New Bigfoot sighting, video and footprints in Idaho!

[johnmiic]

They have a bunch of those at Washington State University. I think one of the Professor's was on 'In Search Of' back in the day.

-Chris

The late Dr. Grover Krantz. He took a lot of his footprint casts to the FBI and asked them to determine if they were fakes. They said footprints have identifying marks like fingerprints called dermal ridges. Currently there is no way to fake fingerprints otherwise criminals would use the method to throw law enforcement off their trail when they commit crimes. After examining his casts they could tell which ones were real by inspecting the dermal ridges and authenticated many of the casts he collected in the field.

The Patterson/Gimlin film of the 1960's is still the gold standard tho.

[Zemo]

Come om, Really, in an age where we can see an flea on a dog that's in Minot ND from outer space, people still think there's a Bigfoot running around in North America undocumented? Imo, no figgen way.

[HumanWolfman]

Kind of looked like Bo Bo to me.

[raider5gt]

They have a bunch of those at Washington State University. I think one of the Professor's was on 'In Search Of' back in the day.

-Chris

Cool,I loved that TV programme as a kid.Have you seen any of the casts at the university?

Josh Gates from Destination Truth found some prints and made some casts,I think they found some hair samples also but they came back inconclusive.

[megomania]

I know there has not been much video evidence released on the sightings of Bigfoot but what about the plaster cast molds made of the footprints?

They have a bunch of those at Washington State University. I think one of the Professor's was on 'In Search Of' back in the day.

-Chris

[raider5gt]

I know there has not been much video evidence released on the sightings of Bigfoot but what about the plaster cast molds made of the footprints?

[megomania]

Bigfoot lives in Washington State so there's no way he could have been spotted in Idaho.

-Chris

[Brazoo]

There have been thousands of sightings all over North America going back hundreds of years, and statistically, they can't all be misidentifications or hoaxes, so you're left with at least some true sightings.

One of the issues with using sitings to verify Big Foot's existence is that our brains are much better at interpreting info when what we're looking at makes sense - and our brains aren't wired to freely accept "I don't know what that is". When we experience something that doesn't click with us our brain will often fill in missing information using what we DO know.

For example - we have been primed from babies to identify a shape and call it "bear". Our parents went through picture books with us pointing out "bear" and reenforcing that image in our brains.

On the other side we have been told about Big Foot. We know the mystery, we see blurred or distant unclear images. We read things about encounters and wonder about the idea.

So now our brain is conditioned to take in visual information and interpret it one way and not necessarily the correct way. If we're looking at a very sick or deformed bear we might not make the correct identification. Confusion and mystery equals "Big Foot" - NOT "extremely unusual looking bear". And this process is further effected by excitement - because your brain is reacting to potential danger.

I'm not trying to make this personal. I'm saying all our brains are faulty this way. I don't know what you saw - and I can't know what you saw. I'm just saying that because of the lack of physical evidence it's not easy to use eye-witness evidence to confirm Big Foot's existence - or conclude that the number of sitings increases the likelihood of it's existence without new physical evidence.

You could actually argue that because the number of sitings increases, but the physical evidence remains fairly static that that's confirmation people might not be making the right conclusions about what they're seeing.

[emeraldknight47]

Maybe, but the kid also didn't want any publicity or his identity revealed, so who knows.

There have been thousands of sightings all over North America going back hundreds of years, and statistically, they can't all be misidentifications or hoaxes, so you're left with at least some true sightings.

Oh, trust me, I'm sure that there is definitely some truth to the whole Bigfoot mythology as I'm a firm believer in unexplained phenomenons (heck, I'd still like to think there's a big ol' Plesiosaurus living in Loch Ness somewhere), but the whole story is so riddled with hoaxes and mistruths that it's hard to divine fact from fiction sometimes...

[Brazoo]

For some reason that video is blocked in Canada, so I can't comment on it.

[enyawd72]

What makes me wary of any veracity to this reported "Bigfoot" sighting is that the "eyewitnesses" were high schoolers, who, as we have all BEEN high schoolers at one time or another, are sometimes known for pranks and shenanigans...

Maybe, but the kid also didn't want any publicity or his identity revealed, so who knows.

There have been thousands of sightings all over North America going back hundreds of years, and statistically, they can't all be misidentifications or hoaxes, so you're left with at least some true sightings.

[enyawd72]

Your own run in?.....Care to share?

My story is found here

Funniest show on tv today - Mego Talk

It was really a life altering event for me.

[megocrazy]

Even Bigfoot wouldn't go to Idaho.

[Brown Bear]

I think the formal terminoligy is that teenagers can be sometimes "full of beans and wieners".

[emeraldknight47]

What makes me wary of any veracity to this reported "Bigfoot" sighting is that the "eyewitnesses" were high schoolers, who, as we have all BEEN high schoolers at one time or another, are sometimes known for pranks and shenanigans...