JAGzilla wrote:
Many reports of Bigfoot and other phenomena involve the entity in question disappearing into thin air, phasing through solid objects, communicating telepathically with observers, and displaying various other characteristics that defy physics and nature as we currently understand them. These reports are common.
I was heavily into Bigfoot shit for years and even took a paranormal class in college (which was the catalyst from my jump to "potential beliver" to "total skeptic"), these aren't "common" at all. Most of the reports I've read have involved knocks, calls, eyeshine, and glimpses of it acting like an actual animal. None of this paradimensional, telepathic nonsense. 90% of the people that report these type of incidents (from the reports I have seen) are clearly disturbed individuals. I don't entertain any of this stuff because it's all too simple of an excuse for why these creatures haven't been discovered.
JAGzilla wrote:
And I would say that "none of the physical evidence convinces me and I won't entertain speculation so therefore there is no Bigfoot" shuts conversations down pretty effectively, too.
I'm perfectly fine with speculation, but I'm waiting for you or anyone else to provide what you think is conclusive evidence to the existence of these creatures but you're weirdly hesitant to post anything. I haven't been dismissing any actual hard-hitting scientific evidence because nothing of that sort has been provided. It's just been countless paranormal and spiritual nonsense.
Here, I'll even offer my own example of potential evidence:
The Paul Freeman footage remains the one bit of supposed evidence that
I honestly have no explanation for. Nothing about Mr. Freeman strikes me as someone who was a rabid hoaxer and the figure in his footage is something I cannot provide a logical explanation for. The factors just don't add up to support either side of the argument. It's even worse that poor Mr. Freeman passed away years ago so we have no firsthand testimony to this video footage.
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EDIT: I actually didn't notice this one bit because I was so focused on replying to the part that was only directed at me. My mistake.
JAGzilla wrote:
And there are plenty of pieces of evidence that have yet to be disproven. The Patterson Film, for one.
The Patterson film is probably one of the most obvious fakes that has ever existed right next to the Surgeon's photo of the Loch Ness Monster (itself a steaming load of BS but for entirely different reasons).
Every single analysis of the Patterson film has been done with a duplicate of the original film. The original negative has
never been analyzed. Why? Every time a duplicate of a negative is made, film clarity and quality is lost. Every major analysis on YouTube of supposed "high quality" footage has not been from the original negative, but a mutli-generational copy. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to see anatomical features such as breasts, lips, muscles, etc. on a copy that unclear from such a distance away. Not only has film degradation seeped in at that point, but the animal itself is supposedly covered in shaggy hair, making it even more difficult to spot such features.
On top of that, Patterson himself was a well-known conman, hoaxer, and liar. He just happened to be working on a movie (a fictional movie according to my research, not a documentary as it's widely believed) and just happened to find a real-life Bigfoot when doing so? Someone who set out not even looking for it was able to stumble upon it and supposedly create one of the most widely analyzed pieces of evidence yet experts and researchers who attempt similar or even more well-researched trips are unable to do so? Something just doesn't add up. In fact, if you look into the specific details about the trip, many details don't add up. Patterson and Gimlin reportedly had the footage flown out from Bluff Creek yet there are no records of a flight being charted. Roger reportedly never returned to Bluff Creek, why wouldn't he?
Most of this information comes from Greg Long's book "The Making of Bigfoot", by the way.