Guy imitating the telephone man above. Or is he the telephone man?

But other than this peeping, and the helmet as reported on the “Monkey Man”, this is still really different from any of those cases.

Honestly, the consistency of the “fur coat/stove-pipe hat” descriptions, even if it seems odd, makes me believe the sincerity of the witnesses. If you were going to make something up for attention, would you describe a ten foot tall hairy creature (the stereotypical bigfoot) or would you say you saw a Lincoln impersonator in a fur coat on stilts?

I always try to remind myself that individuals can ONLY describe the unknown in terms of the known.

While I’ll never be convinced 100% until I get to see a body or a living specimen, the reporting of the odd aspect of the “stove pipe hat head” doesn’t bother me so much as it would if we began doing as many in the UFO field do and sanitizing or ignoring reports that don’t fit our preconceived notions. Down that path lies dogma.

As someone who’s driven much of the Rez area, and who backpacked a week once in the heart of Bigfoot Country, I can vouch.

If there is indeed something there near as big and as bipedal as the reports are saying — it ain’t human.

Can a Mad Gasser connection be far off?

Seriously, though, this is turning into one of the more intriguing Bigfoot stories that I’ve heard.

Only a suicidal idiot would dress up in a gorilla suit, or top hat, and skulk around people’s houses.

I never saw one, but know people who swear they had. Why lie when people would think you were crazy?

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or even more rounded like this

http://www.texashatters.com/product_detail.php?id=205

So, I can see mistaking a very tall Bigfoot, complete with sagittal crest and uniformly colored, long dark fur, being described for an unusually tall person in a cloak, sporting some fine headwear.

As far as Occam’s razor goes, the crux of the matter lies in determining which possible solution is the simplest of solutions, considering all data. Occam’s razor does not require abandonment of imagination - in fact, arriving at the simplest solution often involves considerable imagining to uncover. It simply requires eliminating portions of an explanation or solution that have no bearing on the overal predictive ability of the theory.

In the case of a Bigfoot, the only assumptions required are that a) there is a bigfoot (context sensitive), and b) people could describe him as a tall man in a top hat and coat. Both required to arrive at a conclusion that the people actually saw bigfoot. Were this event taken alone, without the Bigfoot concept being pre-established (however debated), and used to suggest for the first time, the existence of a Bigfoot, the Occam’s razor would say no, way. As it stands, there isn’t enough data or complexity to either explanation to apply the razor, it just gets invoked in cases like this (not necessarily here) as strong opinion, belief, or faith, masquerading as a nominalist fact. In reality, Occam was describing how people think, anyway, much like a version of ‘The scientific method’ is employed every time something new is learned through experience.

In summary, don’t let Occam’s razor or any expert in arguing the logistics of logical arguments cause you to dismiss a really good brainstorm. Just wait a bit before you buy that duct tape, there may be a more appropriate alternative.

Can the heat sensors that Officer Twiss used be able to detect humans and animals?

As for bringing a youngling ‘Bigfoot’ close to civilization it isn’t that at all uncommon. A woman that lives not far from me encounters a family of these ‘Hairy’ people that we call Bigfoot. And the ‘parents’ have brought around their offspring as if to show her. I believe if trust is formed anything in possible. This Bigfoot might have a small one with her and is carrying it on her back as suggested, or it could be a man dressed early for Halloween wanting to start up a scare. And a tall hat and long black coat would definitely be an inexpensive way to do that, plus the tall hat would give the illusion of great height.

Happy hunting!