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Bigfoot: a search in Utah

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Bigfoot | 2:37 p.m. June 24, 2009
We smell funny because we like to keep other animals away, like grizzly bears. We use a special mix of herbs and spices to make that scent! We also make the noises we make because it is our lanquage. It is simplistic and effective. your human lanquages are very complicated, except maybe cherokee. That is a simplistic language. I would love to do a today show apperiance, but I am affraid I would be apprehended and taken into custody for research. By the way we have been doing this similar research on humans for thousands of years.

The best place to find us is in the Cache-national forest, Logan Cave, old deserted mines, and the BYU campus. You have outlawed yourselves from going into these places and so it makes it an easy home for us, and the other places we just seam to blend in.
Snipe Hunting | 2:37 p.m. June 24, 2009
Searching for Big Foot is the adult version of the snipe-hunting escapades that help older Boy Scouts "bond" with younger ones.

The snipe-hunting phenomenon is so ingrained in our culture that Pixar celebrates it in the wonderful new movie "Up."

I remember fondly both hunting snipes as a Tenderfoot and organizing the hunt as an older Scout.

It's harmless, and might even be fun. The more the "older kids" tell their stories, the more fun the "younger" kids have.

If Mr. Salmond wants to spend some time huntin' snipes--I say more power to him!

Oh, and, BTW, I understand it attracts them better if you put peanut butter on your cheeks.



Donovan | 2:43 p.m. June 24, 2009
The real actual Bigfoot according to "World history of the United States" book of records, lists the person Bigfoot as a retarded teenager who stood 6'8" tall and has an IQ of around 40.His father who was not much better off than the kid, could only make the child obey him by stomping on the kids left foot. After several years the kids food grew to twice its normal size due to the repeted injurys and healing.
Thus, the legend was born.
Not big harry people living in the mountains.
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lgu | 3:02 p.m. June 24, 2009
I have seen bigfoot. He does exist. In fact I have a picture of him that is irrefutable. These people are looking in the right place. The Ashley National Forrest is where I saw and took my picture of bigfoot. Others may not believe, but, as thy say, seeing is beliving. I have seen and i believe. Before any of you call me a cook or a liar, please understand that I am neither. There is no need to lie or deceive anyone about this. I also have a plaster cast of a bigfoot footprint. I have had it evaluated by top scientists in the field of anthropology and every one of them states that it is genuine. I may have thought I was seeing things the first time if it hadn't been that I had another encounter with a bigfoot one evening while driving north on Beck street. It walked across the roadd in plain sight and was very easy to recognize. Bigfoot does exist !!!!!!!!!
Sammy | 3:13 p.m. June 24, 2009
When you find him see if he can play d line for byu. we are really hurting ever since Lenny Gomes left.
Knowwhat | 3:15 p.m. June 24, 2009
I've seen big foot, he was in the movie Harry and The Hendersons, For real.
Lochness Monster | 3:25 p.m. June 24, 2009
Stop looking for my friend!

-Nessie
Re: Snipe Hunting | 3:29 p.m. June 24, 2009
By your post, it sounds like you think that a snipe is not real. Actually, there are close to 20 species of snipes, making it one of the most COMMON shore birds with worldwide distribution. It is because of the difficulty in hunting the snipe that the "Boy Scout Snipe Hunt" came into existence. (This sounds vaguely familiar). Military "snipers" were also named after the snipe.
Regards.
Fish | 3:41 p.m. June 24, 2009
This dude in the camo is probably a really good Republican. Haha.
Are | 3:49 p.m. June 24, 2009
those Cowboys Football Linemen out again running around on the mountains in their gorilla suits, scaring people? Something needs to be done about them........LOL!!
DCZE | 4:09 p.m. June 24, 2009
Ryan Layton is my cousin. For MANY years we have told stories of experiences here in Utah. I, myself, have never seen (or smelled)one, but members of my family have. I make it a habit of NEVER saying NEVER. Until there is proof that there isn't... there IS the possibility. Those out there that feel the need to bash "believers" were probably bullies in school. Who cares what you think really? I believe in what my cousin does and sure hope he and his group eventually come up with something "solid" so they can say "told ya so" and once and for all shut the "bullies" up!!! GO RYAN!!! I support you!!!
Funny | 4:34 p.m. June 24, 2009
This guy looks like he played to many games of D&D when he was a kid. Can anyone take this guy seriously, he looks like he would be scared of his own shadow. He is no Doug Miller or avid sports man thats for sure :) still laughing in amusement.
Naruto | 4:39 p.m. June 24, 2009
Hmmm, from the pic supplied I could see how others might think HE is big foot, I mean snooping around the forest, I might mistake him for a Sasquatch!
Never saw a cougar either | 4:46 p.m. June 24, 2009
I am open to bigfoots existance. I have spent thousands of hours in some of the most remote areas in Utah and have never seen a cougar or a bobcat and only once have I seen a bear. There are thousands of each of these animals and yet we rarely see them. It seems a smaller population, especially if nocturnal may be able to avoid being captured. I have also never seen the corpse of any of the above animals outside of a museum, so again a small population may avoid having their remains found especially in light of the remote areas which they are said to inhabit. Oh, if someone wants fossil evidence, there is the gigantipithicus which is a giant ape that lived in asia around 300,000 years ago. If humans crossed the landbridge some the last ice age, could not this creature have done the same either in a prior ice age, or a small remanant that we are unaware of?
Hide 'n' Seek | 4:49 p.m. June 24, 2009
This is so typical of BigFoot...while they are hunting for him in the Himalayas, he vacations in America. When they hunt for him in the States, back he goes to play yeti in China or Nepal...all it takes is a different coat...question is, how does he get there???
Bigfoot | 5:00 p.m. June 24, 2009
Ryan came across one of our camps once. I think we scared the tar out of that guy. And Igu we have been watching you for some time now. You will be one of our next test specimans.

Anyway we will leave some foot prints in the uintahs this weekend to give you all some more to feed on.

Loving this little dynamic we have going on.

Take er easy
Bigfoot
question | 5:12 p.m. June 24, 2009
does anyone else want to dress up in bigfoot costumes and run around up there this weekend?
RE: Igu@3:02 | 5:49 p.m. June 24, 2009
I don't think I could call you a liar, from what I'm reading from you now, but somebody might be able to call you a cook! Maybe even 3 times a day!
Re Bigfoot / 1:16 p.m. | 6:05 p.m. June 24, 2009
That is amazing. I didn't know you were so techno savy.............LOL!!
The Missing Link | 6:12 p.m. June 24, 2009
Darwin couldn't never find the missing link. Roger Patterson found it instead! Good ole Roger. The aggravating thing here is we can't get any photos for the history books! I think old Sasquatch is a pretty smart feller and knows if he gives one photo the Paparazzi will bleed him dry!
Eustace C. Cornflower | 6:14 p.m. June 24, 2009
I seen him near Coalville too. He was as big as a growed up Elk and had great long arms. Once he saw me he walked away real fast.
My question | 6:24 p.m. June 24, 2009
is, if this creature is out there roaming around on its two legs, and with the techonology out there, why can't we pick it on our sattelites orbiting around the globe? We can pick out anyone sunbathing in their backyards or some drug dealers's hideout somewhere in the middle of a rainforest in Colombia and yet no sattelite images of some 8-9 foot massive bigfoot? Someone is making money from the fees you are paying, people.
Been in that area | 6:50 p.m. June 24, 2009
I have spent most of my adult life in that area but I never did seen bigfoot, but I did see Elvis there once! He told me to tell everyone, "thankyouverymuch". LOL
Frogman | 7:49 p.m. June 24, 2009
Bigfoot is nothing but folklore and the figment of someones great imagination. He is a nobody comic book character... However, some humans have BIG FEET and they smell too.
Entertained | 7:58 p.m. June 24, 2009
Thanks for all of your contributions. It was a "hilarious" read.
mark | 8:40 p.m. June 24, 2009
bigfoot is real. Not sure why all the doubters. Believe.
Re: Been in that area | 8:59 p.m. June 24, 2009
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL..........Good response...
Open minded | 9:29 p.m. June 24, 2009
I have been on a few of these expeditions and I am very open minded.I also agree that at least we are having a great time and the results could be life changing.I would also like to say that a whale can live eating one of the smallest organisms in the ocean.There are just way too many sightings by very reputable people.On the other hand there are also some nuts in the mix and hoaxers.
Tongue in cheek Openmindedness | 5:14 a.m. June 25, 2009
In the 60's some high school kids out around Duchesne pulled off a prank one winter after a good snowstorm. Had people all abuzz for a while. They made a couple of pairs of stilts with big bare footed feet and plastered an area with footprints out in the cedars...then sat back and had a grand time watching people from all over come out to check them out before the sun melted the snow and they melted away. Lots of excitement. Nice to know traditions and folklore never die....... Stories can really grow...if you put enough imagiation into them.
@ Never saw a cougar | 7:04 a.m. June 25, 2009
Maybe you haven't, but chousands of others have and we have them in captivity as well as dead specimins for proof. With all out modern technology such as inrared and night scopes, we should have concete evidence.
Wow | 7:16 a.m. June 25, 2009
As I read through the "Bigfoot sightings" I was amazed to discover that if you don't know what you saw it must be a bigfoot.
As nature deprived as our society is most people don't know the difference between a deer and an elk. How can we expect them to be able to identify what they see in the mountains in the dark after spending hours around the campfire telling ghost stories?
On Darwin | 9:23 a.m. June 25, 2009
Darwin might not have found the missing link, but scientists after him did...in fact, lots of missing links.

The giant squid wasn't found until recently because it lives IN THE OCEAN. We humans are land dwellers only barely stepping into the water. A large animal, would need to have a shelter for survival, sometimes fairly long term considering birthing and the time necessary for recovery post delivery.

Dinosaurs, while quite large, are buried in the ground so also are not easily found until uncovered.

Where are the skeletal remains, hair left on tree branches (which should be abundant) or any real evidence?
Zoobie | 11:11 a.m. June 25, 2009
I have seen bigfoot on 2 separate times.

The first was in the mountains east of Idaho Falls, Me and my friend were comming off of the hill from a hike at dusk. As we came around the a bend I could smell something aweful. My friend was walking in front of me, but it wasen't him. As we got around the bend we startled one and it took off running down the trail a ways and then through the brush. It was clearly a bigfoot and not some dude in a costume. The thing left prints on the ground and we started to follow some of the tracks. We then heard the scream. Hard to describe but extremly frightening. It was pretty dark at this time so we left.

The second time was while we were hunting out the mountains west of Randolph. We on a ridge scoping out the area when we saw a bigfoot head across a clearing toward a small creek down below. We just stayed there and watched him drink, and then it walked off down a ravine. We found his tracks and were able to come back and get castings.
to dbf | 12:09 p.m. June 25, 2009
What do you mean " noone sees it?"
There are thousands of reports. I never saw it, but 4 of us were backpacking in the Marble Mountain om the Cal/Ore border, and at night, there were horrible grunts and screams, and the next morning, one of our backpacks was crushed. From the top down to the bottom, the frame was compressed. Not a single tear in it like a bear claw would leave, and we know this because black bears have opened our packs before and they are always in shreds. This was just dead weight applied to the top of the frame, and it was crushed down to a height of about 14" and was 30 inches new. Wierd.
There is no logical explanation, unless a de-clawed bear happened upon it. And a large bear, larger than those found up there.
So I'm open for just about anything.
Lindsey in Sandy
Look frame-by-frame | 1:49 p.m. June 25, 2009
Find your way to bigfoot encounters. They have a spectacular frame-by-frame show of the Patterson-Gimlin footage. No way a suit advanced enough to show muscle movement and contraction was available in 1967. That is exactly what you'll see on the thigh, calf, shoulder and chest muscle as "Patty" walks away.
A suit back then would have been little more than some carpet or somesuch, and that would hang on a man like, well....a carpet.
It's cool to see. Watch the fingers open and close too, also not possible as her arms are much longer than some big guy in a suit.
Abe
i hope it stays | 5:31 p.m. June 25, 2009
away from the worst species on earth as they wiped all the wild life , just look at all the towns called such things like elk point , moose crossing, bearfoot(oh, maybe not that one) but some of those places haven'tseen the animal they were named for in years as man has destroyed them all!
FBI agent anonymous | 7:13 p.m. June 25, 2009
BTW/FYI
The Sasquatch species is indeed viable and authenic,however 99% of the public would not be able to even comprehend a fraction of the nature or even the origin of the species!
Mosspelt | 9:44 p.m. June 25, 2009
Maybe there is a bigfoot, mwahahaha... or maybe not. If they find anything I probably will be surpirised!
Thanks, Des-News | 10:28 p.m. June 25, 2009
I like this article. It is good to know that Bigfoot is out there somewhere. I will keep an eye out for him next time i'm in his neck of the woods :)
Believer's Mother | 8:45 a.m. June 26, 2009
I came back today to check the latest on the blog. Haven't had such a good time in weeks. We need articles like this just to counterbalance the rest. Thank you.

Normally I call for the demise of these blogs, but this one on Bigfoot shows why they should be kept alive. Wish we could keep such a good sense of humor on all issues.
anonymous by choice | 10:44 a.m. June 26, 2009
Just by reading the scathing comments towards people who believe in Bigfoot or claim to have seen one makes it completely understandable why a huge number of sightings go unreported.

I saw bigfoot in 1980 in the Uintah Mtns near Betsy Lake. I was walking alone through the woods and felt like I was being watched. It was a feeling that made every hair on my arms stand up. Looking around I noticed what looked like a tall man observing me from about 40 yards away. At this point, thinking it was a human being I started to walk and kept looking at it. It paced me, staying parallel to me and at roughly the same distance for about a quarter mile. At that point the trees started thinning and I was able to see "the man" better and I noticed it was very tall and covered in a gray/black fur. At that point I panicked and ran.

When I got back to camp my best friend could see I was freaked out. He went out looking in the same area and came back saying he had seen the same thing.

scoff if you will, I believe.
Search for the Truth | 1:02 p.m. June 26, 2009
While your at it, why don't you look for the even more elusive 'real truth about the Mormon church'!?!
Hill Billy in Utah | 2:35 p.m. June 26, 2009
Folks, come on!!! Of course there is no Bigfoot. Let's see, scientist have caught, analyzed and cataloged over 15,000 different types of butterfly, but not a single hair, bone or legitimate photo of Bigfoot.

Humans have managed to put most of earth's species (land and water dwelling) in danger from over-hunting. Yet, nobody has killed a Bigfoot yet?

Folks, use your brain that God has given you. There are no leprechauns, hobbits, dragons or Bigfoot. This is silly.
This is Like the X-Files | 4:56 p.m. June 26, 2009
All of you Bigfoot believers would be happy to know that there is currently a 1 million dollar cash reward for ANY credible evidence of Bigfoot. Credible means a single hair sample would suffice because they could do DNA testing on it and find out what species Bigfoot is related to.

Also, of the many hundreds of Bigfoot footprints that have been analyzed by scientist, there has never been any skin cells or microscopic tissue that they have found. All other animals that leave footprints leave plenty of material in their footprints to do DNA testing on, except Bigfoot. Gee, I wonder why?!

There is a sucker born every minute.
Destiny | 9:27 a.m. June 27, 2009
Jeff Meldrum and some other researchers DID obtain DNA from a board that had nails in it from a place in British Columbia (I believe) and had it tested. I cant rememember their exact wording on it but I believe they called it unknown primate. It was on Monster Quest.
To Destiny | 11:30 a.m. June 27, 2009
Wrong. The DNA test results showed that it was "Buffalo hair".
Puzzled | 11:20 a.m. June 28, 2009
In about a972, my wife and I took our 4WD truck up the very rugged road leading to the top of the Henry Mountains. We broke through a drift of snow covering the road (in July) and stopped at the highest pass, a meadow in thick pines, to eat our lunch. I heard branches snapping in the trees on the eastern downslope, and when I looked, I saw something big and covered with black fur hurrying downslope.

I only caught a glimpse, not enough to identify it, but the pine branches about ten ft. up the trees were swaying back & forth as it moved. Needless to say, we left in a hurry, and I have never told of this experience to anyone.
Taters-papa | 1:20 p.m. June 28, 2009
I have 50+ years outdoor/wilderness experience. Until 10 years ago, I was a skeptic, of the Bigfoot issue. Now... I know what I saw was not ordinary, nor was it a "known" animal. My comment, is in reference to the unfortunate, inadvertent error; or possibly disinformation in the article. Though minor, it undermines any credibility the author may have had.
"When the Deseret News first did an overall look into Utah bigfoot phenomena back in 1993, it found at least 36 total purported sightings/signs of the creature from 1977 on. In the 16 years since, there have been at least another 49 new alleged sightings (an average of more than one a month) reported in Utah." With 12 months per year, a 16 year period yields 192 months. With 49 sightings in 192 months, there was 1 sighting per 3.92 months. Sensationalizing the numbers destroys credibility by implying ignorance or intent to deceive. It does disservice to both believer and non-believer alike. I suppose 'editing' has gone the way of the Dodo. Maybe credibility, like chivalry, is an endangered trait. Maybe, I'm too picky, to expect accuracy in reporting. Oh well...
Come On People!! | 9:05 a.m. June 29, 2009
Will the next person who sees Bigfoot please go back to where you saw him and get "1 strand of hair".

That is all we need folks to test Bigfoot's DNA and put this to rest for good.

Many of the above stories have bigfoot shaking or rustling trees. Surely Bigfoot would have lost a hair or two. Come on!!!
Re-Union :) :) :) | 11:30 a.m. June 29, 2009
So you have a fiber and it tests "Unknown species, similar to known primates". Lets say that you have a bunch of fibers collected from different places, at differant times, by different people. Each matches the other, but none of them match any known species.

Lets for arguements sake say that the first section is all true, documented, and undisputable. Would it change anyones mind on whether there is an undiscovered bi-pedal primate that allows us to share it's habitat. I doubt it !!! Most will require a body before they are convinced, because until a body shows up they don't have to be afraid.

I'm sure that I'm not the only person that hears JAWS music when I'm in the ocean. Before the movie we all swam around comfortably, not worrying about being bait.

These guys and gals aren't hurting anyone or anything. They don't care whether you believe or not. Myth, legend, biblical, supernatural, non-existant, or REAL, take your pick- who cares.

I'm sure we all have a hobby that we don't want the relatives to know about.

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