Comments on: New Indian “Bigfoot” Reports

By: joppa

joppa — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:37:09 +0000

I will be happy to look for Bigfoot in Hawaii, Fiji, Aruba or any like locales if somebody wants to fund the trip. ;>)

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:42:12 +0000

Wonder what kind of juju juice they drink in Hawaii?

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:53:26 +0000

Hawaii, really? Wow!

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:35:52 +0000

Oh..and I did just google earth the South Garo Hills and in stark contrast with India’s reputation of being dense with humans, this rugged densely forested region of steep hill and rivers is just north of the Bangladeshi lowlands. While I ususally favor h.erectus as the most likely candidate for cryptic hominids, because this area is tropical, it could provide the habitat for a less peripatetic primate whose diet and metabolism would be more similar to a gorilla or orangutang and its fermenting digestive processes. Giganto’s teeth and jaw fragments suggest it processed a specialized diet high in vegetation. H. erectus’ fossil context suggests something more omnivorous and the distribution of its fossils suggest wide dispersal over the pleistocene’s dominant landscape; mixed steppe and forest mosaic.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:13:12 +0000

Thanks for that insight, Mystery Man.

I will interrogate my Japanese confidante about that when she returns from her Oregon camping expedition.

One thing that very rugged or densely covered terrain does is confine humans to trails and having hiked the Sierras with Japanese, I know they are very observant, but I suspect that BF could live in closer proximity than is given consideration since they’d need to be as observant of trails as maintenance workers at a miniature golf course.

Additionally, if they are nocturnal or crepuscular, when human vision is at its worst, they could easily take advantage of that. I recently read an interesting essay by a BF researcher who experimented in his neighborhood and he was surprised how unawares we are when it’s dark. Cheers.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:49:07 +0000

Sounds like Llewellyn was talking about gigantopithicus, but that name got left out, but then referred to again.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:58:18 +0000

Dogu4- Yeah, in Hawaii, apparently. Obviously ridiculous and one of the examples given by some on the other threads have been using as a report that should be expunged from the database. I had never heard of Hawaii reports either until i read some of the threads on eyewitness reliability. I personally am not ready to pack up and go bigfoot hunting in Hawaii.

In Japan, I certainly think mindfulness is one reason for the preservation of habitat in Japan. There does tend to be a high regard for nature and the natural world in Japanese culture. Another reason is simply geography. Japan is around 80 percent mountainous terrain so most of the population is concentrated in the coastal plains. So you have basically a very densly populated country where most of the people are concentrated into only a small percentage of the land. As a result, one may be inclined to look on paper and think that more than 120 million people living in an area roughly the size of California would not leave much wilderness left, yet that is not true. Incidentally, there is even a Japanese form of Bigfoot called the Hibagon.

I don’t know as much about India, but I suspect that as you said before, it has some big, rarely visited, pristine wilderness still. I think that it is an area highly likely to be able to support a creature of this kind. I would like to know more about this particular area, though. Knowing my luck, I could be saying all of this and it turns out there is an airport and a couple malls in the area.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:23:57 +0000

Hey Mystery Man, Bigfoot sighted in Hawaii? Well, as has been famously stated before “one wants to keep an open mind, but not so open that….” well you know the rest. I guess I should have added “consistently and plausibly” though that does open up another can of worms, doesn’t it?

Interesting points on Japan and India’s wilderness/population situation. Having read J. Diamond’s “Collapse” one can see where it’s not just a matter of statistics but mindfulness.

How long has it been since Japan was connected to the mainland? I noticed some h. erectus finds in eastern China.

Likewise, eager to hear reports and see evidence…patience in the mean time.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:38:58 +0000

Dogu4- Well, Bigfoot HAS been sighted in Hawaii…. I think that the subcontinent is indeed a prime location for something like this to exist undetected. Although it is a highly populated region, there are still vast areas of relatively unspoiled wilderness. Japan is also a densely populated country and yet most of that population is concentrated in certain areas, leaving large amounts of serene mountain habitat relatively untouched. Just looking at a country’s population in relation to its size is not always a good indicator to how much good habitat is remaining, and so I definately entertain the thought of this creature being there. Any ideas on what the level of human development is in this particular area? I’d also be very interested to see what sort of “video footages” were turned up in this case.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:57:40 +0000

I haven’t heard of many BF reports from areas in which it would be impossible for a wide-ranging hominid like h. erectus with it predilection for travel, and if as a solitary hunter it required really big territory, valued its anonymity, and knew something of the kind of treatment it would receive from the the other hominid it shares the landscape with, I’d be comfortable with the idea of the sub-continent being a good place for them to remain undetected. For all it’s population, India, like China, has some big rarely visited wilderness still.