# Sasquatch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 26, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216 "2014-12-26T16:43:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216/21 "2014-12-28T23:06:20Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I have been in some _really_ remote areas of the PNW. All day without seeing another group, etc. > > But every square mile gets visited by somebody sooner or later. There can’t possibly be even a dozen Sasquatches anywhere. A lone one might get by for several years, but working backwards in time raises a bunch of questions about their former numbers and range that can’t be reasonably answered. E.g., an immense percentage of old growth lumber was taken out a long time ago. And none of these areas happened to contain Sasquatches? > > Even if UFOs dropped a thousand of them into the remotest area, by the next hunting season someone would have bagged one (or probably even sooner). > > (One of the oddities of actually meeting people in remote areas is that there’s a good chance you know someone in common or better. E.g., last summer fourwheeling waaay out in the sticks with cousins and a friend of theirs we ran into two groups. In the first the friend knew someone in the other group so he stopped and chatted. In the second the the wife of a guy in the other group worked with one of my cousin’s wives which meant they themselves were sort of on a first name basis. Ergo, if someone actually met a Sasquatch, they’d know people/cryptids in common.) They hear you coming, so they hide. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216/22 "2014-12-28T23:42:55Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > They hear you coming, so they hide. Except when they throw rocks at you or shake your tent to defend their territory. I suppose it’s proof of how intelligent they are that squatches only use the aggressive options when you don’t have a camera or a gun. Or so says Finding Bigfoot. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216/23 "2014-12-30T16:35:30Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Because if he didn’t exist we’d have to invent him. Well, sure, but is there something special about Sasquatch, or is this just like t[he Legend of Boggy Creek](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068837/), with mountains? The reason I’m asking is that I have a theory, which of course once I propose it, someone will say - “But what about this?” I want to get my sasquatches all groomed nicely first, yanno? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216/24 "2014-12-30T18:00:32Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > Well, sure, but is there something special about Sasquatch, or is this just like t[he Legend of Boggy Creek](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068837/), with mountains? > > The reason I’m asking is that I have a theory, which of course once I propose it, someone will say - “But what about this?” I want to get my sasquatches all groomed nicely first, yanno? I think hominid-like creatures are appealing, Yetis, Sasquatch, and the totally improbable Gorilla, except they found that last one. And the Rocky Mountains make it seem more probable that it can survive without being seen. A 7 foot tall chicken in Brooklyn doesn’t have the same kind of appeal. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216/25 "2014-12-30T19:23:55Z")
The more time that passes without conclusive (or even reasonable) evidence, the less likely it is to be true. Sure has been a lot of time so far, no? But we can never say never; think [asymptote.](https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=define+asymptote) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216/26 "2014-12-30T19:28:00Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > A 7 foot tall chicken in Brooklyn doesn’t have the same kind of appeal. Granted, maybe not in Brooklyn. How about [the Wild West?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUO32EGdEpg) Lot’s of good eatin’ in a 7-ft tall chicken. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216/27 "2014-12-30T21:42:26Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Granted, maybe not in Brooklyn. How about [the Wild West?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUO32EGdEpg) > > Lot’s of good eatin’ in a 7-ft tall chicken. Yeah, but it’s a different kind of appeal, not the same kind. Although maybe Sasquatch tastes like chicken, most critters do. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216/28 "2014-12-30T21:44:08Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > Well, sure, but is there something special about Sasquatch, or is this just like t[he Legend of Boggy Creek](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068837/), with mountains? > > The reason I’m asking is that I have a theory, which of course once I propose it, someone will say - “But what about this?” I want to get my sasquatches all groomed nicely first, yanno? It’s a glitch in our pattern recognition wetware. It’s the same reason that you not only recognize this 🙂 as a human face, but you think you know how it’s feeling. There are also some bugs in terms of projecting expectations into missing gaps in the data, and in terms of faulty long-term data storage mechanisms. The end result is that every human civilization, at every point in history, believed in large, hairy crypto-hominids. The only common factor is _us_. ---
**Author:** ![qazwart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/5fc32e/32.png) [@qazwart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qazwart)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216/29 "2014-12-31T15:41:08Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I think hominid-like creatures are appealing, Yetis, Sasquatch, and the totally improbable Gorilla, except they found that last one. And the Rocky Mountains make it seem more probable that it can survive without being seen. A 7 foot tall chicken in Brooklyn doesn’t have the same kind of appeal. What about a 7 foot tall chicken just across the Hudson in [Hoboken, New Jersey](http://www.amazon.com/Hoboken-Chicken-Emergency-Daniel-Pinkwater/dp/1416928103)? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216/30 "2014-12-31T15:42:50Z")
> [@qazwart](#): > > What about a 7 foot tall chicken just across the Hudson in [Hoboken, New Jersey](http://www.amazon.com/Hoboken-Chicken-Emergency-Daniel-Pinkwater/dp/1416928103)? There’s no appeal to a Joyzee chicken of any size. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sasquatch/708216.md?page=1)