yourPTR!–I believe you are right too…plenty of area…isn’t there tell of some possible giant lizards…15-20 long or more supposedly rambling the uninhabited areas there? Saw something on the Discovery Channel some time back, but I forget their name…and what did you think of the sea serpent photo…taken by a frenchman, I believe, supposedly offshore (I think it was Australia maybe back in the 80’s???) under the water in the shallows…was reported as a highly possible fake/hoax, but never heard too much about it after the fact.

Mystery_Man–me too…that is what bothers me so much about the debunkers—they just ASSume that people such as we just accept every sighting, encounter and photo as proof and that we do not spend as much time weeding out the fakes as the debunkers…in reality I would wager we spend more time testing for hoaxes because our credibility is so much more in question by those other people…oh, and the taipan…sorry got off on a tangent as I am often want to do:)…the latest find is just one more example of realizing that there is more out there in the world than what we can read in the latest zoology book or see in our own backyard…the world is still a very big place!

MBFH–didn’t want to leave you out…was really just thinking out loud and trying to put myself in the place of the non-believer/debunker/etc…again, maybe it’s more a matter of semantics, but I don’t think this has ever been a contest of believers versus the non-believers…it has always been about getting to the truth…and there are those who want to find the truth, and those who want to ignore possibilities and the reality that there is something going on in the great forests, large lakes and the oceans…and doubtless a few other frontiers I am not privy to.

In the end, if you don’t want to accept the possibility, fine don’t, but the rest of us are going to keep on this until we get some real answers…personally I have never found nay-saying too much fun as a hobbie…plenty of other options out there to keep my attention…like hunting for crypto-critters…

Thanks and good night!

Spring Heeled Jack (and that other guy)

We also want to remember that in the US, there are vast swampy forested areas in the lower south that are also largely uninhabited.

You pretty much have it covered! There are 300 million-plus people in the USA, but there are many thousands of square miles of uninhabited or sparsely inhabited wilderness, and much of it is contiguous with even more wilderness area in Canada. A great deal of that wilderness area has been only superficially explored, so it would be possible for a breeding population of large animals to exist there.

And you have done the time honored maneuver of copping out and saying “Show me the critter or I will hold my breath and not believe you.”

It’s a classic dodge when you have no more ideas to argue over.

I’m not asking you to believe…just asking you to keep an open mind…toy with the idea that it is possible…maybe not probable, but possible…

If you can do that, then we are on the same side.

…Okay I am tired of this now…someone else can entertain…

You get my point though don’t you? Even if it is in a squirrely and round about way???

And you, sir, are guilty of the same old circular arguments without ever coming up with any tangible proof. Show me a bigfoot, and I will even apologize.

Until then, you haven’t proven anything…

–JackHeeledSpring

1) It depends on what you call evidence.

2) It is the same realm. Oceans versus forests. People…oh and let’s not talk men here…there are plenty of women involved in this too, but I will be gracious and forgive your male-o-centrism this time…

I digress, people do not spend as much time in the forest environments as it is often thought. At any given point in time, even with all of the campers, hikers, and what-have-ya, there is still plenty of thousands of square miles where no one is present.

There are vast areas on land and in the seas where larger creatures may still live without us being aware. Human beings are not omnixcient by any means…and most people are not even that observant in their own environments…don’t believe me…watch your fellow humans for a while.

–SpringHeeledJack

You are shying away from the topic at hand. I’m not talking about giant squids at the bottom of the ocean that have thousands of square miles to hide in where men cannot explore.

I’m talking about a stretch of forest that is supposed to house a living population of creatures (I will not step on your toes by referring to the BF as animals just to avoid another argument) larger than the human race.

There is a HUGE difference there. And the fact is, that there is no viable evidence to support such claims.

–JackHeeled Spring