Comments on: In Search of Sasquatch

By: Opalman

Opalman — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:30:31 +0000

Hello everyone,
As anyone who’s spent much time viewing Google Earth already knows the terrain images in many parts of the Americas has been updated and show details at a significantly higher resolution.

I would predict that it is only a matter of time before we find images of our furry friend; perhaps even a family group. I spend an hour or so per week (on average) viewing likely areas which depict this higher resolution. I have found a couple of possible targets which I will keep to myself for now since they their identities are ambiguous at best. Hopefully I will stumble upon something more identifiable or less prone to vague interpretation eventually. For those who have and use Google Earth—I encourage you to keep your eyes open.

By: MrInspector

MrInspector — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:02:52 +0000

I would be completely insulted if I saw a Sasquatch and someone tried to tell me it was, “just a bear.” So much so that said person would walk funny until they removed my boot from their rectum. It’s possible that some folks that don’t belong in that environment, might mistake a bear for Bigfoot, but most anyone who spends a good deal of time in bear country are familiar with bears. They aren’t exactly shy or elusive. Most folks who live in bear country are used to seeing them digging through their garbage cans.

I would be much more tempted to go the other way and say many sightings of black bears might be sightings of Bigfoot, that is assuming there is such a creature. The filters in our adult brains work much like the compression algorithms in a DIVX program. Much of what you “see” is not actually what you see, at least when it comes to familiar objects and environments. If you take a brief glance around your living room, you think that you see the photo of you and your mom at the park, you think you see your car keys hanging on the hook by the door, but you see what you expect to see. “I know my keys were there. I just saw them!” Sound familiar? If you had to “look” at everything we’d be bombarded by the imagery around us and all of our brain power would go to just “seeing” the world around us. So our brains use stored imagery to fill in the little details in our periphery based on what we “should be seeing” not on what we are actually seeing. The black bear hypothesis is actually ass-backwards from reality. The chances of mistaking a bear for Bigfoot are actually quite remote. Something as unusual or unexpected as Bigfoot should stick out and catch our attention, not the other way around. Again, assuming that Bigfoot is real, you would be far more likely to mistake Bigfoot for a bear, than a bear for Bigfoot. Most of us don’t expect to see Bigfoot!

By: ETxArtist

ETxArtist — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:16:50 +0000

Yes, Craig made his source quite clear, ion. Go back and read his post.

By: bigyeti

bigyeti — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:43:46 +0000

With regards to Ion’s comment, I’d like to point out that Craig referenced the post you linked and is not claiming credit.

By: sasquatch

sasquatch — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:03:47 +0000

I’ve never heard of someone saying “woah, a BIGFOOT, nope it’s just a bear”…
But I have read several Bigfoot sightings that started out with the person thinking they were seeing a bear and realized; “NO, That’s a…a… BIGFOOT!”

By: ion

ion — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:59:58 +0000

Ummm.. Craig didn't write this article. I know the original author of this piece: In search of Sasquatch

By: tzerlag

tzerlag — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:54:33 +0000

I wonder how many black bear sightings are bigfoot. I wonder if bigfoot knows it resembles a bear and uses that to its advantage. Most people see what they expect to see as has been proven many times. So if you expect to see a bear that black furry biped is a bear and vice versa.

By: Mausinn

Mausinn — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:29:14 +0000

Many, but not ALL.

By: Mïk

Mïk — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:56:23 +0000

It’s probable that many Sasquatch sightings in the Pac Northwest are black bears, BUT it’s also probable that Sasquatch and U. americanus share the same habitat and only differ in food and methods of obtaining it, thus avoiding each other. Mountain Lions and bear both eat deer, but share the same areas, because that’s where the deer are, and they also have room for wolves and minor carnivores, too.

This mapping is really interesting in setting the likely areas of Sasquatch habitation. Unfortunately, it isn’t detailed enough to be of any use to the field bigfooter. Especially us ‘go sit in the woods’ amateurs. The map is more info in our quest to prove existence, though.

By: ETxArtist

ETxArtist — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:40:47 +0000

Very nice post, Craig. I actually cited this paper in my master’s thesis. If you have access to the academic databases Digital Dissertations or JStor, there are quite a few scientific papers related to Bigfoot. I agree with you about Bigfoot sightings and black bears- any thoughts on sightings in our neck of the woods?