“I hate Indians.” -Ayn Rand
I was raised on the stories of bigfoot, or that something
that makes those weird howls in the woods, breaks trees in half and all those
other things bigfoot supposedly do. I’ve never seen one.
I’m divided on how I assess the Bigfoot videos though. On
the one hand, pretty much every single one of them is grainy or shaky and you
barely see anything except a large, hairy figure trouncing through the woods. On
the other, unless you’re an experienced cameraman, what exactly should people
expect? Even if we had a video of a plain as day bigfoot playing pool and
smoking cigarettes, someone would still find fault with it and then say that
video isn’t evidence and can easily be faked. The latter is certainly true, but
so is some major scientific research. There is no strong evidence, outside of
faked carcasses that get big news coverage for some odd reason.
You have those overnight primatologist who know beyond a
shadow of a doubt that there cannot be a large, unknown species of nocturnal ape
that primarily live in remote, mountainous areas, because the expert they sided
with said so. There’s no solid proof. At all. Kind of like those big cats that
didn’t exist in Kentucky until someone shot one. I know what you’re thinking,
that big cats actually exist elsewhere, so it’s not that shocking they wind up
that far north, and it’s not really, but everyone who claimed photos and videos
were feral cats were obviously wrong and made a poor assumption. Bears shit in
the woods. We actually have a little bit of evidence to support this. Or do we?
For all I know, the scat samples were found in someone’s yard and placed in the
woods, or just claimed to be found in the woods. I’m not saying they’re real,
but I’m also not going to dismiss the possibility.
The United States isn’t over-flooded with technology and
urbanization and is still a third forested, so it’s a bit ridiculous to pretend
we’ve discovered every creature there. While it’s just as ridiculous to automatically
believe every photo, video, or soundbyte, we find new species all the time,
including large ones, like the Saola, which we didn’t even believe still alive
until 2010, despite a bunch of Vietnamese rednecks claiming it was.
Hated other non-whites as well. Died.