Bigfoot, Real or Not?

Andy The Ray

Andy The Ray

Vital Reserves Team
I've been chatting to a few of you today about the creatures that I come across living here in Florida which aren't particularly friendly. Anyway I go once or twice a year to visit my g/f sister and husband in the ass end of West Virginia. It is remote to say the least. To get to their house, once you leave the last paved road, you have another 15-20 minutes down dirt roads wide enough for one car. Anyway, my buddy was born and bred in this "town" and they live in a beautiful wood cabin on 96 acres of woods which they own.

He's a hillbilly who doesn't believe in ghosts, aliens and not even God, which in West Virginia still probably means theyd hang him if he made it too public! He does however thinks he's seen and heard Bigfoot. He's lived all his 50 years in these woods and goes hunting and generally looking around in them every day. Ive been there a fair few times and heard things but Im not an experianced outdoorsman like him but if he believes in it its good enough for me. Ive been to places in the Smokey Mountains where you can see from horizon to horizon and thats apparently 70 miles or so. From these vantage points there is absolutely nothing but woods, if anything or anyone wanted not to be found its possible to be able to do that I think. What do y'all think?
 
There is a Bigfoot in Malaysia. They call it Orang Mawas. I haven't come across it yet but in the jungle it could be 5ft away and you'd never know.
 
I have looked into this in the past and I've never been convinced there isn't, so I am open minded until someone can definitely say, no there is no such thing.

 
BB and Pride, I take it you're both ex pats like me. When you moved to your respective parts of the world were you both blown away by the density and size of the jungles and woods and also the remoteness of where some people live? I know I was. Until I saw it and experienced these areas I thought Bigfoot was just drunk hillbillies running around dressed in gillie suits but now I'm really not so sure. In England we thought the New Forest was big! The land my buddy owns is probably as big and that's just his garden!
 
Andy The Ray - 14/6/2015 11:36

BB and Pride, I take it you're both ex pats like me. When you moved to your respective parts of the world were you both blown away by the density and size of the jungles and woods and also the remoteness of where some people live? I know I was. Until I saw it and experienced these areas I thought Bigfoot was just drunk hillbillies running around dressed in gillie suits but now I'm really not so sure. In England we thought the New Forest was big! The land my buddy owns is probably as big and that's just his garden!
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Hi Andy, yeah, ex-pat. I'm in Java, Indonesia. There isn't that much 'jungle' here as it's nearly all either rice fields and mountains - or big hills as we'd call them. There is wooded areas obviously, but I wouldn't call it jungle.

Now in Borneo were I've been there is definite 'jungle', but I didn't spend long enough there to really go too deep. When I did it was to visit a longhouse and to get to that it is a case of using a canoe with a little outboard motor to get to the village.

But yeah, I can imagine your buddy's place and it's vastness. As they say, everything in the US is bigger...Lol

 
Hey Andy, yep, I'm an ex-pat too. I've done quite a bit of jungle trekking and camping here. The locals are very superstitious. They don't tend to live in isolated places. Mostly they live in small towns. There are also native people, something like Aborigines, who live in small villages in the jungle. They are also very superstitious.

I've seen a few snakes and some wild boar piglets in the jungle but it's rare to see anything. You only ever see snakes because they move. If they stay still, you'd walk right past them.

What did your mate say about the Bigfoot? I've always been fascinated by Bigfoot. I find it amazing that there are so many sightings in different parts of the world and no proof.
 
It's the ''ex pat'' crew lol good stuff, as regards to BigFoot i think there could easily be a creature that we have not properly come across due to as you say the shear amount of woodland and inhabitable places we don't live or around long enough, Russia, China it has been spotted in forest and mountain ranges, and even the old Red Indians of America had drawings of the creature so there is certainly something imo

Your mate wouldn't just claim that he saw Bigfoot i believe that and he is experianced, even if you think he could have saw a bear or something trying to explain it away he is too wise to the area and surroundings to get that mixed up, so my take is there is something same as in the sea i believe there are things we have yet to come across, we really am just only really and properly exploring our planet cos it's bigger than we realise in this global linked internet age
 
If it doesn't exist why is it in the American military's handbook of the local flora and fauna?

We find new species all the time, some are just better at hiding than others.





 
WOW never knew that Juan dude, that surely proves that Bigfoot is some form of specie us civilians just have not learned about, cheers for that bit of info superb!!
 
There are human tribes still who no outsiders have seen or encountered. And as you all say above, huge swathes of land hardly touched or explored.

No reason why there couldn't be all sorts of creatures we've never encountered or only rarely glimpsed.
 
BodyButter - 14/6/2015 04:09

Hey Andy, yep, I'm an ex-pat too. I've done quite a bit of jungle trekking and camping here. The locals are very superstitious. They don't tend to live in isolated places. Mostly they live in small towns. There are also native people, something like Aborigines, who live in small villages in the jungle. They are also very superstitious.

I've seen a few snakes and some wild boar piglets in the jungle but it's rare to see anything. You only ever see snakes because they move. If they stay still, you'd walk right past them.

What did your mate say about the Bigfoot? I've always been fascinated by Bigfoot. I find it amazing that there are so many sightings in different parts of the world and no proof.
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My mate has heard various weird roaring/screeching sounds over the years but on a few occasions he has had the sense of being watched and found it unnerving. This is a man who literally goes into the woods everyday. He thinks nothing of going into them in the middle of the night to get to his deer stand. As for what he's seen, all he knows is that it was larger than a bear, nothing like a bear and was upright. The only other occasions he basically saw shadows/silhouettes. The last time was a year or so ago and he tried to take a selfie! I think Bigfoot must be camera shy as nothing was on the photo.
 
Juan Mourep - 14/6/2015 07:49


If it doesn't exist why is it in the American military's handbook of the local flora and fauna?

We find new species all the time, some are just better at hiding than others.
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Wow, I didn't know that. I do know that in some States they are classed as a protected species. Also I've seen witness reports of the military turning up and securing the area after people have reported sightings.

As for finding new species, in places like Madagascar they do find new ones pretty much daily, don't they? Also did you know that only about 10% of the Grand Canyon has been officially charted? There's a lot of stuff out there on our own doorstep that we don't know about. As Fox Mulder said " the truth is out there".
 
Juan Mourep - 14/6/2015 12:49


If it doesn't exist why is it in the American military's handbook of the local flora and fauna?

We find new species all the time, some are just better at hiding than others.
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You trust the US Army to get anything right? Shame on you!!!
 
There must be something to it, just like UFOs.

Just need that bit of indisputable top quality HD video footage which sadly is lacking in both cases up to now

 
The nearest thing to bigfoot in these parts, and we have plenty of forest, is me I believe -I'm, what you might call, hirsute an have large feet :17:

 
There is no way in the world Heskey has big feet by the way he falls over and misses the ball I would say his feet stopped growing when he was 2.
 
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