You’re telling me that with the movie, Harry and the Henderson’s, all the Jack Link beef jerky commercials, the expeditions shown frequently on the Discovery channel or Animal Planet, and a legendary monster truck and you still don’t believe there is a tall, hairy, giant running around America’s forested regions? You are even familiar with some of the many names. Bigfoot, sasquatch, yeti as well as some you may have never heard. Most of you are already going, “Yes, I have heard of Bigfoot, but I don’t believe in him” even after the integration into our culture. Sit back, relax and be prepared to be convinced. Bigfoot is out there.

Lets talk evidence. We have to date, photographs, sound recordings, hair samples, plaster casts, eyewitness testimony and videos. Although, all this evidence is circumstantial, we have convicted murderers on less. If you examine the evidence and put it all together, it will be hard to deny Bigfoot’s existence.

Sightings of Bigfoot have been reported in every state except Hawaii. The concentration of reports is in the Pacific Northwest, but very credible encounters have happened in California, Ohio, Florida and Texas. People have been driving, hiking, camping, swimming and otherwise normal activities when seeing these creatures. Normal, sane individuals, minding their own business. Police officers, military personnel, academic professors and people of high standing in their communities all have been included in the reporting of Bigfoot. Are you going to tell me that this is one mass hallucination happening all over the country? Going on now for decades? Wait before you answer that.

One of the most well known pieces of evidence is the plaster cast. Impressions of feet, hands, knuckles and partial body prints have been caste. What is interesting about the footprints is that some casts show dermal ridges. Dermal ridges are what make your fingerprints. They’re present on all primates. You even have them on your feet. The prints that have dermal ridging are practically impossible to hoax. On humans, these ridges run vertically, but on the Bigfoot prints, they run horizontal as in the great apes. No one would take the trouble to insert this into faking a set of prints,

Video and photographs abound, but none more compelling than the Patterson footage of 1967. That is the famous film we have all seen. It shows a female Bigfoot walking away after being spotted in a creek bottom. Now who would even think to include breasts, which you can clearly see in the film, in a suit? To this day, this film has all been proven not to be a fake. Reputable scientists have studied the Patterson footage enough to conclude that it is a wild creature of some sort, not a man in a suit.

Hairs gathered from the areas of sightings have been studied enough to show that they are not of any known animal. In fact, hairs from different locations show the exact same characteristics as from other locations. Bigfoot hairs found in Oregon, match hairs found in Tennessee. Interesting.

Sound recordings have really been scrutinized. Reported sounds of whoops, howls, screams and screeches have been studied and conclusionary findings indicate that the origin of these sounds are of no known animal and are not of the frequency emitted by man or animal. They also show that these sounds are not mechanical. That is to say that they weren’t made by a machine or other taped source..

The only way science will be satisfied is when someone brings in a body and they study it to conclude, yes there is an undiscovered primate running around. However, if we take all the compiled evidence, as circumstantial as it is, and put it all together, you still have a great case for Bigfoot. So go get yourself a big ol’ bag of Jack Link’s beef jerky and play your own practical joke on Bigfoot. But do so at your own peril. Bigfoot doesn’t like being made a fool of.

Jeff Payne

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