https://www.democraticunderground.com/113511813Boog enthusiasts: No mention of boog the chocolate lab in this TEB soon to be classic, so if you're only here for boog, you'll just want to head out now. For the others, feast your eyes on this:
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 05:19 AM
TEB (1,429 posts)
I would like to hear your ideas on Bigfoot
Yesterday I met a gentleman a friend of our son in law. Who grew up in south east Oklahoma, and he was telling me that it is quite common to hear people in the area he grew up in to tell of sightings. What started the conversation was he saw a paperback book I picked up at the used book store on cryptozoology. he personally never had an experience , but he told me his father growing up in rural Oklahoma in the 1970 thru 1980 had as well as his aunts.
In the area we live is very rural mountains with two state forest. And we have quite a few orchards and farms, and looking on line we have had quite a few people who have had experiences as well. And I know one gentleman who told me once trail riding their horses in the state forest with his wife a branch was tossed at them, they never saw who tossed it or what. Several years ago in a desolate area I trout fish a man found tracks and took pictures and it was in the local paper.
I have never had an experience of any kind but I am open minded to the possibility that they may exist, theories abound that gigantopithecus survived. Or that perhaps Neanderthals have not gone extinct, I guess what I'm trying to get across is with all the documented sightings all of these people cannot be telling tall tales.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 05:55 AM
roscoeroscoe (703 posts)
2. No experience personally
But I would recommend Lloyd Pye's book 'Everything you know is Wrong'
Oh FFS.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 06:10 AM
TEB (1,429 posts)
4. Thank you I just ordered this book off amazon
Oh now THIS should make for some interesting post-Pye threads from TEB and boog the chocolate lab.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 06:05 AM
Star Member democratisphere (4,360 posts)
3. Bigfoot exists around the world and I believe many of the stories to be true.
Humans should leave these creatures alone as there are probably very few and they don't need to be made extinct.
Believe!!1
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 06:33 AM
TEB (1,429 posts)
5. I agree with you
I read once that perhaps only a few hundred live in America. In one article I read was a doctor Myra shackley who on expedition I think in the altai of ok I'm not sure so I do not want to be wrong. But she has a sighting of three walking together, and her guide was really casual about it. And she interviewed children who said that they played with these children of I think they called them almasty.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 07:06 AM
Orrex (56,697 posts)
6. As silly myths go, Bigfoot is one of the more harmless.
It is unlikely, though not impossible, that they exist.
However, to date there has been absolutely no evidence stronger than "cool story, bro."
That's good enough for TEB and boog the chocolate lab, though. TEB saw that Purple Matress Protector commercial, damnit! He KNOWS.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 07:22 AM
TEB (1,429 posts)
7. Maybe I want to believe that it is true
A friend of mine once asked well they have never found any proof , like a body but I thought to myself all times I spent in the woods. Growing up in Appalachia or even around here I've never found say black bear remains. So in reading a lot of people experience on line I wonder some of them seem credible as a retired Air Force officer. A former police officer so in thinking what would their reasoning be to lie.
Doctor Professor TEB, PhD in Anecdotal Evidence Studies with a minor in Appeal to Authority. Take THAT, doubters.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 07:59 AM
Orrex (56,697 posts)
11. I didn't grow up in Appalchia, but I have seen black bears stuffed and mounted
I have seen two of them dead on the road, and last year I saw one sitting in a field eating its dinner.
I have seen countless nature documentaries, and you could easily spend the rest of the month watching YouTube clips of black bears. The evidence for their existence is beyond compelling.
You are, in essence, insisting that black bears might not exist because you haven't personally seen them face-to-face, but that's a very egocentric view. Others have seen them, and we have a mountain of proof confirming their existence.
There is no such evidence that Bigfoot or the Yeti exists. None.
So in reading a lot of people experience on line I wonder some of them seem credible as a retired Air Force officer. A former police officer so in thinking what would their reasoning be to lie.
They could be lying, or they could simply be incorrect. Perhaps they also "want to believe that it is true," and so they are willing to allow weak evidence to convince them. I don't know--you'd need to ask them.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 08:02 AM
TEB (1,429 posts)
13. I was saying
That i have never found remains of black bears. And twice as a kid I seen black bears once squirrel hunting and once walking down the road from the bus stop.
In DUmmie logic, this is considered "settled science".
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 08:16 AM
Orrex (56,697 posts)
18. Even so.
The fact remains that no one--no one has found a Bigfoot corpse or a bone or teeth or hair or stool, despite decades of search.
Strictly speaking, we cannot "prove" that it doesn't exist, but there is no convincing evidence that it does exist.
When did TEB stop beating boog the chocolate lab?
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 07:44 AM
Star Member SHRED (19,580 posts)
8. Why haven't remains been found?
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 07:56 AM
TEB (1,429 posts)
10. That I cannot answer
But all times I've spent in nature I've never really came across any remains of say black bear or foxes coyotes, once I remember finding a deer skull but that was as a kid. So I'm not sure yet I was just tossing this out because of the discussion I had with this gentleman yesterday and I find it very interesting. And yes part of me wants to believe and actually have a sighting. After the guy who took pictures of tracks in rural area I fish I started going to the area quite a lot but I never have had any experiences.
This guy has the mental capacity to process critical information at a 3rd grade level.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 08:01 AM
Star Member SHRED (19,580 posts)
12. I met a girl years ago
In rural Washington.
She was walking here dog by the train tracks when an over powering smell over took her.
Just then she saw a two legged creature cross over the tracks and into the woods.
She was dead serious.
Did it smell like a sewage plant and mini tacos? I think I know who your Samsquatch is.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 08:24 AM
TEB (1,429 posts)
20. When my friend mentioned trail riding with his wife
And out of nowhere this branch comes flying out of nowhere. They never smelled any strong odor , area is like maybe six miles into the state forest. Maybe it was a pot farmer I don't know , but he added they heard no running or any other sounds but they got out of the area ,Awesome story about the woman and her dog.
A branch hit my friend in the face=SAMSQUATCH EXISTS.
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 08:11 AM
Star Member gordianot (11,973 posts)
16. After an experience with a large black cat I had in the early 1980's I do not dismiss Bigfoot
In my case the every trained naturalist, conservation agent tells me that large black cats do not exist in North America. I know what I saw from our car for 5 minutes at a distance of as little as 10 feet. The large cat we saw was not well you could see her ribs. Someone sees a large hairy ape based on my experience I will not dismiss it.
http://i63.tinypic.com/1553nee.jpg
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 07:47 AM
Loki Liesmith (1,597 posts)
9. May have existed
But probably extinct or nearly so if it did.
Well, he
has been dying... I think we've found our ape.
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