It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: Jukiodone
^ This thread demonstrates the point.
7 People all in one thread that have seen Bigfoot, yet thousands of people who hunt animals with Guns every year have never managed to at least wound one?
Statistically very unlikely.
So what's left assuming these good folks arent all making it up?
Hows about Bears?
Skip to 50 secs on this vid. and this would confuse 90% of the population if they saw it in the woods...even knowing the video is a bear...that sure looks like bigfoot to me and if I had seen it; I would very probably be number 8 on this thread.
Is this not at least the more statistically likely explanation?
originally posted by: Night Star
"Even though that bear was walking upright, it still looked like...a bear.
I think most people who are familiar with wildlife know the difference between natural wildlife and something completely different. If they were unsure of what they saw, they wouldn't claim it was a bigfoot. Just my opinion. I tend to believe the OP saw a big foot or certainly something out of the norm.[/quote"
It would be easy to know it is a bear if you see its head. If you only catch a glimpse of some big hairy critter running upright through the brush, in an area where bears are not common, it can be confusing. I do, by the way, believe there is a good possibility, of the existence of sasquatch. There are volumes of anecdotal evidence.edit on 20-6-2014 by skunkape23 because: (no reason given)
originally posted by: Night Star
Even though that bear was walking upright, it still looked like...a bear.
I think most people who are familiar with wildlife know the difference between natural wildlife and something completely different. If they were unsure of what they saw, they wouldn't claim it was a bigfoot. Just my opinion. I tend to believe the OP saw a big foot or certainly something out of the norm.
originally posted by: JiggyPotamus
There must obviously be some biological reason for such avoidance, and I hypothesize that they have what I term and avoidance instinct. It is mostly instinctual, but carried out in tandem with intelligence. They have some ability to rationalize and make logical decisions. This much is obvious to me after studying encounter reports for years.
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: LightningStrikesHere
It could have indeed been a mountain lion. I don't think I've ever claimed it was Bigfoot. I may have implied that I think it was...
Honestly, I don't know what it was. My experiance in the woods tells me it wasn't a bear, or a mountain lion. My instincts tell me it was "something else".
What? Don't know. Given how it made me feel? Not sure I want to know...
As for the last bit of my commentary? Apologies. Needless to say, when I recount these stories, most of the reactions mirror, to at least an extent, yours.
My own sighting happened not all that far from a city with a population of 25,000. Why don't we trip over the creature? Because where I saw him
Two others and myself were in the woods in the general area of where I saw "something." We were walking along when suddenly all three of us had a really bad feeling. It made no sense, but we all just looked at each other with fear in our eyes. One of the guys said "Let's get the hell out of here." No one argued. On the way back to our canoe we came upon a dead cow. There were no ants or flies on it, but the head was stripped to bare bone. The locals call that area "Satan's Circle." I have never been back. I have had another possible sasquatch experience that probably deserves its own thread.
originally posted by: urmenimu
a reply to: Alter-Ego
a wave of fear and sense of doom came over me, something I had never felt in the wilderness before. it felt like something dark and angry was trying to push itself into my consciousness. the hair was literally standing up on the back of my neck.
originally posted by: skunkape23
Two others and myself were in the woods in the general area of where I saw "something." We were walking along when suddenly all three of us had a really bad feeling. It made no sense, but we all just looked at each other with fear in our eyes. One of the guys said "Let's get the hell out of here." No one argued. On the way back to our canoe we came upon a dead cow. There were no ants or flies on it, but the head was stripped to bare bone. The locals call that area "Satan's Circle." I have never been back. I have had another possible sasquatch experience that probably deserves its own thread.
originally posted by: urmenimu
a reply to: Alter-Ego
a wave of fear and sense of doom came over me, something I had never felt in the wilderness before. it felt like something dark and angry was trying to push itself into my consciousness. the hair was literally standing up on the back of my neck.