Bigfoot and other monsters of Cryptozoology

[BvBPL]

The Psi Corp did it.

 

[Archbob]

To a more serious point, the guy who shot the famous Bigfoot film did pass a polygraph test.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

The bear hypothesis makes more sense than the bigfoot hypothesis. But the hypothesis that makes the most sense of all of them is the one that says that it's nothing at all, just people mistaking random noises and sightings of already known animals under sub-optimal conditions for being something more than what it is.

As soon as anyone can produce even one scrap of physical evidence I'll start listening, but "I saw something, I swear, I've been in the woods my whole life and I know what I'm talking about!" isn't evidence. Animals leave physical evidence behind. Hair. Droppings. Dead bodies. Small things like that. Even if it's a new species of bear instead of a primate there should be physical remains of some kind and there just isn't.

A group which searched the Himalayas for signs of the legendary Yeti did recover some unusual hair samples. When they tested the DNA, it appeared to be an exact match with the jawbone of a bear which is thought to have lived in Norway about 40,000 years ago. This was thought to have been an extinct ancestor of the polar bears, or perhaps a polar bear/brown bear hybrid. The hair seems to prove that such a bear is not so extinct after all, but was alive in Nepal within the past decade.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

So we have so many sightings of Nesse, Bigfoot, Ogopogo, grassman, mothman, yeti, etc, yet no physical speciman or even skeleton has been found. How can this be?

There are numerous places in the Okanagan region of British Columbia where Ogopogo has been sighted. My dad swears he saw him in Okanagan Lake.

I sat on Ogopogo's nose in Kelowna, B.C., about 45 years ago. There is an Ogopogo in one of the ponds in Polson Park, in Vernon. I don't think it's the same one as was there a few decades ago.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I thought there were only the yeti an similar plus nessie, but after watching destination truth i learn that there are lota of cryptocreatures, one for every chapter of that stupid (but sometimes funny) show.

 

[BvBPL]

I got yer yeti right here.

 

[filli_noctus]

... but say there's a species of bear out there that's more intelligent than regular bears, but just a bit more, nothing approaching human levels, and if that species of bear prefers to walk upright and is really good at hiding from humans...

If that were true I'd be concerned as to the whereabouts of my picinic basket.

 

[Kyriakos]

Wait, so the Ogopogo is just a far-eastern styled Nessie?

Disappointed

 

[warpus]

A group which searched the Himalayas for signs of the legendary Yeti did recover some unusual hair samples. When they tested the DNA, it appeared to be an exact match with the jawbone of a bear which is thought to have lived in Norway about 40,000 years ago. This was thought to have been an extinct ancestor of the polar bears, or perhaps a polar bear/brown bear hybrid. The hair seems to prove that such a bear is not so extinct after all, but was alive in Nepal within the past decade.

I think the documentary I watched a couple months ago that lead to me making the post about the "bear hypothesis" on page 1 might have been about these researchers.. in part maybe. From what I remember it wasn't very conclusive - but it was intriguing - and I found it a much more satisfactory answer to the whole bigfoot question than a mythical human-like giant.

Having said all that, I bet 80-90% of all sightings is just people seeing what they want to see.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Wait, so the Ogopogo is just a far-eastern styled Nessie?

Disappointed

Since Ogopogo lives in Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, which is the westernmost province of Canada, I disagree that it's "far-eastern."

 

[Kyriakos]

^ I was just going by the google images of it
Most of them look like Chinese/Oriental Dragons..