Poll: Poll: Do you think Sasquatch is real?

[maddawg IAJI]

They probably do exist.

I see a lot of people saying it doesn't exist because; "there is no evidence" or "how can something exist in an area inhabited by people and we not know". I have major problems with these as arguments for the reason that...they aren't arguments.

Evidence- What exactly would you call evidence? There are a bunch of pictures, and yea they tend to be blurry, but not everyone can go walking around with top-of-the-line equipment ready at the moments notice to take a textbook-perfect picture. And there are a ton of firsthand accounts with Bigfoots and Sasquatches. Yes there are a lot of fakes but how do you know if you disregard everything collected is false and label everyone who has a story is crazy? Guess what, people firmly believed the world was flat...remember how that one turned out?

Area- People say "we would have found them by now" or "It can't exist because people inhabit those areas." There are hundreds of thousands of square miles of uninhabited forest and terrain in the United States alone. Sure there are pictures taken from satellites and we have maps, but don't act like we have every square-inch of land surveyed or having it watched at all times. There is PLENTY of room for small nomadic groups to exist undisturbed.

People get so ignorant today but forget that humans still have yet to fully explore the world. We discover new species of animals both on land and in sea on a daily basis and they still have the audacity to even deny the possibility.

Evidence counter-argument: You don't need top of the line equipment to get a clear picture anymore. Most people own digital cameras now and even disposable cameras don't blur that badly anymore. The problem is that the majority of the pictures taken just look like men in gorilla suits or just plain Gorillas. As for eye-witness accounts, people have been making up shit to increase tourism to their home town since ancient Greece. Do you know how many towns in Ancient Greece claimed that they had a passage way into the underworld? Do you know how many actually had passage ways leading to the underworld?

Area Counter Argument: And 200 hundred years of hunting, deforestation and hiking and not a single soul has ever found a body of one or brought one back alive? We may not be in every square mile of the united states, but we still live in those areas and we still explore them, that either means that the Sasquatch's numbers are so low that they would die from mutation caused by inbreeding or that they don't exist.

The Sasquatch is a myth and people love the fact that its a myth. In fact, they love it so much that most towns which can claim to have famous sitings don't even want it disproved. In fact, most want to keep it alive simply because it brings in tourists.

 

[Cpu46]

In America, No. Its way to populated for a species this large to go unnoticed.

In Canada, perhaps. A lot more uninhabited/unexplored land for it to live. Also it shows up a lot more often in myths originating in that area. Also, the evolution of such a creature is more plausible.

 

[Dags90]

Maybe. I'm on the fence.

To all the skeptics out there, I think that you need to get into the northern Canadian forests, specifically northern Ontario and Manitoba, and British Colombia. The possibility that something survived there without someone finding it is a lot more likely than you think. There's not a whole hell there.

As many people have said, they would have few predators (bears and wolves) and no major predators. Unless some other hitherto undiscovered species is their major predator.

And consider the spirit bear [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_bear]. There are thought to be no more than about a thousand of them in the same region and they're confirmed to exist.

 

[Dense_Electric]

The answers here strike me as rather closed-minded. I don't think some of you are grasping just how huge the wilderness Pacific Northwest is. It's REALLY. FREAKING. BIG. There are places there where the nearest dirt trail may be several hundred miles away, let along a town or city. Plenty of room for a population of a few thousand to romp about undetected.

You talk about the lack of a body, but it's been shown that a carcass in such conditions can be completely devoured and scattered by animals and insects in less than a week. If an animal drops dead in the more remote parts of the forest, it's unlikely at best human eyes are ever going to see it. Hell, how long was it before they could even confirm the existence of the gorilla in Africa?

And frankly, the thing shows up all the time. Not necessarily in a camera (though I don't believe that every single one of those videos is a hoax or a misidentification), but back thousands of years in native legends. Virtually every tribe from that region has stories about large, ape-like creatures that stalk the wilderness. Then the thing shows up hundreds of years later in countless videos and pictures? How interesting...

Then of course we consider an incredibly similar phenomenon, the Yeti. Ancient societies from the Himalayan region have similar stories, and there is similar soft physical evidence from more recent years. So is it really inconceivable that, tens of thousands of years ago, while humans migrated across the Bearing land bridge, another ape species did as well?

I don't understand the "IT COULDN'T POSSIBLY EXIST" mindset. Oh, I give you there's no definite proof, not by a long shot, but what exactly is so difficult to believe about an unknown ape species living in a large wilderness area? It's not like it's some magical leprechaun or something, it's simply a rare species of animal similar to ones we already know to exist. It's fine to be skeptical or not personally believe it, but to claim it could not possibly exist is rather arrogant.

 

[Watchmacallit]

Sasquatch is bullshit.




The Chupacabra on the other hand is real

 

[SilentCom]

I'm not sure but I would have to say maybe. Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Yeti, or whatever you want to call it is basically described as a large ape-like creature. It's not a magical creature or anything therefore it is within the realm of possibility. It is even speculated that Bigfoot might even be proto-human, as in a very early sub-human species that Homo Sapiens have evolved from. I really can't say that this is true but it is an interesting thought.

 

[Deadyawn]

well would you look at that. The escapist is full of synics. who would of thought...

 

[GrimTuesday]

When was the last time we discovered an animal over 3 foot tall on land?

Most people never heard about this, but in 2001 a potentially new ape called the Bili ape, which has the head of a chimp, but the body and many mannerisms of a gorilla was found in the DRC. It wasn't actually documented on film until just a few years ago. These things are big (the males get to be about 6 feet tall), and yet they went undocumented for hundreds of years. Granted, no one was really looking for them, but still, a huge ape managed to stay off scientists radar for a long time.

 

[Auninteligentname]

He lives extremly high up where human exploration is low, and the people who do go up there are halucinating from oxygen deprevation by then, so it could be possible for him to evade detection this long, the white for helps too

I believe you are describing the yeti

OT: I don't believe Sasquatch exists. There is no proof (yet) of his/her/their existence.

 

[SilentCom]

The answers here strike me as rather closed-minded. I don't think some of you are grasping just how huge the wilderness Pacific Northwest is. It's REALLY. FREAKING. BIG. There are places there where the nearest dirt trail may be several hundred miles away, let along a town or city. Plenty of room for a population of a few thousand to romp about undetected.

You talk about the lack of a body, but it's been shown that a carcass in such conditions can be completely devoured and scattered by animals and insects in less than a week. If an animal drops dead in the more remote parts of the forest, it's unlikely at best human eyes are ever going to see it. Hell, how long was it before they could even confirm the existence of the gorilla in Africa?

And frankly, the thing shows up all the time. Not necessarily in a camera (though I don't believe that every single one of those videos is a hoax or a misidentification), but back thousands of years in native legends. Virtually every tribe from that region has stories about large, ape-like creatures that stalk the wilderness. Then the thing shows up hundreds of years later in countless videos and pictures? How interesting...

Then of course we consider an incredibly similar phenomenon, the Yeti. Ancient societies from the Himalayan region have similar stories, and there is similar soft physical evidence from more recent years. So is it really inconceivable that, tens of thousands of years ago, while humans migrated across the Bearing land bridge, another ape species did as well?

I don't understand the "IT COULDN'T POSSIBLY EXIST" mindset. Oh, I give you there's no definite proof, not by a long shot, but what exactly is so difficult to believe about an unknown ape species living in a large wilderness area? It's not like it's some magical leprechaun or something, it's simply a rare species of animal similar to ones we already know to exist. It's fine to be skeptical or not personally believe it, but to claim it could not possibly exist is rather arrogant.

I agree. Just because people have struggled finding credible evidence does not mean something doesn't exist. There is a science called cryptozoology that deals with finding and studying animals that were previously undocumented by scientists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology

Again, I am not saying that Sasquatch exists but simply saying people should realize it is not outside the realm of possibility.

 

[Custard_Angel]

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.

 

[Alar]

You guys just don't get it. The reason we've never found Sasquatch/Big Foot is because they use MAGIC to hide themselves! Just like elves, fairies, and unicorns!

It makes perfect sense!

 

[Wushu Panda]

There are a bunch of pictures

When was the last time we discovered an animal over 3 foot tall on land?

New Giant Monitor Lizard
Updated on : 6th April 2010

New giant monitor lizard that eats fruit and is secretive has been found in the Philippine forest. The new species is named varanus bitatawa and was discovered by the students of Kansas University during their expedition on last summer. The 2 m long species was found in the deforested Luzon Island which is large and heavily populated.

The DNA test did on the species have placed it in the Komodo dragon family.

The lizard has bright yellow, green and blue skin.

The new monitor lizard is a well species to the resident of Agta and Ilongot tribes. These people regularly hunt this lizard for its meat which has a vital source of protein.

The lizard has its body length approaching 1m and 1m long tail. It also has golden yellow spots and flecks.

The legs are yellow in color and tail is striped with black and yellow.

The newly discovered species diet on fruits thus making it the third species of fruit eating monitor lizard in the world.

taken from http://www.animalsworlds.com/recent-discoveries-9.html

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

 

[Dags90]

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.

 

[Shakomaru]

Of COURSE the Sasquatch is real silly! He just lives in Russia.

Spoiler: beware the sight of the real thing could be disastrous to your health

 

[Wushu Panda]

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.

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?

 

[RoyalSorceress]

My dad claims that when he was a teen and was camping in the wilderness with his friends, he heard a sound like an ape howling, so maybe.