Poll: Poll: Do you think Sasquatch is real?

[Dags90]

Exactly my point, "not formally described." Simply because you haven't learned about it from a textbook, you ignorant pessimists refuse to accept the possibility it does exist. The lizard was only just "formally described" in 2010. So why is it impossible to think that Sasquatches exist but just haven't been "formally described" themselves?

First: I've never said it wasn't a possibility. I think it's an extremely minute possibility and I don't think it is so.

Two: Ad hominem? Really?

Third: The Pacific Northwest has much easier communication with mainstream scientific literature. The human populations aren't insular tribal groups. The idea that there might be a human settlement somewhere in rural Canada where people know about Bigfoots, even eat them regularly, but simply haven't been investigated by others is less likely than Bigfoot himself.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

No.

I killed them all during a zombie outbreak.

The last one said that they don't eat babies, but I didn't believe it, them's sasquatches be cunning they does.

I felt so bad after killing them all.

OT:No I dont believe they are real. Just some good'ole folk tales.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

"I was curious to see how many people there are on the Escapist that believe in there being a species of bipedal apes living in northern U.S and Canada"

Well, I don't believe in Sasquatch, but there is a species of bipedal ape in those areas. It also lives in Europe, the rest of the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia. We refer to it as Homo sapiens.

 

[Blastinburn]

While I understand that it is highly unlikely that they have been able to hide from us for so long, I am firmly in the group that demands evidence that they do or do not exist.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Until someone proves otherwise, I'm going to say no.

Hm. Thats an intresting thing to ask. I mean, I beleive in ghosts, vampires, even fae, I've seen a god. But Bigfoot? In the words of Bruce Wayne, It just feels so... high school.

This post leaves me with so many questions...

 

[Wushu Panda]

Exactly my point, "not formally described." Simply because you haven't learned about it from a textbook, you ignorant pessimists refuse to accept the possibility it does exist. The lizard was only just "formally described" in 2010. So why is it impossible to think that Sasquatches exist but just haven't been "formally described" themselves?

First: I've never said it wasn't a possibility. I think it's an extremely minute possibility and I don't think it is so.

Two: Ad hominem? Really?

Third: The Pacific Northwest has much easier communication with mainstream scientific literature. The human populations aren't insular tribal groups. The idea that there might be a human settlement somewhere in rural Canada where people know about Bigfoots, even eat them regularly, but simply haven't been investigated by others is less likely than Bigfoot himself.

I can see where it might have been seen as a personal attack, I didn't mean it all directly aimed at you. But with discussions like this I get annoyed when people act as if the universe is black and white and refuse to accept anything more. The fact that you admit there is a minute possibility is more than most others would admit and for that I thank you.

But your "Third" comment is largely out of context and ridiculous. No where have I proposed the idea that people eat Bigfoots, that is on you.

Honestly, my biggest problem with people arguing against Sasquatches is them saying something like, "we've explored it all", "would have been found by now". And most of those people probably haven't even spent time out in those remote areas. But I have lived and grown up right next to Sasquatch areas. I still go hiking and camping with friends out in remote forests. No, I haven't seen a Bigfoot yet. But I have seen a lot of other weird a** stuff to acknowledge that something is out there.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Hm. Thats an intresting thing to ask. I mean, I beleive in ghosts, vampires, even fae, I've seen a god. But Bigfoot? In the words of Bruce Wayne, It just feels so... high school.

This post leaves me with so many questions...

And yet you have asked none.

Touche.

Very well, allow me to take your post quite literally and ask:

1) What gods have you seen?

2) How does Bigfoot seem far-fetched and ghosts and vampires seem totally legitimate?

3) When has Bruce Wayne ever said this? (I'm not doubting he did, but I would just like to know where. Seems out of character for him. He sounds like a 13 year-old girl.)

4) Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

 

[Windcaler]

I think there is a possiblity that there is an undiscovered animal in north america. Stories of large primates come from all over the world, in North America you have the Sasquatch, in the north american everglades theres the Skunk ape, in Australia you have the Yowie, in Siberia theres the Almas, in Bhutan and Napal there's the Yeti. With all the different stories of large primates from all over the world (most often in places that are not known for large primates) I have a hard time thinking that misidentification or hoax's are always the case.

Sometimes I wonder if the legend of Sasquatch isnt something similar to our own ancestral memory where stories from native american culture have been passed on to us and it shapes the things we see in remote areas of the wilderness. There's also the idea that maybe they did exist at one time but now they've gone extinct.

If the sasquatch does exist then I think they are in a place that is very far from human civilization and increadibly difficult to get into. This would also mean that the chances of us finding one would be astronomically slim

 

[Dense_Electric]

No... just no...

The only people I ever see that seriously believe are the type of people who believe anything i.e. 9/11 conspiracy, moon landing not real etc.

Really? Because I find the moon landing and 9/11 conspiracies to be complete bullshit and find the existence of a large, unknown ape species in the Pacific Northwest to be quite plausible.

Its a 6 foot long lizard. You'd think people would've found it sooner.

Did you miss the part where tribes have been regularly eating it, presumably for a long time? It's been known for ages by people, just not formally described in scientific literature.

Not exactly applicable to Bigfoots.

Uh... It's exactly applicable. Native Americans have been telling of their existence for thousands of years, and science has yet to document it. Really not terribly different.