Bigfoot Finder

So I watched this documentary the other day called Shooting Bigfoot and it brought up a lot of questions for me. Mainly because in this “film” some people had claimed to have caught Bigfoot. They said they had a body in the freezer and were touring it around the countryside and charging admission. Of course, this was all bogus.

But…consider what could happen when they DO catch him. What will happen and how will everyone react when one is caught dead or alive? Now is the Bigfoot forest a protected area? No more logging? Do people start Bigfoot cults and worship him as the next savior? Is it on the TV all the time for a few years with debates of “It’s still fake” versus “No really, it’s true this time”. What if Bigfoot is caught alive? Does the United Nations or Amnesty International step in to give him protected status? Who owns him? The person who found him or does the government just snatch him up? I’m betting the latter on this one.

Other than the news media going apeshit (pun intended) and every “expert” on the planet suddenly being on television, what would happen?

But the thing that really gets my goat is considering the possibility that if Bigfoot is capture alive, what if he can communicate? What if he can talk?

Whoa. Happy 420 everyone.

Here’s our new BigfootFinder.ca website logo. I like the balance it represents with the ying yang and the human hand and sasquatch foot. Working hand and foot together I guess.

So I was going to announce our site’s new logo today and offer t-shirts, hats, stickers and patches. Not because I wanted to be like every other website, blogger and youtuber who just spams the hell out of the interverse with their t-shirts. But because I wanted to buy some for myself and friends and family. And as bribes for people who help with the site and my research.

So I went back to CafePress that I had success years ago with. And that was a complete waste of two hours of my time. It was a clusterfuck of 404 page not found errors, redirecting to cafepress sites in other countries, crashing, error after error and a vicious cycle of adding images and products that just wouldn’t show up. It was the single worst website experience I have had in over 15 years. It was absolute crap. I am amazed they are still in business at all.

But hey, how about the new logo? Nice huh? I think I’ll get some stickers made at a local print shop and mail them to friends.

Moving out here to Harrison Hot Springs British Columbia many years ago I didn’t fully comprehend just how much Sasquatch has permeated the community.

Bigfoot is a BIG part of the tourism and the community. Yes, we had John Green who really did help put it on the map. And yes, a few historical sightings. But nothing like the Patterson–Gimlin film. Is seems there is something more driving this besides tourism dollars. As they say “Where there’s smoke there’s fire” and I think I smell Bigfoot smoke.

Here’s a collection of photos from the Internet of Bigfoot signs and statues in and around this community. This guy is everywhere!

The always amazing Don Jeffrey Meldrum posted a link to a interesting brains article on his Facebook page.

“Scientists discover why the human brain is so big” from Theguardian.com

What interests me, and others I presume, in this article is the statement that “Molecular switch makes human organ three times larger than great apes’, study finds”.

So what if a very large great ape like the Gigantopithecus had this molecular switch turned on? What if by chance this large ape was lucky enough, just like us, to have this switch?

Well, you’d have a Bigfoot I think. And why isn’t this possible? It’s a perfect explanation of Bigfoot.

Another interesting statement: “Tinker with the switch and the human brain loses its growth advantage, while the great ape brain can be made to grow more like a human’s.”

So is it reasonable to think that someone, somewhere hasn’t already tinkered? Or maybe it was just Mother Nature who flipped his switch? I mean, some how the human’s switch was flipped.

OK, maybe I’m flipped. But it’s something worth thinking about.

For this week’s post I just have a lot of questions. These have come up during recent research and I thought I’d list them out. There are so many things we don’t know about Bigfoot but what triggered these questions are changes in descriptions or portrayals over past years. I’d love to hear any feedback.

• Inbreeding is causing extra or less toes?
• Is breeding with human women introducing an arch to the foot prints? Causing them to be smaller?
• Opposable thumbs or not?
• Does the hair color turn white with age?
• Does Bigfoot hibernate?
• Why underhand throws and not overhand? Too much shoulder muscle?
• Grunting only communication? What about simple sign language?
• Grooming? Bathing? Why the smell? Toilet paper? 🙂
• Carnivore or Vegetarian?
• Night vision or not?
• Tiny ears means poor hearing?
• Plural: Bigfeet or Bigfoots?

Lots of questions and I really would like some feedback from you all. Thoughts?

A book I use for so much inspiration and data is by my Bigfoot Researcher hero John Green:

The Best of Sasquatch Bigfoot from Amazon.com

I have to call out credit right away because I used data directly from the book to build a graph of when during the year Bigfoot sightings seem to occur most often.

This is from John’s database at the time, the blue bars are number of sightings he recorded for that month over the years. July and Aug make sense as people are out in the bush the most in the summer and would have more encounters. But does it really make sense? What about the seasonal workers? What about the fact the in the Pacific Northwest we have a temperate climate? Or is this because more people are out then or cause of him? Another thing John mentions is that where there is greater than 20 inches of rain per year, Bigfoot is there. The temperate climate I mentioned fits with that.

And what’s with that spike in October? Halloween? And April? April Fool’s Day? May makes sense, cause it’s so dam wet around here in May.

So I haven’t really reached any conclusions here, just more questions. I’ll just focus my efforts on the Summer and Fall and see what I find.

About 250km north east of here was a reported Bigfoot print last month. Here’s a quote from the new article: https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/326085/Kelowna-man-claims-to-have-found-large-footprint-on-his-property

“Roy Watson lives on June Springs Rd. in East Kelowna and recently posted a photo of a six-inch wide footprint.”

Look at the photo above that he took. Does that look like it’s six inches wide? The foot print itself is maybe 5 inches wide at best. And if you use that ruler the length is maybe 12 inches. That makes it a shoe size 14 or 15. Yet the expert “Brian Wells” who studied it claims the print is between a size 17-20 men’s shoe size. “It was a very large print.”

After some researching on Google I can find nothing of expert “Brian Wells”.

It’s a bare foot human print in my opinion. But I’m sure these people catch very large fish as well.