Once while mule deer hunting during the front edge of the rut, I put a stock into a small timber patch because I could hear constant footsteps in there moving around. It sounded like either a couple bucks in a good shoving match or a buck chasing around a couple does. I spent a good 45 minutes working my way into that spot that was only a couple hundred yards from me. Finally I held tight on the edge behind a couple dead falls for probably 15 minutes before I clearly noticed the constant rhythm of the footsteps. I then proceeded in to clarify my ignorance and found two dead snags banging against each other softly at their tops. The sounds of the woods will sometimes lie to you as quick as they will tell you the truth.
I think absolutely ones mind can play tricks on noises heard in the wilderness. However IMO there is no way, (for how many people have sightings reported then knock up the percentage even a bit to embarrassed and scared people that don’t report) that all the hundreds of reports each year are a case of ones head playing tricks. Especially if someone sees one.
I mean just look at this forum as a case study. Most on here are skeptic and remain neutral, the safest route really and one should be a skeptic to learn both sides of everything, then analyze data interpreted from either side to make their conclusion. Now some people maybe so or maybe not on this forum or readers of, always stay on the fence for fear of backlash from the other side. These people are afraid of others opinions and will hide their actual belief so as to not be wrong in anyone’s eyes. That is exactly the opposite of what I’m doing.
Now another portion here has their mind open and is willing to think about new ideas that could honestly be a possibility. The possibility that we as in ‘Society’ may not know everything going on out there. I believe this is how we grow as a group in all aspects. Not just the Sasquatch topic, but in all aspects of our sub culture of being outdoorsmen and women. People stunt their potential by closing their minds off to just what has always been in the past and will always be. Nuance promotes growth.
The last group in this forum has closed their minds off completely. They aren’t willing to accept that maybe they aren’t the all knowing mountain men (or women) they think they are. They have completely shut down potential new knowledge by disbanding immediately. That’s exactly what most people in power want, for us as a collective to shut up, disband, and ridicule all new ideas. It’s not even the folks on here poking fun, their faults at all. Society over time has made most of us that way on purpose for any new idea to be shot down not just Sasquatch. Just some of the people on this forum have become close minded and possibly even simple minded. It’s sad that some will never be open to any new idea or old idea that was deliberately made to be forgotten.
You can take this example of division just in a forum and blow it up to metaphorically describe the exact reason there is division in our nation (US).
Very long story short; with all given sightings, gut feelings from ancestral DNA, encounters in general. One shouldn’t disband and poke fun of, just because it hasn’t happened to them.
By no means am I directing any written tension towards you specifically man, I just started typing and let it flow after responding the first paragraph had a thoughts to write down.
Side note: The US Government acknowledged just this past year that they have had an on going research project on UFOs that over the years has cost millions. If UFOs are now nationally acknowledged as real, is Sasquatch really as far fetched as some here seem to believe?
