Another annoying little fact is that bear prints are commonly mistaken for human or bigfoot, especially if the front and back overlap..

Everyone should be of the position prove to me it isn’t a human or bear part not prove to my why it isn’t bigfoot.

Animal remains are difficult to find. Except for road kill, in years outdoors I only found remains 2 times. Once was a dog who was shot and the body scattered by coyotes. The second was the hind lower leg of an elk. This was obviously from some hunter’s poor attempt at dressing the animal.

I have smelled dead animals before but nature is quick in cleaning up after itself. Everything from bacteria, bugs and small omnivores to vultures, large predators, coyotes and large opportunists will have a dead animal gone in short order.

If it wasn’t so dangerous, I would suggest to take recorded calls hunters use to call in predators out to a local forest or outdoors spot. every predator and opportunist in a mile would hightail it to the sound. you would have coyotes, fox, mountain lion and other hungry varmints looking for an easy meal. Add to that the decomposition smell and anything dead would be gone or scattered in a day or two.

I don’t ever expect to find remains unless they are from something a hunter or outdoors man shot and then buried and then led someone to the sight. even more difficult is that this would have to be buried deep enough to keep the smell from having it dug up.

The more likely scenario would be a logging truck or other vehicle hitting one and having it recovered quickly.

I can’t believe that it could be so difficult to identify this severed foot as belonging to either a bear or an ape. Couldn’t the Virginia state medical examiners’ office or the sheriffs’ office show the foot or even x-rays of the foot to a zoologist, taxidermist, anthropologist or veterinarian? Seems as though this would be enough to solve the mystery without requiring DNA analysis. Now, if none of these folks are able to identify the object or can’t come to a consensus, then we have a genuine mystery which would require DNA analysis.

“It just adds to the stigma that Bigfoot researchers are grasping at straws,” he said.

I couldn’t agree more. This is my chief problem with stuff like this: it looks like straw-grasping.

As does speculation about stuff like Bigfoot burying its dead. Not only is that extremely unlikely, but as “open-minded” as it might seem, its effect is to make the subject look more and more taboo for a serious scientist. You can NEVER explain to a serious scientist that something for which there is no evidence explains a lack of evidence! You have to stick to what’s scientifically plausible.

This foot looks like a classic Biscardi-ism to me. And you see how seriously people take him. He’s a media sideshow; he serves their purposes, which tend toward the poking of fun at this topic.

I can’t stop it. But I can sure wish it would stop.

IT’S AN APE! JUST LOOK FOR AN APE!

It seems ol’ Slew Foot has ended his days in the dump.