Top 7 Reasons Why Bigfoot Really Exists

 There’s no doubt that the big, lovable ape we know as “Bigfoot” is controversial, serving as fodder for both serious study and great hilarity, with people generally divided as to whether it actually exists or not. Mainstream science generally comes down on the side of the skeptics, maintaining that without a body, there is no reason to believe the beast exists, no matter what other evidence one might produce.

A few scientists, however, are at least open to the possibility that a large, unidentified primate may indeed be stalking the forests of the Pacific Northwest (as well as dozens of other localities around the world). Certainly, it has acquired more credibility as the years go by, which at least suggests there may be something to the idea.

So what sort of “evidence” is there to suggest the big guy is really out there? Here is top seven reasons why you should–if not believe–at least remain open to the prospect that Bigfoot is more than just a myth or a salesman for beef jerky.

 

Gigantopithecus 

 Gigantopithecus was a massive primate that existed between nine million years ago until as recent as 100,00 years ago. It weighted around a half ton. Bigfoot also are described extremely tall, and if you take it into account, Bigfoot actually could be undiscovered Gigantopithecus.

Discovery of the Modern Gorilla

  The gorilla was largely unknown to modern science until the mid-nineteenth century, and the mountain gorilla wasn’t identified until 1902, so it’s not unreasonable to imagine that a similar creature may well be capable of hiding well into the twenty-first century–especially if it’s considerably smarter than a gorilla and nomadic (and largely nocturnal) in nature. 



Native American Legends


 In the Native American folklore, many tribes–especially those from the Pacific Northwest–maintain similar legends of large, hairy men needs to be taken into account, especially since many of these legends appear to have arisen independently among various tribes that had little or no contact with each other, eliminating the possibility that one culture simply copied stories from another culture and made it their own. (Known as cross-cultural contamination.) 

While each tribe has its own twist on the legend and their own name for the beast, they all appear to be talking about a similar creature that existed long before whites ever arrived. Many tribes, in fact, maintain the truth of these legends to this day, insisting that they are based on a real creature and not mere superstition.

 
  
Hair samples

 Throughout history, many Bigfoot hairs have been discovered. Most of them were identified, but a little part of them remain unidentified. Prove to be remarkably human-like-though thicker-suggesting that the creature they came from may be is more human than animal. This photo shows an example of a Bigfoot hair:

 Unfortunately, since there are no known sasquatch samples to compare them to, they can’t be identified as belonging to a sasquatch, which forces them to remain in the category of “origin unknown” which, if you think about it, is pretty interesting in itself.

 

Footprints and other evidences

 Bigfoot got his name from the size of the massive tracks he makes, so it’s not remarkable that the best evidence for his existence remains these tracks. While a number of prints have proven to be hoaxes, there are a substantial number of what are considered “authentic” sasquatch prints that need to be taken seriously. 

Perhaps the most compelling of these are those contained in the collection of Idaho State University primatologist Jeff Meldrum, who has one casting that contains dermal ridges (the foot’s equivalent of fingerprints) that run in a completely different direction than those seen on human feet. Would a hoaxer really be able to both create such ridges and, even if he was, would he think of making them so different from human feet?

 There are other evidences as well, such as twisted off branches, possible sasquatch “dens” and audio recordings of the creature, but these are less easily subject to analysis (though some of the recordings have proven to be compelling when submitted for audio analysis).



Historical Precedence

I’ve always wondered why science is so quick to reject the notion that there could still be a large and, as yet, undiscovered primate living on this planet–especially when one considers that homo sapiens and large primates have lived side-by-side on this planet for tens of thousands of years. In fact, in the over quarter of a million years that man has been on earth, he has shared this world with numerous now extinct primates–some as big or even bigger than Bigfoot–making it hard to understand why such is impossible today. 

Were it actually true that there are no large primates around today, it would be the first time in human history that homo sapiens and large primates did not coexist!

 
Scientific uncertainty

While it often appears that science knows pretty much everything there is to know (or that is worth knowing), the fact is that science is always in a state of flux, as one hypothesis is abandoned in favor of another or new discoveries come to light that rewrites everything scientists thought they knew to be a fact previously. 

Therefore, it is unwise to maintain with anything approaching certainty what is and is not possible–much less what could still be out there waiting to be discovered. With this in mind, then, it is important that people remain objective to the possibility that Bigfoot could exist, for without that objectivity, it makes getting to the truth of the matter all the more difficult. Why? Because if I “know” there’s no such thing as a Bigfoot, I’m unlikely to look at the evidence that there is, much less look for the creature itself.

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