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pizzadude
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 12:56am
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Well, do ya?
Perhaps there's a story or two to be told
I stopped by my taxidermist's to chat tonight. He showed me a pic from his trail cam of something he captured a week ago. His camera is 5 feet off the ground and the pic shows some sort of furry creature with course hair.
Too close to tell what it is.
He's a little nervy..
I'm very skeptical. Until someone comes up with a body, I will consider Bigfoot a mythical creature.
Still, the forest is dark. The stories and "evidence" can haunt and those strange noises are eerie.
I wonder..
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Gary O
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 07:19am - Edited by: Gary O
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it's just me
Size 13 EEEE
....sorry, p-dude
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Brknarow
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 07:27am - Edited by: Brknarow
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I do, but I also believe in M-Theory and extra-dimensional nexus points. It's funny really as you'd think simply believing in 'Bigfoot' is where I'd lose people. 
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 07:31am
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I saw Bigfoot last summer. I sprained my ankle, you should have seen how big it got.
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FishHog
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:26am
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Not at all. With all the people looking and all the game cameras out and still not one decent picture. Not possible in my mind
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hueyjazz
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 03:22pm - Edited by: hueyjazz
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So this was 30 feet out my back door. It must be Bigfoot
or a bear track I almost stepped on
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upndown
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 03:44pm
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I saw Harry and the Hendersons, you bet I do! And the Easter Bunny and Tooth fairy. Just wish there was a Hair Fairy. 
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davestreck
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:05pm
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The night is dark and full of terrors...
But, (quoting Wikipedia here):
Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i.e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere; all recognized apes are found in the tropics of Africa and Asia. As with other proposed megafauna cryptids, climate and food supply issues would make such a creature's survival in reported habitats unlikely. Great apes have not been found in the fossil record in the Americas, and no Bigfoot remains are known to have been found. The breeding population of such an animal would be so large that it would account for many more purported sightings than currently occur, making the existence of such an animal an almost certain impossibility.
Which, although most certainly true, is a bit of a bummer for those of us who would like there to be some mystery left in the woods...
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:11pm
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I met a guy once who said that Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) travel by means of large glass bell jars, with which they can travel to other planets. The guy who said this lived on another planet, I think, though he lived next door. He seemed to be enjoying his fantasy. Who am I to judge?
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davestreck
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:23pm
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Quoting: bldginsp He seemed to be enjoying his fantasy. Who am I to judge?
Absolutely right.
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creeky
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:35pm
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I leave money under my pillow hoping for the hair fairy to come every night.
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hattie
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 09:35pm
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Native stories from our neck of the woods tell of a big foot/Souie Appoo/Sasquatch/Stenwyken/Devil/big men of the mountains. We have an area that is referred to as "Sasquatch Castle". I dunno.... 
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littlehouseontheprarie
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# Posted: 13 Aug 2015 11:39pm
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Back in my drinking days I woke up next to a female bigfoot.
Whatever you do do not tell her she looks like Harry from harry and the hendersons.
She has no sense of humor and packs a mighty big wallop
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Malamute
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# Posted: 14 Aug 2015 02:02am - Edited by: Malamute
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Quoting: bldginsp I met a guy once who said that Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) travel by means of large glass bell jars, with which they can travel to other planets. The guy who said this lived on another planet, I think, though he lived next door. He seemed to be enjoying his fantasy. Who am I to judge?
Fun book, The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett. Slightly related to the concept you described, only no glass bell.
Truly, very fun book series. If anyone ever had pioneer fantasies, and/or liked sci fi, theyd probably enjoy them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Earth
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DaveBell
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# Posted: 14 Aug 2015 03:03am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8W9U0qhLz8
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 14 Aug 2015 08:54am - Edited by: bldginsp
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Here's a link to the Patterson-Gimlin film, 60 seconds of film shot in 1967, supposedly of a bigfoot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJjUt2sXo5o
Wikipedia has a long article on this film, which has been analyzed by numerous 'experts', many of whom assert that the creature shown in the film could not possibly be a man in a monkey suit because of the proportions of it's bodily dimensions, etc. But, numerous people have come forward with stories of having participated in the fraud, including the man who supposedly wore the suit and the person who sold the suit to Patterson. Some of the experts believe in Bigfoot but think the film is a fraud.
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pizzadude
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# Posted: 14 Aug 2015 03:40pm
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Interesting, this Patterson fella.
Supposedly he went down to the river bottom to do a fake Bigfoot shoot. Low and behold a real one happened to walk by.
Lucky him.
You'd think he'd fess up to a hoax. But he took it to the grave, even on his death bed he claimed the footage was authentic.
I have to admit, if Patterson's Bigfoot was a big guy in an ape suit, it was a darn good suit. Even in today's era of technology, nobody has been able to duplicate a suit that even comes close to that of the Patterson one.
I mean, if you look close at the Patterson footage, you can see the leg muscles flexing as "she" walks.
Remarkable, a suit with that much detail, made in '67.
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Bevis
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# Posted: 14 Aug 2015 09:35pm
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Quoting: creeky I leave money under my pillow hoping for the hair fairy to come every night.
Not me...I'm still hoping that I'll get Hypotrichosis, even this late in the game.
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rmak
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# Posted: 15 Aug 2015 11:07am - Edited by: rmak
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My wife heard screams coming from our woods before dawn one morning, about 8 years ago, when she was leaving for work. We went back to the woods afterwards to find saplings and brush interwoven around big trees and making types of makeshift shelters by a stream. I took a few of my buddies and my son out to look at these "structures". No one could figure out how they could have been made naturally with fallen branches in a storm or some other explanation.
We talked to a guy who follows the Bigfoot stuff and he says these are nests, that the creature follows streams and screams like someone being killed. Googling Bigfoot nests shows a bunch of similar structures. I've lived here for 30 years. I've never seen anything like it before or since.
I am not saying I'm a believer and I'm not saying I'm not. I've told this tale a number of times and I always say I really don't care if anyone believes me or not. I can't imagine anyone spending the time in our woods to create something like these structures as a hoax. That is almost as unbelievable as believing in the Bigfoot since it would take great effort, would have to be done at night and without making any noise that would get the dogs in the area barking.
That's my story.
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rockies
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# Posted: 15 Aug 2015 06:23pm - Edited by: rockies
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The Hollow Earth.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tierra_hueca/tierrahueca/Chapter1.htm
HEY! GUESS WHAT? The earth is hollow. Yes, it is. Ever open the top of a washing machine while it's on spin cycle and hold down the little lever that keeps the machine running even though the lid is open? The water and clothes are all pushed to the outside surface of the spinning drum by centrifugal force.
Same thing with a planet. The hot molten material is pushed outwards by the planets spin, while gravity pushes inwards from the surface. Thus, you get a cool crust on the outside and a hollow core with a cool crust on the inside. Apparently the US government sent Admiral Byrd to the poles to make contact with the people that live on the interior of the planet.
YUP, it's true.
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ClimberKev
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# Posted: 17 Aug 2015 12:44pm
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This story has been freaking me out ever since I was a kid...
http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/monroe.htm
Cashton is just down the road from our cabin.
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Jebediah
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 12:41pm
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I don't, but I know someone who does! I was watching a doc on bigfoot and to my surprise a guy I knew in the military(1980) was on the program (Mark Steinberg) not sure of the spelling or the first name. I don't think he made it past basic. He was working with some Dr. in BC, they were a match made in heaven, Mark wanted to shoot the thing on site and the Dr wanted to capture it lol. I saw the Doc about 10 yrs ago.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 02:41pm
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Well, I do think that if anyone feels they must buildon piers then the Bigfoot pier footings are a help. Still not code, but an improvement over many alternate methods we see used.
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 03:45pm
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Quoting: MtnDon Bigfoot pier footings are a help. Still not code,
According to the website, they have an ICC evaluation. So building departments can accept them. It's just a concrete form.
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rayyy
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 03:55pm
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I say if the hounds can't find them,their not there!
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RichInTheUSA
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 04:37pm
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Some woman in Virginia called 911 saying she saw bigfoot and a baby bigfoot! It must have been a woman from WV who came over the border.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb7tP9fTCqE
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2015 06:12pm - Edited by: MtnDon
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Quoting: bldginsp It's just a concrete form.
Exactly. A form with provision for easy attachment to tubes.
But read section 5.3 of the ICC report. see jpg image... most jurisdictions likely need a stamped engineers report as well. back to the same old, same old when it comes to code and piers for residential use. Bigfootsystems didn't lie, they simply leave the purchaser to read carefully.
(sorry if my attempt at humor puts the topic off track, but....
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