“The idea that nobody has duplicated the P/G film and therefore it’s evidence of authenticity is a red herring… I’ve heard the same argument about the Egyptian pyramids, that because critics have not built a full-size pyramid to prove how it could be done somehow proves it couldn’t be done. Ridiculous. Just because no one has put in the considerable time, money, and effort to duplicate the film doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Logic fail.”

That paragraph is the “logic fail.” Just needed to put this up here, in case anyone gets challenged like that by some nut.

The scientific mainstream accepts the construction of the Pyramids, by those “alleged” (i.e., proven) to have originally done so. (So do, um, you, if you have ever, um, seen them.) Anyone who thinks they “couldn’t be done” is, um, well now, soft in the head doesn’t begin to say it. Anyone who would duplicate the construction of the Pyramids, just to show that, yep, they really (duh!) did it, is, well, nutty as a Pharaoh. All one has to do when confronted on this is what one would do if told that the moon landings were faked or that Bush blew up the Twin Towers: Um, sure, buddy. You show me your evidence whenever you’re ready. But no one needs to build a Pyramid to prove anything. Buy a plane ticket.

The “skeptics” allege that P/G was not only faked, but easy to fake. Radford is one of the key proponents of this tabula-rasa ‘thesis’; he has said it could have been done for as little as a few hundred dollars. (It’s right here on Cryptomundo, Ben, don’t deny it.) That is cheap, and easy. Radford himself would be able to do it, easily, for that little money if it could be done. And he has enormous incentive to do it. There is much opinion that P/G is genuine, and much opinion that it was faked. It is easily one of the world’s greatest mysteries; no hoax ever debunked has anything like its staying power.

That no one has duplicated it – with all the interest, with all the challenges out there – is, indeed, as strong a piece of evidence as it would be possible to produce short of proof that it can’t be done, because that figure is in its birthday suit.

Good points. I still don’t see it as being real, even with the face shot. Two more points- with other apes, their breasts are only visible when nursing. Almost all sightings of females have babies with them, most likely because it is to hard to tell the difference when not nursing. Also, all other primate breasts are nearly hairless. Bigfoot might exist, but my vision of a bigfoot isn’t quite like this.

A ‘what if thought’ that goes through my mind sometimes, is that as dinosaurs where on the planet for so long why didn’t a highly intelligent version evolve convergently with hominids and does it still survive? Birds dont fit the bill! Could explain some of the difficulties absolutely prooving bigfoot ! Well I dont think there is any evidence of it except in sci-fi! So while not abandoning the idea altogether I still look slightly hopefully out of the corner of my eyes for any clues.