My Grandson was all excited when he called and told me that CNN had Bigfoot corpse pictures on the air a few weeks ago and told me to turn it on and watch. I watched the story as a skeptic would and I must admit it did look kind of cool but I had my doubts.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/15/bigfoot.body
Then the ‘Rest of the story’ was told and the truth was out. They lied about it and claimed that it was a joke that just got out of hand.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/21/bigfoot.hoax/index.html?iref=newssearch
My guess is that all of the ‘Serious’ Bigfoot trackers are not too happy with the press coverage and I cannot say that I blame them at all. I will give them credit for their dedication to attempt to prove their existence but I am afraid they are going to be disappointed in the end. After this latest stunt I doubt that any respectable news agency will ever air any more Bigfoot news because they have cried “Wolf” way too many times.
On the other hand there is so much that we still don’t know about our world since not all of the planet has been explored and anything is possible. There are still some parts of the earth’s surface that have been mapped yet not explored and new animal species and subspecies are discovered on a regular basis. The ocean may be the next place we get ‘Monster’ reports from as we begin exploring it in earnest because only 5% of it has been explored.
In east Africa in the 1800’s as the population began growing and the inhabitants were seeking new hunting grounds and places to live there were reports of Bigfoot type “Monsters” among the natives. These “Monsters” were manlike and some thought that they may be the archeological missing link between animals and mankind. It was not until 1902 that scientific evidence of these “Monsters” was proven and today we can see these once mythical monsters in our local Zoos. However today we know them as Mountain Gorilla’s and their existence was proven as they were ‘discovered’ in the Virunga Mountains of East Africa by a German Captain named Robert von Beringe (1865-1940) in October of that year.
Who knows we may even find living and breathing dinosaurs as we begin discovering more of the planet. You may laugh however that is not impossible when you consider that in 1938 the Coelacanth lungfish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period some 65.5 million years ago was caught.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4501152.stm
In the Borneo Islands more than 400 new species alone have been identified on the island since 1996 and new ones are still being unearthed.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061219-borneo-species.html
Just some food for thought.
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