Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, is a huge anthropoid creature. Some people think it roams in North America. It is a mysterious animal (or a legendary species), just like Chopacabra or Loch Ness Monster, and there is almost no physical evidence to prove that bigfoot really exists. But this can't stop people from witnessing this never-seen ape, and it can't stop Bigfoot fans from trying to prove that there is life in the legend.
Most of the sightings in bigfoot took place in the northwest, where this creature can be associated with local myths and legends. According to the Oregon Encyclopedia, the word "Sasquatch" comes from Szaszky, which comes from jarque emeylem, a language used by some suresh First Nations in southwest British Columbia. It means "barbarian" or "hairy man".
How did the bigfoot phenomenon begin?
As early as 1884, the British colonial newspaper in Victoria, Canada published a report describing a "gorilla" animal captured in this area. According to the Encyclopedia of Canada, other statements appeared later, most of which were considered as practical jokes. John green, the author of Sasquatch, compiled a list of eyewitness events in the 20th century 19 and 1340. But the modern myth of bigfoot or Sasquatch was reborn in the late 1950s.
1958 The Humboldt Times, a local newspaper in northern California, published a report about the discovery of huge mysterious footprints near Bluff Creek in California. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, in the story, they called the creature with such footprints "bigfoot". 1959 An article published in Truth magazine in February described the discovery of 1958. In the second half of the 20th century, curiosity about bigfoot increased rapidly.
According to Smithsonian Magazine, the footprints near Bluff Creek were the result of a practical joke by a man named Ray Wallace, whose children revealed this fact after his death in 2002. However, by that time, bigfoot had gained a firm foothold in the popular culture of the whole European continent. Since the publication of the article 1958, people claim to have found "evidence" such as Bigfoot's footprints, plaster models, photos and videos.
Witness bigfoot.
According to Life Science 20 19, in the past 50 years, more than 10000 witnesses in the mainland of the United States described bigfoot. In these descriptions, bigfoot is usually described as about 8 to 65,438+00 feet (2.4 to 3 meters) tall and covered in hair.
Eyewitness reports are the most common evidence of bigfoot's existence. Unfortunately, these are all based on human memory, and memory is unreliable. For example, in criminal cases, witnesses may be influenced by their emotions and may miss or distort important details. Similarly, people often overestimate their memory ability. When it comes to mysterious creatures like bigfoot, the human brain can explain events that it can't immediately explain. Many people just want to believe in their existence.
Bigfoot's videos and photos.
The most famous Bigfoot video is a short film shot by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin at 1967, which is called "Patterson-Gimlin Movie" or "Patterson Movie". This video, taken in Bluff River, shows that there seems to be a huge hairy bipedal ape striding across a clearing. The authenticity of this video is still controversial, but it is probably a scam, because it looks like an ape, but in fact it is just a man in clothes.
With the rise of high-quality cameras on smart phones, in recent years, photos of people, cars, mountains, flowers, sunsets and deer have become clearer; Bigfoot is a notable exception. The reasonable explanation for this difference is that these creatures don't exist, and their photos are just pranks or misunderstandings.
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Some people claim to have heard bigfoot scream, howl, growl or other sounds. According to Scientific American, this creature is also related to other sounds, such as the sound of knocking on wood. The strange sounds made by bigfoot occasionally attract the attention of the media, but they are usually the sounds of known animals, such as foxes or hyenas.
Mysterious zoologists are people who look for legendary creatures. They take these strange records as evidence of bigfoot, but experts can't always identify the exact animals from these records. For example, in 20 19, a YouTube video about mysterious howling and screaming in the forests of northwest Ontario went viral on the Internet, which triggered people's speculation about bigfoot. Jolanta Kowalski, a media relations officer with the Ontario Ministry of Resources and Forestry, said: "Our biologists say it may be a bigger mammal, such as a wolf, but because it is far away from the recorder, there is no way to be sure."
The late anthropologist Grover kranz investigated the so-called bigfoot Records in his book "Big Footprints: A Scientific Investigation of the Reality in bigfoot". He listened to at least 10 tapes and found that "there is no convincing reason to believe that any of them is what the recorder said".
Hard and elusive evidence
There is no conclusive evidence to prove the existence of bigfoot. Kranz, an anthropologist who investigated the recording, also discussed the so-called Bigfoot hair, feces, skin abrasions and blood stains in his book Big Footprints. He wrote: "The usual fate of these projects is that they either cannot obtain scientific research, or the research documents are lost or unavailable." "In most cases, after full analysis, it is proved that the materials are forged, otherwise it is impossible to make a judgment."
When the samples of so-called Bigfoot animals undergo rigorous scientific analysis, they are usually found to come from common sources. For example, in 20 14, a group of researchers led by Brian Sykes, a late geneticist from Oxford University in England, conducted genetic analysis on 36 hair samples allegedly belonging to bigfoot or a snowman. Snowman is an ape-like creature, which is said to exist in the Himalayas. Almost all hair comes from known animals, such as cows, raccoons, deer and humans. However, two of the samples are very close to extinct Paleolithic polar bears. These samples may come from the hybrid offspring of an unknown bear or a modern bear, but they are a bear, not a primate.
Genetic research provides another reason to doubt the existence of bigfoot. A single organism cannot reproduce and maintain a population, let alone form a species. If bigfoot wants to survive, it needs to have one or more populations, one or more large enough to avoid inbreeding and low genetic diversity, or it will face extinction.
The existence of multiple bigfoot increased the probability that one of them was killed by a hunter or a driver on the expressway, and even found dead (accident, illness or old age) by a hiker or farmer at a certain time, but no body has been found so far. People occasionally claim to have found bones or other large body parts. For example, in 20 13, a man in Utah discovered what he thought was bigfoot's skull. A paleontologist confirmed that this "skull" is just a strange weathered rock.
Bigfoot prank
Bigfoot's pranksters further complicated the problem of distinguishing Bigfoot's facts from fictional stories. Many people admitted or were found to have forged bigfoot's footprints, photos and almost all other types of bigfoot evidence. A prominent example is Ray Wallace, whose family revealed in 1958 that he was the owner of the footprints near the Bluff River. An earlier example is the late lumberjack Lent Mullens in Toledo, Washington. According to the Washington News Chronicle in 2007, in 1982, he admitted that in the 1920s, with the help of a friend, he carved huge feet out of wood to make fake footprints. This is based on a legend that apes appeared decades before Wallace's footprints made bigfoot a phenomenon.
There were also examples of bigfoot's pranks in the 20th century. In 2008, two men from Georgia claimed that they found a complete frozen bigfoot specimen during a hiking trip. Reuters reported in 2008 that their bigfoot was originally a gorilla costume.
According to CNN, Senator Justin Humphrey of Oklahoma proposed to set up a Bigfoot hunting season in 2002 1 and1. Humphrey believes that the hunting season may be held at the same time as the annual bigfoot Festival in Honobia, Oklahoma, which will help attract more tourists to the area. According to NBC, in March this year, tourism officials in Oklahoma announced a reward of $26.5438 million for the capture of a live bigfoot.
The real Sasquatch.
Scientific evidence for the existence of modern bigfoot may be hard to find, but a giant bipedal ape does walk on the earth. A species called "Great Ape" is about 10 feet (3 meters) tall and weighs 595 pounds. (270 kg), according to fossil evidence. However, the great ape lived in Southeast Asia, not North America, and became extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago. This extinct ape is closer to modern orangutans than humans or our close relatives chimpanzees and bonobos.