# Reasons why bigfoot might exist.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-why-bigfoot-might-exist/211599>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 5, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-why-bigfoot-might-exist/211599 "2003-11-05T19:18:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-why-bigfoot-might-exist/211599/81 "2003-11-09T22:02:17Z")

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Posted by **Voodoochile:**

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> There ~is~ an unknown hominid living in the western US and Canada.

I repeat: Where are the fossils of its ancestors?

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**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-why-bigfoot-might-exist/211599/82 "2003-11-10T08:57:06Z")

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\*\*My own impression that I came away with is that this hominid is far more human-like than animal like. A more accurate (though not completely) analogy would be one of a stone age tribe or culture that knew about us, but didnt want to ‘mix’ with us. Its purely my own inference, but the creature I saw was thinking, was calculating. It wasnt acting merely on instinct. \*\*

This actually does suggest to me that the creature you saw was in fact human;  
it may have been a hoaxer, or a human living wild in the woods;

this last possibility is interesting in itself, but does fit in better with the lack of evidence for non-human hominids here or anywhere in the modern world.

Having said that, it is not good practice to tailor observations to fit preconceived ideas, so without more details, it is difficult to evaluate your sighting.

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**Author:** ![crazy\_grady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@crazy\_grady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazy_grady)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-why-bigfoot-might-exist/211599/83 "2003-11-10T09:24:36Z")

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Big Foot is really Shaquille O’neal and he plays for the Lakers.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-why-bigfoot-might-exist/211599/84 "2003-11-10T09:26:19Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Voodoochile \*  
> The only standard of proof I would accept in a thing like this is proof of my own eyes. Yes, I have seen it, at a distance of about 10 yards, at around 4pm in the middle of a small glade my two friends and I walked into out of the woods, looking for an out of the way place to camp. I was 14, which was 23 years ago; no booze, no drugs.

Well I think that an eyewitness observation means it’s worth investigating, but not proof.  
Physical evidence is proof.

Numerous examples have shown that eyewitnesses can be honestly mistaken.  
(In addition, if there is a breeding population of such animals, why haven’t we found any bodies?)

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