Comments on: Bigfoot Braids?

By: DWA

DWA — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:15:41 +0000

I will add to eaglejm’s comments that anyone who has coiled rope knows that, between the time that rope is coiled and the time it is used again, practically every knot known to man has a good chance of appearing in that rope. All by its lonesome. Climbers call it "rope salad." It’s what rope does, not Bigfoot. And the BFRO lists 26 sighting reports from KS, some as compelling as anything you’ll read. Here's one. Just sayin’.

By: eaglejm

eaglejm — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:41 +0000

I grew up on a horse farm in Kansas where there are no Bigfoot. Horse hair becomes tangled on its own; that picture is just tangled hair. Any hair becomes like that if you don’t take care of it. This is absurd.

By: arewethereyeti

arewethereyeti — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:33:16 +0000

DWA,

Felt your initial statement fell a little too heavy on the “less dexterous” side of the continuum – just wanted to yank your chain a little bit in the hope you’d expound…

I appreciate your response – well reasoned and well stated.

By: DWA

DWA — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:29:39 +0000

DNS/Alton Higgins: um, yepper there.

Subrosa: TOTALLY!

Arewethereyeti: You say that “I would like to point out that gorilla and chimp hands are specialized to facilitate their habitual quadrupedal gait, i.e. “knuckle-walking.” If sasquatch is primarily bipedal, however, I see no reason to conclude that their hands would be any less dexterous than our own.”

When I talk about the speculation that has been done on the sasquatch hand, I’m talking about the theorized structure of the hand, from actual (OK, they are but putative until the animal is proven, but still) handprints. Experts can deduce a lot from those; and their deduction is that the sasquatch hand is indeed less dextrous than ours.

I should add that numerous reports depict the sasquatch as possibly a more dextrous knuckle-walker ….er, runner than either the chimp or the gorilla. At least it appears to be their equal. That is, if the reports are real; and there is no reason to conclude they aren’t.

By: DNS

DNS — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:07:07 +0000

If you start with a single frame from a 16mm movie film, take a creature from the center that’s something like a few millimeters tall, and blow it up till the beast is a couple of meters tall, I think you could find Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia Earhart, Carmen San Diego and Waldo in there if you wanted to. Braids? You have got to be joking!

By: Alton Higgins

Alton Higgins — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:30:56 +0000

In my opinion, ALL of the speculation regarding the possibility that sasquatches braid hair, equine or otherwise, is completely absurd.

By: subrosa

subrosa — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:13:15 +0000

Not many horses are going to stand still for a top-of-the-line predator to braid their hair! Sorry to interject common sense into this discussion. Next we will see evidence of grooming by a big cat.

By: arewethereyeti

arewethereyeti — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:14:59 +0000

DWA wrote, “And a sasquatch would, that speculation concludes, be not much more capable of braiding with its speculated hands than a gorilla or a chimpanzee.”

While I suppose I am just confirming DWA’s points regarding speculation (with which, incidentally, I agree), I would like to point out that gorilla and chimp hands are specialized to facilitate their habitual quadrupedal gait, i.e. “knuckle-walking.” If sasquatch is primarily bipedal, however, I see no reason to conclude that their hands would be any less dexterous than our own.

Of course, whether or not they use those hands to braid anything has yet to be determined.

By: cryptogirl

cryptogirl — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:51:20 +0000

I don’t see much braid-like in the Patty footage, but I wouldn’t dismiss it out of hand. The “stick people” of Northwest tribal legend seem cunning enough to pull it off. As observed above, braiding implies weaving technology, so conceivably this might account for some of the old reports/legends of Sasquatch with baskets.

Human-like intelligence could also help explain their elusiveness.

By: korollocke

korollocke — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:30:40 +0000

Not to offend but that looks awfully phoney blown up like that. The middle area in the body where the waist of the suit and the legs join and the light area where the arm extensions are show very plain, very bad face paint as well. If its real its a mangy beast.