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Joe Smith
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 3:37am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by a guy on the
Facebook Messenger App about providing a drawing for
his Facebook Group. He said the members were still
deliberating upon the Group's name, and that he'd get
back to me with details.
Sure, I said! Why not? Probly some Photoshopped
Letter/Logo thing that'll be done before I can forget I
did it, y'know?
Later that week, he replied with the link to the group,
and I was flabbergasted! BERKSHIRE BIGFOOT it read.
Videos of these guys trudging around the woods looking
for clues. Narration done BLAIR WITCH style. Spending
their own hard earned money on equipment, plane tickets
to remote locations, etc.
I could not believe there were still people chasing
this legend.
Does the JBF have any believers?

PS: here are the 'versions' that fell out of my pencil
for their group. You may notice some similarities (in 2
of the 3) to a member of my favorite superteam.... :)





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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 12:46pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Bigfoot, like the Loch Ness Monster and other such mythical beasties, comes up against a couple of hurdles. Both have to do with the legends typically being hundreds of years old.

Take ol' Sasquatch as a typical example. For the legends -- which date back at least to the 1700s -- to be true, we must be talking about a creature with a very long lifespan or a large breeding population. Neither seem likely.

Often, the gorilla is cited as an example of such legends that turned out to be true. But the problem there is that once people (read: nosy Europeans) began actively searching they very quickly found the critter, and before that lots of physical evidence of its existence.

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Andrew Bitner
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 1:25pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

It's a nice idea that there are strange creatures still undiscovered, but even the most remote and inaccessible places on Earth have been visited and explored. Hard to imagine anything much bigger than a guinea pig has not been found by now.
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Robbie Parry
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

The "kid" in me likes the idea of coming across Bigfoot/Sasquatch, but the adult in me thinks such a creature is highly unlikely.

Maybe the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot are one and the same. There's an underwater cavern at the bottom of Loch Ness (which I believe is 700-900 feet deep). Perhaps the Loch Ness Monster enters that tunnel, travels across the Atlantic - and then morphs into Bigfoot.

Joking aside, I'd have thought that, especially in 2017, technology would have located such a creature.

Someone did equate the blue whales with Bigfoot once. He said we can't locate blue whales easily - despite their size - so why should we locate Bigfoot? Well, the oceans are a LOT bigger than the woodlands of North America!
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Strange coincidence...Nessie sightings always seem to
occur at the start of the tourist season!
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Robbie Parry
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I did have a book on Bigfoot once (Reader's Digest). There have been sightings all around the world: Australia, Africa, even Europe (Scotland had a sighting years ago). 

Is the Yeti likely? I know the Himalayas would prove tough terrain for anyone looking to locate such a beast. 
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Brian Floyd
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

I believe Bigfoot chasers are all wasting their time. I find it hard to believe that Bigfoot wouldn't have been legitimately seen, if not captured or shot dead, by now. 

Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, and other mythical creatures of their ilk simply do not exist.
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Doug Centers
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

I used to enjoy watching TV shows about these creatures, fantasizing that they were out there just never caught. Then I turned 16.

Advocates of their existence will often site the coelacanth as proof that something can be thought extinct for millions of years and stay hidden from man.
The truth was with the coelacanth that local villagers were catching maybe 1 per year and would actually have a festival around it. They just never thought to call the local news station and let them know :-)
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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

I used to enjoy watching TV shows about these creatures...

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I still do. Even knowing they don't exist, it can be fun seeing the "evidence"
that is presented.
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Brian Floyd
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

I was a fan of IN SEARCH OF...

The original with Leonard Nimoy, not the newer version. Didn't care for the newer version at all.


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Those interested in legends and mythological creatures may enjoy listening to
the LORE podcast.
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Robbie Parry
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Posted: 23 August 2017 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

Also worth mentioning are big cat sightings here in the UK. Many cats that were located were actually not big cats.

I mean, look at this:


Yes, that's a one-of-a-kind story, but the point stands: people THINK they've seen or heard something - but the reality can be mundane. 
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