# So, Anybody Ever Run into BigFoot? (As in Yeti not Husbands) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 25, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028 "2012-05-25T01:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cynyc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@cynyc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cynyc)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/1 "2012-05-25T01:09:05Z")
Via BBC News: > **[DNA to shed light on yeti claims](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18160673)** > > A UK-Swiss team is to use genetic testing to investigate the origins of remains claimed to have come from "yetis" and "bigfoot". ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/2 "2012-05-25T01:33:04Z")
I know some hairy girls. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/3 "2012-05-26T03:23:32Z")
If BigFoot did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/4 "2012-05-26T04:22:51Z")
I say the jury is still out because that was the only option that fits my feelings about the subject. I don’t care if he exists or not but maybe i would care in the existence of hard evidence. Hard evidence either way, that is. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/5 "2012-05-26T07:21:22Z")
Nitpick:Bigfoot is Sasquatch, Abominable Snowman is Yeti. And I’ve run into neither, and feel they’re both probably the result of somebody drinking too much and seeing things. No way we wouldn’t have found some concrete evidence of Bigfoot by now if they did exist. Dead ones or their bones or something at the very least. ---
**Author:** ![cynyc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@cynyc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cynyc)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/6 "2012-05-26T22:40:16Z")
Why? Or was that a grammar error? > [@blondebear](#): > > If BigFoot did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/7 "2012-05-27T05:30:25Z")
Generally, if there is a “cryptid” the natives know about the critter. To some extent, this is true about the Yeti. Yeti is thus very doubtful, but there’s a tiny chance, that _maybe_… But not so with Bigfoot, who is a complete and total hoax, beginning to end. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/8 "2012-05-28T03:11:52Z")
It would be interesting if there was. And as to not finding a body - I have gone hiking and camping in woods many times in my youth, and it is fairly unusual to find animal corpses in the woods - they tend to get dragged off and eaten, bones scattered and then leaves fallen on top of any remains. Usually, any animals people find are on the edges of roads where many scavenger animals are scared away by human presence. I think that if there is any large cryptid around, they are assiduously staying away from human areas. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/9 "2012-05-28T15:41:25Z")
1. I would have strongly preferred the additional option of: - no scientific evidence 1. There are many amazing animals on the planet: - [duck-billed platypus: a venomous mammal that lays eggs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus) - [bacteria that live at underwater volcanoes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt_volcano) - [sharks that have remained unchanged for 100 million years](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark#Evolution) - [a 25 foot long snake 🆒](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_anaconda) What these all have in common is that **they have been found**. There has been no evidence for Bigfoot: particularly no bodies (either adults or young.) Almost all ‘sightings’ have been by people who then published books or appeared on TV or in the press. Gee, I wonder why that is? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/10 "2012-05-28T17:37:12Z")
BigFoot only appears to authors? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/11 "2012-05-28T17:38:13Z")
Like how UFOs only appear to Wayans. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/12 "2012-05-28T23:20:58Z")
[Just don’t try to prank Sasquatch.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJF0cuYbYyI) ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anybody-ever-run-into-bigfoot-as-in-yeti-not-husbands/623028/13 "2012-05-29T01:24:56Z")
> [@glee](#): > > There are many amazing animals on the planet: > > - [bacteria that live at underwater volcanoes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt_volcano) Including bacteria on your list of amazing animals is amazing indeed.