Are you a Believer???

[seekeroftruth]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402095,00.html *

Fox News ran this article today online.

Growing up where I did on the fringes of the Everglades. *They are called the "Skunk Ape" *Different places call them different things, Asia - the Yeti, Western U.S., Canada - Sasquatch. *Bigfoot is pretty much universal I believe. *Growing up I spent alot of time in the woods surrounding the swamps and in the Glades themselves. The closest thing I saw was when I was about 12 years old on a Long dirt road heading back home I saw something black and hairy hunched in the road about a .25 mile away. *It got up on two legs and walked off the road. *When I got up there the road was too hard to see any tracks. *My gut feeling is it was a bear. *But the little kid in me likes to think I saw bigfoot. *smiles*

I honestly believe that there is something out there. *What it is or its level of intelligence, I refuse to speculate. *The mountain regions of America are too vast for, I think, anyone to say they don't exist. *Science is constantly finding living specimen's of things that "don't exist".

As a young man in the Coast Guard, and spending most of that time at sea, no one can tell me that "Sea Monsters" dont exist. *Travel to where the ocean is miles deep under your ship and there is nothing on the radar set to its farthest scale and you will realize the vastness of our world. *Its a wonderous place God created for us to live in. *The depths and reaches of which we cannot explore fully.

So my question to you is are you a believer? or for those that have explored this world, or live on its fringes, have you ever encountered something out there you could not fully explain?

Just thought it would be a fun topic for a while.

seek

[SkooliesRock]

Neither a believer nor dis-believer, I have a friend who claims he & his cousin saw one once when they were younger. I'll be a believer when I either see one, or proof of it's existence.....'till then, I'll keep an open mind.

[Sevengin]

I haven't seen anything, but I believe.

[CarolAnn]

They just discovered about 250,000 gorillas that they didn't know existed in the Congo. (They're estimating from the number of nests they find, since the gorillas are very shy & hard to count individually.)

So why not more big critters that we haven't found yet? I certainly hope there are - somewhere. Our species needs to be taken down a peg when we get to thinking we know all! ;)

[bookwormom]

call me an 'agnostic' on this one.

[RocketMan]

I have a buddy who lives in kind of a campground, where only him and about 5 other people live there through the winter. Me and my brother went out to visit him shortly after a heavy snow. The snow knocked some branches down right beside his neighbors house, so we went over to check for damage. We found tracks in the snow that went up a pretty steep hill, around his neighbors, and right up behind his house. These tracks were over a foot long, and close to 6 feet apart, and shaped kinda like a foot. We couldn't find any explanation for what might have made those tracks. My brother is 6 foot 2 and couldn't match the stride between tracks even when he stretched. I think my buddy got a little nervous, so we just left it at that.

[rAcErRicK]

I believe in the YETI ! He lives among us. :D

And I you'll be real quiet, he might come out and say: DANG !

[Cutter]

I hope so. Wouldn't it be wonderful to find there is still some wild in the west.

[rAcErRicK]

That was interesting Seek, I hope they never find one, the fools would only shoot him. (her?)

[seekeroftruth]

I agree racer. Unfortunately IF there is such a thing I think it will eventually come down to that. And no im not anti hunter.. Kill it and Grill it. *smiles*

seek

[rAcErRicK]

Seek, oh yeah. we are in total agreement. Didn't mean to come across as anti hunter either. I was taught at a very early age though, if you kill something, you eat it.

And something like a Yeti should be preserved. Now, I wouldn't mind seeing my tax money go for a new house for one. ;) You know, like "habitat for Yetimanity". Would that work ? :D

rick

[seekeroftruth]

what if a family of them moved onto your land and stayed for 7 years.. would they be considered "sasquatters"??

let me expand this a bit also. *Does anyone have any family folklore about them? *(that way you dont have to admit that you think you saw one, *winks*)

seek


p.s. after i posted this reply, the following article appeared on foxnews. coincidence?.. *smiles*

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402882,00.html

seek

[MYellowRose]

Seeker I checked out the link you posted and also clicked on a couple of articles in the sidebar, the one on the lady who found the chupacabra interested me because Cuero is only about 90 miles from San Antonio. I had to laugh when I saw the picture of her holding the head. It's obviously a dog, even my 2 yr.old granddaughter knew that. She kept pointing to the computer and saying "puppy". Even in the second picture it looks just like a mangy dog, for a supposedly intelligent woman and supposedly a hunter at hat she should know a dog carcass when she sees one!

[seekeroftruth]

I agree 99.9% of this stuff is hoax, or just plain Kook's.

But, still makes a fun read sometimes.

I cant wait until friday to see what those two guys really have.

Whoknows maybe they do have something worth while.

then again it may be a big publicity stunt for a movie or something.. *smiles*

seek

[Ty]

My brother claims to have seen one. He worked at a Ski resort and was up on top of the mountain checking on the snow guns when he smelt something horrible. He described the smell as dirty diapers, road kill and rotten fish. The wind was coming up the ski run so he looked down wind. He saw something on two legs walking across the open groomed slope about 50 yards away. He said it was hard to make out since it was pitch black but you could see the outline easily on the white snow. He watched it cross the run and disapear into the trees. It didn't walk like a bear it was clearly on 2 feet and had a long gait. He turned off the guns and ran down the hill to see the tracks. They were bigger than both his feet end to end and were shaped just like huge human feet. They were easy to make out since the run had been groomed. They also sunk deep into the frozen top layer. Deeper than he could get even by jumping up and down on the snow. The tracks were a good 6 feet apart so the stride of whatever left them was huge. He never worked without a camera after that but never saw whatever it was again.

[HockeyFan]

I don't have enough information. I think it's possible, but have nothing to make me believe or to disbelieve.