Decided to post my recollection of Bigfoot...

[enyawd72]

This drawing is the closest I could get from memory of the creature I saw peering at me from behind a tree in Rock Creek, Ohio back in 1982. I didn't post this for debate about whether people think Bigfoot is real or not. This is what I personally saw. I do not remember it looking very ferocious...more curious I think, but it's sheer size and not knowing what it was terrified me back then. It's not something I can ever forget.
You guys can take it for what it is...just thought I'd share.

[MIB41]

I still say you should talk to my friend about the Big Foot book he's writing. I think he would very much like to hear your discussion on this event. And just think... If he does actually print your story and this beast is ever proven to exist, you'll be able to slap me up side the head with that book and say, "See?! I told you!" I think that's worth the price of the book right there.

[Random Axe]

Hey, you saw what you saw. No need for debate on that. I have my own strange creature, UFO and ghost sighting and experiences I know were real, but I cannot back it up at all. I just know what my senses told me. We go around thinking humanity is the top of the food chain and we're smarter than any other creature on Earth. Maybe we're not, and these things do exist in a shrouded, stealthy environment we cannot understand. He kinda looks like he wants some beef jerkey...

[Brazoo]

Thanks man - I think that's awesome! It's a great drawing and a terrific memory to share.

Hey, you saw what you saw. No need for debate on that. I have my own strange creature, UFO and ghost sighting and experiences I know were real, but I cannot back it up at all. I just know what my senses told me. We go around thinking humanity is the top of the food chain and we're smarter than any other creature on Earth. Maybe we're not, and these things do exist in a shrouded, stealthy environment we cannot understand. He kinda looks like he wants some beef jerkey...

enyawd72 asked us not to debate, so out of respect for that request I just want to politely suggest that your idea of why people have opposing views to yours can be understood a lot better if you check out something like Carl Sagan's brilliant "The Demon-Haunted World". I think that what Sagan illustrates in that book will only enrich your understanding and thoughts with regards to exploring 'the unknown'.

[enyawd72]

He kinda looks like he wants some beef jerkey...

Funny you should say that...I remember the first time I saw one of those commercials I thought to myself, they have no idea how close they got it...although the one I saw was much darker in color with dark eyes.

[palitoy]

Hey, you saw what you saw. No need for debate on that.

Yeah, I'm a skeptic on everything but it seems like quite a liberty for someone to tell you what you saw, unless they were themselves present.

[MIB41]

And just so you know Dwayne. I do hope you're right. I would be the first to high five you. What color hair did this beast have anyway? And did it move away quickly when it saw you or did it take time to observe you as well?

[enyawd72]

And just so you know Dwayne. I do hope you're right. I would be the first to high five you. What color hair did this beast have anyway? And did it move away quickly when it saw you or did it take time to observe you as well?

I remember it being dark brown Tom...I also remember locking eyes with it, then freezing in my tracks. I was so scared...I think it took me a few seconds to find my voice and I screamed and ran as fast as I could for my dad, so I don't know what happened to it after that. My dad didn't believe me then and doesn't now. He laughed at my hysteria and insisted I imagined the whole thing.

[toysrus]

Pretty cool man! I believe you saw something. What gets me is here we are in 2013 and with all these camera's everywhere I still have not seen a top quality video of a UFO , Bigfoot or sea creature that will prove these to exist for sure. Yet in the late 1970's my cousin & I both saw a daytime , clear blue sky sighting of a UFO- Silver oval, kinda saucer I guess- it was there for 10-20 secs, then shot off so fast, like boom gone- no sound. I told my parents, they laughed and didnt believe it. To this day both my cousin & I know what we saw- cant prove sh.. though.

[pmwasson]

I love the drawing. That would make a pretty cool custom mego.

[jwyblejr]

The problem with most of this stuff that's shot nowadays is,how do you prove it? The first words out of anyone's mouth is it's Photoshopped.

[B-Lister]

My grandfather once got lost in that area in the 70s, I recall him telling me he scared some kid.

[enyawd72]

I spent a good while trying to figure out the exact date of my sighting last night, and realized my year was off...it was 1982 not 1979. I thought it was 1979 because it was definitely a Saturday, and I remember being really excited about watching the Flash Gordon animated movie on TV that night. The series came out in 1979, but it turns out the original airdate for the movie was Saturday, August 21st, 1982.
That's spot on, since we would spend every weekend in August, September, and October cutting wood for the winter. I'm really excited about piecing this all together.

[Brazoo]

Hey man,

Don't take this the wrong way, but if you really want to know the truth, the truth is that the human mind is not a great recorder. It's great at creating a reality we believe in, but not so hot at making accurate recordings. It's kind of a crummy combo, but that's what we have.

"Memory is not a single entity residing in a single place. It is the likelihood that the pathway of neurons and connections an experience forges in the brain can be reactivated again. It involves multiple systems in the brain. The emotion associated with a memory, for example, is stored in a different place than the content of the memory itself."

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199501/its-magical-its-malleable-its-memory

I'm not trying to denigrate your experience, but the truth is many of the experiences we believe in from our memories are constructed and reconstructed so many times, they're often inaccurate.

"False memories can potentially be created by this process of falsely recalling the past. Indeed, psychologists have experimentally implanted false memories."

(There's a link to one of the many studies that have been done to prove this on that page.)

http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/10/how-memory-works-10-things-most-people-get-wrong.php

You want to live in a reality where "seeing is believing", and I do too, but that's not real life. Reality is tragic and flawed and horribly frustrating, because it's malleable in each of our minds.

I in no way mean to make this specifically about you, or to make this about questioning you sincerity or intelligence, if anything I think you're susceptible to trusting your senses too much because you are so intelligent and sincere. For me, I struggled with these facts a long time. These limitations are not an easy things to accept, but in learning more its opened a new appreciation for how bizarre and fascinating the universe is.

I'm not trying to convince you of anything, but please take a look at some of the research. I think you'll find it sublime and interesting, and I hope it feeds you imagination the way it feeds mine (even if you disagree).

Personally, I believe you probably had a strange experience, but I think that Bigfoot is a less likely explanation for what happened than other possibilities. I don't think we will ever know what happened for sure.

[enyawd72]

Hey man,

Don't take this the wrong way, but if you really want to know the truth, the truth is that the human mind is not a great recorder. It's great at creating a reality we believe in, but not so hot at making accurate recordings. It's kind of a crummy combo, but that's what we have.

"Memory is not a single entity residing in a single place. It is the likelihood that the pathway of neurons and connections an experience forges in the brain can be reactivated again. It involves multiple systems in the brain. The emotion associated with a memory, for example, is stored in a different place than the content of the memory itself."

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199501/its-magical-its-malleable-its-memory

I'm not trying to denigrate your experience, but the truth is many of the experiences we believe in from our memories are constructed and reconstructed so many times, they're often inaccurate.

"False memories can potentially be created by this process of falsely recalling the past. Indeed, psychologists have experimentally implanted false memories."

(There's a link to one of the many studies that have been done to prove this on that page.)

http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/10/how-memory-works-10-things-most-people-get-wrong.php

You want to live in a reality where "seeing is believing", and I do too, but that's not real life. Reality is tragic and flawed and horribly frustrating, because it's malleable in each of our minds.

I in no way mean to make this specifically about you, or to make this about questioning you sincerity or intelligence, if anything I think you're susceptible to trusting your senses too much because you are so intelligent and sincere. For me, I struggled with these facts a long time. These limitations are not an easy things to accept, but in learning more its opened a new appreciation for how bizarre and fascinating the universe is.

I'm not trying to convince you of anything, but please take a look at some of the research. I think you'll find it sublime and interesting, and I hope it feeds you imagination the way it feeds mine (even if you disagree).

Personally, I believe you probably had a strange experience, but I think that Bigfoot is a less likely explanation for what happened than other possibilities. I don't think we will ever know what happened for sure.

No offense taken...however, the human mind's ability to record and recall varies greatly from person to person, and can be extremely accurate. I have always possessed a very sharp visual memory and eye for detail. It comes with being an artist I think. If you look at my artwork you'll notice how I pick up on the smallest details. I'm a very picky collector because I notice every little flaw in stuff. I used to be a quality control inspector also, and my supervisor told me he had never seen a better one. It was right in my employee review! My sister has even commented on how I can remember things from our childhood much more clearly than she does. I can remember house numbers and telephone numbers from every address I've ever lived in going back to grade school. I trust my memories of that incident as 100% accurate.

I'll give you an example...can you tell me what's wrong in this photo? I noticed it immediately when I hung them up...