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This image is of a cage that is set to have been made to capture and hold Bigfoot once he was caught. This cage is just made up from old chains, metal and other heavy metals. Which of course is not going to hold a Bigfoot. Red flag for this image is appeal to authority as this was something that was built to make sure that the Bigfoot was some creature that everyone could come and see for themselves. But sadly the Bigfoot has never been caught and no one has proven its full existence. The reason for this belief is ideology as there was a goal set from someone to capture this Bigfoot even though there was never really a sighting of it, other than its footprints. And that this cage was going to hold the Bigfoot once it was caught. That was the expectation for the cage so that someone would become very rich in getting money for all of the believers that wanted to see a Bigfoot up close.

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This image shows how big this creatures foot print is compaired to a humans foot and will show how there is something out there that has had to create this print and it shows that no person could make this unless they are using something else. The red flag is proof by verbosity as there is full evidence that there is something out there that has created this large print. This picture really shows how there is a huge piece of evidence that is really confusing scientist as they can not make out any other creature that could have make this print. The reason for believe is simplicity are there is proof right in front of the eyes and nobody has been able to have a full explanation as to what creature has made this footprint.

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This image below is the first every photograph of Bigfoot walking in the forest. Scientist have analyzed this photo and have come up with the facts that this is real and could not be faked. The red flag for this photo is  appeal to authority as there is now real evidence as shown in a picture that Bigfoot could be real and that all of the findings can be real as well. This was taken back in the 50's and this was the first picture that was captured in colour. The reason for believe is simplicity as a person can clearly see that there is a picture of something that is massive and look like an ape is walking through the forest.

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Top 5 Bigfoot Theories :What Is Bigfoot Really

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Top 5 Bigfoot Theories :What Is Bigfoot Really

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This website goes into the real question about if Bigfoot is real then what is he? This website is trying to get to the bottom of this and try to solve the unsolved mystery. And that lots of people are really just going through with just theories. The red flag is ideological support as there is lots of people and objects that might show how it can show that there is other things in our world that we have not yet discovered.

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Is Bigfoot Real?

Does Bigfoot really exist? It seems a lot of people think so, and many have their own theories on what he is and where he comes from. Hard-working Bigfoot research organizations are trekking through the woods of North America and the rest of the world as you read this, trying to get to the bottom of the mystery. As of yet the big guy hasn't given up his secrets.

Since no Bigfoot has been willing to come forward, and nobody has ever captured one, how do we really know anything at all about this monstrous man-ape? Sure there's evidence: photographs and videos, plaster footprint casts, and a few hair samples, but nothing definitive. Most of our knowledge comes from first-hand reports.

Fortunately, people run into Bigfoot all the time, though it seems people without cameras, and those with cameras that can't focus very well, are more likely to encounter the beast. From these accounts and legends we've pieced together the picture of a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid we call Bigfoot.

But shouldn't an 8-foot monster supposedly lurking in every corner of the continent be easier to track down? Even though sightings allegedly occur all the time, we have no way to prove the creature really exists. Eventually we have to ask ourselves if we're missing something here. Could there be more to this mythical creature than we realize?

This article examines several Bigfoot theories, and attempts to answer the question: What is Bigfoot?

Theory #1: Bigfoot is a Rare North-American Primate

Many experts believe Sasquatch is a species of undocumented ape.

North American Ape Theory

The most prevalent theory is that Bigfoot is a highly-evolved great ape of some sort, a species some researchers have referred to theoretically as the North American Ape. This certainly fits with the description of Sasquatch through the years. But where would such an ape have come from?

Bigfoot-Giganto Theory is an interesting concept that says Bigfoot may trace his family tree back to a giant, 10-foot-tall ape species known as Gigantopithecus Blacki. This massive creature went extinct around 100,000 years ago, but some researchers speculate that Giganto may have evolved into what we call the Yeti in Asia.

Yeti ancestors may have then followed ancient humans across the Bering Land Bridge to North America during the time of the last ice age. This accounts for two similar creatures-Sasquatch and the Yeti-existing so far apart. And, it gives us an explanation for our Bigfoot.

As nice and neat as this theory seems, there are many problems with it from a paleontology perspective. But even if Bigfoot didn't evolve as a result of the Giganto connection, by most modern accounts he does seem to be some kind of ape.

There's no fossil record of apes in North America, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. Fossils don't preserve well in forests, and there are many scavengers to clean up any carcasses.

However, it is hard to explain how such a large creature could leave so few clues that it even exists. In the end, this theory still presents us with a flesh-and-blood creature that biologists ought to be able to track down.

Accounts of Bigfoot Sightings are Numerous, Even in the East

Theory #2: Bigfoot is Closely Related to Humans

Is the Sasquatch just another species of human that has chosen to avoid us?

Is Bigfoot Human?

What if Bigfoot isn't an ape at all? What if he's more like us? Many Bigfoot witnesses say the creature is very human-like, and in some Native and even early European-American cultures Sasquatch is referred to as a man, not an animal. This does make some sense on a few different levels.

Many people don't realize that there have been several species of human on this planet, not just we Homo sapiens. Like any other animal, our family tree has twists and turns and dead ends. Some human species merged and evolved into what we are today, and some died off. Do any of them fit the description of Bigfoot? Well, sort of.

Homo Heidelbergensis is an extinct human ancestor that lived half a million years ago. Researchers originally believed they were a very robust species, standing seven feet tall with very heavy musculature.

We now know that most of them weren't much different in average height than modern humans, but some specific populations may indeed have been giants. What are the odds that a remote population of very large H. Heidelbergensis survived and migrated to North America?

This would explain a few things, such the extremely high level of intelligence Bigfoot is said to possess for one. It would also explain how Sasquatch could survive in harsh climates by hunting. If H. Heidelbergensis learned to fear H. Sapiens it would make sense that it would try to hide from us at all costs.

H. Heidelbergensis is also believed to have buried their dead, which may account for the lack of physical evidence.

But like a few of the most popular Bigfoot theories, this one still leaves us with problems. Even H. Heidelbergensis used stone tools, and a social human species living in groups would almost certainly leave other evidence behind.

This early human was likely far more advanced than Bigfoot appears to be, and the chance that it would have culturally "forgotten" its ways is illogical and unlikely. In the end, if Bigfoot is a type of human, we should still find more evidence than we do.

Theory #3: Sasquatch is an Ancient Earth Spirit

Does the spiritual realm explain Bigfoot better than the physical world?

Is Sasquatch a Forest Spirit?

What if this creature doesn't exist in the natural world at all?

Is it just luck and happenstance that the only people who ever see Bigfoot are totally unprepared to document the encounter? It's an odd paradox that a creature so secretive that it has not even been properly documented by science seems to readily reveal itself to moving cars, hunters wearing orange camouflage and teenagers wandering along dirt roads. Of course, even in this age where everyone is carrying a smart phone with a camera attached nobody who claims to spot Bigfoot ever snaps a picture.

Sure they're startled and shaken up by the encounter, but during tsunamis, earthquakes, street riots and every other terrifying event people will record video and take pictures. However, some witnesses will claim to observe a Sasquatch for thirty seconds and it never occurs to them to take a photo. Why?

Is it possible that Bigfoot is a forest spirit, a supernatural guardian of the Earth and the woodlands? Might this be why witnesses report being mesmerized by encounters, and might this be why so few have the wherewithal to go for their cell-phone camera?

Indeed, in some parts of North America, Native Americans regard Bigfoot as a supernatural being, and often a messenger of the natural world. This is similar to the way the indigenous peoples of Nepal and Tibet view the Yeti: as a spiritual entity.

Perhaps Europeans, and modern researchers, have missed the mark, so to speak, when it comes to understanding the true nature of Sasquatch. Maybe there is so little evidence because there is simply none to find.

Theory #4: Bigfoot is Not From this World

Some believe alien visitors have deposited Sasquatch on our planet for reasons known only to them.

Bigfoot - Alien Theory

Some people believe Bigfoot may be an alien species, dropped off here by visitors from another world for reasons known only to them. As odd as this sounds, there does seem to be a correlation between increases in Bigfoot sighting and increases in UFO activity. But what point could there be to this strange relationship between aliens and Bigfoot?

Maybe these Sasquatch creatures are a type of experiment. Aliens would leave them on our planet for a while, and then collect them again after a period of time. Since they are apparently so similar to us, the alien visitors may be able to see all kinds of results that exposure to our Earthly environment has had on them. Maybe this is a kinder, gentler way for aliens to get information about the human race, rather than all that inconvenient abducting and probing.

Perhaps Bigfoot is a hybrid of some sort, a cross between humans and some kind of creature that exists on the alien home world. Or, maybe an alien race is somehow attempting to reverse engineer human DNA, and this Bigfoot creature is closest thing they've come up with so far.

The Bigfoot alien theory is certainly is among the most bizarre of the Bigfoot theories. We could speculate forever, but alien involvement definitely could explain why no specimen has ever been captured, why no carcasses have been found, and why Bigfoot seems to be here one instant and gone the next.

Theory #5: Bigfoot is a Myth

Skeptics say the Bigfoot Myth is an important part of Native American religion that has carried on into the mainstream world.

Is Bigfoot a Myth?

So far each of these Bigfoot theories is more bizarre than the one that came before, but here's one even the most devout skeptic can get their brain around. What if Bigfoot only exists in our minds, as a sort of ancestral memory passed down over thousands and thousands of years? Of course this explains why nobody has found any evidence, but it does not account for why the legend is so ingrained in the cultures of North American, both ancient and present day.

One way to explain this is by looking at ancient people's way of remembering history through storytelling. Many Native American tribes, and we presume the primitive tribes who crossed the Bering Strait, kept history based on oral tradition. They had no written language, only the stories passed on from generation to generation. If early human ancestors shared the forests of Asia with a creature such as the aforementioned Gigantopithecus, these stories and accounts may have survived to recent times, passed on by the indigenous tribes of the Americas.

These Native American Bigfoot legends would have been passed down to early European explorers, who no doubt were mystified by the prospect of such a fantastic creature living in the New World. Naturally, Europeans would have built upon the myth themselves, and perpetuated it to present day.

This satisfies skeptics and explains why there is little physical evidence, but it does not account for all the reported sightings. If Bigfoot isn't real, why are so many people spotting him?

The Sasquatch Legend Lives On

Wherever you stand with the Bigfoot mystery, you have to admit it's an interesting puzzle. There must be something to the Sasquatch phenomenon, but getting all the pieces to fit together seems impossible at this time.

Is Bigfoot some sort of undiscovered ape, possibly a relative of the Yeti descended from an ancient species called Gigantopithecus? It makes a lot of sense, even though there is no way to prove it in the fossil record, at least at this time.

Could Sasquatch be a species of primitive human, perhaps a remnant population of Homo Heidelbergensis that migrated to North America during the last ice age? If not H. Heidelbergensis, then perhaps some other species of human, far more like us than we'd like to think.

Might Bigfoot be an alien, or a spirit, or maybe just a figment of our collective imagination? As wild as these theories sound, they do account for the missing evidence, and the elusive nature of the beast.

Nobody knows, but until there is more definitive physical evidence anything is possible. But rest assured that tireless Bigfoot researchers are out there looking for the truth, and getting to the bottom of these Bigfoot theories.

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Top 5 Bigfoot Theories: What Is Bigfoot Really?

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Does Bigfoot really exist? It seems a lot of people think so, and many have their own theories on what he is and where he comes from. Hard-working Bigfoot research organizations are trekking through the woods of North America and the rest of the world as you read this, trying to get to the bottom of the mystery.

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This website evaluates if Bigfoot is real or not and goes through different evidence like eyewitnesses, photos, elusive evidence etc. It explains everything in detail and gives reasons for this. The red flag for this website would be supperession by authorities as there is evidence to back up the stories that are being told. That know scientist are getting involved in more of the research and findings of Bigfoot. The reason for belief is unexplained as there are many different sources for evidence that maybe the Bigfoot exists but having all of this evidence really does not prove anything when nobody has ever gotten a really good picture of the Bigfoot.

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Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, is a large ape-like creature some people believe inhabits North America but there's no hard evidence it actually exists.

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This website explains how there are lots of eyewitnesses who have seen Bigfoot and have the most "compelling" stories. The website states that there is enough eyewitnesses for this mystery to only be from someones imagination. There are many different experiences and sightings across the country that this can not be made up. The red flag is confirmation bias as there are many people that believe in this and that they all think that there is a Bigfoot out there and they believe that one day they will fully see one. And how some people are watching tv shows and making movies about it, it might be hard for some people to not believe. The reason for this believe emotional connection and how some people will put everything in this and they are putting all of their emotion into it as well.

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"Most researchers who study the bigfoot subject will point to the abundance of witnesses as the factor they found most compelling about the mystery when first becoming acquainted with it. Over the course of time, bigfoot researchers meet enough eyewitnesses to realize there are indeed many, many eyewitness across the continent who are indeed very credible. Often there are multiple witnesses to a given sighting or encounter.

"There are, in fact, way too many eyewitnesses for this phenomenon to be purely imaginary, as skeptics assert. With such an abundance of eyewitnesses, who are so dispersed across the continent, and dispersed across the decades, the alternate skeptical explanation that the sightings are the result of hoaxers, in whole or even in large part, becomes much less likely.

"Researchers eventually come to realize that if there are indeed so many credible eyewitnesses across the land, then the species they so consistently and emphatically describe probably exists also."

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We asked Matt Moneymaker and the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization to count down what they believe to be the strongest pieces of evidence for the existence of bigfoot. Here are six reasons why a giant ape-like creature may be lurking in the forests and wild places of North America.

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In this video there is two guys that are trying to find Bigfoot and they are going into this forest in search of anything that can tell that big foot is real. They do research on the history and go back to the place where the first sighting of Bigfoot happened. The red flag for this video is ancient wisdom as they go back to the beginning of all of this mystery and find out if this legend is real or has it all been a hoax. The reason for this believe is simplicity as there are some scientific answers about there being a Bigfoot and there are foot casts but it has never been really proven that there was this creature in the forest or it was someone just pulling a prank on someone and then they took it too far.

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5 Most Compelling Pieces Of Bigfoot Evidence 

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5 Most Compelling Pieces Of Bigfoot Evidence 

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Stated in this video there is lots of evidence showing how there is a Bigfoot and there is different physical evidence that there is a Bigfoot. In the first one there is a cast made of an imprint of this Bigfoot as he was leaning over mud to get the fruit in the middle. In the video the red flag would be appeal to authority as there is now physical evidence that scientist have now found some unexplained evidence that no one can fully understand. The reason for someone to believe in this belief is Ideology as there are many actions that show that Bigfoot can exist and that he is out there but nobody has really seen him.

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5 Most Compelling Pieces Of Bigfoot Evidence

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In this video it is talking about a couple of people who have witnessed seeing a Bigfoot. There is three different encounters that these people talk about, and how each one has there own supporting evidence. The red flag that is in this video would be red herring as their is evidence in this video showing that there is a Bigfoot and that there is proof of its existence. The reason that people would believe this belief is because of perception and observation as this explains how one persons experience can give others an option to have their own experience no matter how crazy it might sound.