# Is bigfoot real?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 11, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bigfoot-real/463046 "2008-09-11T01:23:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bigfoot-real/463046/81 "2008-09-14T13:51:13Z")

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> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> Good–now let’s make this **harder**.
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> There are persistant rumors of giant catfish in the Mississippi River & its tributaries, including the Cumberland, near where I live.
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> The rumors place them as being 10 feet to 24 feet in length.

Feh. Mekong catfish, wels catfish and beluga sturgeons all reach comparable or even greater lengths. I don’t think it’s particularly unbelievable that they may be a couple of hundred 10-12 foot catfish lurking somewhere around the US.

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