This item is written by a a chap who is pretty fresh to the topic andhe has picked off a few recent examples which are a long way from thebest information available. Otherwise, what is really happening isthat the show and other events is allowing the media to openly tacklethe topic and simply get up in the morning and try writing up theindividual stories as they come in. That is very welcome.
What the show has certainly done is to wake up everyone to the factthat there is one near you. It is not just a West Coast curiosity.
I would like to make a few general observations.
1 The Sasquatch is becoming far less shy of us generally. In casesit is coming to the point of interaction .
2 The population has increased hugely over the past century. Beforethen they were competing directly with humanity for game and muchlower deer herds existed during the nineteenth century and alsobefore. Now they have the equivalent of easy living.
3 This has triggered way more sightings and they are now encroachingon our living spaces.
4 It is plausible that there is a second creature that is oftenmistaken for a Sasquatch. It is rarer by far and any prints would bemistaken for a bear. Unfortunately it is noticed for what it is not. It is not a bear and it is also when clearly seen not a Sasquatch. So it only gets better the more data you have.
5 At this point, the number of high quality reports is in thethousands and if we add in those in which the creature was nevereyeballed then we have ten thousand. High quality generally meansunimpeachable observers.
5 What is better, the improving acceptance has flushed out a lot morehigh quality reports from folks who may never have come forward.
One of the criticism I wish to address is the apparent poor qualityof most images. Most will be shot through vegetation unless thecreature is totally unaware. That is very rare. We are allbeginning to understand just how incredibly lucky Patterson was. Asit is one mostly has just enough time to overcome one's shock andgrab a camera and get a single shot of before it is over.
This will only change when a specimen decides to accept food as agift.
'This is FindingBigfoot': Never-Ending Search for Sasquatch
By NEALKARLINSKY (@NealKarlinsky) , BRANDON CHASE and DAN PRZYODANov. 14, 2012
http://abcnews.go.com/US/finding-bigfoot-ending-search-sasquatch/story?id=17718904#.UKQdHMVG8bA
Bigfoot. Sasquatch.Yeti. Ape-man. Man-beast. The shaggy, towering, yet elusive, creaturegoes by many names and there has been no shortage of tales ofunexplained sightings in the woods.
People really want tobelieve Bigfoot is real, and for decades, dozens of Yeti hunters havetried to prove its existence. Never mind the fact that the only thinganyone knows for certain about the legendary beast is that it hasbeen wildly successful at filling tabloids, being the subject ofterrible B movies, and generally serving as an all-around punch line.
But Matt Moneymaker,Cliff Barackman, Ranae Holland and James "Bobo" Fay are aragtag team of globetrotting researchers who are as serious aboutBigfoot as the Pope is about religion.
Watch the full storyon "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET
With every bit ofcutting edge technology – night vision gear and all the sensorsthey can get their hands on – this group of Bigfoot hunters travelsthe world investigating Sasquatch sightings.
"Beliefs arethings you can't see and you can't prove," Fay said. "Sasquatchis a real living entity that will be proven soon enough."
"It's more thanone," Moneymaker said. "Remember it's not Bigfoot, it'sBigfoots. There's a misconception out there that we're looking aroundfor this one thing."
Their adventures andinvestigations make up two, and soon to be three, seasons of theAnimal Planet series, "Finding Bigfoot," which airs onSundays at 10 p.m. ET. Interestingly, one member of the group,research biologist Ranae Holland, isn't quite sold yet.
"I'm stillskeptical," she said. "We used to think the world is flat,we didn't think pandas existed. You know, in the idea of discovery,you're always testing, accepting theories... It's all about answeringthe question and the pursuit of that and that's what I'm behind."
Holland wants to knowjust what the rest of us are wondering: If Bigfoot is real, where isit?
A lot of the group'sevidence falls under the umbrella of sketchy ambiguous photos andvideo. One famous Bigfoot video, known as the Patterson-Gimlinfilm, was taken in 1967, and in one episode of "FindingBigfoot," the group studies it and tries to re-create it todetermine if it was staged.
Moneymaker believesthere is no way the Sasquatch in the film is a man in a monkey suit.
"When you see itin motion, you see parts of the anatomy," he said. "If youknow what somebody in a costume looks like and you see that inmotion, you know that doesn't really look like a person in a costume.That looks like a real animal."
They study tracks,too, evidence, they say, of an unidentified large primate-like beastwith -- you guessed it -- a very big foot. They also claim to haveidentified a Bigfoot call.
All of them but Ranaeclaim to have had real life run-ins with a Sasquatch over the years,though none of them has anything to show for it but an undyingpassion to convince the world that it -- whatever it is -- reallydoes exist.
"We all havedifferent opinions on what they are," Fay said. "We're allguessing, but I think they're more like a person, a wild, kind ofprimitive man that can talk. I've heard them talk in the woods."
The "FindingBigfoot" crew isn't alone in claiming Bigfoot sightings. Therehave been numerous reports, even just in the past year. Click thearrow to hear some recent claims from people who believe Sasquatch isreal.
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