Comments on: Meldrum Hypothesizes 500-750 Sasquatch Living Today

By: BJONES50

BJONES50 — Sun, 01 May 2011 11:36:34 +0000

Dr. Meldrum needs to add a few zeros to his hypothesis, because I study these creatures here in Missouri and I know for a fact there are at least that many here in Missouri alone.

By: Tarzanboyy

Tarzanboyy — Sun, 01 May 2011 03:28:56 +0000

If that’s the case, then they’re critically endangered and need urgent protection. Science should always be open minded and imaginative, that’s how all of the great discoveries have been made in the past, not by the status quo naysayers who use science as a cudgel to pummel anyone with an imagination. Things need to be proven to become facts, but they also need to be investigated to be proven, not dismissed out of hand.

By: graybear

graybear — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:56:47 +0000

I would like to believe that the Sasquatch population is larger than that. However, if they are not really rare, then their eventual outing is inevitable. And a few years after that, Monday Night Football will never be the same.

By: DWA

DWA — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:32:46 +0000

Well, there’s interesting stuff in here, and some hope for the general mindset of the population.

“She said she doesn’t necessarily believe or disbelieve that Sasquatch is real because belief connotes a religious type of conviction, …”

Precisely. Evidence leads you to conclude, as Krantz put it, or you’re not going about this correctly.

“My other exposure to it has been kinda crazy people I guess.”

This is what happens when, as Meldrum notes, rote conditioning from childhood has produced the societal mindset, and not rational consideration of evidence. The stone-deniers line up on one side and the crazy people on the other. One can only wonder how quickly the public agitation for serious scientific consideration would ramp up if Meldrum could just spend a whole year on a speaking tour.

I think that his pop estimate may be driven by presumptions of range. I’m not sure how convinced Meldrum is of the contintent-wide sasquatch – an animal that I am convinced exists, if it exists anywhere. Why? The evidence gives me no reason to think otherwise.

By: John Kirk

John Kirk — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:07:13 +0000

Numbers are truly meaningless when we know so little about these possible hominoids. I would not hazard a guess myself. I am not criticizing any of the aforementioned gentlemen – they are fine people – but numbers are just guesses that could have a huge margin of error.

However many there are, they are elusive and I doubt if we will ever really know how many there are.

By: AlbertaSasquatch

AlbertaSasquatch — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:32:42 +0000

I wonder how Dr. Meldrum came to his conclusions. If I had to guess, which is all I can do, I would guess in the 1000 range. There are reasons that I would guess that number, but it’s still a guess.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:44:08 +0000

This is an interesting number for the population. I look forward to the justification of the population size estimate.

Daniel Perez once stated he thought there were 100,000 Bigfoot in North America.

It will be recalled, Grover Krantz, a physical anthropologist, said he figured there were 2000 Bigfoot/Sasquatch animals living in the Pacific Northwest.

The BFRO gives an estimate of 2000-6000 for the population size of Bigfoot in North America.