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TEB

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Sun Oct 8, 2017, 04:19 AM Oct 2017

I would like to hear your ideas on Bigfoot [View all]

Yesterday I met a gentleman a friend of our son in law. Who grew up in south east Oklahoma, and he was telling me that it is quite common to hear people in the area he grew up in to tell of sightings. What started the conversation was he saw a paperback book I picked up at the used book store on cryptozoology. he personally never had an experience , but he told me his father growing up in rural Oklahoma in the 1970 thru 1980 had as well as his aunts.

In the area we live is very rural mountains with two state forest. And we have quite a few orchards and farms, and looking on line we have had quite a few people who have had experiences as well. And I know one gentleman who told me once trail riding their horses in the state forest with his wife a branch was tossed at them, they never saw who tossed it or what. Several years ago in a desolate area I trout fish a man found tracks and took pictures and it was in the local paper.

I have never had an experience of any kind but I am open minded to the possibility that they may exist, theories abound that gigantopithecus survived. Or that perhaps Neanderthals have not gone extinct, I guess what I'm trying to get across is with all the documented sightings all of these people cannot be telling tall tales.

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Size 14W. He was an Eagle Scout in my troop. Throck Oct 2017 #1
No experience personally roscoeroscoe Oct 2017 #2
Thank you I just ordered this book off amazon TEB Oct 2017 #4
I just started TEB Jan 2018 #38
Bigfoot exists around the world and I believe many of the stories to be true. democratisphere Oct 2017 #3
I agree with you TEB Oct 2017 #5
ROFLMAO snooper2 Oct 2017 #32
Latest research and DNA analysis indicates that the "Yeti" is a real ancestor democratisphere Oct 2017 #34
As silly myths go, Bigfoot is one of the more harmless. Orrex Oct 2017 #6
Maybe I want to believe that it is true TEB Oct 2017 #7
I didn't grow up in Appalchia, but I have seen black bears stuffed and mounted Orrex Oct 2017 #11
I was saying TEB Oct 2017 #13
Even so. Orrex Oct 2017 #18
Well, yes they have roscoeroscoe May 2018 #40
Yes, my father was a retired Air Force officer. JayhawkSD Oct 2017 #23
Beware of confirmation bias. Also, very difficult to prove a negative. But where are the bones? Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #15
Why haven't remains been found? SHRED Oct 2017 #8
That I cannot answer TEB Oct 2017 #10
I met a girl years ago SHRED Oct 2017 #12
When my friend mentioned trail riding with his wife TEB Oct 2017 #20
All the sightings seem to be in Washington state for some reason JonLP24 Oct 2017 #31
But others have zipplewrath Oct 2017 #29
Because they bury their dead snooper2 Oct 2017 #33
May have existed Loki Liesmith Oct 2017 #9
I would think with the ubiquity of trail cams- digonswine Oct 2017 #14
After an experience with a large black cat I had in the early 1980's I do not dismiss Bigfoot gordianot Oct 2017 #16
Really? njhoneybadger Oct 2017 #17
shape shifters just us Oct 2017 #19
I think this is likely too Beringia May 2019 #41
Florida's Skunk Ape HockeyMom Oct 2017 #21
I don't believe in God, even though safeinOhio Oct 2017 #22
Well played. cwydro Oct 2017 #25
There 's no big foot, no Loch Ness monster, no ghosts or visiting aliens.... LakeArenal Oct 2017 #24
This? muntrv Oct 2017 #26
I saw bigfoot once hueymahl Oct 2017 #27
I've lived in NE OK most of my life Runningdawg Oct 2017 #28
There were "sightings" inside Ft Lewis mid 1950s JonLP24 Oct 2017 #30
You mean this guy? Kablooie Dec 2017 #35
Im a bit of a skeptic they encountered one on OK as its a PNW legend...like UFOs samnsara Jan 2018 #36
They found him! Gabi Hayes Jan 2018 #37
I tend to think of Bigfoot as spiritual. GreenEyedLefty Jan 2018 #39
Proves the myth that a mans feet can be equated to his appendage... JustFiveMoreMinutes May 2019 #42
A former co-worker has an original idea. MicaelS May 2019 #43
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