Bigfoot is among the American mysteries that are unexplainable. Although historical records have documented the existence of Bigfoot for several years, every person has his opinion on the existence of it. Bigfoot existence has brought more skepticism and laughter for more than fifty years. Researchers have realized that almost 70 percent of Bigfoot evidence result from misidentifying (Townsend). The scientist identifies Bigfoot as a hoax rather than a living creature. Therefore, from history and evidence of Bigfoot, their existence is not real.
The Bigfoot history is drawn back in the early Indian tribes as well as the indigenous population. Tribes such as Spokane, Hopis, Seeahtik among other tribes from Canada all had stories about a hair-like creature. This creature has the same characteristic like those of a Bigfoot in this present period. This creature was not mistaken for other animals such as a wolf, bear or a dear since they have different stories about these animals (Townsend). These tribes also have some painting that looks like a huge hairy man resembling an ape. For instance, the first Bigfoot was sighted in Colombia in 1772 by a Spanish explorer, exploring Canada. The term Bigfoot became common in the year 1958 after Jerry Crew’s picture appearing in a newspaper.
J.W. Burns contributed to a legends section newspaper part invented Bigfoot legend origin in the early 1920s, which is also referred as Sasquatch. However, the Bigfoot legend extended in every part of the united states after the claims of Gerald Crew of finding Bigfoot’s large footprints in the constructing site (Townsend). In history, giant stories, ape-like creature, have been existing in many parts of the universe. Nevertheless, all of the stories ended up as myths or hoax showing that Bigfoot does not exist.
There are many evidence pieces supporting the Bigfoot non-existence. The greatest is the fact that there is no quality evidence of their existence over the many years that have passed. Throughout history, there have been shreds of evidence such as blurred images, fake footsteps, few recordings, footprints as well as few eyewitnesses. This cannot be classified as hard evidence that can support the Bigfoot existence in the world but as a hoax (Townsend).
Pictures are unreliable evidence form in this Bigfoot mystery. There exist many Bigfoot pictures in the world, however, most of them are unreal evidence of Bigfoot. For instance, according to Benjamin Radford in the Discovery News: “these photographs show something that is probably alive, it’s probably dark, it’s not a cat, and it’s not a camel. It could be a Bigfoot or it would be a deer or it could be a guy in a suit”. “Ultimately” he sums up, “it’s a two-dimensional image. It’s a pixel”. Most of the available pictures are taken from a distance creating doubt on the reality of their existence because there is no chance that always when pictures are taken they are from a distance (Townsend).
Video evidence are other forms of evidence largely recognized and most controversial. Many videos exist that show the Bigfoot and some are more famous in North America. One of these videos is called the Paterson and Gimlin Film. For example, Roger Patterson exposed in a film the Bigfoot-like a hoax. The film shows an ape-like, giant creature walking in the forest in a more vivid way to be known as a Bigfoot, though it remains grainy on this video. Radford says, “The chances of this film being real is still questionable. However, the reality has been shown that it was a hoax, after about forty years, because the thing called a Bigfoot was a real man in a costume”.
Another video is the Memorial Day Bigfoot, this video was shot in 1996 at Chopaka Lake in Washington. Loir Pate filmed it when he was on the fishing trip. This film showed Bigfoot running through the hill and vanishing behind the slopes, which again appears before vanishing again into the trees (Nickell). Paul Freeman video is another studied and viewed video. Freeman was a crypto-zoologist and Bigfoot hunter (Nickell). He said that he found Bigfoot tracts having dermal ridges. In the video, he showed Bigfoot walking in threes in a forest. However, these videos bring doubt because of the information is given to them that contradicts each other and some of them being blurred to the extent that it is hard to believe it is a Bigfoot.
Additionally, hard evidence such as body and bones are not available. Remains of bones and the body are some of the most reliable evidence of the existence of the Bigfoot. The evidence that has claimed to be found include blood and hair samples. Radford in the Discovery News says, “This samples available have most often turned to be of different sources. For instance, the blood can be blood for transmission or the hair is “Bigfoot hair” turns to be the hair from a cow, elk or even the bear”. Therefore he culminates by saying that the hair cannot be a reliable test for the DNA test to confirm the existence of Bigfoots, thus no hard evidence. The availability of shreds of evidence such as bones and body remains can be better evidence rather than hair and blood (Nickell).
In conclusion, in spite of some evidence of the Bigfoot, still, their existence is questionable. The existence of the Bigfoot lacks hard evidence (Nickell). The videos, footprints, pictures, eyewitness, as well as the blood and hair samples, are not convincing evidence. This evidence are few and others do not give clear information about Bigfoot. Since the Bigfoot existed from the tribe stories their existence is not real but a hoax (Nickell).
Work Cited
Nickell, Joe. “The Bigfoot Obsession.” Quality, vol. 41, no. 4, 2017, pp. 62–64.
Townsend, Mitchel. Is Bigfoot Real? Emerging Scientific Evidence. 2016.
