What or who is a Bigfoot?

A Bigfoot is a giant beast which has a hairy appearance and a height of approximately 9 feet. Bigfoot is said to be seen in North America but due to lack of physical and strong evidences to prove its existence, it is said to be an imaginary beast. Bigfoot is also known as ‘sasquatch’. The term Sasquatch is obtained from the Halq’emeylem language which is a native language of Salish tribe (a tribe which lives in the south-western British Columbia) which means a “wild- man” or “hairy- man”. So, who is a Bigfoot? A monster, which came from the tribe’s legend? Or a real creature, which is living among us?

• Conspiracy – Is Bigfoot a Myth?

Fact: Yes

• • Many conspiracy theories have been presented over years like footmarks, screams, walking in the night, etc. these conspiracy theories initiated an undefined quest to prove the existence of Big foots. However, it was unsuccessful due to lack of strong testimonies to authenticate the existence of Bigfoot.
  • Many incidents have wreaked havoc and fear among the people. In 1958, at California a man named Ray Wallace made a huge footmark on the ground near Bluff Creek, which became a sensation and inflicted chaos among the people in the late 20th century. However the truth came in the limelight in 2002 when Ray Wallace’s children revealed about their father’s mischief after his death. But, by the time the truth was disclosed, the Bigfoot became a popular sensation and media’s attraction across the world. There have been more than ten thousand eyewitnesses of Bigfoot in USA for the last fifty years. John Willison Green, a Canadian journalist and author, was famous for Bigfoot research and books namely Sasquatch: The Apes among Us, On the Track of the Sasquatch, etc. in his research he found a list of 1340 sightings during 19th and 20th century and found that most of facts related to Bigfoot are mostly based on eyewitnesses’ statements. These statements don’t provide solid evidence about Bigfoot.
• Conspiracy – Are the Evidences are real?

Fact: No

In the year 1967, a famous Bigfoot short film named Patterson film was taken by Roger Patterson and Bob. The video showed a large, hairy ape striding through the area. This video became an overnight sensation and fueled the craze for Bigfoot fans. The authenticity of the video is still a mystery. But, making fake videos was as easy as pie, making the video, untrustworthy. Many people claimed to have heard the howls and shrieks of Bigfoot. Some incidents accidently mistook fox’s howl for Bigfoot’s howl. Zoologists can’t always identify the exact animal’s sounds in a recorded tape at times. Mr. Grover Krantz. He was famously known for his research on human evolution, Kennewick man and Bigfoot. He examined the Patterson film and criticized it as a human wearing an ape suit. He also declared that there are only 10% of chances of Bigfoots existing in the world. Furthermore, he investigated many sound recordings, conspiracy theories and so-called Bigfoot hair, skin, blood and face in his book called “Big Footprints”. He also acknowledged that most of the cases about Bigfoot have gone through a competent analysis which however claimed to be bogus. Unfortunately, these scientific studies are either destroyed or lost.

• Conspiracy – Are the Hair Samples belong to Bigfoot?

Fact: No

British explorer David Thompson was the first person to make the discovery on Bigfoot in 1811. He found a set of large footprints of Sasquatch. Since then, hundreds of alleged proofs have been produced. Visual sightings, photographs and even filming have been adduced (notably the Patterson film at bluff creek, California in1967), but none of the evidence are said to be true. In 2014, a team of researchers under the guidance of genetic scientist Bryan Skye from the Oxford University, England conducted a genetic analysis of 36 hair samples claimed to belong to Bigfoot or Yeti.  Yeti is another ape like creature which is inhabited in the Himalayas. Yeti is also known as the “Abominable Snowman”. Results of the research claimed that almost all the hairs were of known animals such as cows, raccoons, humans, and deer and two of the samples closely matched with an extinct Paleolithic polar bear.  The existence of multiple Bigfoot testimonies has increased over the years, yet no bodies have ever been found. People do occasionally claim to find bones or other large body parts. A man in Utah discovered what he thought to be a fossilized Bigfoot skull in 2013 but, a paleontologist confirmed that the “skull” was simply an oddly weathered rock. In 2008, two Georgian men went on a hike and found a large, frozen Bigfoot specimen. Sadly, their Bigfoot skin which they found on their trip was a frozen Gorilla costume.

• Conspiracy – Are the Bigfoot a figment of our folk tale?

Fact: Yes

In the Tule River Indian Reservation in California, Yakut, a tribe native to central California created a legend about a group of monsters called petroglyphs which would depict a group of Bigfoots. Lummi tribe members have tales about creatures known as Ts’emekwes. The stories are similar to each other in the general descriptions of Ts’emekwes, but details often differ among various regions and families. Some regional versions have more dangerous versions of this creature. The Iroquois have a tale of an aggressive, hair-covered giant with rock-hard skin known as “Stone Giant. In 1847, Paul Kane reported stories by the natives about skoocooms, a race of cannibalistic wild men living on the peak of Mount St. Helens in Southern Washington State. In 1924, an alleged incident at Mount St. Helens in which a violent encounter between a group of gold miners and a group of “ape-men” occurred.

• Conspiracy – Did the Bigfoot ever exist on our planet?

Fact: Yes

Do we have Bigfoot in real? Yes, in the history books. We ‘had’ a humungous human-like ape that once walked on the Earth around 2.6 Million Years ago. Gigantopithecus blacki is an extinct species of Ape that weighed up to 270 kilograms (595 lbs.) and height about 10 feet (3m.). This species is said to be the ancestors of orang-utans who lived in Southeast Asia and went extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago.