[Rottie]

Does anybody really believe that Bigfoot exists in North America ?

Me ? Nah, although I still believe in Father Christmas and know a police officer who swears he was abducted by Aliens whilst on duty one night. When he came round his pants were missing.

[latheseea]

Hmmmm I would have to say noooo...their are alot of people around my part of the woods that do..they call it the noxi monster..aka( bigfoot)...I did alot of web searching on this one day out of bordom..slow days at work...and we came across a site of what you should take with you on your bigfoot hunt...stating that their favorite food is snickers and bigmacs...:lol:

[Yogi]

I have to say that I believe that a creature (Sasquatch) aka Bigfoot does exist.
I live in the Northwest where much of this started and there has been too much to support the possibility of a creature existing. Aloof yes, but with the mountainous forest range here it would easily be a place where something like this could live and truly never be seen.

[Rottie]

The reason I raised this matter is that an immense amount of scientific data and thousands of "sightings" by seemingly sensible people has been accumulated. Not to be laughed at by open minded, intelligent and educated people.

My background is entirely scientific. I do not accept anything that happens in our world without scientific explanation, albeit that many things are not yet scientifically defined - they are currently unexplained events, but DO have an earthbound origin. The infinity of the Universe is self explanatory that no supernatural or spiritual presences exist in our daily lives.

Having said that, I do accept that we do not know everything about our Planet, new discoveries are made frequently, even "extinct" species are found at times and it is not over yet.

It is almost impossible to imagine that some ape-like creature from the dawn of evolution can exist in a country of 360 million people without sound evidence having been found over the centuries and more so in our present time of high-tech detection facilities.

Bigfoot would have to have a survivable population - perhaps over 100 to procreate it`s existence. It needs a food source. Not a scrap of credible evidence has yet been found to corroborate it`s existence - footprints are subject to hoaxes and that stupid video by Patterson of some guy in a monkey suite strolling along, is too ridiculous to even stifle uncontrolled laughter.

BUT ! It is possible that although this mythical creature has never crossed the path of us humans, never raided our dust-bins or damaged our property, it could JUST be true.

We will have to wait for factual evidence in the future. Failing that, it just becomes a legendary fairy tale to scare the pips out of generations to come, like the gross distortions of all historical events from the Wild West to Nazareth.

[SkippyAndMe]

I don't know that we can or should rule out things just because they are beyond our own experience, but something like this is - well, it's hard to square with the laws of nature.

Is there supposed to be just one (a sole survivor) or a community (like Rottie said) that is able to reproduce enough to continue the existence of the species?
How is it that they are supposed to communicate with each other? Do they have a language that allows them to plan their movements such that we never can track them down?
Just how smart is big foot supposed to be - or could big foot be? Never having been found means that the creature would have to be very smart. I don't mean smart enough to get food and shelter, I mean smart enough to elude all efforts to find him. I would think that to hide this well, the creature would have to know that someone is trying to catch it and that the creature would be smart enough to not be caught: ever, or at least, so far. Also, the larger the community, the smarter the creature because there would be so much to hide (creatures, sleeping dens, refuse and waste, etc.).
If they are that smart, why not try to communicate with us?
If they are afraid of us (which we suspect because they are hiding), then why don't they try to destroy the local humans to be rid of the threat.

By the way, wasn't there an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man in which he has an encounter with big foot?!

[heroes_46]

I dont't believe it at all. It's a big spoof. But funny when u hear stories of people seeing them