The "Evidence" For Bigfoot

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I keep coming across Bigfoot believers who suggest a slew of evidence out there for the hairy boy himself... so I'm going hunting. For evidence! I'm not going to slay a Bigfoot.
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[@binkbonkbones3402]

Okay, but hear me out. Even if Bigfoot isn't around now, homo habilis definitely existed Mystery solved

[@hjalmarolethorchristensen9761]

Hay whats up whit the trump hair in the front 🙇

[@JavierFernandez01]

so nessie would be a bigger find than bigfoot because nessie is bigger? a possible plesiosaur vs a possible "missing link" hominid. we have found the celeocanth "dinosaur fish" the breathes oxygen and nobody cared. if we found a living homo floriensis "hobbit man" it would be huge. and finding a bigfoot would definitely be much bigger news than finding nessie. p.s. i am the avocado lake ca bigfoot as seen on the kmph fox 26 ten oclock news. :) i was just walking and they took my picture. other reports "a family of them" were me and me dogs. the plaster footprint was made from me slipping a bit in mud and making toes on the track.

[@cameronwise1083]

Done and done babyyyyyy time for some nice skin, just in time for allergy acne season!

[@sirhcw4369]

Emma this comment is more for your conspiracy video. Have you heard of edward bernays? Here is a quote from Edward "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...we are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is the logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. A vast number of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons.... who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind." Edward bernays

[@In_the_Pod]

I love Mitch Hedburg's bigfoot joke "Bigfoot is blurry. It's not the photographers' fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large out of focus monster roaming the countryside." 😂

[@fostena]

I was about to comment this. I love this take 😂

[@Haireforce1666]

Would you like to know which friend helped him write that joke? 😉🤔

[@msjkramey]

I mean, even if it just has some magical ability to make the image blurry, that would make it extra scary. It'd be like an SCP monster or how photographs of people who see the Ring tape show up distorted as an omen. But yeah, seeing a distorted image but in the flesh would be horrifying in a way that I couldn't even conceptualize because it's currently only possible to see that through a lens/special effects

[@j-bob_oreo]

no seeing as mitch is gone any such claim would be anecdotal and unverifiable ​@@Haireforce1666

[@j-bob_oreo]

​@@FoxyRaccoon84my friend asked me if i wanted a frozen banana ... i said no... but i want a regular banana later so yeah

[@pandora8610]

I love the "we thought it was a bear, but then it stood up" one. Now, I'm Australian. I don't think there's a single bear within a thousand kilometres of me, except in zoos. I'm not claiming any sort of experience or expertise on the subject. And yet I'm still aware of the rather basic fact that bears... y'know... stand upright fairly often.

[@kensmith5694]

At least a grizzly will. When they do, it usually isn't them telling you to have a nice day. The grizzly is the only creature that will come towards a human to kill them for no good reason. They are like 1000 pound spoiled children. The polar bear will come towards a human also but that is because they want to eat you.

[@vforwombat9915]

"I don't think there's a single bear within a thousand kilometres of me, except in zoos." what about drop bears? huh? huh?

[@barrylangille3523]

@@kensmith5694 drop bears aren't real. They'll tell you themselves.

[@danielamos8219]

I'm not a expert but bears do stand to get a better view of their surroundings, as a show of aggression or to scratch an itch/mark trees. As I recall brown and black bears are not typically aggressive unless they have cubs. If you see a baby bear leave! Momma don't play no games.

[@CraigJudd]

@@vforwombat9915 Much like koalas, drop-bears are marsupials, so technically not bears.

[@zogar8526]

"Bless him, he looks like a Bigfoot witness." That might be the most unintentionally savage insult I've ever heard.

[@albertortiz5277]

And in the most british way possible to! I mean, savage and yet so courteous. So British, outstandingly brilliant!

[@zogar8526]

@albertortiz5277 yeah, it doesn't get more brittosh then this, lol.

[@colinp2238]

Those titles are like the people back in the 90s that called themselves karaoke singers as if they were professional not some drunken guy in the local on Saturday night.

[@badtownsound]

Emma: "Surely some high-quality Bigfoot footage exists now." Me: "Bigfootage."

[@Zero-ei8jn]

Nice!

[@EvilGrin]

For a couple of years, a Bigfoot was my barber. He was 6'2'', hairy like a gorilla, spoke Greek, Italian and German fluently, called himself "Joseph" and always short changed me after he was done with my haircut. People always complained that his barbershop was suspiciously dark, which makes sense since there are not many trees he could have hidden behind in the suburbs. What really caught my suspicion though was that he was never married and shared his shop with a huge, serious looking muscular man (whom I now suspect to be an agent of at least one of the alphabet agencies). Unfortunately, I got no footage of him, and he died before mobile phones even became a thing. Also I never found a barber again that could deal with my unruly hair...

[@insertianameia2224]

Nah that probably wasn't Bigfoot. You likely just mistook a bear as one. It's okay. Common mistake.

[@frogurtcremebrulee5252]

@@insertianameia2224we bears, unchecked, can become Bigfoot

[@francelaferriere6106]

I know the feeling.

[@fazergazer]

Spoken like a true Bigfoot

[@masaufuku1735]

"my unruly hair" Oh my god. I found bigfoot. He's right here in the comment section. Weird that he's accusing his late barber of being bigfoot though...

[@shred5]

As a big hairy guy, every time I go for a walk in the woods, reports of bigfoot sightings increase.

[@harryhagman6063]

YOU AND EMMA THORN WOULD CERTAINLY MAKE A GREAT MATCH SHE IS REALLY A REAL HOTTIE❓️👍👀

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

​@@harryhagman6063 SHE ALREADY HAS A PARTNER! WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?

[@harryhagman6063]

@DavidSmith-vr1nb ARE YOU AVAILABLE DAVID SMITH YOU SEEM MIGHTY SWEET LIKE A ICE CREAM DEAR SUGAR PLUM ❓️👀👍

[@gatblau1]

Same thing happens to me 😂

[@James44789]

I used to tease my dad about this camping as kids! As a now hairy adult, I’m eating my words lol 😂

[@FlopsyHamster]

About 15 years ago, I was walking home, just after dark, and was passing by a field at the edge of town. The sun had just gone down, but there was still a slight glow of twilight. As I passed the field, I noticed something standing on a hill, reasonably close to me. It was bipedal, tall, and hair covered. I could see in the faint light two distinct hairy legs, a long torso, broad shoulders, a squarish head, and a long hairy arm. Now, had I been frightened by this, and had run away, I'd be another person with a Bigfoot sighting that no one believes, despite knowing what I had seen. But I wasn't scared. I was fascinated. I stood there for at least a minute, staring at it, trying to make sense of what I was seeing, as I knew it couldn't be a Bigfoot. So I started walking towards it to get a better look. Was it a large man in a fur coat? A guy in a ghillie suit? A bear standing on it's hind legs. Nope. It was two cows, standing one behind the other, head to tail, facing up the hill. The head and front legs of the front cow made the head and arm, the two together made the long torso, and the rear, lower cow made the hind legs. I think a lot of Bigfoot sightings are some mis-identification. A bear, a cow, a man, a shadow - all can be mistaken for a Bigfoot. There's sort of a claustrophobic feeling that can overtake you when you're out in thick woodlands. You realize that anything could be standing 20 feet away from you, and you wouldn't be able to see it, and it's easy to let your imagination run away from you. You'll start believing the stories that your grandparents told you about monsters in the woods, stories they told you so you wouldn't run off on your own. I used to love reading books about Bigfoot, as the thought that they could exist just out of the range of our eyesight made the world a more interesting and magical place. Whether the creatures themselves exist or not isn't important to me. The legend is what interests me. The legend will exist forever.

[@NO-CASH478]

Great comment. Digging the legend; I love it. And while I completely agree that many alleged sightings can be discounted as mis-identification (I've seen footage of bears running upright that do look astonishingly 'squatchy' when glimpsed from behind as they dash into the trees, & if you've got Bigfoot on the brain anyway then yeah, that'd probably do it for a few hot minutes) .... However, let's say for instance that you had not been able to accurately debunk your own 'encounter,' would this experience in & of itself truly have been enough for you to switch camps, as it were? How many times could you tell yourself & others close to you that you'd seen Bigfoot before beginning to question; hey, wait a minute, did I though ? What would've happened when eventually the dust had settled, the excitement fades & all you're left with is the fleeting memory of something vague & incomplete you saw very briefly from some distance away, & which might realistically have been nothing more other-worldly than two cows on a hill... And look, this might not matter, but there are at least some folks out there - maybe not many, but more than enough - who for some reason swear down that they've seen it. Roger Patterson WENT TO HIS GRAVE with his entire legacy pinned to the authenticity of that film, & his ol' buddy Bob Gimlin is aged 90+ & he still hasn't budged an inch, even though were he to do so here & now, it'd at least garner him some media attention (& if he was lying, why else would he be lying except for media-attention?)... I just don't think the rhetorical failure to recognise mundane wildlife is a good sceptical analysis of why people claim to have seen things that ought not to be. Anyways. Diggin' the legend, friend. True that. peace!x

[@panqueque445]

"I can't see the zipper" With that image quality, you can barely see the suit in the first place

[@stevedickson5853]

He was simply on his way to a fancy dress party and got caught out having a pee by a pesky feller with a camera 🤣

[@dontsteponsnek6457]

There is a higher quality version that he probably watched

[@Captain_Hapton]

I believed in Bigfoot right up until I met an army buddy of my brother's who was about 6 foot 2, and used to live in the absolute middle of nowhere. He said he used to dress up in a ghillie suit and walk across the highway in front of cars.

[@sherlockwho5714]

We use to have this guy out in rural Michigan You could often find the man stumbling or walking home. He would walk straight home meaning through the woods across the road and ect. The amount of times you see this guy with the werewolf hair thing and think damnit man hold still while we get the hot wax ready. He also loved those lumberjack shirts. If you were in the woods long enough you were likely to see him in daylight walking to work or to the gas station.

[@nerdbot37]

So… because you met one hoaxer, you now believe it’s all hoaxes? Even the trackways found in remote locations? Even the footprint casts that show mid-tarsal breaks that primate anatomists had to describe? Even the casts of prints left in fine sandy/clay substrates that preserved dermal ridges (toe prints)? You can dismiss that evidence and thousands of sightings because you know one lunatic with a death wish who got off on the lazy-ass hoax of running across a road in a camo suit?

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

But thousands of sightings? Hundreds a year? in places very few people go? The problem is that there are too many hoaxes. But just because people hoax, it doesn't mean they don't exist, just makes it harder to believe that they do.

[@tball50187]

​@@sherlockwho5714 when we were teens, my friends and I used to ride bikes out to a well known "haunted" graveyard in northern Michigan to scare visitors. We hid in the woods waiting for people to show up on weekends and devils night, then run through the brush making noise, yell, laugh, flicker flashlighs. We got more and more brave over time and would open doors to their vehicles and turn on the wipers and max the volume knob on the radio. Even started a car one time. It was hilarious and sometimes crazy how people would react.

[@sherlockwho5714]

@@tball50187 I can only imagine 😂

[@fredarsenault8987]

Every bigfoot sighting is just Alex Jones after a bender

[@F_N_Inquisitor]

Bigfoot isn't even real, and it deserves better than that lolz

[@RevolvedPastor]

I had a real “spit-take” when I read that😂😂 that’s great.

[@CL0CKW0RKR0B0T]

Can't be so. There would be soooo many more sightings.

[@ianbabineau5340]

HE’s turning the frogs gay.

[@Blindashitmetalasfuck]

I'm pretty sure there isn't an "after" for Alex. Only when he has passed on, will his bender have an "after"...

[@stefkukla8533]

They thought it was a bear. "But then, the dark shape stands up sharply." Bears can do that too.

[@s.henrlllpoklookout5069]

Re: shooting Bigfoot. There's an urban legend that while filming Return of the Jedi, Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) had to wear a bright yellow vest & be accompanied by 2 crew members while off-camera during the Endor scenes, because they were afraid hunters in the area would think he was Bigfoot & shoot him

[@julietfischer5056]

Big, brown, and hairy, roaming where people can have a serious itch to shoot a trophy? Yeah, someone could even think he was a bear or other shaggy-coated animal.

[@s.henrlllpoklookout5069]

@@julietfischer5056 "Guys, I just bagged the first-ever fully bipedal bear!"

[@colorbugoriginals4457]

"This thing's skeleton looks like a whole human!"

[@Jacob-Sophia]

​@@s.henrlllpoklookout5069Ok but deer hunters routinely shoot hikers or other hunters

[@acrodave9287]

"I just bagged a Bigfoot and found out that it's never been found before because it's been disguising itself as a 7 foot tall London Hospital porter and part time actor called Peter!"

[@Andre-qo5ek]

bigfoot is actually an SCP with teleportation, ability to make cameras blurry, and has a super child demeaner.

[@MrGorillafist]

SCP authors beat you too it. SCP 1000 has firmly claimed it's stake on bigfoot.

[@jonathanbartlett1098]

I grew up in the mointains and forests of northern california where many of these bigfoot sightings occurred. I also spent years working out in these places, including the Marble Mountain Wilderness. The beauty is absolutely stunning and I highly recommend a visit if you are into cool natural environments. I have encountered bears, mountain lions, elk, deer, foxes, coyotes, and more out there, but not once did I ever see anything to suggest there were unknown animals in the areas I lived or worked. On top of that, when I watch shows about bigfoot, the narrator or cast often start talking about "this ancient primordial forest that can hide anything". I'm like, "Dude, that entire forest was clear cut by PALCO back in the eighties, those trees are younger than you are" lol I think the vast majority of "bigfoot" sightings can be summed up as "bears, wind-blown foliage, shadows, and people at a distance"

[@Rystefn]

I wish agree with you, but I'm pretty sure the actual majority of sightings are bald-faced lies. But most of the rest probably line up with your estimation pretty well.

[@Greywolf1066]

Excellent comment!

[@yeoldegunporn]

Same here on the east coast. Almost none of the forests from MA to ME existed pre 1980s.

[@Solid_Roots]

​@@yeoldegunporndid you really say that there were no forests on the East Coast prior to 1980 because that is patently false & totally incredible to suggest!!! Forest used to cover the entire country east of the Appalachians FYI try reading something other than internet comments😎!!!

[@yeoldegunporn]

@@Solid_Roots By the 1880s 80 percent of the region for agriculture and livestock, and the forests that did remain were still heavily logged. Logging pressure was so intense that, as of 2010, less than 1 percent of New England’s forests are old-growth forest. But ok.

[@jursamaj]

2:12 "…no reason for my sister to have lied to me or made it up" … LMAO! That doesn't sound like anybody who grew up with a sibling.

[@EdinburghAndy]

My girlfriend and I watched an episode of Finding Bigfoot out of curiosity. An hour of blokes walking about woods at night to no avail. We now refer to the show as Finding F*** All. :)

[@renatocorvaro6924]

A better name for it!

[@DD-gi6kx]

finding bigfoot, finding ghosts, finding treasure on oak island are all a bunch of nothing stretched of over multiple episodes

[@pattheplanter]

Surely Finding B***erF*** All fits better?

[@HistorysRaven]

Go watch Expedition Bigfoot now. They at least make things interesting.

[@jamesrule1338]

The new version of Al Capone's vault.

[@a.f.stevens]

I was raised in the somewhat small town of Felton, on the coast of California. It was in the middle of a large stretch of redwood forest. For me, the majority of school vacations were spent backpacking in remote areas of wilderness. My family's house was a mile up a private road on the side of a mountain, every window was a view of the forest. The bigfoot believers I knew had family who either believed in bigfoot or some other cryptid, or conspiracies in general. I blame my lack of belief on the people who raised me knowing the value of critical thinking. Like you said, if bigfoot exists, it would change nothing about life other than the appearance of warning signs in national parks and such. *WARNING: 🦶 activity is high: You will be subject to encounters and possible attack. Hike at your own risk!* Probably an increase in bear spray sales by outdoor enthusiasts, maybe a government funded Bigfoot display at a ranger station instead of the privately run Bigfoot Museum I passed by on my way to school 😂 I really don't see the big deal, and I've had plenty of strange experiences in the wilderness, 50+ miles from any road or civilization. Never found proof of anything other than coyotes, racoons, or the occasional mountain lion or bear. 🤷‍♂️ Edit: sorry for the essay

[@AlanCanon2222]

The "critical thinking" objection is easy to overcome. Living that far from public education, the BIgfoot might not know about it.

[@a.f.stevens]

@@AlanCanon2222 good point! 😆

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@a.f.stevens It makes sense when you don't think about it!

[@birchandmaple]

O hey I went to high school in Scotts Valley! Back in Ontario now and I miss the redwoods 💔

[@a.f.stevens]

@@birchandmaple that's awesome! I graduated from SLV. What year did you graduate?

[@LanceHall]

Emma is a delightful forest sprite who enchants us with her personality and humor.

[@indigopines]

We'll start a show looking for her called "Finding Emma". The whole series will be a 10 second clip of her in her studio going "Here I am!"

[@TheMrCougarful]

But why are all the "authentic" Emma photos are blury and shaky? I think she's just someone named Emma in an Emma suit, on an Emma channel. Prove me wrong.

[@JmannDX]

Modern instances of Bigfoot sightings are just me walking naked in the woods.

[@pattheplanter]

How big are your feet, if you don't mind my asking?

[@ethanstine426]

All natural

[@Gafafsg]

The real Bigfoot was the werewolves we’ve made along the way 💛

[@j-bob_oreo]

so true i cried

[@tomgames8616]

Hold up. When did we make werewolves?

[@BarerMender]

In the U.S., seeing strange creatures is a national pastime. My own home state, West Virginia, had the Flatwoods Monster and the Mothman. Back in the '60s, the road between my hometown and the next town over was walked by a creature with a silver suit and a head shaped liked the ace of spades. I had a friend who saw shapeshifters. They were three feet high and covered with black fur. They liked to duck into culverts. My dad talked about the squeehonk, which seems to have been a mispronunciation of a creature from Pennsylvania. If you're interested in such things you can find hundreds, if not thousands of them. For a real treat, look up the Jersey devil, a cryptid from revolutionary days.

[@mjjoe76]

Having grown up a 3-hour drive from Hodag country, I can relate.

[@AlbertaGeek]

Trey the Explainer has done some deep-dives into both the Flatwoods Monster and the Mothman. You might find them amusing.

[@BarerMender]

@@AlbertaGeek Thanks. I'll check it out.

[@TheMrCougarful]

And that's everything anyone needs to know about W. Virginia.

[@catfishcave379]

I can remember being in Yellowstone many years ago. I felt like I was being watched constantly. One night outside the tent we heard sounds and smelled something awful. When we looked outside the tent we saw this enormous hairy beast that must have weighed 500 pounds. As my wife aimed her rifle, the creature let out an ear-splitting scream. In the biggest mistake of my life, I pushed the rifle down. It was my mother-in-law…

[@sparrowthesissy2186]

Casual Foot and his snowy cousin Chill Foot both have the same cryptic superpower: looking exactly like bears and dudes on a stroll.

[@willbanks3793]

Bigfoot is in Michigan, Mississippi, Texas, California, the pacific Northwest, and yet they are so invisible.

[@drewharrison6433]

New Mexico and Colorado, too.

[@lulairenoroub3869]

If Bigfoot were, like squirrel sized, I think it would be possible. But he's a friggin wookie. An entire species of manbears running about North America, and no unscrupulous Floridian ever put one in an effed up Disney adjacent, home made animal park? The incentives to catch a critter like that are enormous and far reaching and there's is just no possible way that Buffulo Bill wouldn't have hunted them to extinction if he had even a fraction of a chance. They'd be in the British museum, their skulls next to the bones of Native Americans. The real reason why we should feel confident that there's no big foot isn't the lack of evidence, it's the lack of horrifying colonial history Always remember, rule 34 of empire: if it exists, there's exploitation of it

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

I seen bigfoot in a detroit gas station. True story.

[@stevedickson5853]

They're invisible because they simply don't exist, not even Bigfoot poo , nothing.

[@rw7264]

Kansas, don't forget the big foot in Kansas! When my coworker from Kansas told me that I got a laugh.

[@SiennaBlossom420]

I always assume Bigfoot sightings are of bears until proven otherwise

[@julietfischer5056]

Bears or other misidentified animals. That rustling in the woods could be anything.

[@kensmith5694]

Since the type of bear in the pacific north west is the grizzly, I think I'd rather meet a bigfoot.

[@user-gl5dq2dg1j]

@@kensmith5694 I think black bear territory overlaps grizzly.

[@kensmith5694]

@@user-gl5dq2dg1j Yes, it does but black bears are much less of a worry. They eat small stuff. They don't randomly attack people. Black bears are about as smart as a dog.

[@user-gl5dq2dg1j]

@@kensmith5694 Then you are aware of the joke about the signs reading that you should wear bells on your shoes when in bear country to deter the black bears. Another sign tells you how to identify bears by their scat. Black bears have remains of berries in scat, Grizzlies have bells in their scat.

[@__Andrew]

I had an uncle years ago (talking maybe late 80's) one night when it snowed he snuck outside with a pair of fake "big feet" and stomped around a bunch of people's yards. The local news even came out and did a story about the supposed Big Foot in the area with pictures in the paper. I think it was years later before he fessed up to doing it but it was a local legend for a long time, and he never told anyone publicly it was him. So every now and then someone would go "oh yeah remember that time Big Foot was in the area" and some family member would have to go "well, actually...."

[@dreame4ter]

Friggin love when "researchers" are out filming them selves trying to get a respons from bigfoot by slaming a stick on a tree... som times you get a response and the crew goes ape-shit (lol). ´Every time all I can imagine is another film crew doing the same shit on the other side of the same forest, and the thought of two "finding bigfoot" standing at oposite sides of the forest answering eachother has me in stitches. (hope that made sense) Love your videos! ^^

[@WastedTalent-]

I remember reading an interview with a former Finding Bigfoot production crew member. He said that when they get tired of the BF hunters acting like idiots not hearing or seeing anything, someone would get on the walkie talkie and say something like "Code 9." That was code to have someone throw rocks and make noise sothey have something to chase. Also, he said that the locals would go out into the woods and fuck with them.

[@dreame4ter]

@@WastedTalent- Haha, yeah, I can' t imagine those individuals are in any way easy to work with. Like working at a daycare for giant toddlers with maincharacter syndrome.

[@scorpionderooftrouse]

Bigfoots cousin works at my local bakery. Makes real good sourdough.

[@tbhzhomer192]

"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here" -Mitch Hedberg

[@theshinydome1992]

I haven't heard a fox, but I have heard a rabbit scream before, and that is positively haunting. Like a small child screaming. On a side note, I love your mushroom shirt.

[@dobrien51]

Emma, the camera setup in the woods is probably not to watch the pretty deer but to find out their movements so they can be hunted later.

[@Haireforce1666]

It is the second most scrutinized film next to the JFK assassination!

[@j-bob_oreo]

one of these things is not like other

[@TheCommanderFluffy]

​@@j-bob_oreo yeah, one actually happened and the other was a fake presidential assassination they filmed on the moon

[@TheMrCougarful]

Tells you everything you need to know about Americans.

[@TheCommanderFluffy]

Aww my obvious joke got deleted. Sure the first half was insane conspiracy stuff, but the latter half was the part where you realize I'm just joking. Oh well.

[@May_Odaigahara]

As someone who used to live in the PNW (Seattle, specifically), nobody really believes in sasquatch but he's also kinda our mascot and if he were real, we all believe he'd just be our pal

[@Shaddymaze]

More concerning than Big Foot is the FACT that there is an Enderman teleporting around Emma's house. 28:15 poor Emma can't hear it with the headphones on. Let's hope her door isn't more than 2 blocks high.

[@happytofu5]

You should be analyzing bigfoot footage with that sharp set of senses 😁

[@infinitedragonbellyx.x]

Currently obsessed with mushroom aesthetics, so obsessed with your shirt😍🍄

[@jonathanstern5537]

The most famous picture of Nessie is actually a toy submarine with a wooden thing glued to the top.

[@barrylangille3523]

I think it was actually a toy sub with an old-style brontosaurus neck attached. I remember reading that years ago; I could be wrong.

[@jonathanstern5537]

@@barrylangille3523 I’m pretty sure it was a piece of wood cut to look like that

[@NeutralDrow]

The second- are third-most famous are a piece of driftwood and a line of swimming seals.

[@kenwiljulius74]

You're wrong about podcast did an episode on hoaxes for April Fools and Nessie was a pretty big chunk of it.

[@rustkitty]

I think when WatchMojo said "unbelievable" they meant it linearly as in these videos are "not believable".

[@DarkPuppy9]

I like the idea of Bigfoot as a cover for the existence of werewolves

[@teleriferchnyfain]

Except Sasquatch are much more believable than werewolves

[@AnotherCraig]

Both are just cover for the really-real reality: werefeet!

[@TheMrCougarful]

Oh, I am totally using that in my novel.

[@ZephyrsLoki]

So, I'm a hardcore skeptic, for most things. But something about bigfoot is just endearing. I think it's harmless fun, so why not? Plus, the most recent TV show, Expedition Bigfoot, is really compelling! They got a primatologist, Dr. Mireya Mayor, to be the shows "skeptic"! She's actually discovered new species of monkey in recent history! At the start of the show, she really was a die-hard skeptic. Lots of eye rolling ensued, lol. But there are moments where Mireya perks up, even gets a little excited! She talks to professors and doctors of well known universities, who tell her why bigfoot could exist. She even interviews Dr. Jane Goodall, who tells her she believes bigfoot is possible! So it's lots of fun, they play with really cool and expensive, cutting-edge tech. Bryce Johnson interviews locals, some of whom are honestly nutty, but some of them, you absolutely believe. It's possible what they saw was not bigfoot, but you can tell they believe 100%. Some, gave me absolute chills. Tl:dr, It's great stupid fun, that somehow makes you think!!

[@promiscuous675]

Thank you. I always thought "Harry and the Hendersons" was the most conclusive evidence for Bigfoot.

[@barrylangille3523]

Well, you're not wrong...

[@stevedickson5853]

..he was being a bit sarcastic

[@barrylangille3523]

@@stevedickson5853 but still not wrong!

[@juliamason6867]

Thank you, Emma. I need a calm voice before I rage quit this job.

[@desperadox7565]

Maybe you should.

[@TheMrCougarful]

Seriously, go ahead and rage quit. You'll thank yourself later.

[@Kim_Miller]

I reckon looking for bigfoot is like looking for an Australian who drinks Fosters.

[@ratgirl34]

There was a bigfoot sighting near where I live a few years ago. It was seen on the far side of the river bank from the guys who spotted it. I can’t remember what kind of photos or footage there was, but it made the news and got the reserve a little bit of tourist income. Someone told me that they figure it was actually a dead tree seen at twilight, on the bank of the river with the roots facing the river. And that the river must have washed it away before anyone else could get out there with a boat. At a work camp I was doing security work at I was told by my supervisor about a sighting out there. It was kept out of the news because the client company didn’t want to deal with the hassle of it all. One of the night shift security guys was out doing a patrol, checking buildings and walking the camp. Mostly making sure no bears had wandered in, but also on the off chance that somebody was staying up late being a problem. My supervisor was at the security desk, when the guy on patrol radio’s in saying, ‘Very funny guys. Stop messing with me.’ But he was the only one out, and he was seeing what he thought was one of the guys up in the tree line pretending to be a bear or something. Since there were two trucks, he figured they had managed to sneak into the camp and walk out to the tree line. When they told him he was the only person out there, and he drove back up to where he could see the security office, sure enough the other truck was up there. So he goes back to the office, supervisor goes back to the spot with him, now thinking maybe there was someone sneaking around camp. And the guy points out the exact tree the ‘guy’ had been standing next to and which branch marked his height. When they went closer to the tree, they discovered that the branch was about seven or eight feet away from the ground. They did another patrol just to be sure. And the next day with some other curious contractor’s, went back to the spot. They found it’s tracks, and a couple of them followed them about a quarter mile before they just stopped. They looked around as they went and could not find any human tracks other than the ones they were making. And they went through some pretty dense spots, so it’s unlikely a truck or other vehicle could have been involved. By the time they got back to the tree some of the guys had decided to make a cast of the prints out of concrete. I’ve seen the cast, I’m not a foot expert by any means, but it could have been a couple feet shaped puddles that dried out for all I could tell. They were pretty rough looking. Though I imagine concrete might not be the best material for the job. That camp is being dismantled now, I wonder what they did with the casting? So, I don’t really believe in Bigfoot. But I enjoy the stories.

[@deertrivia5672]

In the style of Attorneys General and Surgeons General, I propose the plural term for Bigfoot be Bigsfoot.

[@bbureau12]

I lived on a lake as a child and used to think that the funny night sounds in the forest across the way were monkeys. Then I grew up and realized they were Barred Owls. Amazing, and sort of sad, how some people never stop playing pretend.

[@msjkramey]

If it doesn't hurt anyone, how is it sad?

[@aleksandargorgevik3415]

@@msjkramey I think he or she is saying is it is sad about people who continue to think this way without awareness or acceptance of facts. I would not mix this up with playing D&D on the weekend or something along those lines.

[@bbureau12]

​@@msjkramey I know people who believe Columbus was an awesome guy who din'donuthinwrong. Are they hurting anyone? Not objectively. Do I find it sad? Yes.

[@msjkramey]

@@bbureau12 that's denying history and it does hurt people

[@bbureau12]

​@@msjkramey A. Even egregious Columbus defenders like Prager accept the atrocities. They'll certainly downplay them by insisting that "in the time" most groups did "bad things," which by some stretch of logic makes it less horrific. They'll also insist that, while he had flaws, he was a great explorer who found America and yada yada. I disagree with this assessment, and generally believe it to be motivated by nationalism and nostalgia. Do I believe it is harmful? By itself, no. When combined with other "facts" to instill a distrust in academia and supplant history with propaganda, certainly, but that's a slippery slope. B. Believing in bigfoot denies science and basic logic. By itself, there's nothing harmful about an individual choosing to do that, but when you go down the slippery slope of the "facts" they put out there for the public, and the sort of bias they'll pass on to their kids, it can get all sorts of harmful. So yeah. I find both sad.

[@cybersandoval]

What if, in bigfeet culture, they are told to flee with casual stride?

[@untamedblossoms]

Like backing up slowly from a bear? I love it! I can see the little ones sitting around grandpa being told how to act if they come across a camera in the wild: blur yourself and casually walk away

[@chainsawtotheheart]

Gotta be chill man, keep up the mysterious façade. No self respecting cryptid would do something as humiliating as "scampering" or "frolicking"

[@jimgillert20]

Patty squatch, looking behind her, thinking, "oh no more humans falling off a horse and tripping on brush...."

[@blairbrown4812]

3:26 That reaction is why Emma is my Top Choice to play the Doctor.

[@noneya3635]

Bigfoot making a convenience store stroll is my new favorite thing.

[@asherthedisaster4724]

considering the fact that a good portion of these seem to be people not realizing that bears stand up sometimes I'm glad for the safety of the videographers that they aren't getting closer. I love to see someone who is an expert in bears and the like take a look at these

[@seraphinaaizen6278]

There is a strong correlation between bigfoot sightings and states with large black bear populations. However, I doubt the subject in these videos is a bear. It's the videogropher's buddy Buh-buh wearing an ape suit.

[@Arsus-gp6ih]

A good portion of than are from hunters and campers who wouldent mix up bears with anything

[@seraphinaaizen6278]

@@Arsus-gp6ih Rubbish. The moment you start claiming that it's impossible for an eye witness to be mistaken, you have lost objectivity. People mistake things they're familiar with for other things ALL THE TIME. This nonsensical position that it's somehow impossible for a camper or a hunter to make a mistake and for hysteria to turn the mundane into something extraordinary is one of the reason why people believe stupid things.

[@Arsus-gp6ih]

@@seraphinaaizen6278 acctually it deppends i wrote a study about bears back in uni i saw a lot of brown bears you usually dont mix up with anything because your life might deppend on it

[@mariaquiet6211]

Evidence: I'm size 11

[@Boxanadu]

13 here.

[@aleksandargorgevik3415]

come on guys ... it`s sightings of Shaq after a bender. Size 16 those boat paddles are

[@insertianameia2224]

While his shoes size is like 11 or 12, my one ex has boots that are like 14s.

[@NicholasMarshall]

Those are rookie numbers. When was 15 my shoe size was 15. Coincidence? I think not.

[@toothpastehombre]

For a jarring wild animal sound, look up a bobcat yowl. Hearing that in the woods, especially at night, would be genuinely terrific

[@Todd.B]

You do have to hand it to Ray Wallace, when a prank becomes a generational conspiracy theory, that's the ultimate prank.

[@RicoWingblaze-vt3lj]

I'm a new fan Emma!, just discovered you today!. I'm excited about this 👉🌌

[@SlightlyFizzled]

Bears commonly walk on two legs and it probably looks pretty freaky if you don't have a good view of this giant furry "bipedal". Just saying.

[@julietfischer5056]

You'd be surprised how many cryptids and aliens are misidentified animals. Most of us only know animals from television, movies, and zoos. Maybe the back yard. All safe, in focus, in plain view. But at night or dusk? Driving along, minding our own business, and suddenly something gets our attention. We have only a few seconds to see what it is, and our minds fill in the gaps. Or we're looking out the window at home, our minds on other things, and a face appears. Or there are strange sounds and we see things in the night. Unexpected and surprising. And rather than wonder if they saw a known animal under odd circumstances, some people conclude they saw a cryptid or extraterrestrial. There's a saying, "If you hear hoofbeats in Central Park, think horses, not zebras." A lot of people don't even think of zebras (or even gazelles) but insist on thoats or zitidars.

[@ailsaphinoir5130]

From what I remember there was a report when I was a teenager that did a world wide study and found evidence of a grolar bear (polar and grizzly cross) and concluded these were likely the start of the myth as they do walk on two legs

[@perryjohnson7529]

I live in a rural area. Our driveway has had deer, bear, turkeys, and at least one moose traveling on it. Those are just the ones we know of. A bear with mange cab look really freaky. Bears have lots of floppy floppy skin bits in the early spring before they bulk up.

[@girththeogre]

Another great video! Thank you!💚

[@popechucky]

“Definitely not going to shoot him?!” Considering ‘Shooting’, as part of the first reactions to ‘something I cant identify’?!?😳😳😳 THIS IS WHY THE ALIENS DONT VISIT!!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈😁🥰😁🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Thank you for another fun video🙂🙂🙂

[@TheMrCougarful]

America.

[@McFlingleson]

That reminds me of a book I read recently where humans have a war with an alien race that lasts over a thousand years and at the end of it it turns out that the war was basically over nothing because when the aliens were discovered the military basically took a "shoot first" policy and vaguely justified it by falsely attributing ships getting destroyed out in space to the aliens attacking them when really the ships got destroyed just because space travel is dangerous. The main character was one of the first soldiers in the war but lived through the whole thing because of relativity.

[@shannanigan_ocrabby]

As a resident of the Pacific Northwest... dont break my heart here. 😭

[@j-bob_oreo]

thats my secret cap ... i dont have a heart !

[@untamedblossoms]

It’s okay. Big Foot is a symbol of the PNW like Santa is a symbol of Christmas. I, too, still hear the bell

[@srenchin]

The problem with getting a picture of one of these things is that you need the presence of mind to pull your camera out and then take the shot. There are lots of anecdotal stories of people who have cameras on them that are so dumb struck at seeing something that shouldn't exist that they totally forget to get a picture.

[@saffral]

I love how it's like "I'd love to live among nature like that." without considering that it's actually quite cheap to buy land just like that, but then a person is stuck out in the wilderness surrounded by nature and it's only really good for a specific kind of person while the rest of us enjoy luxuries like good internet, potable water on tap, and not being hours away from help if something goes wrong. You can just go out and buy several acres of land in Northern Ontario for less than the cost of a new car. Of course having road access might also not be guaranteed, but that just means all the more nature to be surrounded by and the hike out there gives plenty of time to consider your life choices. Win-win if you ask me.

[@littleghostfilms3012]

Where are all the bigfoot skeletons? Oh ..I know, the living ones carefully gather them up and hide them. But not just one somewhere?

[@msjkramey]

Maybe they have burial rituals!!! Lol Edit: on a serious note, fossils are pretty rare. You need perfect conditions

[@j-bob_oreo]

their bones are papermache

[@littleghostfilms3012]

@@msjkramey Recent deaths. No hikers have ever come across any?

[@desperadox7565]

Good point. And all the poop too.💩

[@msjkramey]

@@littleghostfilms3012 if they have some kind of burial rites that would hide or destroy the bodies, that wouldn't be surprising at all. There are mass graves all over the United States, and many haven't been discovered or disturbed yet. If they cremated the remains, we'd have no way of determining that the ash used to be alive as far as I know, especially if it was scattered. I don't believe in Bigfoot either, just putting it out there

[@Maladjester]

I use cryptids, local mysteries, and true crime stories to help me write D&D adventures. The Bigfoot harassing the lumber camp turns out to be a bear, as you'd think, but the bear is a shapeshifted druid trying to scare the loggers away from a sacred site. That kind of thing.

[@Culpride]

I saw a bigfoot some decades ago. It was a bizarre and frightening sight, but I didn't run. I just waited until it went away by itself. (I sprained my ankle when I was a kid. It swell like crazy.)

[@jahipalmer8782]

Scientifically, the (verified) discovery of a hitherto unknown, large, bipedal, extant ape would be extraordinarily interesting. First, we'd have to reckon with the fact that we suck at observing stuff, which would shake up methodologies for searching (where was this thing the whole time, why was it so hard to find, have we been making the same mistake in EVERYTHING?) Next, we'd have to decide what to do (there's a large creature that obviously wants to be left alone, but we think it looks so much "like us." Do we act like we never discovered it while documenting that we did? Do we create exclusion zones for them to live in? Do we... hunt them!?) The scientific community would be super hungry for more info about it while simultaneously realizing that trying to learn more could destroy what we are trying to learn about.

[@jeffhough7460]

Love that shirt emma!

[@trevorhilborn5987]

Regarding the Patterson-Gimlin footage, most people don't notice that the creature's arms reach down to it's knees. Also, considering all the weight this creature has to carry, and only two legs to do it, I believe it's moving at damn-near top speed.

[@Baker69]

Smooth transition into the sponsor 🫡

[@In_the_Pod]

29:02 Bigfoot is just woodland version of the Dude from The Big Lebowski.

[@Gnabbist]

That moss really tied the clearing together.

[@jtdavis62]

"What are you, a fucking park ranger now?"

[@thomasdendtler4077]

"Im definitelynot gonna shoot him" First time ive ever heard a yank utter those words in that order..

[@TheMrCougarful]

Plot twist: shot it anyway.

[@lizardkyng]

Yay! come home from Star Wars RPG night and get a new Emma video. Tis a good day.

[@furonguy42]

Really loved that visual gag with the log jam! 😆

[@gordonbrinkmann]

Yep, me too 😅

[@gordonbrinkmann]

Wait, your username is "fur on guy"? So you are one of those people running around in forests to play Bigfoot? 😂

[@Haireforce1666]

I do believe the skeptical views are a must to keep this subject grounded in reality. That is how we find the middle ground.

[@desperadox7565]

There is no middle ground between true and false. (Nice profile pic btw. Is it a selfie?)

[@sherlockwho5714]

Show me a corpse or a living one and I will accept Big foot seems like a good compromise

[@sherlockwho5714]

​@@desperadox7565I'm not closed to the idea but I'm going to need the evidence

[@desperadox7565]

@@sherlockwho5714 Evidence for the absence of sth doesn't exist.

[@sherlockwho5714]

@@desperadox7565 sorry I'm not sure I understand what you are saying?

[@sabrinaferguson3460]

Your content gives me life haha appreciate you so much ❤❤

[@HealyUnit]

Holy crap that sponsor transition was amazing.

[@MinionofNobody]

I am a skeptic but, like most things in life, I am willing to change my mind if given clear and convincing evidence. I am nearly sixty. Given the number of people who have been searching the woods of North American throughout my life, I think the lack of clear and convincing evidence speaks volumes.

[@GravesRWFiA]

part of it is that the woods, especially in the northwest are less populated now than a century ago, and with the improvement of technology even the native american/first nations folk travel less as they don't have to migrate with the seasons.

[@edwardzignot2681]

I live about a mile away from the closest town to Bluff Creek where the Patterson film was shot. I mean, most people up here just do a ton of drugs and drink to combat the boredom, soooo really making giant wooden feet and fuzzy costumes to prank people is a healthier hobby than most! I live right next to Highway 96, also known as "Bigfoot Highway." Everything up here is Bigfoot themed. It's northern Humboldt so everything's associated with either weed, or Bigfoot, or Bigfoot smoking weed. The nearest weed dispensary is the Bigfoot dispensary. Oddly enough the locals don't' really talk about Bigfoot, and I haven't heard a single one claim to have seen him. It's like we know better and just milk the Bigfoot tourism for whatever it's worth. There's enough bears up here to put Bigfoot pretty low on our list of concerns I guess. Not to mention all the drunk/high yokels randomly firing guns at any and all hours of the day or night and looking for tools to steal. Fox screams screwed with me so hard when I first moved here. Now I usually just go outside and fire my .22 into the ground to scare the sucker off so I can get back to sleep.....

[@itsagazebo]

I wish you put a chapter just for the clip at the beginning- love your videos, hate spoilers

[@throughthewoods416]

I watched a discovery channel doc when I was a kid and they tracked down the guy in the suit in the footage. They couldn't prove it definitively, but they filmed him walking to his local bar and he walked just like the weird gait in the video.

[@georgem2334]

The truth is out there!

[@dogwalker666]

Ok Mulder.

[@j-bob_oreo]

no ... its in here !

[@elohi]

I literally live in Bigfoot country in McCurtain county, Oklahoma- look it up- we have Bigfoot hunters, Bigfoot merch is everywhere as well, which is what I think it’s all about- MONEY. And attention haha.

[@WorldOfRock4U]

Emma.... thanks!!! wonderful work!

[@MrVotiga]

I think everyone just wants to have a bigfoot friend because they're so chill.

[@FrikInCasualMode]

There's this thing called "Minimum population density" - if population is too small and too spread out, individuals can't find each other to mate and have babies. If they are not at this point, it means we somehow missed entire tribes of large humanoids frolicking in the woods.

[@j-bob_oreo]

so?

[@DrJReefer]

​@@j-bob_oreoSo. It's why Bigfoot is Bigfake

[@jerrymitchell77]

What if bigfoot are nomads. They travel in small groups or clans and don't intermingle.

[@NOlR_Deco]

​@@jerrymitchell77 Then the problem of inbreeding comes up, and even then, nomadic groups would surely leave traces of their passing, such as multiple tracks or feces and such.

[@pascalostermann720]

Of course there were snowmen in American, all described in Calvin & Hobbes documentaries.

[@pandora8610]

IIRC, those are snow *goons*, not men.

[@istvansipos9940]

- Calviiiin! Which state do you live in? - In the state of denial. "Calvin & Hobbes" is a Gem of art

[@JacarandaMusic]

When I was young and on a bike ride, I was pushing it up a hill near my house and there was suddenly a monstrous, ghastly face staring at me over a fence by the road. Maybe I let out a squeak, but then the cat turned around. What my juvenile brain had resolved into a monster’s face was the blotches on the back of the cat, sitting on the fence. It’s an example of how we are programmed to see faces and other shapes, to hear words, to perceive patterns, in completely random stimuli. Some of the things we perceive we turn into monsters.

[@jacobg1796]

Emma's goofy energy is at its peak in this video and I hope it is a sign of things to come

[@roberth721]

Emma, your face is always reflective, otherwise you will be invisible. (Moments of scientific pedantry)

[@ooNemoO71]

Technically right, the best kind of right.

[@DD-gi6kx]

bigfoot lives in the out of focus part of the forest, its his defense mechanism

[@rowanrobbins]

Great video, Emma. I LOVE that shirt! I live in upstate New York, not far from the Canadian border. A few years ago, our county fair had a special display in the building that housed displays and info on NYS parks and recreation areas(like smaller county parks, and places to camp). The Park Rangers had a big map of the State Parks and the part of a National Park that we share with Pennsylvania. There were places marked on the map where people reported seeing a Big Foot! They had a whole program about New York's role in people who searched for it in New York! They weren't saying it was real, just that it's become a part of our culture everywhere in the US. The display was part of the anniversary of the Parks Service in New York.

[@grahvis]

We have cameras that can record craters on the moon, yet alien and bigfoot images are always taken by people using box brownies.

[@desperadox7565]

As the number and quality of cameras has increased a hundredfold over the last decades, there should be great footage everywhere. So, why isn't there?

[@DrJReefer]

Because great footage of a big man in a monkey costume looks like a man in a cheap monkey costume. Keep that shit shaky, poorly lit, and out of focus.

[@julietfischer5056]

Hell, security cameras in cities get footage of bears foraging in dumpsters, but not a single trail camera photo or video of undeniable Bigfoot?

[@samppawest]

Just noticed, that you started this channel on my brother’s birthday. He’s a 35 yo. fresh doctor of neurology and a specialised on acute medicine (straight translations from Finnish).

[@jpopelish]

I have met about a dozen black bears in the woods, on the street in front of my house, and in my yard, and I never felt threatened or afraid of any of them. The one that worried me most was a mom pushing a couple cubs up a tree, before whirling around to give me and the two dogs with me the "Are we going to have a problem, here?" look. I just hope I could be as calm in the presence of a bigfoot. I would hope to have a nice conversation with it, like I had with a young black bear, at the local dog park.

[@keppakappa5033]

Based on what little I know about archeology and evolution, whenever the bones of a "new" human ancestor are discovered, it is always a huge topic of debate whether it really is a new species, how old it is, if it's even technically human, etc, because if it IS a new pre-human species it could drastically change how, when, and where we think we evolved into what we are today. Finding a LIVING example of a human-like species that could have theoretically evolved beside us in different way than we did, yet entirely seperated from us, would be HUGE. It could potentially completely throw a wrench in everything we thought about how human evolution went down in North America.

[@jeffmacdonald9863]

Yeah, it wouldn't be mind blowing by cryptid standards, but it would be far more serious than just another ape. Bigfoot as generally portrayed is much more bipedal than non-human apes, so it would have to be either an entirely unknown offshoot from our evolutionary branch or an even weirder case of parallel evolution.

[@charleslipscomb2567]

You don't shoot Bigfoot, you tease him with beef jerky!

[@mjjoe76]

I see what you did there.

[@davidhand9721]

Horses are _very_ skittish, Emma. They are well known to flee from the sudden noise of their own farts.

[@genem2768]

Why is bigfoot stuff so much fun to look at and talk about? I certainly don't believe anything has actually been discovered but it's so gosh darn neat to think about.

[@theneonchimpchannel9095]

Finding Bigfoot was a "how not to" guide to finding any kind of wild animal. Whilst they did have a skeptic as part of the team, the other 3 presenters were not only believers but they would make claims about the species as if they knew these things to be facts. For example, they would claim that the creatures were apex predators and that they were most definitely carnivores despite any proof of this. They also claimed that even though the vast majority of sightings took place during the day that the creatures were nocturnal. However, the biggest issue that I had with the show was that they would go into the forest and make a lot of noise, copying the noises that they believed the creatures to make, banging on trees, blasting music, etc. If there's a creature in the woods that doesn't want to be found, then making all that noise is just going to say "humans are in this area, best not go that way". They would sometimes see things on thermal imaging cameras and things like that, but then they'd start making noises and the shapes on the thermal imaging cameras would quickly move away. Either the team were somewhat inept or they were doing this on purpose so as people would copy them and also not find anything. Assuming that there is an endangered great ape living in the woods on North America, if the morons...errr...gun nuts and hunters...had proof of this then they'd be out there shooting anything in sight, they'd wipe the rest of the species out within a few years, so maybe it is better that we never know for sure. But the methods of Finding Bigfoot were anything but scientific. There's better bigfoot investigators on KZbin that have been able to find far more evidence. TimberGiantBigfoot did get fairly close to something a few times. Not close enough to say 100% that it was a sasquatch but it was certainly compelling footage. The 3 "experts" on Finding Bigfoot were far too convinced that they "knew" all these things about a species that really there is no information on. Some of it came from Native American folklore which might have been accurate but it might also have been stories to stop the kids wandering around the woods late at night. Most Native American tribes do believe that there is a creature out there though, but I've never seen them make as many bold claims about the species as the Finding Bigfoot team did. Jane Goodall has said that she believes that it's entirely possible for sasquatch to exist. Some people have taken that to mean that she's convinced that it's all real, but she has clarified that she just believes that the creature might be out there and been able to remain undiscovered for all this time as we're always discovering new species that the natives have known about for centuries, but it's only treated as folklore until there's proof. Brian Blessed who has attempted to climb Mount Everest twice has spoken to the locals in Nepal and they were very matter of fact about the existence of the Yeti, the snow based cousin of the sasquatch. When he asked what the Yeti looked like, they said ti Brian Blessed, "you!". For those unaware, Brian Blessed is a large, hairy man with a big booming voice.

[@seraphinaaizen6278]

I find it hilarious that you genuinely seem to trust that evidence for Bigfoot while come from an entertainment youtube channel.

[@kerrynisbet1514]

Very few Native American tribes folklore actually describe anything close to a classic "bigfoot" creature. Many of them are more frustrated that their folklore is used as evidence of a bigfoot.

[@jaredrobinson7071]

I love cryptozoology. Imagine all the people who were vindicated when we actually found the creature that was called a Kraken. And as I recently just learned Giant squid still attack big ships, Our ships are just much more durable and faster now so we don't notice it as much.

[@msjkramey]

Imagine seeing a 40 foot squid in person

[@j-bob_oreo]

so lije seeing a ft squid 40 times ? or 40 1 ft squids at once ? ​@@msjkramey

[@waytoomuchtimeonmyhands]

Except a giant squid is not a kraken. The kraken may have been based on sightings of giant squid but no giant squid ever pulled down a ship. Not sure what you mean by, they still attack big ships. Do you have a link? It is folklore plain and simple. Coelacanth may be a better example but there was no folklore around Coelacanths and for all the claims of living fossils, modern Coelacanths are different from their fossil ancestors.

[@rozmarinideas5340]

​@@waytoomuchtimeonmyhands wow, you must be fun at parties.

[@teleriferchnyfain]

Yes a gigantic squid is most certainly a Kraken. Just because the stories of it pulling ships down were exaggerated doesn’t mean anything.