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Cryptozoology is scoffed at as a pseudoscience in most circles. Recent ridiculous "reality" TV shows don't help. Shows like 'Finding Bigfoot' are a perfect example. I prefer to call that show "Scaring Bigfoot". So you are supposedly searching for a notoriously reclusive creature and your best idea is to bring out a large team of people, with camera crew and all equipment, tromping out into the woods and yelling as loud as you can? That's your strategy? :roll eyes:
Anyhow, this thread will take a serious look at things and not a reality TV show look. Unknown species are discovered all the time. Some of them at one time were scoffed at until proven, like gorillas and Coelacanths, others were just unknown. Then you get unproven ones but have been in oral & written history for millennium, some with evidence of present day existence. This thread won't just be about Bigfoot, though it is the commonly associated with Cryptozoology.
What better way to kick off the thread than with an account by a former president?
BTW that guys' channel is fascinating. While he is fully convinced of the existence of Bigfoot, he is very meticulous and scientific in his reasoning. Skeptic or not, his videos are worth a watch.
Anyhow, this thread will take a serious look at things and not a reality TV show look. Unknown species are discovered all the time. Some of them at one time were scoffed at until proven, like gorillas and Coelacanths, others were just unknown. Then you get unproven ones but have been in oral & written history for millennium, some with evidence of present day existence. This thread won't just be about Bigfoot, though it is the commonly associated with Cryptozoology.
What better way to kick off the thread than with an account by a former president?
BTW that guys' channel is fascinating. While he is fully convinced of the existence of Bigfoot, he is very meticulous and scientific in his reasoning. Skeptic or not, his videos are worth a watch.