I try to keep Santa’s nonexistence out of the conversation with my kids, ’till I know for sure they “know.” (Hey, can’t disprove it…right….?) Same with the Easter Bunny.

I wish I could figure out what, perzackly, it is with professional debunkers. Was it what happened to them when Daddy told them Santa and the Bunny didn’t exist? Do they want to inflict the same pain on others that was inflicted on them? Are they afraid that if Bigfoot is proven, there really ARE monsters under the bed…?

Loren, you gotta ask these questions! ‘Cause professional debunkers is a cryptid if ever was!

I’ve been in the woods since I was big enough to walk. Started carrying a gun when I was 10 and have 20+ years experience hunting and fishing throughout the Appalachian foothills that birthed me.
I know they are out there, because I’ve found there spoor and scratches, but I have NEVER in all my years seen one bobcat in the woods, and I’ve only seen one red fox, and that was because a group of hounds chased it right past me while I was sitting on a deer stand.
I know otters are there too, because I’ve seen their mud slides on creek banks, but I’ve not actually seen an otter since I was a very young child.
I know that coyotes have moved east too, because I’ve seen them as roadkill and heard their howls, but I’ve never seen one alive in the woods.

Plus, if I had the money to support anyone on a two month vacation to the wilderness, I’d do it myself. This city living is starting to chafe at me.

And I love this, because, as I’ve said to other debunkers in the past, I don’t believe in Santa, but I don’t go ruining the Christmas of children everywhere by ranting against his existence.

Why might someone be so threatened by something that is “myth” to them?

“The Bigfoot myth, Nickell suggests, is fueled by human hopes and fears. In that manner, he continues, it is similar to other myths.

“We are hopeful that we are not alone in the universe, so we believe in extraterrestrials,” he said. “We are fearful of the unknown, so we imagine monsters and sinister aliens.

Or, perhaps, we are fearful of the unknown, and what the verification of that unknown might mean to our neat, set world view, and so we lash out at “fairy tales”?

I believe the animals exist, and feel no need to put up or shut up. I think they exist because there’s no compelling reason to think they don’t. Then there’s the quantity of the evidence — more than for, say, the kipunji, who saw it being the only difference along with, OK, the rather spectacular, no-way nature of the animal — a quantity that will not be added to, materially, by Indiana Jones for 60 days.

If you don’t believe the Patterson film to show what it shows, hang it up. How much better can the evidence get without being conclusive proof?

I’ve spent the past thirty-five years, 6-7 days a week, 12 hours a day in the oil and gas fields of the Arkoma Basin….in SE Oklahoma’s prime sasquatch habitat….an area with a rich history of sightings….my hands and I have a handful of sightings between us…but your going to prove us wrong in a month or two of “wandering” lost with a video diary…not likely…JMHO

I doubt you would last a few weeks in the swamps, bayous and piney forests of East Texas or the Ouachita/Kiamichi wilderness of SE Oklahoma…chiggers, ticks, snakes, gators and skeeters…then of course there is the “big fella”…illegal pot plots and real rednecks…”squeal like a pig”…

seeing is believing….

ole bub and the dawgs

What I have proposed is far better than anything I have ever seen or heard of. The problem now is for those who believe to put up or simply shut up.

If there is an animal then people must make an effort greater than a few days in the woods. I am willing to go as long as a year if need be. But generally 90 days is more than enough. The mountain gorillas of Africa were found in a 60 day expedition which is exactly what I have proposed.

So the choice is on the believers to put up or shut up. If there is a creature then put the effort into finding it. All these so called efforts are like the lottery in chance. Even the spartan funded effort by Washington State by a few scientist only goes out into the bush for no more than 1 week at a time and only to check placed photo traps.

Thats like stupid unless a person knows for a fact that a certain animal crosses those places frequently enough to set such a thing. But 14 months now with nothing to show should say something even to the most hard core believer. Either the method used is flawed or the animal does not exist in the area of the traps.

Although wouldn’t it be nice for all this talk to amount to something good.

I believe there are four schools of thought on Bigfoot, to mention only one cryptid:

1. You believe the evidence points to an actual animal …and say why.

2. You believe it doesn’t…and say why not. (And what you say makes sense, and properly accounts for the volume and nature of evidence.)

3. You can’t tell from the available evidence one way or another.

4. You don’t know enough about the nature of the evidence to form an opinion.

I’ve almost never heard a Bigfood skeptic who didn’t belong in category 4. Almost every one of them makes a critical error of ignorance…and here’s the latest one.