June 26
MANISTIQUE, Mich. — Researchers will visit the Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the hairy manlike creature known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch."

The expedition will center in eastern Marquette County, following the most recent Bigfoot eyewitness account, said Matthew Moneymaker of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.

"We'll be looking for evidence supporting a presence. ... We hope to meet local people who might have seen a Sasquatch or heard of someone else who had an encounter."

Among all U.P. counties, Marquette County has logged the most reported Bigfoot sightings with four, Moneymaker said. Bigfoot encounters also have been reported in Ontonagon, Baraga, Dickinson, Luce and Schoolcraft counties.

In all but three of 30 expeditions in the United States and Canada, BFRO investigators have either glimpsed Bigfoot or gotten close enough to hear the creature.

Dr. Grover Krantz, a scientist specializing in cryptozoology, believes Bigfoot is a "gigantopithecus," a branch of primitive man believed to have existed 3 million years ago.
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Its just a man in a suit.

prove it......

This coming from a guy who thinks el chupacabra is real... Like smeagol said, prove it.

i wanna know how hard it is to beleave that there is a bigfoot

and anyone who is so ignorent to just make one wity remark with no back up should take a long long walk

..............and those things know we are looking for it and stay out of camera range.

Many people who get involved with the BFRO are people who have seen it, still have some doubt in the back of their minds and want to verify what they seen the first time. I spent the last Pine Barren expedition with a SWAT team member and former Navy SEAL who did not believe until he had a encounter while at a training session in the Pine Barrens. There is also several Airforce SPs who patrol the AWAC site at Maquire AFB next to Greenwood WMA who contacted us who are firm believers now too. These people are not fringe idiots but people trained in observation.
Get out of the suburbs then make that statement...........


Lapiche

yeah they will find proof, i live in Michigan and ive seen Bigfoot 2 times. Threw a rock at me once and was peaking around the tree at me, but that was 6 years ago when i was 14.

be honest, did you actually see it?
cause if so, i envy you

I believe the truth about bigfoot and other cryptids is more down there than out there.

sounds like fun. try not to get eaten

yeha ive seen it twice, i use to work at a gun range, and there are lakes and farms nearby and alot of woods, i was cleaning up shotgun shells one night at around dusk and i looked up and saw something black and then it ran out from behind a tree and threw a rock at me and it hit the tree behind me(i still have the rock it threw at me also). i went into shock and just started running back like a 1/2 mile to the clubhouse. and the second time i saw it i was putting sporting clays on top of a tower and i looked out into the woods across this small field and i saw something peaking from behind a tree and then it just sprinted out form behind the tree and down a row of trees and then ive never seen it again. but i tell you what i dont think its very friendly, i will not go into any woods around my house or my old job at night ever again.

So bigfoot hangs around a shooting range? That goes against the theory that they are smart enough to avoid man and any contact with us.

I personally don't believe bigfoot exists, but I hope I'm wrong.

Of course. People always seem to see things when they are 13 or 14. Then they grow up.

Of all the 'mystery' topics of modern man, Bigfoot is probably the most intriguing to me....thus the avatar, I suppose.

I've been interested in Bigfoot for as long as I can remember...I can only just remember viewing the Minnesota IceMan when it came through town back in the 70's. That may have been the reason today this type of story is so thrilling to me.

I think there are a large number of hoaxes/misidenfications/etc. but even dismissing those, there is a percentage that are believable, credible...and just downright amazing.

I'm still waiting for the 'holy grail' of some real prove before I can say for sure, but this is one topic I'm willing to be more of a believer than skeptic.

oooh, thats harsh.
13 or 14 isnt even That young to see something. he didnt say he was 3 or 4

well the shooting range is closed at night, and that was when i saw it, after it was closed. it could have possibly been out getting food or something. but wouldnt a shooting range be the last place you would expect to see it. maybe its smart enough to think like that. nobody is out in the range after dark so maybe it comes out to get food?

prove it isn't.

no one can prove either yet.

Dr. Grover Krantz, a scientist specializing in cryptozoology, believes Bigfoot is a "gigantopithecus," a branch of primitive man believed to have existed 3 million years ago.
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Hmm... did they also interview Dr. Grover Krantz? and if they did, what technique did they use? I am wondering because of this note in Bigfootencouters:
Dr. Grover Krantz died at home early yesterday morning, February 14, 2002 of pancreatic cancer.... see here: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/groverdies.htm

yeah theres been talk about that. its pretty interesting.
i think they found some remains of one a while ago, in like china

And just what makes you believe that? I mean is the fact that one of the most famous bigfoot sightings ever was a proclaimed hoax? I see no way to tell either way. And bear in mind that we have not even scraped the surface of the number of animals that are currently on this planet.

Yes, we have.

ummmm........no
sure, they may have an estimate. but we're dsicovering new species all the time.
where have you been man?

Do you know what "scratch the surface" means? He suggested we've only come across a very small percentage of species, which is untrue.

It is very true. consider the oceans for one thing we know more about space than the depths of our oceans. And new species are always developing.

We have discovered a good amount of species on the planet, but not all of them. Especially in the oceans and dense jungles and forests. We have "scratched the surface" but we have not discovered everything.

Knowledge can't be quantified so easily.



What do you mean by that?

I think he means something about Evolution.
I think we've probobly found a good 75% of species, excluding Insects.

I really question them broadcasting this expedition over the media. Wouldn't it have been wiser to do this quietly--without any fanfare--to avoid having people come out in monkey suits and throw doubt on the whole thing? Now they have to worry about nuts in fur running through the woods. There is no way they can get solid evidence, now, unless Bigfoot knocks on their SUV window and says hello.

i'd go with 98%

prexactly

Because Matt is getting greedy and now might have some habits. He charges 400 bucks a truck. Next time they come to the Pine Barrens I'm putting my hand out.............

they need to come to potato creek state park thats where I saw one.

I told you not to broadcast your research area. Those expeditions are just for tourists. Just wait, I've talked to Mike about you and the info you sent me.


lapiche

Last Year there was a group of Singapore Paranormal Investigators(SPI) found a Big foot in Malaysia and, make a cast of it. It was being reported in Channelnewsasia.

I surf the website realized there was many rumours about big foot .. as well

I'll look froward to hearing the results of this expedition.

Who came up with this ridiculous quote? I have been seeing it more often lately. What a load!!!!!!

Space is infinite!!!!!!!!!!!!! How do we know one a ship travels 6 trillion light years from the edge of our Galaxy that it is not all Ice Cream??? You don't.

Where is another planet with life on it?????? How much life do we know exists in the Oceans??

Almost as stupid as that other quote that annoys me - Anything is possible Sheeesh.

On the whole planet i'd say we discovered around 90% of the species. In NA forest, around 99% and probably 100% of the mamals. Those forest are heavilly exploited and visited.

If there never been a corpse found, that's very unlikely that the population could be large enough for reproduction.

Ah the corpse conundrum. Many explainations have been put forth for this. I believe that it is due to the scavengers of the woods. Bones get moved; flesh is eaten away by everything and anything.

Well if you're truely gullible it's not hard at all.
As always happens with this topic, the ones who believe this nonsence always put forward the fact that new species of animal are found all the time. Yes true, found filmed & catalogued.
There isn't one piece of physical proof the bigfoot exists, & not one clear photo or vid that couldn't be faked by a guy in a monkey suit.

You are absolutely right. And until some real concrete evidence is found, I will be doubtful too.....But, something HAS to be said for the vast number of personal encounters and sightings. Even if a large percentage are hoaxes, misidentifications, etc. there are still a large number of credible witnesses...There is something to the story, IMHO.

Man, with all of these groups and clubs and societies and websites that are dedicated to finding 'Ol Footy, and all of the doctors and scientists who are involved with trying to prove this creatures existence, is there any reason why one would be a bit confused? I mean, ALL of this information, ALL of this technology, ALL of these new and improved means of detection, and yet 'Ol Footy seems to make it's way from one town to another, one COUNTRY to another and the only one who ever seems to notice is presence is Ma freakin Barker living with her 20 cats and 10 dogs in the back-woods of Knob Lick Missouri.

I think there's something out there, what...I don't know, I just hope someone finds something significant soon. We can get clear video of a little furry white crab in the vastness of the ocean, but no supposed 7' tall 800lbs. "creature", and people wonder why some might question it's existence?