfoot is spotted even more than some actual known
Speaker 1: animals such as moose, cougars, bears, wolverines, and so on.
Speaker 1: Taking the sheer number of sightings reports into account, it
Speaker 1: is increasingly difficult to hold on to the notion that
Speaker 1: these are elusive and rarely seen creatures relegated to isolated,
Speaker 1: remote places where they can hide from mankind. For if
Speaker 1: they are hiding, they are doing a very bad job
Speaker 1: at it, as they are spotted all of the time.
Speaker 1: If even half of these reports are genuine, then this
Speaker 1: is actually a rather well witnessed large animal not some
Speaker 1: barely glimpsed specter. Bigfoot is apparently widespread as well. As
Speaker 1: then you have the fact that these reports come in
Speaker 1: from pretty much everywhere, including places where they have no
Speaker 1: right to be at all. Every single state of the
Speaker 1: Union has bigfoot reports, yes, including Hawaii. Bigfoot like creatures
Speaker 1: have also been spotted in other unlikely places as well,
Speaker 1: including as I mentioned, England and Australia, neither of which
Speaker 1: have anything whatsoever in their natural history at all to
Speaker 1: suggest an animal such as this should be there. Yet
Speaker 1: there they are. Why should this be? If you put
Speaker 1: together the vast number of sightings and the widespread nature
Speaker 1: of these reports, if any of it is to be
Speaker 1: remotely believed, then it is not difficult to get the
Speaker 1: impression that bigfoot cannot really be classified as a super
Speaker 1: rare beast that lives in only the most remote, uninhabited locales,
Speaker 1: And it subsequently gets more and more difficult to defend
Speaker 1: how they could have possibly gone without being discovered in
Speaker 1: any sense, especially in this modern age. Indeed, there has
Speaker 1: not ever been any definitive physical evidence of these creatures
Speaker 1: despite all of these sightings. Sure there are footprints and
Speaker 1: other signs of their activity such as rock piles, shelters,
Speaker 1: and so on. But as for blood, reliable hairs, a carcass,
Speaker 1: or even a fragment of a bone, there is none.
Speaker 1: Remember that these are creatures seen all throughout the United
Speaker 1: States and other places, often near highways and roads. Yet
Speaker 1: there has never been a single trace of a body.
Speaker 1: It does seem rather odd that this should be the
Speaker 1: case with such a widely seen beast. Of course, if
Speaker 1: one is to ask a hardcore skeptic why any of
Speaker 1: this should be, you will get a rather simple reply
Speaker 1: that Bigfoot simply does not exist and never has. Here's
Speaker 1: another notion, that it is all a nation spanning urban
Speaker 1: legend that sprawls across cultures, and that it is all
Speaker 1: a tapestry of misidentifications, misinformation, hoaxes, and downright lies. Ask
Speaker 1: a skeptic and they will say that the reason there
Speaker 1: is no solid physical evidence or fossils is that Bigfoot
Speaker 1: has never existed in any form in the first place. However,
Speaker 1: here we run into problems as well to outright dismiss
Speaker 1: or deny every single piece of evidence we do have
Speaker 1: out of hand, no matter how circumstantial, as well as
Speaker 1: the testimony of hundreds if not thousands of people, is
Speaker 1: to suggest that this is one of the most complicated,
Speaker 1: elaborate hoaxes ever pulled off by humankind. While there are
Speaker 1: surely those who have fabricated sighting accounts or pulled hoaxes,
Speaker 1: can we say that every single person who has ever
Speaker 1: reported a Bigfoot is mistaken a prankster or worse yet,
Speaker 1: a liar. Are there so many people, often experienced or
Speaker 1: reliable witnesses known for their honesty, who would make up
Speaker 1: this stuff on such a large scale. What's more, are
Speaker 1: so many people out roaming around in the forest, faking
Speaker 1: tracks and other signs of bigfoot, often with rather compelling results,
Speaker 1: or cavorting about in guerrilla costumes. Stay tuned for more
Speaker 1: sasquatch ott to see. We'll be right back after these messages.
Speaker 1: In some ways, to suggest this is all some giant
Speaker 1: delusion in hoax is almost harder to accept than that
Speaker 1: there is a giant ape like hominid wandering the wilds.
Speaker 1: So if Bigfoot is seen by so many yet leaves
Speaker 1: behind so little strong evidence and still has remained undiscovered,
Speaker 1: and if these people are not all liars and delusional,
Speaker 1: then perhaps the explanation for Bigfoot lies somewhere else altogether,
Speaker 1: and this is where things get really weird. One admittedly
Speaker 1: controversial and outlandish idea that has nevertheless gained more and
Speaker 1: more momentum and traction in recent years is that, rather
Speaker 1: than a flesh and blood animal that has simply remained undiscovered,
Speaker 1: we are perhaps dealing with an entity from some other
Speaker 1: reality or dimension. That instead of earth bound biological creatures,
Speaker 1: we are encountering interdimensional interlopers that shuffle back and forth
Speaker 1: across whatever membrane that separates our realms, either by accident
Speaker 1: or design. This idea, in general, is not new to
Speaker 1: the world of the paranormal. Indeed, researcher and author John Keel,
Speaker 1: most famous for his book The Mothmann Prophecies, was well
Speaker 1: known for his speculation that some unexplained phenomena could possibly
Speaker 1: originate with what he termed ultraterrestrials or beings from a
Speaker 1: parallel dimension. Kill reason that their tentative nature in this
Speaker 1: reality and ability to shift between domains would help to
Speaker 1: explain some phenomena in which mysterious entities were widely seen,
Speaker 1: yet frustratingly unable to be concretely proven or cataloged. This
Speaker 1: could be applied to ghosts, aliens, demons, or even Bigfoot.
Speaker 1: An eminent UFO author and researcher Jacques Valat often cited
Speaker 1: these ultraterrestrials as being perhaps behind the UFO phenomenon rather
Speaker 1: than Nuts and Bolt's space ships from some distant planet.
Speaker 1: The idea that Bigfoot could be interdimensional in origin would
Speaker 1: also go a long way towards explaining a variety of
Speaker 1: other anomalies that have proven to be inconvenient to the
Speaker 1: notion that we are dealing with a flesh and blood creature.
Speaker 1: The list of such strangeness connected to the Bigfoot phenomenon
Speaker 1: is long. Reports of Bigfoot tracks that lead to nowhere,
Speaker 1: disappear in mid stride, or end at sheer walls of
Speaker 1: rock that such a creature could not possibly hope to
Speaker 1: climb are not uncommon. Many Bigfoot sightings possess a definite
Speaker 1: feel of the paaranormal, such as accounts of the creatures
Speaker 1: vanishing into thin air or disappearing into flashes of light
Speaker 1: or shape changing, as well as invisible vanishing or telepathic Bigfoot.
Speaker 1: Then there are mysterious orbs of light or sudden, inexplicable
Speaker 1: bright flashes that accompany many reports, details which are often
Speaker 1: downplayed or even omitted, as well as the numerous technical
Speaker 1: malfunctions that seem to plague those who would record the creatures,
Speaker 1: as well as their ability to generally avoid camera traps
Speaker 1: and other such electronic gear. On top of all of this,
Speaker 1: there are the numerous permutations of the creatures spotted all
Speaker 1: over the United States and elsewhere, such as dogmen, goatman, sheep, squatch, batsquatch,
Speaker 1: were wolves, and lizard men, which open up a whole
Speaker 1: world of high strangeness that becomes more and more difficult
Speaker 1: to reconcile with any sort of flesh and blood animals.
Speaker 1: This world of ours possesses. The idea that Bigfoot is
Speaker 1: an inner dimensional entity may sound at first to be absurd,
Speaker 1: but considering all of the boxes this potential explanation ticks,
Speaker 1: is it really Is it really so far fetched if
Speaker 1: one is to accept that Bigfoot is real in any form? Indeed,
Speaker 1: such ideas are being pursued more and more to explain
Speaker 1: a wide variety of what has traditionally been seen as
Speaker 1: paranormal phenomena, and even in mainstream science, our understanding of
Speaker 1: physics in the universe has increased opened up the possibility
Speaker 1: that other universes exist beside our own, even bleeding over
Speaker 1: into ours. Such an interdimensional link as being seen more
Speaker 1: and more plausible as both a scientific theory and as
Speaker 1: a possible thread that runs through it all. One paranormal
Speaker 1: researcher named William Hall has said of this, it used
Speaker 1: to be that the UFO people didn't talk to the
Speaker 1: ghost people because they were a little weird, and nobody
Speaker 1: would talk to the Bigfoot people because they were crazy.
Speaker 1: I found out we cannot continue to do that. In reality,
Speaker 1: quantum physics is leading us there. It is meaningless to
Speaker 1: postulate at this point as to how or why these
Speaker 1: entities might do this. We wouldn't even know where to
Speaker 1: begin at this point. However, considering that this theoretical interdimensional
Speaker 1: travel by these beings could possibly be explained by science
Speaker 1: as we know it, none of this would even be
Speaker 1: technically paranormal at all, but rather an effect of natural
Speaker 1: phenomena that we simply don't understand yet. In this sense,
Speaker 1: such interdimensional interlopers would not be supernatural in any sense,
Speaker 1: just utilizing features of laws of the universe that simply
Speaker 1: lie beyond our understanding at this point. Paranormal researcher Rob
Speaker 1: Riggs gave his spin on this on the podcast After Dark.
Speaker 1: We always want to jump right in and say that's
Speaker 1: extra dimensional or paranormal, but you know, I think we
Speaker 1: may simply be talking about creatures that have access to
Speaker 1: physical spaces that humans cannot perceive. That they in fact
Speaker 1: are three dimensional physical creatures, but they are able to
Speaker 1: go into spaces that lie outside our perception because they
Speaker 1: are outside our reality tunnel. That somehow these creatures enter
Speaker 1: into spaces that we have not mentally tuned into. Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: the interdimensional Bigfoot theory is at this point still very
Speaker 1: controversial amongst cryptozoologists, many of whom cling to the flesh
Speaker 1: and blood explanation tooth and nail, and consider any other
Speaker 1: explanation woo woo and an affront to their field. To
Speaker 1: even mention such an idea on some Bigfoot forms or
Speaker 1: at Bigfoot conventions will get you the cold shoulder at
Speaker 1: best and laughed out of the room at worst. And
Speaker 1: it is actually rather shocking at times how closed minded
Speaker 1: some in the field can be with any theory that
Speaker 1: doesn't quite see eye to eye with what they think.
Speaker 1: In many respects, these cryptozoologists are every bit as dismissive
Speaker 1: of the interdimensional theory as skeptics are of the idea
Speaker 1: of Bigfoot to begin with, which could actually be hindering
Speaker 1: finding out any answers either way, as it forces us
Speaker 1: into closed minded, preconceived avenues of inquiry and creates divides
Speaker 1: between different camps who are all at least ostensibly searching
Speaker 1: for the truth. One cryptozoologist named James R. Harknock has
Speaker 1: explained of this attitude toward interdimensional explanations within cryptozoology. While
Speaker 1: many cryptozoologists and cryptozoology supporters find such theories ridiculous and
Speaker 1: often laugh them off, we would all do well to
Speaker 1: remember that the so called mainstream of science has much
Speaker 1: the same reaction when presented with the possibility of sasquatch
Speaker 1: existing at all. If we hope for mainstream scientists to
Speaker 1: keep an open mind, we must lead by example and
Speaker 1: not waste time and energy that would be better spent
Speaker 1: searching for evidence fighting amongst ourselves. Of course, not all
Speaker 1: cryptozoologists are so resistant to the idea, and there has
Speaker 1: even been the idea that flesh and blood cryptids such
Speaker 1: as Bigfoot can coexist with theories of more inter dimensional
Speaker 1: entities that they are not mutually exclusive. For instance, there
Speaker 1: could very well be real biological hairy hominids in some
Speaker 1: areas of the world, and perhaps even a flesh and
Speaker 1: blood bigfoot in some areas, but that these creatures are
Speaker 1: also joined in their habitat by other, more mysterious entities
Speaker 1: from another reality. There is not necessarily a need to
Speaker 1: favor one over the other, and famed cryptozoologist Lauren Coleman
Speaker 1: has said of this. So as not to come off
Speaker 1: as a hip, I must point out that I have
Speaker 1: investigated and written about winged humanoids, dog man, werewolves, goat man,
Speaker 1: lizard man, mermaids, and a myriad of other non human entities.
Speaker 1: If they exist, these apparitions are most certainly paranormal in nature, interdimensional, extraterrestrial,
Speaker 1: demonic choose your own wording. The difference with bigfoot sasquatch
Speaker 1: is that it is clearly represented in our fossil history
Speaker 1: in the form of robust hominids from the Pleistocene. That
Speaker 1: makes its existence very viable in the natural world. I
Speaker 1: respect everyone's right to their opinion and don't make a
Speaker 1: habit of questioning anyone's personal experiences. If you believe you
Speaker 1: have seen a Bigfoot materialize or vanish. It may very
Speaker 1: well be that there is a supernatural phenomenon that chooses
Speaker 1: to take the form of a giant, hairy humanoid seemingly
Speaker 1: related to Bigfoot, but only superficially similar. Maybe this is true,
Speaker 1: and that we are dealing with a spectrum of disparate
Speaker 1: phenomena that range from real flesh and blood animals to
Speaker 1: other more paranormal or woo woo explanations. Perhaps the answers
Speaker 1: lie somewhere in between these different ideas, depending on the case,
Speaker 1: But it seems the full truth will possibly elude us
Speaker 1: if we are not willing to at least admit that
Speaker 1: there are certain holes in the theory of these creatures
Speaker 1: as solely undiscovered animals that have not been satisfactorily proven
Speaker 1: and hold firmly to the flesh and blood hypothesis in
Speaker 1: every single case. I do not mean to particularly endorse
Speaker 1: the idea of an interdimensional Bigfoot here, nor to even
Speaker 1: say that a flesh and blood Bigfoot is impossible. Yet
Speaker 1: this does not cover the full range of the phenomenon
Speaker 1: at large. I only mean to suggest that, in light
Speaker 1: of the various anomalies and oddities that can be seen
Speaker 1: across the full spectrum of the Bigfoot phenomenon, which are
Speaker 1: often inconsistent with a normal animal as we know it.
Speaker 1: Perhaps we need to at least consider other possibilities, no
Speaker 1: matter how outlandish or even absurd they may seem at first.
Speaker 1: Maybe we need to think outside of the box to
Speaker 1: seek fresh avenues to pursue in order to shine new
Speaker 1: light into the darkness of the unknown and illuminate beyond
Speaker 1: the edges of what we can now see in the
Speaker 1: considerable morass of all of the ideas and theories swirling
Speaker 1: about on Bigfoot. In the end, it can be basically
Speaker 1: distilled into a few choices. We can either believe sightings, reports,
Speaker 1: and the evidence so far have merit and thus except
Speaker 1: that Bigfoot perhaps really exists, or we can dismiss it
Speaker 1: all as a grand, elaborate hoax. If we are to
Speaker 1: take the former, then we can choose to deal with
Speaker 1: it as strictly a biological animal, as we uncomfortably struggle
Speaker 1: with the growing improbability of it going undiscovered so long
Speaker 1: in every state of the Union and places where it
Speaker 1: should not be without a shred of concrete evidence. In
Speaker 1: that case, we must also accept all sightings reports as
Speaker 1: being potentially real, including ones that have uncomfortable paranormal tones,
Speaker 1: which can be hard to reconcile with an animal as
Speaker 1: we know it, and so must wrestle with this conundrum.
Speaker 1: Or we can concede that at least some of it
Speaker 1: is something, perhaps weirder than we'd like to admit, whether
Speaker 1: that is interdimensional phenomena or something else. Maybe we have
Speaker 1: to consider for a moment that the Bigfoot phenomenon might
Speaker 1: be stranger than we imagine, perhaps even stranger than we
Speaker 1: can imagine.
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