Finding Bigfoot - Page 13

This thread has totally delivered. Several HoF posts here. We often joke about it but this is a true five star thread.

Agreed. Reminds me of when I worked as an overnight security guard to pay my way through college. I would listen to Art Bell and Coast to Coast to stay awake. Bigfoot was discussed many times on that show, but I think the level of crazed support for a fictitious creature shown in this thread is even better.

Coast to Coast was fantastic. I spent many evenings with it on in the background to listen to the crazies.

During Art Bell's tenure it was the most entertaining radio ever. Pound for pound there were more crazies on that show than on Howard Stern.

I remember Art Bell. A friend's wife used to listen to him and that's how I first heard him. I could only do 15 or 20 minutes but the mutts that would call that show were very special mutts.

Do you remember when he took that extended break from the show and then returned? I remember him being vague about the reasons why and it played nicely into the whole conspiracy narrative around the show.

Non of the other hosts match up and the whole show lost something when he finally did retire. It's been more then a few years since I tuned in, but it looks as if it's still on the air. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

I remember the guy claiming to have worked in Area 51 that called in. Years and years ago this was. He started out calm, got all worked up, and then the station went off the air for several minutes...then he called back. The conspiracy theory is it wasn't the same guy.

Yeah, it's a radio show scaring off the scientists from finding BF.

Not too great, nobody's found a complete T Rex skeleton yet (according to wikipedia)

From Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus
More than 30 specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex have been identified, some of which are nearly complete skeletons. Soft tissue and proteins have been reported in at least one of these specimens. The abundance of fossil material has allowed significant research into many aspects of its biology, including life history and biomechanics.

Also, to give some idea why this is so:

From Bill Bryson's a Short History of Nearly Everything:

1. It isn't easy to become a fossil

"It isn't easy to become a fossil… Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today - that's 270 million people with 206 bones each - will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That's not to say, of course, that any of these bones will ever actually be found. Bearing in mind that they can be buried anywhere within an area of slighly over 9.3 million square kilometres, little of which will ever be turned over, much less examined, it would be something of a miracle if they ever were”

Happy to be contributing to a 5 star thread!

Tell that to Jim Corbett! "Virtually impossible to find in the wild"? A century ago their range extended from eastern Turkey and the Caucasus to Bali; it covered most of the Russian Far East, Korea, large parts of China and Central Asia. They have been extirpated over most of that area, almost totally by human persecution. Somebody must have done a pretty good job of "finding them in the wild"!

You're doing a good enough job on your own.

Actually agree with this. But you have to expect at least one person to call you an idiot. If a poster showed up posting about how he believed in the tooth fairy, the same would result. Or hell, just go into one of the monthly atheism threads.

Where people get called idiots for believing in the tooth fairy, good point.
Edited by Fang66 - 12/6/12 at 5:10pm