Once again DWA shows his deep lack of understanding about science. If DWA really thinks that footprints, shelters, and vocal recordings of anything (Bigfoot or otherwise) is ‘hard evidence,’ he needs to take an intro course in science.

Dude, you are in serious need of an attitude adjustment. Why all the freaking condescending remarks all the time?

Why do you feel the need to consistently belittle and try to make others seem not as knowledgeable or intelligent as you? You don’t know anything beyond what is posted on this website about these readers. You don’t know anything about this guy DWA. He could be a freaking rocket scientist with an IQ of 200.

I submit that you, Benjamin Radford, need to an intro course in playing well with others. If you’re smarting because people here don’t take too kindly to your smarmy little jabs all the time, well, that’s kind of what happens when a person makes smarmy little verbal jabs all the time.

You remind me of the kid who runs out on the playground and begins to look for a group of kids to play with. Every group you go to kicks your butt out because all you do is trash talk and tell them how sorry they are at kickball and how you are like the most awesome kickballer in the state. (Yet they can all see that you can’t play for crap).

You know, there’s a way to debate, and then there’s a way not to debate. The right way, the best way, the most productive way, is not go into the debate thinking your opponent is just flat out dumber than you. Odds are, he’s not. And then don’t go talking about how dumb your opponent is. I mean, is that really getting anywhere?

I wonder if you frequent the Cornell Lab of Ornithology website and send smarmy little condescending remarks to them all the time. After all, they have some fuzzy black and white footage of a pileated woodpecker, and they’re calling it an ivory-billed woodpecker. That’s ALL they have! At least in the case of bigfoot, there’s no mistaking that thing in the P-G film as anything else. Now, does that mean that the ivory-billed woodpecker Cornell and Auburn guys need to take an intro level science course?

Go. Just go play kickball with those guys a while. You don’t stir up good honest intellectual debate here. Rather, you incite people because of your stupid condescension that is constantly on display.

Look, you don’t have to PROVE anything to anyone. Just discuss the issues with people without calling them stupid.

As this topic is specifically about the foot found in the landfill, it would be more appropriate to continue the discussion regarding evidence at the post Evaluating Bigfoot Evidence.

I don’t really believe that they bury their dead either (Sasquatch that is, not bears ). No other animals are known to do that (except us), and you are dead on (no pun intended) about the “elephant graveyards”. Of course we won’t really know for sure what their habits are, unless and until they are actually found and studied.

But with sasquatch it seems that this is a more solitary animal (we might hear tales of a couple seen together, or small family units, but they aren’t herding creatures). This solitary nature would make it more likely, in my opinion, that they die alone. But we are also talking about a wild creature that, like most wild creatures, when dying of natural causes would choose someplace remote to curl up and die, someplace they aren’t likely to be found or disturbed while they wait for nature to pass. I can’t say whether or not we are talking about a creature at the very top of the food chain. But if, like human beings, sasquatch could be vulnerable to predatory attacks from cougar, grizzly or wolves, well, there go your remains again.

I think it is most likely that (if these creatures do exist) no remains have been found for these two reasons, coupled with the relative rarity of the animal. That leaves us waiting for some semi-truck driver to smack one on a lonely mountain road somewhere, sometime before we get our “hard evidence”.

The hardest part about this argument is that no one finds a dead bear out in the woods but we’re also not saying that there aren’t any either.

In the case of the elusive Bigfoot, scientists have found Gicantopithecus teeth (in Vietnam) maybe they would be able to come to some conclusion if they were able to compare DNA from this foot and that of the teeth. That’s if the scientists decide that this foot is officially an unknown primate. If this is from a Bigfoot how in h#$% did someone get a hold of a foot? Did they capture it or did they find it somewhere?

We may never know.

I guess its up to the experts to find out. All we can hope for is that we get the truth and not some trumped up story.

This one has gotten pretty far off-topic. This post was about the mysterious foot found in the Virginia landfill.

If you want to continue the discussion regarding evidence, do so at the post Evaluating Bigfoot Evidence.

I have posted the latest information regarding the mysterious foot here at Cryptomundo at Latest Update: The Foot of Bigfoot?

If you want to discuss the foot, do so either here or at the post linked above.

First of all, a creature of the size we are talking about is not necessarily going to be killed outright by a car. It could limp off and survive or die in a remote area. It is not necessarily going to die right there by the side of the road and it would probably be a remote road. They may even issue a distress call to bring other that might carry the body away, who nows? Without any real insights into their behavior, it is plausible to think that this could be the case. It might mess up the car and leave some tissue samples behind, so I wonder if this has ever happened.

Second, if they die of natural causes, they might go off to die somewhere that is remote and with this, plus being buried, they are unlikely to be found. Even if they are not buried, you have the fact that it is a rare creature and there is all kind of scavenger action going on. Even with known animals, how often is the carcass of a bear or wolf, or gorilla that died of natural causes found? I know, they are documented, but Bigfoot is likely very rare. If they bury their dead, then I feel it is doubly unlikely anyone would stumble across it. If it is an unmarked burial, people may stumble over it and not even realize how close they were to a fantastic find.

I think there is the possibility of someday finding remains and this possibility is going to become more real as humans further encroach into this creature’s habitat.

I find it odd that no bodies or other sub-fossil remains of Bigfoot are known to exist. But I don’t think that has to mean that they don’t exist. Their remains may be extremely rare, and who knows, someone may stumble across a Bigfoot burial ground tomorrow.