Imagine you are walking through the woods and you come across a tall and hairy silhouette. You can’t get close enough to see what it is. You hope that you’ve just sighted Bigfoot. Bigfoot is a tall and hairy, ape-like creature. It can be from 6-10 feet tall and weigh from 600-800 pounds. It is also know as Sasquatch. Sasquatch comes from the word Sésquac which means wild man in Greek. Bigfoot does not exist because of lack of scientific and physical evidence.
One reason Bigfoot is make-believe is because of the scarcity of scientific evidence. Scientists have taken many samples of what was believed to be Bigfoot, but it all came from other types of animals and none from Bigfoot. According to Jeffrey Kluger, “The samples investigators found came from animals as diverse as bears, wolves, raccoons, porcupine, deer, sheep, at least one human, and a cow.” ( Kluger, pg. 1). Also for Bigfeet to survive and thrive they would have to be asexual or there would have to be a couple thousand in just a small area for them to reproduce. Therefore we would have seen one or ran over one by now.
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Another reason why Bigfoot is just a myth is because of lack of physical evidence.
According to Benjamin Radford,” Contrary to Bigfoot enthusiasts’ claims, Bigfoot tracks are not particularly consistent and show a wide variation.”( Radford, Page 1). This means that these Bigfoot tracks are fake because the tracks should be unchanging. Also, it is very easy to make fake Bigfoot tracks. All you have to do is use fake rubber feet and step in the mud. This is another reason why the tracks are fake. Moreover, scientist have never found any bones or fossils that would match Bigfoot’s profile. All they have found were fossils from dinosaurs, wooly mammoths, and tiny marine crustaceans. None from
bigfoot. Those who disagree believe that Bigfoot is real. It isn’t true though, there is a lot of eyewitnesses but most of the things seen are just misidentified objects or people in suits. According to Benjamin Radford “ Most Bigfoot researchers admit that the vast majority of sightings are just mistakes or hoaxes (up to 95 percent, by some estimates).” (Radford, pg. 1). This shows that misidentification is common and eyewitnesses, also a very common “source”, are unreliable sources. You are deep in the woods still looking at the figure. You draw closer to it and you find out that all along it was a bear. Your hopes for finding Bigfoot is gone. You see now why people think Bigfoot is fake. Therefore, Bigfoot does not exist because of lack of physical evidence and lack of scientific evidence.
The experience happens in the middle of the night in Orick, California when the encounter of Bigfoot took place, in the house of two men and their children. The house was surrounded by the forest, woods, and there were not many people around.
Good literary text can communicate messages more powerfully than good informative text. 2 different texts, Moon Bear Rescue by Kim Dale, and the brochure Southern Asian Moon Bears, are chosen to represent in the argument between literary and informative. Both books are similarly capable of delivering a message, but which is more powerful? Informative clearly states the facts and provide consecutive information; raises awareness for the objective, i.e. Moon Bears, whereas the literary tends to tell more of a story, perhaps information, adapted to entertain the reader, and sometimes, to educate. Because of this, I feel that the literary is much more capable of providing a powerful message, mostly informative text lacks the friendly and heart-warming story that the literary text provides.
From countless sightings, records, myths, footprints, and research, there is a strong possibility Bigfoot is real. We can say he is real because of his full history in different ethnic backgrounds, thousands of sightings, and physical evidence left. Scientific evidence and skeptical observations could also show that there is a strong possibility Bigfoot is unreal. Skeptics say there is no fossil evidence, lack of breeding population, and reasons to hoax. There are so many strong indications the giant ape could just be a bear, or it could be a creature scientists have not yet fully discovered to prove it is real. Evidence of Bigfoot’s existence and nonexistence is equal. Both evidence and theories can help you decide on this creature’s presence.
After the arrival of the Europeans and the decimation of the Native American tribes the Bigfoot became more elusive and adopted their current set of rules to stay hidden to the general public at almost any cost. Occasionally a Bigfoot would be spotted. In a few rare cases juveniles would even be
Bigfoot also known popularly as the Sasquatch, Momo, Skunk Ape, the list goes on and on, is without a doubt, the most famous of all hairy man-like creatures. The following will make you a believer in this overseen creature, it made me one. Bigfoot is seen in every possible location throughout the North American Continent, mountains, swamps, forests, crossing desolate and some not so desolate roadways and on open farmland. While its demeanor varies from docile to curios to almost threatening, its general appearance varies. Bigfoot is a massive animal, its average height is seven and a half feet tall, its weight is said be between 400-500 pounds. It is covered almost completely in fur, and its fur ranges in color from the moist widespread dark red-brown to brown, black, red, gray and even white. It leaves its footprints behind as a calling card, almost taunting the researchers that reverently research this undiscovered animal. While its prints resemble mans, they are characteristically large in comparison, and instead of the weight distribution being concentrated under the heel and ball as in the arched human foot, the weight distribution is more evenly distributed over the flat, yielding Bigfoot foot. Most often the prints have five toes, occasionally however the tracks are apparently three toed. The three toed tracks can be theorized several ways; that there is a unique variety of Bigfoot in existence, while resembling the five toed Bigfoot closely, it retains a few distinguishing characteristics; another theory is that some soil conditions can cause the toes of Bigfoot to 'clump' together. The proportion of three toed tracks in comparison to the five toed tracks seems to indicate that three toes is the exception to the norm, and that it is the result of some environmental peculiarity. The main physical characteristics attributed to Bigfoot, other than size and foot shape, are that it is bipedal and upright, has wide shoulders and a heavy brow ridge. Its eyes are sometimes said to appear to be red in color, but are mainly reported as yellow. Although no discernible language has ever been placed with Bigfoot creatures, they are very vocal. Witnesses have reported high pitched wails and low, growling roars, either before and/or after visually spotting a Sasquatch. On some occasions the sounds have been heard from two or more locations at the same time, apparently in communication with one another.
It can be concluded, however, that these remains did not come from any animal currently known to modern science. Bigfoot’s existence can no longer be denied. No longer is it a question of Bigfoot being real, but rather a question of man’s capability in being able to believe the truth. The facts cannot be mistaken. Besides being seen time and time again, video footage has been collected.
Today everybody goes back to the film that was taken by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin. It is the most famous evidence of the creature. The story is that the two men were riding horseback through the woods to Bluff Creek. When they got there they saw something crouching on the other side of the water. The creature got up two legs and started walking away, so Patterson hurried off his horse, got his camera and ran after it. In the video the creature looks like a woman and it did the Bigfoot look. They chased after it into the woods but lost it, when both of them got back to the Creek there were footprints. Both of them took plasters of the footprints. But throughout the years
The existence of Bigfoot isn’t quite certain to be real with the numerous accounts of acclaimed sighting and physical evidence that has been laid on the table for researchers to decipher. From my standpoint, Bigfoot is a cryptozoological creature that has yet to be explained that I’m not for certain about. Radford explained the facts whether the existence of Bigfoot is real or just a hoax. It’s just a matter of time when and where this mythological being will proven to be a new life form amongst us.
This provides powerful insight into the role Bigfoot like creatures played in Native American cultures. Some tribes were not afraid of the creatures, considering them kind and helpful, while peacefully coexisting with them. Other tribes found them to be more violent and dangerous creatures. The fact that these tribes called the animals Stick Indians or Brush Indians seems to suggest that the creatures were simply other tribes they did not get along with opposed to a village of mythical creatures. Some examples of Bigfoot like creatures in Native American tribes include the Chiye – Tanka, the Lofa, the Maxemista, and the popular Sasquatch. The Chiye – Tanka was the Bigfoot like creature of the Sioux Indians (“Native American,” n.d.). This animal
It is also told that stories and sightings of Bigfoot began in the Pacific Northwest, but very few are aware that sightings of this animal are not limited to this area but occur throughout areas such as the United States and Canada (Newton, “Bigfoot). It is very hard to find “hard” evidence, but to date, the only physical evidence we have of Bigfoot's existence consists of casts of large footprints, some photographs that some researchers perceive as “photoshopped” or fake, and some hair, blood, etc. True evidence is often hard to find because the prints could easily be faked by pranksters, but some footprints have been spotted and used as factual evidence. There are standing rewards that could be close to $100,000 for Bigfoot prints. I am positive that many people have seen the pictures of a furry, tall ape-like creature but refuse to believe that it is Bigfoot because there are so many fake pictures of him.
All around the world monsters are spotted contently everyday. Many of the monsters live in extraordinary circumstances. These monsters range from the chupacabra to the ancient megalodon. One of these monsters being bigfoot. Bigfoot is a very well know monster that has been in myths and stories for hundreds of years and sightings have started almost 200 years ago. One of the things many people wanted to know is how closely related bigfoot is to humans and how closely it is to apes.
...s made its way all the way to England and Illinois. Lastly, even though some people might not believe in this legend, it should definitely be considered and never dropped because one day something horrible could happen and everyone would be very clueless. This beast is amazing at doing what it does, and after all these stories one can conclude that this creature is real.
Bigfoot For over 150 years man has been troubled by one great mystery, a mystery that has baffled all who have witnessed it and all who have tried to solve it. This mystery is commonly known as Bigfoot, a tall, hairy man/ape who lurks in the woods in almost every country on this planet. Some say it is just an ape, some believe it is a man in costume, and others are true believers in this hairy phenomenon. For more than a decade and a half, this creature of myth has caused enormous contradictions in the field of science, bringing about one question. Does Bigfoot exist in the world?
I believe Gisondi stayed true to his original claim that his primary purpose was to examine the people who try to search for this elusive creature, which helped establish his speaking credibility. He explained that, during his research, he encountered some whose testimonies did not seem valid, though the majority of the people he interviewed seemed genuine in their pursuits. His explanation of his process of evaluating claims that seemed credible and those that did not also contributed to his trustworthiness both as a speaker and as a writer. Professor Gisondi introduced a colleague who shared his own story of a Bigfoot encounter. The man described Bigfoot as a “humongous thing” that, at the time of his encounter, had been laying “down in the bushes” and kept poking its head up to momentarily glimpse the humans watching him before hiding once more. The man reasoned that, since he was not alone during this sighting, it must surely have existed; however, the unspoken question that remains is whether or not the creature seen was truly
The next strong piece of evidence is that if you look at modern pictures of the moon, you’ll see lunar buggy tracks that were left by the landing. You may be asking, “Wouldn’t the tracks be gone, or blown away by now?”. My argument is that there is no wind on the moon, right? So how would the tracks get blown away? I guess the United States could have edited the picture, but in that case, more people would’ve argued the fact with the new high-definition telescopes. Therefore, at least a lunar buggy landed on the moon!