| Farsala said: Aliens, Bigfoot is just a way for people to make tons of money. No comment on the rest. |
I did a paper in school regarding Bigfoot. I strongly believe the aboriginal sightings of him can be attributed to sightings of the North American Short-Faced Bear (Arctodus simus).
The bear was a monster, at 6' tall when on all fours, they could reach a height of 15' in a stretch. They were larger than the Polar Bear. An adult on all fours would have been formidable, but standing they would have been frightening as hell.
The native American tales regarding sasquatch (big foot) were similar to how a bear would have acted. Keeping at a distance from fires, just outside the range of vision. Standing, being able to look down into tee-pees. Scavanging for food in camps at night. And no wonder the latter. By the time the first humans came to North America, the food supply for the short-faced bear was diminishing. Then, to add to the difficulties, humans were hunting for and making extinct their same food sources.
Within 2,000 years of man's arrival in North America, the short-faced bear was extinct without a single exsiting oral or cave painting record of man's interaction with one. How do you have a fossil record of a bear the only human species has no record of interacting with, but there are tales from multiple tribes of encounters with sasquatch, for which there has never been a single fossil record found?
