Filmmaker claims that Bigfoot may feast on the blood of wild animals

[UM-Bot]

Bigfoot researcher and filmmaker Kelley Lockman has a theory concerning the discoveries of carcasses drained of blood.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/376566/filmmaker-claims-that-bigfoot-may-feast-on-the-blood-of-wild-animals

[aquatus1]

I...guess it was just a matter of time?

Bigfoot is a vampire?

[Tatetopa]

Get serious. How much nourishment is there in blood?  Not a  lot compared to internal organs and muscle meat.  What does he think, that blood remains liquid in veins and arteries days after death?  It does not.

This guy did not even have the courtesy to wipe it off after he pulled this sensational theory out of darkness.

[Cho Jinn]

2 hours ago, Tatetopa said:

This guy did not even have the courtesy to wipe it off after he pulled this sensational theory out of darkness.

Your comment is a bit PG-13 for UM.

[OpenMindedSceptic]

Interesting theory. Some tribes in Africa drink blood from their cattle as a staple to their diet. 

[Hawken]

29 minutes ago, OpenMindedSceptic said:

Interesting theory. Some tribes in Africa drink blood from their cattle as a staple to their diet. 

Yes, I saw a documentary where a tribesman poked a hole in a cow's neck while still alive and blood come pouring out into a cup.

They don't kill the cow but take just enough to sustain them.

[esoteric_toad]

Yeah I do not think there would be enough calories in the blood to support a supposed 8 foot tall hominid. 

For example:

According to Nutritionix, 250 grams (1 cup) of animal blood has 206 calories and 52 grams of protein. Raw beef blood has 77 calories per 100 grams.

It seems to me it would take WAY more calories to hunt, capture and kill an animal than it would supply.

[Oniomancer]

Chupacabras' going to to be p***ed Bigfoot's cutting in on his action.

[OpenMindedSceptic]

6 hours ago, esoteric_toad said:

Yeah I do not think there would be enough calories in the blood to support a supposed 8 foot tall hominid. 

For example:

According to Nutritionix, 250 grams (1 cup) of animal blood has 206 calories and 52 grams of protein. Raw beef blood has 77 calories per 100 grams.

It seems to me it would take WAY more calories to hunt, capture and kill an animal than it would supply.

The maths works. 

There's roughly 8 cups of blood in a 50kg dog. So that'd be 1650 calories per dog x 2 equals 3300 calories. 

Morbid but it pans out.

[Vox]

Here, listen to my bat**** theory that I’m kinda trying to mesh with my other bat**** theory.

[fred_mc]

15 hours ago, OpenMindedSceptic said:

Interesting theory. Some tribes in Africa drink blood from their cattle as a staple to their diet. 

Here in Sweden we have traditionally eaten quite much food made from blood. I can for example think of blodkorv, blodpudding, and svartsoppa.

[+joc]

13 hours ago, Oniomancer said:

Chupacabras' going to to be p***ed Bigfoot's cutting in on his action.

 According to @esoteric_toadmath...a BF would have to eat all the time...except so do Chups and Vamps...but...they only eat at night.  Maybe BF is eating Chups and Vamps...just a theory...

[Trelane]

8 hours ago, OpenMindedSceptic said:

The maths works. 

There's roughly 8 cups of blood in a 50kg dog. So that'd be 1650 calories per dog x 2 equals 3300 calories. 

Morbid but it pans out.

To sustain an alleged 7-8-foot-tall hominid type creature weighing likely 400-600 lbs (or more)? Ummm,no.

Edited April 27, 2024 by Trelane

[Antigonos]

 

Since the 1970s,  Bigfoot’s gone from being a possibly real but rare species of vegetarian hominid seldom glimpsed in remote areas to an animal blood drinking inter dimensional traveler that appears on virtually every street corner in the US with the ability to somehow avoid having a single clear photo of him being taken.

Well that’s progress for ya.

[esoteric_toad]

35 minutes ago, joc said:

 According to @esoteric_toadmath...a BF would have to eat all the time...except so do Chups and Vamps...but...they only eat at night.  Maybe BF is eating Chups and Vamps...just a theory...

That would explain the lack of evidence for both vampires and chups😁

[+joc]

Just now, esoteric_toad said:

That would explain the lack of evidence for both vampires and chups😁

Exactemundo Capitano! 

[OpenMindedSceptic]

1 hour ago, Trelane said:

To sustain an alleged 7-8-foot-tall hominid type creature weighing likely 400-600 lbs (or more)? Ummm,no.

Eh? Using your logic it'd be like saying we saw you eat 6 eggs but ignoring that you might eat others things as well. How desperate are you to race to a 'no' answer?

[Trelane]

38 minutes ago, OpenMindedSceptic said:

Eh? Using your logic it'd be like saying we saw you eat 6 eggs but ignoring that you might eat others things as well. How desperate are you to race to a 'no' answer?

It's an instant no because the creature, as described, doesn't exist. Plain and simple, and most importantly logical. No rush here pal.

Anyway, since we're discussing a fabled creature that doesn't exist, we'd have to look at the caloric intake of similar sized creatures. One animal, which also accounts for some (but not all) BF sightings is the Brown Bear.

"NORTH AMERICAN BROWN BEARS: WHAT ANIMALS EAT"  written by Charles Platkin, PhD 

https://dietdetective.com/brown_bears_what_animals_eat/

"What they eat: As omnivores, the brown bear’s diet is more than 75 percent vegetable matter, including nuts, berries, flowers, grasses, herbs and roots. The other 25 percent consists of #protein sources such as rodents, salmon, decaying carcasses, fish, insects, elk and moose calves, and a variety of other small mammals."

"How many total calories do they eat each day: The average is about 20,000 calories, but they can eat up to 58,000 calories a day."

There are other interesting facts included in the article as well. 

 

Edited April 27, 2024 by Trelane

[esoteric_toad]

16 minutes ago, Trelane said:

It's an instant no because the creature, as described, doesn't exist. Plain and simple, and most importantly logical. No rush here pal.

Anyway, since we're discussing a fabled creature that doesn't exist, we'd have to look at the caloric intake of similar sized creatures. One animal, which also accounts for some (but not all) BF sightings is the Brown Bear.

"NORTH AMERICAN BROWN BEARS: WHAT ANIMALS EAT"  written by Charles Platkin, PhD 

https://dietdetective.com/brown_bears_what_animals_eat/

"What they eat: As omnivores, the brown bear’s diet is more than 75 percent vegetable matter, including nuts, berries, flowers, grasses, herbs and roots. The other 25 percent consists of #protein sources such as rodents, salmon, decaying carcasses, fish, insects, elk and moose calves, and a variety of other small mammals."

"How many total calories do they eat each day: The average is about 20,000 calories, but they can eat up to 58,000 calories a day."

There are other interesting facts included in the article as well. 

 

So using this info if a big foot had the same requirements as a brown bear it would need to drain the blood of 5 150 pound deer (1 gallon of blood each) a day to survive (20,000 calories) and up to 14.5 150 pound deer a day. That's based on 250 calories per cup of blood.

I am sure that would have been noticed if it were true.

Of course BF may eat other stuff as well. Beyond the obvious issues of lack of any real physical evidence (no poop, fur, skeletons) I find it odd that biologists can find a mute frog in Tanzania but somehow cannot find an 8 foot tall hominid. 

In February 2023, researchers discovered a new species of frog in Tanzania's Ukaguru Mountains that is completely silent:

• Ukaguru spiny-throated reed frog

  (Hyperolius ukaguruensis) This small frog doesn't croak, chirp, sing, or ribbit. It's one of only a few frogs in the world that doesn't vocalize to other frogs. Instead, the spines on the throats of male frogs may help females recognize potential mates through touch.

   

  JMO as always.

[+joc]

9 minutes ago, esoteric_toad said:

I find it odd that biologists can find a mute frog in Tanzania but somehow cannot find an 8 foot tall hominid. 

Shhhhhh...be vewy, vewy quite...we are hunting Big Foots...weally, weally big, with wots and wots of fur...vewy hard to find...shhhh....

[+joc]

20 hours ago, Cho Jinn said:

Your comment is a bit PG-13 for UM.

Get your mind out of the sewer girl and up her in the gutter with the rest of us! 

Edited April 27, 2024 by joc

[+joc]

 

1 hour ago, OpenMindedSceptic said:

Eh? Using your logic it'd be like saying we saw you eat 6 eggs but ignoring that you might eat others things as well. How desperate are you to race to a 'no' answer?

49 minutes ago, Trelane said:

It's an instant no because the creature, as described, doesn't exist. Plain and simple, and most importantly logical.

One of the huge reasons we know BF doesn't exist is because there isn't any bigfoot scat.  How do deer hunters track deer and put their tree blinds in just the right place?  Deer scat.   If animals eat, they poop.  The bigger the animal, the bigger the pile.  Labs vs Chihuahuas, Cows vs Labs...

No one has ever found any BF scat.  If they did, then we would already know what they eat.  But they haven't found any poop, haven't found any fur, haven't sited any young BFs, haven't ever found a BF skeleton or any part thereof.  What would an elephant that mated with a mountain lion eat?

It's a non-starter of a question because it never happened.   We do live in the 21st century...in the most technologically advanced societies ever known to mankind.  We can find a mute toad in the jungle but not one trace of BF anywhere, at all, zero, nothin'.

 

[Earl.Of.Trumps]

I think the OP's theory should have said that the BF diet includes blood, but also includes vegetation, too. 

The woman with the two dogs killed in her back yard that had the 8' high fence... Where's the footprints?? 
If there aren't any, then drop the "BigFoot did it", and change to the "UFO did it". Maybe. 

Edited April 28, 2024 by Earl.Of.Trumps

[+joc]

9 hours ago, Earl.Of.Trumps said:

I think the OP's theory should have said that the BF diet includes blood, but also includes vegetation, too. 

The woman with the two dogs killed in her back yard that had the 8' high fence... Where's the footprints?? 
If there aren't any, then drop the "BigFoot did it", and change to the "UFO did it". Maybe. 

Or...change it to Bob Cat did it, or Coyote did it.  A Bob Cat can clear an 8' fence and a coyote can certainly climb it.  Why does everyone have to rush to the most likely of scenarios instead of rushing to the best case scenario?

[CrimsonKing]

On 4/27/2024 at 11:30 AM, joc said:

 

One of the huge reasons we know BF doesn't exist is because there isn't any bigfoot scat.  How do deer hunters track deer and put their tree blinds in just the right place?  Deer scat.   If animals eat, they poop.  The bigger the animal, the bigger the pile.  Labs vs Chihuahuas, Cows vs Labs...

No one has ever found any BF scat.  If they did, then we would already know what they eat.  But they haven't found any poop, haven't found any fur, haven't sited any young BFs, haven't ever found a BF skeleton or any part thereof.  What would an elephant that mated with a mountain lion eat?

It's a non-starter of a question because it never happened.   We do live in the 21st century...in the most technologically advanced societies ever known to mankind.  We can find a mute toad in the jungle but not one trace of BF anywhere, at all, zero, nothin'.

 

He's "interdimensional" Joc...he clearly doesn't like to poop where he eats,so he hops to another dimension when taking care of business 😉 😆