(12-18-2023, 05:35 PM)Byrd Wrote: He really hasn't done his research on this (beyond looking at Bigfoot material) -- it's particularly annoying when he starts in on the Native Alaskan masks. He seems to be analyzing or parroting things by other Bigfoot researchers... some of whom haven't done any homework at all.
Masks are made for a number of purposes (https://www.mpm.edu/research-collections...iutl-masks), and unless you happen to study them with the help of the tribe, you're likely to make a wrong identification or have mistaken the purpose of them. Some, it should be noted, are art pieces and do not actually represent anything in their culture.
(When we visited Alaska 20 years ago, I took time at each location to try and briefly talk to some of the Elders of the local tribes.)
And the feet... oy. Bigfoot footprints are the worst evidence. Most of them are carved/created by people who have no actual idea of the structure of the foot or what's needed to make a foot something you can walk on -- people who want their "evidence" of Bigfoot to go viral and thus prove that it really exists.
His ape behavior comments are a bit suspect, but I'm not really up on primate behavior.
I'd say it was a good try, but that it falls short in many respects and it's pretty clear that he's a believer.
Not arguing good to have you here BTW, just discussing so Jeff Meldrum is completely unequivocally wrong. What about the Elkins Creek footprints or the cripple foot casts? both would take more than a rudimentary knowledge of how the foot works down to the dermal ridges and the skeletal structure of the foot.
Thousands of carved wooden or faked footprints? Just takes one pair for it to exist
I appreciate your life experiences but how convinced are you? Would you bet your house, on it being a complete myth? 10 years ago the consensus was the government would never acknowledge UFOs/UAPs.
Alaska is #8 in sightings per capita, but admittedly their diversity of fauna would no doubt lead to some misidentifications on the other hand Alaskans mostly know their shit when it comes to the great outdoors.
I think where I started to look at the possibility came from reading Raincoast Sasquatch some very compelling stories from times and places before the subject became so monetized and popular.
a podcast recounts lots of stories from the book...
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