QUOTE (Yorgmiester @ Apr 22 2008, 01:01 AM)
Hmm sounds very fantastical to me...but if it is real sounds much more like a demon or demon-possessed person to me.Not really much resemblance to BF at all.That would be freaky if it was real
On the contrary, these are actually a typical encounters.
I think the big misconception is that because we hypothesise that Bigfoot is a cryptid, then it must behave/look like a animal. In fact history is littered with accounts that contradict that idea.
There was a quantitative study undertaken by several well known Bigfoot researches during the years following 1976 (supported by researchers such as Grover Krantz) which showed some startling results. The first is taken from Loren Coleman's
Mothman and other Curious Encounters:
"The patterns that we hoped to see just weren't there".
"The computer showed us that the most common form of sighting is on shore, from a boat"
"The Most common form of sighting in California is from a car on a back road".
Surely the pattern of sightings would be more 'random' than a pre-determined series of events if BF truly behaved like a terrestrial animal.
There are some other sightings that I have posted in another thread that I will show here:
QUOTE
- Roachdale, Indiana 1972. Randy and Lou Rogers were disturbed one night by a loud banging on the walls of their home. This occured several nights in a row. Soon a six foot 'Bigfoot' was described limping away from the scene. For the next two to three weeks it returned, letting it's prescence be known with a foul rotting garbage smell. Mrs Rogers would leave it food (it stopped the banging when done), sometimes it would stay to watch Mrs Rogers through the windows of her kitchen. It left no traces of its existence, could run at incredible speeds, made no sound when it passed through undergrowth and sometimes was transparent.
- One day after the sighting of the 'Flatwoods' monster in Flatwoods W.VA in 1952, a young man was driving home through Braxton when a 7 foot tall hairy Bigfoot-esque creature suddenly appeared in front of his car. He slammed on the brakes and the creature calmy approached the front of his car and began to tap the windscreen. He put his foot on the accelerator hitting the creature before speeding off to the nearest police station. A 'V' shape was burned into the grill of his car (something that you will notice was included in the 'Mothman Prophecies' movie) and apart from a few overturned stones, no evidence of its existence was found at the scene the next morning.
- Australia, Gold Coast Hinterland, 1980 (A spot notorious for Yowie sightings). Three friends were camping along Tallebudgera creek when they spotted several hovering lights in the skies above. Soon, from the beach a large Bigfoot-esque creature approached the campers and attacked them. One man was cut on his arm, and the campers fled in terror.
Supposed Bigfoot inhabitable zones actually pool a lot of magentic interference. For instance here in Australia both the Blue Mountains and the Gold Coast Hinterland are interconnected to larger mountain range systems. On magnetic maps (available from your local State Department of Natural resources website) they are indicated as areas with high concerntrations of magnetic interference. While investigating the Mothman flap of 1967, John Keel noticed that West Virginia (home to a large number of bigfoot and other assorted Cryptid sightings) was dotted with magentic hot spots. This shows either a selective habitation (evidence of great intelligence) or the fact that Bigoot is just as much nonsense as the Mothman, Lizardman and UFO sightings that have plagued states such as West Virginia.
Bigfoot does however follow a pattern on
where it is sighted, normally in areas that frequent other types of paranormal phenomenon.
The more I read on the subject, the more I am convinced we are running around in circles trying to catch something that can not be found. The 'Ultra-Terrestrial' hypothesis really shines through for me.
There is anothr great book to keep an eye out for called 'Portals Of Sedona', it features the story of a benevolent BF type creature that haunted a farm in Sedona, Arizona (Itself a hotbed of other types of phenomenon). In 1992, much like the Indiana case outlined above, it would rap on the walls for food. A trait which extends itself back to Faerie lore of Celtic Britain and Saxony, and today in the Poltergeist phenomenon.
Or maybe it is a hairless starving red-eyed BF 
