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Recent skeptical bigfoot article 2024

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An excellent play by play of a recent Bigfoot conference in Texas. Many of the NAWAC people are there (Colyer, Strain) and even Woolheater , as well as Dr. Henner Fahrenbach. Did TBRC and Woolheater reunite? I thought they split when NAWAC was formed.
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Everything's Bigfoot in Texas

Why the true believers at the Texas Bigfoot Conference don't need "proof" or "evidence."
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Some of the best bits from the article:
A story by Woolheater, of course they could have turned around, but the girlfriend wouldn't let him.
Not everybody at the conference had exaggerated their Bigfoot sightings. Woolheater shared a tale that read like a superhero origin story. In 1994, he was driving through Louisiana with his girlfriend, on a two-lane and unlit highway. At some point around 11:30 at night, they saw something on the road that looked… Sasquatchian.

“As soon as we passed it, we looked at each other,” Woolheater told me. “She said, ‘I think I saw a Bigfoot.’ And I said, ‘Well, we’ve got to turn around.’ And she said, ‘Hell no!’ I regret to this day that we didn’t stop.”
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In the most ironic section, David Paulides, author of the Missing 411 books which allude to people being kidnapped by Bigfoots in National parks, calms a little girl, telling her 'Bigfoot is our friend.'
A middle-aged mother escorted her young daughter—probably no older than four or five—over to Paulides’ table, trying to show her the less threatening portraits of Sasquatch. But the girl was having none of it.

“No, no, no,” she whimpered, hiding her face in her mother’s shoulder.

Paulides assured the skittish girl that there was nothing to fear. “They look different from you,” he explained, “but that doesn’t mean they’re bad. Bigfoot is our friend.”

The girl wasn’t convinced, but the adults standing nearby grinned from ear to ear. They nodded furiously. It seemed that even Bigfoot researchers, with their empirical and “only-the-facts-ma’am” dispositions, have a weakness for Harry & the Henderson fantasies.
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Anyway, it's been a while since there was a Bigfoot post, and it sure looks like Bigfootry is on the way out as a popular pastime.
 
Woo is cyclical Right now bigfootery is as dead as Meldrum.
 
“Their top speed for running is between 42 and 45 miles per hour,” Fahrenbach told us in his thick German accent. “They can cover 90 feet in just three steps, or thirty feet per step. So obviously, they have immensely powerful thighs.”
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Each step apparently longer than the world record for long jumps. The world record for triple jumps is 60 feet.
As far as running speed, Usain Bolt reached 27.78 mph. Fastest running speed ever recorded for a human.
42 to 45 mph is comparable to a racehorse. 43.71 mph seems to be the fastest speed recorded for a racehorse over 2 furlongs (1/4 mile).
 
Puppycow said:
Each step apparently longer than the world record for long jumps. The world record for triple jumps is 60 feet.
As far as running speed, Usain Bolt reached 27.78 mph. Fastest running speed ever recorded for a human.
42 to 45 mph is comparable to a racehorse. 43.71 mph seems to be the fastest speed recorded for a racehorse over 2 furlongs (1/4 mile).
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Well, if you're gonna make ◊◊◊◊ up, you might as well really make ◊◊◊◊ up.
 
Puppycow said:
Each step apparently longer than the world record for long jumps. The world record for triple jumps is 60 feet.
As far as running speed, Usain Bolt reached 27.78 mph. Fastest running speed ever recorded for a human.
42 to 45 mph is comparable to a racehorse. 43.71 mph seems to be the fastest speed recorded for a racehorse over 2 furlongs (1/4 mile).
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According to the country-western song "Old Slewfoot," a particular bear runs ninety miles an hour, taking thirty feet a jump. This song has not been analyzed for strict adherence to probability, but the Country Bears used so sing part of it.
 
Bigfoots are a kind of druid, so the trees and bushes would instinctively get out of their way when they run past
 
Last time I heard Coyler on a podcast, he seemed defeated. He claimed he was going to give up trying to kill a wood ape because they were too elusive, and by the time he got his gun ready, the animal was gone. So he was going to try to capture one with a camera, the exact thing NAWAC always claimed was fruitless. Alas, Coyler has left NAWAC altogether, I heard.

Brian Brown left years ago due to political differences. He couldn't believe how Trumpy NAWAC membership was.
 
Has anybody ever been shot because they dressed up in a Bigfoot costume and were confused with a bear?
 
One fellow died in a Bigfoot costume while trying to hoax mororists. About twelve or fifteen years ago, I heard of a guy just north of where we live who kept dressing in a ghillie suit and trying to scare people in the woods, but some police and his daughter finally talked him into knocking it off. It must have been a hot and uncomfortable hobby, anyway.
 
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