In 1987, a movie by the name of Harry & The Hendersons
was released onto the silver screen to much acclaim. The film tapped into the
public’s fascination with the legend of Bigfoot and his interactions should he
ever come into true contact with an all American family. The film was such a
success that a spin off TV show was created as well. While the TV show did not
do quite as well as the movie it helped to fuel the further interest of the
Bigfoot legend. The movie was a simple concept in that a typical American family
was driving along a wooded road when they struck some type of animal. As the family got out to investigate it they
realized it was a bigfoot and took it home for evidence. As the Bigfoot came to
they began to get to know the gentle giant and made it a part of their family.
However at the end of the film he returns to the wilderness and you see Harry
(the name given to the Bigfoot) walking into the woods when an entire family of
Bigfoot come out to greet him.
The legend of Bigfoot has been around for many many years
and similar stories of Bigfoots exist all over the world. There are many names
for the Bigfoot such as Yeti, Abominable Snowman, Sasquatch, Swamp Man, Skunk
Ape, and so on and so forth. It makes you begin to think that with so many
stories and similarities could the legend of Bigfoot be real and exist to this
modern day?
There are over hundreds of Bigfoot sightings all over the
United States every year, and that’s not counting the sightings from the rest
of the world. Now I am sure that some of the sightings are false, but the rest
of them you have to wonder about. What are people seeing in the woods? Could it
really be some sort of forgotten animal or is it the missing link so desired by
scientists throughout the world? Well whatever it is, it is out there and it
lives with us in the modern world supposedly.
Many skeptics say that if the Bigfoot legend is real then
why have we not found any remains and as well why have we not seem them before
as much as people seem to see them to
this day? Let’s take on the first part of this question, why have no remains of
a Bigfoot been found? Every year it seems the scientific and zoological
community find an animal that was thought to be extinct for hundreds of years.
In fact there have been quite a number of animals rediscovered that the
scientific community is reviewing some of its past comments/decisions of
previously though extinct animals. So with that bit of trivia revealed, why
can’t the Bigfoot be in the same category of an animal that was thought o be
extinct that’s actually still alive to this day? Ok now for the second part,
which is why are there are so many more sightings now than in the past? I have
two theories on this one and the first being with the development of so much
land, like all the other animals such as deer and bears, we are pushing them
more and more out of their natural habitat of the woods. If there aren’t many
woods left then they are going to come to the suburbs and we will see them
more, simple as that. The second theory of mine is that with the invention of
the internet and e-mail and cell phones it is much more easier to be in contact
with people who have seen a said Bigfoot. In fact there are websites dedicated
to Bigfoot sightings, such as http://www.bfro.net/
, http://www.bigfootencounters.com/
OK now that I have “attacked” the skeptical now it’s time to
give the believers their turn on the hot seat. My question to the believers is
how come there are no clear pictures or videos of the sightings. This is why
Bigfoot sightings involving video and pictures are so easy to fake, because
there is no clear evidence. On the Penn & Teller Show Bull Sh*t they
actually faked a Bigfoot video and people came out of the wood work believing
the video to be real before any real zoologists or scientists could verify the
video clip. As well, even if Penn & Teller faked scientific evidence people
would buy into a believe it. Case in point, in July of 2008 2 men came forward with
a supposed Bigfoot carcass, the major news networks picked it up and a press
conference was going to be held on national TV for its unveiling. However, as the ice thawed around the supposed
carcass it was discovered to be a fake, a plastic mask and fake fur suit. The
Bigfoot community was duped and considered the laughing stock of the scientific
world. I feel bad in one sense that they got duped, but in another I think they
got what they deserved. They did no real research and paid an insane amount of
money for the carcass without any real evidence. So in essence it would be as
if you went and phoned a used car dealership and bought a car without really
seeing it or checking it out to make sure it’s not a lemon. Does this make good
business or scientific sense, because it doesn’t to me.
People in this world want these myths and legends to be real
that they tend to lose sight of common sense and logical understanding. Don’t
believe what you see or hear, investigate and research it, you wouldn’t dump
your money into any stock without research so why do that with the myths and
legends that you grew up hearing. It doesn’t hurt to question the evidence, and
if they get upset that you’re questioning it then it probably isn’t real.
Be safe and please don’t feed the Bigfoot,
John Cannon
John Cannon
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