Bigfoot is without hesitation the most widely recognized western cryptid. I recently did a project with the Abominable Snowman and it was quite shocking to discover all of the many individuals (young and elderly) that could not tell me what the Yeti was. With this fact still on my mind I then asked them if they had ever heard of Bigfoot. Every single individual had heard of Bigfoot and could tell me a synonym to its name (such as Sasquatch).
This particular hominid often ranges in size between 6 and 17 feet tall. The issue here is that most citizens would consider any hominid report to be that of Bigfoot. This is not the case. The larger sized "Bigfoots" are listed under what we now call True Giants. The smaller ones worldwide are typically called Proto Pygmies rooted from Ivan T. Sanderson's form of classification called Proto Pigmies. Such animals include the Agogwe, the Didi, and the Sehite.
Bigfoot, however, encompasses any western United States or South Western Canada hominid that is about 7.5 feet tall. It has an uncanny habit to leave footprints that force the mind to wonder, what is going on. Some can honestly assume that they think that Bigfoot is one mass hoax that just refuses to be silenced, but they say that about nearly every cryptid. Its recognizable features have also become quite a curse. Everyone had heard of Bigfoot, but not everyone could testify to their belief of this creature. Because of their previous familiarity with Bigfoot, they had decided for themselves whether or not they could believe in it. This made it almost impossible to convince them otherwise. It is true that a lot of material regarding Bigfoot is hoaxes and that causes many people to forget to consider the actually convincing facts.
The first (and in my mind most convincing) bit of evidence is that of the Skookum cast. Jeffrey Meldrum pondered on this topic in his book Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science and his information is actually quite convincing. He suggests a certain pattern as to how the Bigfoot might have fallen into the suggested position. With these particular measurements were discovered about the Sasquatch. This was part of what led to the beginning of shows like the new Animal Planet Production Finding Bigfoot.
In order to diagram a typical Bigfoot report I have pulled this report from http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=29158. It said the following:
OBSERVED: It was june of 2008. I was walking from my uncles house back to a farm that was about a half mile away on university dr. in new philadelphia ohio, tuscarawas co. when I was walking towards the farm I heard what sounded like coyotes at first then it got real quiet then I heard a very strange sound it was not your usual animal sounI saw it (bigfoot) come walking out of the corn field. I would have to say it was about 7 to 8 ft tall long shaggy hair it looked like a over sized man with hair. I was walking on the road in front of it how I seen it was I heard the corn rustle as it stepped out of the corn field an I looked back to see what made the noise I started walking faster and when I got to the farm driveway my mom was there to pick me up and when she turned the head lights on the thing stopped following me stood there for a second then turned an moved quickly back into the cornfield it also made that weird noise again witch my mom also heard.
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Another quite famous occurrence in cryptozoology Patterson- Gimlin film. This was the father of the famous still photograph of an alleged Bigfoot swinging its arms back and forth. Unlike many cryptozoologists I do not trust in the validity of this film. Besides my own personal beliefs, I also have the support from the most famous cryptozoologist of all time: Bernard Heuvelmans. His explanation for his disbelief: the position of the hairs are inconsistent with what knowledge we have on a zoological level. Each species has a specific direction in which the hair is faced. There is no such pattern with this Bigfoot. I feel that that fact is enough to completely dismiss the theory, but there is another notable fact. Now that Patterson is dead, Gimlin has suggested that perhaps Patterson hoaxed the video and used Gimlin as a prop to convince the world of its truthfulness.
Bernard Heuvelmans did comment that this "obvious hoax" did not at all shake his firm conviction of the fact that Bigfoot does exist. There is an interesting fact that helps me be completely convinced of Bigfoot's existence. Albinism is a defect that causes an organism to lose all pigmentation. Its skin turns white and the eye color becomes pink due to complete lack of eye color leaving only the pink iris behind it. All species have Albinos and it would thus not be at all surprising if Albino Bigfoot reports appeared. Because of a shortage of Sasquatches (who's population was recently estimated to be between 500 and 750) there would also be fewer living Albinos and even less reported. In 1996, two Utah residents spotted an Albino Bigfoot. Such a fact is beyond fascinating, its science. I cannot possibly express to you all of the reasons for the Bigfoot legend to persist with infinite believers, but there is obviously some truthfulness to it.
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