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Join Date: Jun 2012
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The department of Natural Resources would be well aware of the existence of these creatures. There are many stories of Bodies that get taken away by the Government, never to be heard of again. The situation is much deeper than what most people realize. Every year unexplained kidnappings happen in National Forests that defy common logic. The National Park Service doesn't even want people to know about such cases. They claim they keep no track record of these kidnappings, but what sort of agency wouldn't keep a record of search and rescues?
It would be highly beneficial for people to know what lurks in North American forests. Proving the reality surrounding Sasquatch will be a step forward. |
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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"If it's real, then it gets more interesting the closer you examine it. If it's not real, just the opposite is true." - aggle-rithm |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Unexplained disappearances occur, since when does the NPS keep track of kidnappings? That would be the FBI if I remember correctly. The NPS does keep track of people who have gone missing, that way when they find their body washed up under one of the falls at Yellowstone 5 months later, they can identify them by what they were wearing.
PS Parnassus I bought that Death at Yellowstone book |
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"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker "I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325 Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2012
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I don't know, but when people hit a moose or a bear on the road, they contact either the police or DNR. The body would inevitably end up with the government and from there they would decide where to go with it.
Yosemite National Park and Crater Lake National Park are at the top of the list for disappearances. It's something we don't see in the news. Guys, google "yosemite missing people" and you'll get literally countless cases of people who fall off a cliff, that go down a waterfall, get their bodies stuffed in crevices ect. The same thing happens all over the Country. Places like Washington state and Vancouver Island are notorious for these types of cases. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2007
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You said KIDNAPPINGS up above, not disappearances, here is the quote:
Originally Posted by Ontariosquatch
I am beginning to believe you are not a Bigfooter, just a BigfooTroller. |
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"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker "I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325 Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2012
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Many are confirmed as kidnappings. There are lots of cases. I'm not trolling you lol.
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SweatyYeti or Bill Munns would be my vote for looking at this - BFSleuth @ BFF I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it. - Calvin; October 15, 1986 |
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#488 |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Are you trying to promote David Paulides' book?
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"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker "I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325 Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Nov 2010
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The art of playing "cowardly and stupid" is in seeing how far you can push the act. Does this person know that people lived alongside gorillas for thousands of years in Africa, killing them for meat with primitive tools? Of course. This person also knows gorillas are smart enough to learn American Sign Language and use logic.
A couple thousand years ago they'd stick lions, tigers, gorillas - all manner of wild beast - into the Coliseum with a gladiator. They had an extensive underground network of tunnels and lifts so an 800 lb tiger could be made to pop up out of nowhere. You could watch a guy with a sword take him on. That's why I don't buy the posturing. Because it is playing dumb and cowardly at such a scale so far removed from reality that it can't be true on the face of it. Chain-yanking. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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What a fool believes, no wise man has the power to reason away. What seems to be, is always better than nothing. 2 prints, same midtarsal crock..., I mean break? |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Beat you to it. ![]() The kidnappings in national forests - hey, there's some good ones. How 'bout that Champion ski/shooter athlete who was kidnapped for breeding with the father/son combo. I think she was jogging and they took her at gunpoint. They killed one of her would-be rescuers and shot her by accident when she was tied up to a tree. If you look into some of the serial killer kidnappings, you have the likes of Charles Ng and his partner. They built a room to keep them in and tortured/raped/filmed it all. Or that guy in Australia. He just robbed 'em and shot them. Who was the girl seeing the congressman that disappeared and was found in the park finally - raped and killed... Here again, so much of real life in the parks/forests is more dramatic, ghastly, scary than bigfoot. |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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^And it's publicized, not kept quiet. I remember doing field in a national park many years ago in which a couple of female campers had been stabbed and killed. It was all over the news and there were alerts at the park headquarters.
Ontario, I'm not sure why you accept these nonsense stories uncritically. This is why several folks here have concluded that you must be trolling. It's difficult for us to believe that a living human could be as gullible as you seem to be. Here's a hint: the next time you encounter some "factoid" like the number of kidnappings in a national park, follow to the source and confirm that such an event happened at all. |
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"Such reports are usually based on the sighting of something the sighters cannot explain and that they (or someone else on their behalf) explain as representing an interstellar spaceship-often by saying "But what else can it be?" as though thier own ignorance is a decisive factor." Isaac Asimov |
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Master Poster
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Tell ya what. I'll hold my tongue as long as you stick to facts. -------------------- Scrutatio Et Quaestio |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Not Bandiagara
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That's what we call a paranoid conspiracy theory. And it's also a dishonest argument. It's the same kind of stupid nonsense the UFOlien believers try to pull when they say all the blacked out stuff in the documents is the proof of their claims. It's blacked out. It's nothing! You're using the lack of evidence to support your belief. In addition you're making excuses about why there is no evidence, and adding that to your argument as if more and more nonsense will eventually make sense. |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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Muse
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 485
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That's a slap in the face to every family who has had their son or daughter go missing in a National Forest. Given the cases, at the very least it's worthy of further investigation.
When a 2 year old is found valleys away from where they disappeared, is it anything other than a kidnapping? |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: way way north of Diddy Wah Diddy
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"Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.(Samuel Johnson) The gods are less for their love of praise....(Wendell Berry) |
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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Not exactly, I'm talking about something I don't know about, if its there then it is what I am talking about and thats not nothing. -punshhh I have no idea what you're trying to say, but I'm still pretty sure that you're wrong. -Akhenaten |
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Master Poster
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Honest guys, there is evidence, I just cant post it becauz the dog stole my homework, errr I lost it in the wash. Honest, this whole thread wasnt a big troll attempt. They's real. I's seen em. ![]() Meanwhile... Requests for ANY "evidence of bigfoot" have been either ignored, or nonsense. There is no "evidence of bigfoot". There is only evidence of imaginations, and wishful thinking, confirmation bias and sometimes internet trolling. Like this entire thread you started. Can you post one piece of "bigfoot evidence" please to substantiate your claims? A specific piece please, that actually exists. |
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Critical Thinker
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"Bigfoot does not leave hair samples for us unless he is in our dimension to begin with, obviously. Once the hair is separated from the electrical field associated with the Bigfoot's free quanta energy loops, the hair becomes independant and remains in it's most stable dimension, which presumably is our dimension."(Historian) |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Not Bandiagara
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You're presenting a paranoid conspiracy theory. You go tell the parents of a missing 2 year old that some department of natural resources is keeping secrets about Bigfoot tromping around in the woods. You tell them that unexplained kidnappings are happening which the National Park Service doesn't want people to know about. You tell those parents of that missing 2 year old that some official agency claims to have no records of mysterious kidnappings and somehow that might be related to their missing child. Do you even stop to read what you write before you hit the "Submit Reply" button? Your reply is a slap in the face to anyone who has ever had a loved one go missing in the woods and a slap in the face to every agency and park service that oversees the natural resources. Your argument is, by definition, a conspiracy theory. No intelligent person applying even a whit of objective consideration would find your position rational. Quite simply, you've jumped off the deep end. Your claims are not sane. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Aug 2007
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“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2002
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What a fool believes, no wise man has the power to reason away. What seems to be, is always better than nothing. 2 prints, same midtarsal crock..., I mean break? |
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Thinker
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Actually, the toddler was being used by a Bigfoot hunting group, Recording of the baby didn't work, so they borrowed the kid, and left him out overnight hoping to bring in 'Squatches'
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"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker "I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325 Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic |
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Muse
Join Date: May 2008
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OntarioSquatch...You use a lot of information from people that we know nothing about. For example, that story is one that David Paulides talks about a lot and uses in his book.
Since you obviously believe these people without reservation, perhaps you can tell us about Mr. David Paulides; specifically, his work history and academic qualifications (if any) and why you would believe anything he tells you. |
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"Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." Steve Earle "I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken." Townes Van Zandt |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: The great American southeast
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Two big foots have been shot? Wheres the rest of the animal? Why didn't he cut of a hand or something?
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If at first you don't succeed try try again. Then if you fail to succeed to Hell with that. Try something else. |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: way way north of Diddy Wah Diddy
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Those clever bigfeet kidnaped the boy for their own nefarious ends and then moved the body a couple of miles so that it would look like a botched government job. Or wait, the government disappeared the kid as part of their known policy of kidnaping people and making them disappear without a trace and then they transported the body a couple of miles so that we would....think it was clever bigfeet. Well, I dunno, but there must be a conspiracy somewhere.
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"Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.(Samuel Johnson) The gods are less for their love of praise....(Wendell Berry) |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Because after having shot one bigfoot and searching for it for an hour or more they shot a second bigfoot and instantly decided someone had heard the second shot and they would be in trouble for shooting bigfoot because they only had deer and bear tags. Then they moved the second body and partially buried it without taking a trophy. This is in spite of the stated fact that the second one was shot for the sole reason of recovering a trophy because no one would believe they shot the first one. Duh!
Its 'The Dumbest Story Ever Told'TM |
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“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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I once shot a Bigfoot. But, unfortunately, it rolled off a cliff. I went to the bottom and the body was nowhere to be found!
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Official Ponylandistanian National Treasure. Respect it!
Join Date: May 2010
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You know, now that you've written that out like you have, I see that these guys with guns have stumbled onto, not one but two Figboots, which, like 99.999999999999999999999999999 (Oh crap, where's that infinity key? Screw it, call it 100)% of the people of the Earth have never ever EVER seen any proof of, in a matter of a couple hours no less. They manage to pop off two near enough to perfect shots (Let's face it, if it happened and they freaking HIT the phantom Figboots for crying out loud, That's close enough to perfect for this scenario.) and still they failed to get anything beyond a generously named "steak"? It's worse than dumb. You couldn't pitch this story to Ed Wood and be taken seriously.
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"Never judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes... Because then it won't really matter, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes."
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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I guess when it actually has ?
This thread has "Jumped the Shark". National Park Kidnappings, repetitive BF talking points, the claim of being 18 yrs of age, the repetitive BFF non evidence, the lack of any meaningful reply to the countless requests to provide some substance to the opinion and factual statements. Goverment conspiracies, facts propounded that are fiction. .. the list can go on.. You did well OS . You were able to get some attention. |
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