Big Foot ?????????????? Does Big Foot only have one leg and if not why is he not called Big Feet ? |
| One leg and one foot......He lost the other in a logging accident in 1957. |
What is this big foot thing I have been hearing about? I have only been able to catch snippets of info on this. I seems like a couple of guys took pictures of something they believed to be big foot. Why is this time different than all the other alleged sightings and videos? |
Two Georgia men claim to have found in the northern woods of that state something that has been often reported but never proven to exist: a Bigfoot.
They say they have a body, photos of the body, and DNA evidence — some or all of which will be revealed this Friday, Aug. 15, at a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif.
However, one of the men involved in this claim took part in a bigfoot hoax a couple years ago. Plus he has a "documentary" about bigfoot coming out in a month. Chances are this is just a publicity stunt. |
What would you say is a big foot size for a girl and a guy? We just want to see what people would say is a big foot, we know we have absolutely HUGE feet unfortunately, to the point we can't find shoes much in the average store. Please answer for both guy and girl. Thanks! |
Well I'd consider anything above 10 + huge..
I'm a size 5 though ... and my problem is finding a shoe that isn't too big -__- |
What of Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster? Do you believe in the Loch Ness Monster? Is the Yeti or Big Foot Real?
Do you believe in the unexplainable without volumes of research? Are you a born sceptic about everything? |
North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid. Many believers in its existence contend that the same or similar creatures are found around the world under different regional names, most prominently the Yeti of the Himalayas.
The scientific community considers Bigfoot to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoaxes, rather than a real creature. In general, mainstream scientific consensus does not support the posited existence of megafauna cryptids such as Bigfoot, because of the improbably large numbers necessary to maintain a breeding population and because climate and food supply issues would make such purported creatures' survival in reported habitats unlikely. Despite these facts, Bigfoot is one of the more famous examples of cryptids within the pseudoscience of cryptozoology.
Before 1958
Bigfoot descends, more or less, from wildmen stories of the indigenous population of the Pacific Northwest.[neutrality disputed] Its origins are difficult to discern as the legends existed prior to a single name for the creature. The legends differed in their details both regionally and between families in the same community. Similar stories of wildmen are found on every continent except Antarctica. Ecologist Robert Michael Pyle argues that most cultures have human-like giants in their folk history: "We have this need for some larger-than-life creature."
Members of the Lummi tell tales about Ts'emekwes, the local version of Bigfoot. The stories are similar to each other in terms of the general descriptions of Ts'emekwes, but details about the creature's diet and activities differed between the stories of different families.
Some regional versions contained more nefarious creatures. The stiyaha or kwi-kwiyai were a nocturnal race that guyren were told not to say the names of lest the monsters hear and come to carry off a person—sometimes to be killed. In 1847, Paul Kane reported stories by the native people about skoocooms: a race of cannibalistic wild men living on the peak of Mount St. Helens. The skoocooms appear to have been regarded as supernatural, rather than natural.
Less menacing versions such as the one recorded by Reverend Elkanah Walker exist. In 1840, Walker, a Protestant missionary, recorded stories of giants among the Native Americans living in Spokane, Washington. The Indians claimed that these giants lived on and around the peaks of nearby mountains and stole salmon from the fishermen's nets.
The local legends were combined together by J. W. Burns in a series of Canadian newspaper articles in the 1920s. Each language had its own name for the local version. Many names meant something along the lines of "wild man" or "hairy man" although other names described common actions it was said to perform (e.g. eating clams). Burns coined the term Sasquatch, which is from the Halkomelem sásq’ets (IPA [ˈsæsq’əts]), and used it in his articles to describe a hypothetical single type of creature reflected in these various stories. Burns's articles popularized both the legend and its new name, making it well known in western Canada before it gained popularity in the United States.
After 1958
While the legends that form the basis of Bigfoot had been around for decades, if not centuries, and had been unified by Burns, it was not until the 1950s that Bigfoot truly came to fame. In 1951, Eric Shipton photographed what he described as a Yeti footprint. The photograph was published shortly thereafter and gained wide attention.
The notoriety of ape-men grew over the decade, culminating in 1958 when large footprints were found in Humboldt County, California by bulldozer operator Gerold Crew. Sets of large tracks appeared multiple times around a road-construction site in Bluff Creek. After not being taken seriously about what he was seeing, Crew brought in his friend, Bob Titmus, to cast the prints in plaster. The story was published in the Humboldt Times along with a photo of Crew holding one of the casts. The article's author, Andrew Genzoli, titled the piece "Bigfoot", after the 16 inches (41 cm) footprints. Sasquatch received a new name and gained international attention when the story was picked up by the Associated Press. Following the death of Ray Wallace, a logger who was at the site during the time the footprints appeared, his family attributed the creation of the footprints to him. The wife of the editor of the original piece in the Humboldt Times has stated that her husband was in on the hoax with Wallace.
The year 1958 was a watershed not just for the Bigfoot story itself but also for the culture that surrounds it. The first Bigfoot hunters began following the discovery of footprints at Bluff Creek. Tom Slick, who had previously funded searches for Yeti in the Himalayas earlier in the decade, organized searches for Bigfoot in the area around Bluff Creek. |
Big foot!!? who think it is just some kind big monkey bears or fake how come none shoot it yet and most of those ppl have guns waht do you ppl think |
It's a BIG have - have you not noticed it's Halloween.
Someone is playing dress ups for some dollars. |
What is the name of the film that is about big foot like creatures? It is playing on my mind.
It was definitely made in the last decade and I can vaguely remember a group of people crashing their plane into some woods/jungle. They are then stalked by a big foot like creature.
I think you find out in the end that there is an entire family of them.. Doe anyone know what I am talking about? :) thanks in advance |
| Sasquatch (2002) |
What News Stations will be covering the press conference about Big Foot Discovery in Georgia, tommorow?10 pts? Can anyone tell me which national news shows will be covering the press conference about Big Foot tomorrow, its supposed to be in Georgia, not sure of the time, but DNA evidence will be shown as well as pictures. Thanks! |
High Noon Pacific Time
This is the page that is sponsoring the event. They do not have control over coverage. |
What is the best big foot mini ski that I can buy in Norway? Any big foot mini ski which i can be bought in Oslo, Norway? |
| the blue one |
What are your thoughts on creatures like the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot? Hi all. I've been watching the show "Monster Quest" a lot lately and I was just curious about your thoughts on the creatures presented on the show? Do you believe in Big Foot or the Loch Ness monster? Do you believe in giant snakes that can eat people whole?
Any input or stories or even websites are greatly appreciated!
Thanks :o) |
Hello,
Give me some good empirical evidence rather than a litany of excuses as to how close we came but... and I'll believe.
As for snakes, yes that has been documented. The worst fellow for consuming people is the Reticular Python of Indonesia. So far the longest found has been 33 ft. Recently evidence was found in Colombia of a 43 ft 2500 lb prehistoric snake now extinct.
FYI:
www.extremescience.com/BiggestSna…
home.att.net/~crinaustin/Snake1.h…
Cheers,
Michael Kelly |
How do people know the weight of Big Foot? I'm working on a big foot essay and i would like to know HOW scientists figure out the weight of big foot without it actually being there? |
| Scientists generally do not believe in Big Foot. People that do assume that the area of the footprint, ant the depth of its footprint in snow or soft earth is proportional to its weight. |