When I lived in Pt Hope, the locals had lots of stories about "big Indians" doing things around town, and hairy elephants that they hunted in the old days. So do the people in Kotzebue about the Little People.
I don't have a closed mind about such things - as one would realize if reading my first post carefully. I was pointing out facts - there never seems to be any positive, nearly irrefutable proof - pics can be faked, stories made up. Mass hysteria, subliminal suggestion- one experiences what one expects....that sort of thing. Getting spooked is catching.
Maybe if I stuck around when my gut tells me to GTFO, I'd have something more interesting to talk about.... and if it does happen to me, I will fully believe it.
With the lack of presentation of solid evidence, my theory is they don't live here, but come through a portal from elsewhere/else-when for a visit, inadvertent or not. Like Hopi believe they did.
And my theory is as good as yours, so there!
I learned early on in Pt Hope, that it was hard to distinguish which stories supposedly occurred recently, and which ones were generated many generations ago, and passed on as "truth".
Nothing like a good campfire (and alcohol) to gin (pardon the pun) up yarns.
l told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Mother Gue, I says, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world, and by God, I was right. - Del Gue
l told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Mother Gue, I says, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world, and by God, I was right. - Del Gue
Lots of evidence. Just have to study the topic for awhile. Thousands of eyewitnesses, many of which are very credible with nothing to gain from it. Tracks found in very remote locations. Hair samples that come back as no known animal. Sound recordings of no know animal or impossible for a human to make. DNA samples that come back half human/half unknown primate. Photos/videos, albeit most are not good, doesn't make it not real though. Like one researcher said years ago, either EVERY sighting, track, etc. is fake, or it's real. Every person I have brought up the subject with, and says it's BS, has one thing in common, none have spent anytime actually researching it. But hey! Who knows!
I had a friend who once saw a coal black horse with glowing red eyes standing in the middle of his lane.
He decided he should stop driving exhausted and get some sleep. It could just as easily been a Bigfoot, I suppose.
Reba- I too have spent LOTS of time alone in the wilderness. While I've been gut-feeling spooked a number of times - and paid attention to it - I've never had any proof-positive encounters involving sight or sound of Bigfoot or the Little People. I ascribe it to possibly being watched by a "normal" animal. I could be wrong, about that. It could just be what little imagination I have.
The first time I heard a moose roar, it could have been ascribed to a Bigfoot. I got the hell out of there! That was real sound and I didn't get a recording, either. At least 80% of the people I talked to about it (including most wildlife biologists) said "bear" - not one said Bigfoot. Either way, they would have been wrong. I wasn't sure about the Moose Research Center biologist's assessment of "moose", either, until about a year or two later I actually saw a moose while it was roaring.
(Probably a Bigfoot ventriloquist in collusion with that cow, for you skeptics.... . )
TTS - I've read many, many of those accounts - and it is never " irrefutable" that I've seen. Until I see real proof from elsewhere or experience it myself, I'll hold on to some skepticism. Word of mouth "evidence" as to sights and sounds, and blurry pictures of indeterminate foot prints, etc. ain't it. I'll reserve judgement, tho.
"nothing to gain by it"? Who says? Just telling a whopper is often gain enough. Hey- we're all on 24hcf, yes? . Roundoak ring a bell?
The lack of pictures goes the other way also - I often forget to take pictures I should when getting ready to shoot something- or even after I do. Now, Nugget's albino elephant in the white-out at his dump story has some credence. The picture was posted, after all, apparently not even photo-shopped.
I'm calling no one out -or laughing - on their stories, experiences, etc. I want some irefutable proof tho, before I fully buy it.
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