# MSNBC Live vote: Do you believe Sasquatch exists? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640 "2005-07-28T20:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640/1 "2005-07-28T20:30:05Z")
[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8704515/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8704515/) As of now, 46,188 people have voted and **57% say yes** :eek: I’d like to believe that if they’d included a “not sure” option, most people would have gone that way. But when faced with a yes/no option, the majority apparently choose to believe there is, in fact a bigfoot. I can’t believe I share a planet with these people. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640/2 "2005-07-28T20:36:37Z")
The article the poll is associated with is interesting, apparently some folks saw a bison, and thought it was Bigfoot. This is another great example of how shitty eye-witnesses accounts are, and why people believe in stuff like sasquatches, Loch Ness monsters, angels, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640/3 "2005-07-28T21:26:44Z")
> [@Leviosaurus](#): > > I’d like to believe that if they’d included a “not sure” option, most people would have gone that way. I was looking for the “are you fucking kidding me?” option. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640/4 "2005-07-28T23:20:42Z")
My uncle actually went to Arizona for a couple of weeks this past spring to search for Bigfoot. I’m not kidding. He lived with Mescalero Apache on a reservation and would go out at night with others to watch/listen. The funny part is that other Apache find out what they’re doing and have gotten drunk, they go out and hide and make noises and stuff. It used to confuse the hell out of people. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640/5 "2005-07-28T23:23:08Z")
It’s down to 56%. ---
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640/6 "2005-07-29T00:22:45Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > It’s down to 56%. Probably from all the dopers who have gone there after reading this thread 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640/7 "2005-07-29T02:08:26Z")
You rang? I used to believe in it, but a creature that has never managed to get shot or run over or have its corpse found somewhere…naw. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640/8 "2005-07-29T02:11:48Z")
I think [this](http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3704453/) might account for (what I hope is) the disproportionate number of apparent Sasquatch believers. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640/9 "2005-07-29T02:39:21Z")
Just because Ray Wallace admitted to his hoax is no reason for the unwashed masses to stop believing in it. Stupidity needs an outlet. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/msnbc-live-vote-do-you-believe-sasquatch-exists/314640/10 "2005-07-29T09:09:58Z")
Sasquatch is something that people need to believe in. Whether his existence is real or mythological matters not. It is our genetic intelligence, an ancient recognition…evolutionary. Remembering shadows from a shared past. Sasquatch is still a mystery to me and I like it that way. No mystery… sad certainty. Neanderthal dreams. DK