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Below is a picture of a human foot inside of an alleged Bigfoot foot found by a mother, father and son who had went hiking in Oregon one weekend.

Proof by Verbosity could be a factor here. With so many stories and visuals of Bigfoot available to us, people are desensitized to the fact that he is an old long-lived legend. Everyone knows the characteristics of Bigfoot and have seen a number of posts about the creature. it has most likely lead a lot of people to believe more so than they would with no pictures and sightings.

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If you couldn't tell already, below is a picture of a Bigfoot sighting in Utah in 2015. The nature photographer accidentally captured this photo walking through the woods and when uploaded, received feedback online about whether or not this is a hoax or in fact real.

In this case, a reason for belief would be Patternicity. We are always looking for patterns and placing images into our heads, it's what us humans do as a natural survival instinct. When we see dark, tall figures in bushed areas, we tend to let our imagination get to the best of us.

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This is a picture taken from the brand of Jack Link's beef jerky where they used Bigfoot for a  number of their commercials and advertising. The "messin' with Sasquatch" theme has helped Jack Link's  beef jerky become the bestselling brand in the United States. Sales have increased 47% all because of the positive feedback online. People love Bigfoot and what better way to incorporate a product aimed for those who love outdoors and hunting, than to put the animal who lives and hides in the outdoors.

The red flag here would be Appeal to Authority. There is no scientific reasoning behind the choice to use Bigfoot in the company's campaign, it was only to amuse the audience and impress them.

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Below you will find a number of Bigfoot sightings in the last five years all from different sources. They all seem to have taken place in or around forested areas where Bigfoot could easily hide behind the trees and appears to be roughly around 6-8 feet tall, dark and hairy.

A flaw I noticed in this website was that not all of the sightings were specific as to where they were located or what year it was. There was no identification of witnesses nor were there much detail in some cases. If they had incorporated the missing information then I would be much more convinced of these sightings.

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We assume Bigfoot crossed the road to get to the other side, as the old joke goes, but with the enigmatic hominid, nobody knows for sure. Here's what we do know: On June 22, 2009, at around 6:30 p.m., a 19-year-old college student was driving on a curvy back road near Rhinebeck, N.Y., on the way to a rehearsal at a nearby performing arts center, according to the BFRO report. As he swerved to miss an object on the road - a shopping bag containing, oddly, an open cereal box and a small log - he glanced in his rearview mirror and saw someone or something darting behind his car, apparently to retrieve the bag.

A moment later, the student stopped and turned his car around, and got a three-to-four second glimpse of "something walking on two feet" about 50 feet (15.24 meters) away. He described the creature, which he saw from the rear and side profile, as being between 7 and 7.5 feet (2.1 and 2.2 meters) tall, covered with black hair, and possessing broad, muscular shoulders with arms that swung in an exaggerated fashion and palms that faced upwards. The witness recalled that he felt "nervous, confused, and excited at the same time" during his brief encounter.

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Top 10 Bigfoot Sightings of the Last 5 Years

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We assume Bigfoot crossed the road to get to the other side, as the old joke goes, but with the enigmatic hominid, nobody knows for sure. Here's what we do know: On June 22, 2009, at around 6:30 p.m., a 19-year-old college student was driving on a curvy back road near Rhinebeck, N.Y., on the way to a rehearsal at a nearby performing arts center, according to the BFRO report.

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This website discusses the reasons why Bigfoot is just a myth. The most common evidence is eyewitness reports, which is not very reliable. Most people have similar encounters, like seeing a big dark image in the distance, hidden behind bush and tress. It stated that up to 95% of sightings are mistake or fake.

I would say this sounds a lot like
Perception and Observation due to  the high number of inaccurate eyewitness'. A lot of the time, our memories get mixed up with what actually happened and what we want to believe happen. Our perceptions become distorted by our past experiences.

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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 below gives insight on how Bigfoot became famous many years ago. It all began 60 years back when Bigfoot was on the headlines for major newspapers in America. It started out when a road construction crew found huge human-like footprints near the site. Ever since then, people have been extremely fascinated by Bigfoot and is still found all over television series, books, and movies.

I would argue Ideological Support as a red flag, because there is an immense amount of propaganda in regards to Bigfoot. People sell all sorts of things to get you to believe and allow them to make a dollar. I, myself, am a Bigfoot believer, but I have noticed society's push toward believing rather than discovering the science behind Bigfoot.

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Sixty years ago this fall, Bigfoot first stepped into the public consciousness. "Giant footprints puzzle residents," a headline in the Humboldt Times announced. The small Northern California newspaper reported that a road construction crew had discovered humanlike footprints that were a massive 16 inches long. The paper was the first to give the mysterious animal that made the prints its memorable moniker-"Bigfoot"-and the creature has been stomping through the American imagination ever since.

Today, the legendary beast seems to be everywhere: You will find Bigfoot looking awfully cute this year in two children's films: The Son of Bigfoot and Smallfoot. Animal Planet recently aired the finale of its popular series "Finding Bigfoot," which lasted 11 seasons despite never making good on the promise of its title. And the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization lists at least one report from every state, except Hawaii, over the past two decades. The most recent sighting, in June 2018, was by a woman in Florida who reported a creature that looked like "a large pile of soggy grass." Other evidence in the database includes supposed Bigfoot scat, nests and noises. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, it may not make a sound-but it seems someone will report that a Bigfoot knocked it over.

"Interest in the existence of the creature is at an all-time high," the paleontologist Darren Naish has observed, even though "there's nothing even close to compelling as goes the evidence."

Of course, Bigfoot is not the first fabled hominid to roam North America. Sasquatches long populated the mythologies of American Indian tribes in the Pacific Northwest, but those 1958 footprints transformed the myth into a media sensation. The tracks were planted near Bluff Creek in Northern California by a man named Ray Wallace-but his prank was not revealed until his death in 2002, when his children said it had all been "just a joke."

By that point, more important evidence had entered the Bigfoot file. In 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed a few seconds of a hairy creature walking on two legs by the same Bluff Creek-the most famous and contested piece of Bigfoot "evidence" to this day. That the Patterson-Gimlin film was created in the same place that Wallace had staged his hoax is just one reason to doubt its authenticity. Skeptics say the animal was a man in costume, while believers argue that the creature's movements and body proportions cannot possibly have been human. The debate has been raging for half a century, which raises a question of its own. "How is it that the evidence has not gotten any better despite the exponential increase in the quantity and quality of cameras?" asks Benjamin Radford, a research fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Still the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence either. Wild animals don't exactly mug for photos, and the planet's ever-shrinking forests still regularly unpack surprises, such as the saola, an untamed cousin of the cow that was discovered by scientists in Vietnam in 1992. But the saola did not have legions of amateurs hunting it with cameras. With or without hard evidence, many people clearly want to believe in Bigfoot. Which suggests we are dealing more with human imagination than human evolution.

Naish has written that Bigfoot is the modern American "manifestation of a human-wide cultural concept, not a zoological reality." It has much in common with the Australian yowie and the Himalayan yeti: an upright posture, shaggy hair and, of course, large feet. As so-called wild men, they hold a crude mirror up to our own species: What might Homo sapiens be like if civilization had not removed it from nature?

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Can you tell the real animals from the fake ones? Hover over each animal to reveal if it is fact or folklore. (Illustration by Iris Gottlieb) Illustrations by Iris Gottlieb
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Some people see these cryptohominids as symbols of pure freedom, living by instinct and foiling every effort to pin them down. To search for Bigfoot in the forest is to taste that freedom. On the trail, you become extra-attuned to nature: the smell of scat, the sounds of breaking branches, the curious impressions in the dirt. As long as there are wild places in America, Bigfoot remains a possibility that, to its most ardent proponents, cannot be disproved.

The hunt for Bigfoot emulates an earlier mode of discovery, when new knowledge was not the product of advanced degrees and expensive machinery but rather curiosity, bravery, patience and survival. In the 19th century, the American landscape revealed its majesties to ordinary settlers pushing westward into territory unmapped by Europeans. To track Bigfoot today is to channel that frontier spirit (as well as to appropriate Native American traditions).

Bigfoot also embodies other less romantic but no less enduring American traits, like gullibility and a hunger for attention. "There are so many fake videos," says Loren Coleman, the founder of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine. The problem has grown worse with social media, where viral hoaxes, like drone footage of a supposed Bigfoot in a clearing in Idaho, can rack up millions of views. Coleman, for his part, believes there is evidence for Bigfoot's existence, but he and his like-minded peers find it difficult to focus attention on this material amid the growing number of obvious shams. "Technology has ruined the old cryptozoology," Coleman says.

His complaint echoes concerns in more mainstream American life, where technologies that promised to build consensus have, in fact, made the truth more difficult than ever to discern. On the internet, Bigfoot has found a habitat much more hospitable than North American forests. It turns out that Bigfoot does not need to exist in order to live forever.

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Why Do So Many People Still Want to Believe in Bigfoot?

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The appeal of the mythical, wild man holds strong

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In this video, a longtime group of men who call themselves "Bigfooters", regularly go out and hunt for Bigfoot. They have had encounters with him and enjoy camping out together in hopes to catch the tall, hairy beast. They have yet to prove that he exists but have written books, and completed years of research.

I'm going to say Confirmation Bias is related when looking at this video. All of the individuals in this group already believe in Bigfoot and are searching for ways to find him. They love the idea of getting together on a big camping trip to go out looking for any kind of Bigfoot material. When they do find something, that only confirms their beliefs even more.

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This video below shows 3 Bigfoot sightings by a family who has had generations living on the same property since the early 1700's. Each member of the family has encountered Bigfoot on different occasions.

Perception and observation are present due in terms where this family trusts their 5 senses to automatically assume it is Bigfoot they are seeing. Their psychological belief leads them to the conclusion that it was in fact Bigfoot and nothing else, like a bear or wild animal.

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These 3 Bigfoot Sightings Aren't Uncommon on This Family's Property

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This video is an introduction to Bigfoot and basically how it all began. It begins going on to talk about early North American indigenous people who have great respect for Bigfoot because of his close relation with humans.
The video also discusses the famous 59 second clip of the alleged Bigfoot looking directly at the camera. The clip was captured in 1967 by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin who were on the hunt for Bigfoot.

Ancient Wisdom is definitely one of the red flags present in this video. It goes all the way back to before 1604 on how tribes referred to Bigfoot as an "elder brother" and a "teacher" to humans. Since then, people have been passing down the stories and beliefs that Bigfoot exists and are taught to respect him.

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We Finally Know The Bizarre And True Story Behind Bigfoot