Ok... Here goes.... (Darrington, George, Copalis Beach: home, living in, title)

[ijoe13]

I have always found the stories of sasquatch/bigfoot to be entertaining. I wonder what the locals think of these stories? Are sightings, etc., covered by local media at all?

I'm interested to see what you all think.


Joe

[Kalki93]

The only time I ever see it on TV is History channels many conspiracy themed shows centering on beasts and the paranormal. I don't know enough about it to form my own opinion on the existence of such a beast, but I do find the lore to be quite interesting.

[jenlion]

I have a minor in anthropology. In one class, the professor asked everyone (maybe 30 students) who was quite sure that they did not believe in ghosts. My hand went up. NOBODY else's did, until the prof's did, thankfully. (only now I look like a brown-noser!). Everybody else said, well, I don't THINK so, but I'm not SURE.... or, worse, "I saw the ghost of my grandmother in rocking chair in the attic! I KNOW there are ghosts!!".... We spent the semester talking about the kinds of stories people worldwide have had about ghosts, animals, etc. Great class. (Do you have any idea how many people have "seen" their grandmother in their old rocking chair? haha).

Anyway, to be a bit blunt, there's no ghosts, no sasquatch, no bigfoot, none of it. People want to believe there's more to the world than there is, but, quite simply, there isn't.

[Heiwos]

Originally Posted by jenlion

Anyway, to be a bit blunt, there's no ghosts, no sasquatch, no bigfoot, none of it. People want to believe there's more to the world than there is, but, quite simply, there isn't.

Yet the giant panda and mountain gorilla weren't discovered by the West until the 20th century. And we send people to prison on less eyewitness testimony (and video: Did cameras pick up ghost in gym?) than we have of ghosts.

[ijoe13]

Originally Posted by jenlion

Anyway, to be a bit blunt, there's no ghosts, no sasquatch, no bigfoot, none of it. People want to believe there's more to the world than there is, but, quite simply, there isn't.

New species are being discovered nearly every year, so it's hard for me to believe there isn't a chance that some giant ape might roam the forests of the world.

[skygravel]

I think they might exist. I've known one person who claims he saw one. He knows his way around the woods and isn't the kind to make things up. By the time I met him he was in his 60s and it had be 30+ years since he saw it.
I do think most reported sightings are bogus. People may see something, but not a big foot. Sometimes I wonder how many people are living in the woods and being mistaken for sasquatch. A guy was arrested near Darrington around 2001 or so after living in the woods for several years. He was a big guy, probably dirty and harry, and I'll bet he could account for at least a few sightings.

[yukiko11]

Wouldn't the world be a boring place if there weren't something "mysterious" to wonder about?
That's why I have spent many years listening to Coast to Coast radio at night. I started with Art Bell and now there is George Noory. Who cares if it is true or not. It's interesting and opens your mind to all kinds of possibilities. That's exciting.
As for ghosts, the night my father died in his sleep of a massive brain hemmorage he was several hundred miles from home on a fishing trip. My mother woke up in the middle of the night and walked into the hall and on the back porch, my dad was standing there smoking a cigarette which was the after dinner rule in the hourse Only this was different, he was not 63, he was a young man. She thought she was dreaming until she received a call the next day that he had died. My husband died in 1990. To this day, I have never seen him, except in some dreams, but I always know when he is around me because, although I don't smoke, work in a non smoking office, and don't allow anyone to smoke in my home, I can smell his particular brand of cigarette smoke as I remembered it during our marriage. It actually makes me cough. Then I have to tell him to leave.
If you always have an open mind and an open heart, there is no limit to what you can experience.

[Fat Freddy]

Sasquatch doesn't care what we believe, it's how we live that has made his species virtually extinct.

The destructive and toxic nature of the human species has had a greater impact on Sasquatch than any of it's weird belief systems.

[MichaelinWA]

Very descriptive title to this thread.

But it made me look.

[Fat Freddy]

I've posted this before, but since the subject keeps coming up, here it is again.
It's one of the best Bigfoot stories ever written and has become a classic.
It happened right here in Gray's Harbor County, and of course it's all true.

Bigfoot Story: "Cowman of Copalis Beach, Washington"