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Finding Bigfoot

Tangfastic

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I must apologize for repeating a point I have made earlier in this thread, but at the moment a fire has burned about 90 square miles in the Siskiyou National Forest in Northern California. This has always been prime Bigfoot country. We'll see if a roasted BF carcass or two is discovered or some are captured badly burned and in need of medical attention. I suppose it's quite possible, but I'm not going to hold my breath!

Was it you who mentioned the Mt St Helens eruption which left a lot of dead animals, with no Bigfoot traces? As a sceptic who'd love to see Bigfoot found, that was a good point I'd not seen made before which deflated my hopes. The believer in me would say, yes, but who was cataloguing those remains? With such a vast assemblage, I'm sure it wouldn't be experts, more likely students who would put any big bones they weren't sure of in the bear bag...
 

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Yes, it was I who made the comments about Mt. St. Helen's. An estimated 7,000 large mammals perished in the eruption--deer, black bear and elk. No BFs figured in the official tally. However, there are those who claim that the government sent in helicopters to remove the bodies of a number of BFs. There are versions of the story that some BFs brought in their injured for medical treatment. The premise behind this is that the government knows about the existence of BFs but suppresses the truth because, were their existence made public, there would be extensive calls for environmental protections for the creatures, and that would be inimical to powerful logging and mining interests. This is the same government that has often displayed zealous solicitude for the preservation of tiny fish, little frogs and such, yet is seemingly willing to suppress knowledge of the existence of creatures that would in all likelihood be the closest living relatives of humanity. Judge for yourself the likeliness of this hypothesis.

I have spoken of "the government" as if it were a single entity. Given that under our system, we not only have the Feds, but state and local agencies, one would suppose that somewhere among their diverse ranks a few "whistleblowers" might have arisen.

By the way, I believe many of the dead animals were overcome by gas/fumes. They weren't all just charred remnants. Thus, I don't believe all BF remains could be confused for bears. BFs, if they are as large as commonly supposed, would be a good deal larger than the average bear.
 

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Another August 27 passes, the anniversary of Jerry Crew's finding the giant footprints around his bulldozer. Sixty-four years have passed and not a shred of tangible, unimpeachable evidence of Bigfoot's existence has been discovered. I should think this would give believers pause...but it probably won't!
 

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August 27, and another year of Bigfoot passes. Sixty-five years it has been since Jerry Crew discovered the famous tracks beside his bulldozer. I was 16 then, a vital young fellow transitioning from childhood to manhood. Now I am old, white-haired, wrinkled and slightly stooped with age, and the "mystery" of Bigfoot is nowhere near resolution. I went from initial skepticism to credulous belief to final disbelief. For well over a decade--roughly from the debut of the Patterson-Gimlin film to the eruption of Mt. St. Helen's--I would open my morning newspaper half-expecting to learn that a Bigfoot had been hit by a truck or shot by a hunter, but it never happened and hasn't happened since.

However, we do love our mysteries, don't we? Just this morning, I read that a new investigation is under way to probe the depths of Loch Ness in search of the fabled "monster." These things just go on forever!

Postscript: Re-opening this thread led me to check on Peter Byrne, the last of the "Four Horsemen of Squatchery." It turned out that the old boy finally cashed in his chips on July 28 at the advanced age of 97. An interesting life he led--veteran of WWII, big-game guide in India and Africa, decades of roaming the woods of the Northwest in pursuit of BFs and scoring a lot of hot babes along the way!
 
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Everyone with half a brain knows that after Colonel Steve Austin fought Bigfoot they became friends and Austin later helped Bigfoot get back to his home planet. This has all been settled.
 

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^Thanks for the kind word, Left. I'm still hanging in and doing pretty well for an old buzzard. A little while ago I had a good workout with Indian clubs and mugdars along with kettlebells. Didn't hit the latter as hard as I usually do, however.
 

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