Sasquatch in Utah

[accadacca]

I thought this would be a fun topic. I found some crazy Utah websites. :eek2: We are getting ready to hit the Wind Rivers. Perhaps we can spot some there? :lol8: Is this thing real? Who has heard stories or what have you seen?

http://www.aliendave.com/UUFOH_Bigfoot.html

http://www.sasquatch.i8.com/Index.html :lol8:

http://www.sasquatch.i8.com/nightrd.jpg

[Shan]

I've been told my husband could double for Sasquatch!

[Sombeech]

Let me jump on this before somebody else does...

http://uutah.com/forum/files/lwh_canyon__8_.jpg

[stefan]

It's really interesting you brought this up. so most people don't believe in bigfoot because there is no real hard evidence for it., for example a skeleton.

i lived for a year in extreme northern california, very very close to the siskyiou mountains where the famous video footage of the bigfoot was shot. nearby where i was living, there is a bigfoot museum too. i have read numerous accounts of early loggers who claim they heard screams in the forest at night, screams from animals they couldn't recognize. on many occasions they found their logging equipment destroyed the following mornings.

a sierra hiking book by john hart provides two alternatives. (1) there is a population of hairy upright walking beasts wandering all over the western north america. (2) there is an (or a group of) organization(s) which have been constructing bigfoot prints, which as yet cannot be debunked, over hundreds of thousands of square miles from california to canada, for the better part of a century. BOTH seem absurd. but then again, if it's not a hoax, why don't we have ANY evidence besides footprints? are there no skeletons because they bury there dead in places we NEVER look? i am sure if such a species did exist, they would be intellligent and could possibly evade humans quite well, after all they know the forest far better than we do.

one thing is for sure, in the lower 48 states, we have already logged MUCH of the forest ages ago, so during this time we would have pushed them deeper into the wilderness.

but it is interesting that a hairy upright walking animal is a natural part of folklore of indigenous peoples from himalaya, siberia to north america. is it simply a manifestation of a bear->man? or is there something more to it? could they have been more plentiful and were confronted sharply by early indigenous peoples from thousands of years ago, so that now they are extremely elusive for their survival, and, consequently, have become fokelore?

even Jane Goodall claims she believes in the existence of bigfoot

http://www.bfro.net/news/goodall.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall

all i know is that i don't think we can say anything definitively just yet, but anyone has the right to *believe* bigfoot doesn't exist.

wait a minute, i think i have seen bigfoot lurking around this forum...although he doesn't go by the name sasquatch....more like sombeech. :haha:

[Sombeech]

The lack of skeletons? I actually have to agree that this does NOT DISPROVE the sasquatch theory.

For example, we know bears exist, but how many bear skeletons have been found? Not very many at all. Sure, we come across deer, elk, and moose carcasses once in a while, but consider the population ratio.

Then, think of how many cougar, or mountain lion carcasses we come across. Hardly any. Sure, some have been spotted, but not as many as you would think.

So, I don't think the lack of skeletons and carcasses disprove the theory.

Then, the lack of photography issue... I'm still both sides on this, but then I read all of these uutah trip reports where nobody had a camera! :haha:

[Iceaxe]

I'm convinced..... :roflol:

Big foot is hiding in Ogden :haha:

http://uutah.com/forum/files/lwh_canyon__8_.jpg

[Sombeech]

I'm convinced..... :roflol:

Big foot is hiding in Ogden :haha:

He's a little sexier than I imagined.

[accadacca]

Who has seen somethin' or had a relative tell a story. That's what I want to hear...it would go something like.

Weez out in the treez and a hairy creature come down in frunt of us... :lol8:

Not to take the mickey but the stories are great! :lol8:

[KillEmAll]

I was trying to find any info on one of the lakes up in the Winds we'll be going to and the only thing I found was stuff on sightings (and no they weren't all reported around the last time sombeech and the gang was up there).

[jumar]

a natural part of folklore of indigenous peoples from himalaya

My sister has a book with pictures of an animal that it's thought was the root of the whole Yeti myth in the himalayas. Maybe I'll see if she can scan the pic for me. It looks more like a bear in her book. They have a stuffed one somewhere.

[stefan]

Who has seen somethin' or had a relative tell a story. That's what I want to hear...it would go something like.


here are some encounter stories, but i am sure you've come across this link already

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories.htm

ps. in northern california, bigfoot ran into the back of my car, nudging it a bit, as it intercepted me. it was running down a steep slope towards the river...it could of been a bear, but i swear it was bigfoot.

[accadacca]

Who has seen somethin' or had a relative tell a story. That's what I want to hear...it would go something like.


here are some encounter stories, but i am sure you've come across this link already

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/stories.htm

ps. in northern california, bigfoot ran into the back of my car, nudging it a bit, as it intercepted me. it was running down a steep slope towards the river...it could of been a bear, but i swear it was bigfoot.
What!? Utah is not on this list? Preposterous!!! Who will submit their story so we can get on this list. :lol8: Seriously though... :popcorn:

[stefan]

What!? Utah is not on this list? Preposterous!!! Who will submit their story so we can get on this list. :lol8: Seriously though... :popcorn:

these guys claim 34 sightings in utah

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/

[stefan]

My sister has a book with pictures of an animal that it's thought was the root of the whole Yeti myth in the himalayas. Maybe I'll see if she can scan the pic for me. It looks more like a bear in her book. They have a stuffed one somewhere.


a well-known explanation is that bigfoot is a descendent of a giant ape (orangutan, genus is gigantopithecus) that we have some fossils of. probably the largest primate (and primate brain) ever to exist, as far as we know.

i was hesitating to mention this, since it sounds like you are talking about something completely different, especially if it is something stuffed.

[accadacca]

Thought I would bring this back up after the whole DWR wolf debacle.

Check out this recent video: http://www.kutv.com/video/?id=17962@kutv.dayport.com

[icthys]

I KNEW IT!!!

Now I've got my next project in the works :naughty:

[chickenlicken]

We had bigfoot visit us on a scout camp up near Cub River almost 30 years ago. He screamed and broke branches and in the morning we found scratch marks on the aspen trees!! Holy @%@! I thought it was a hoax, now I am finding out that it might have been real!!