(06-04-2024, 11:56 PM)FlickerOfLight Wrote: G'day, Bally002.
That would make them too old, and too spread out to be anything man manipulated into being. Unless it is people having sex with gorillas....but I highly doubt that.
So, an Ausie Bigfoot, huh? I never thought they were seen anywhere else but up in the pacific northwest or up in the forests of Canada.
That's weird to me now. It just seems like in all these years some hunter somewhere would have taken one of these out and had a nice trophy on display.
But, alas....natta.
They are seen all over the world, and all over the US as well, not just in the Pacific Northwest and Canada. There is the Australian Yowie as already mentioned, The Himalayan Yeti, The Almas of the Altai Mountains, The South American Mapiguary, the Siberian Yeren, The Ibu Gogo, the various Southeast Asian "Orangs" like the Orang Pendek, The Arkansas "Fouke Monster", Ohio's "Grassman", the Florida "Skunk Ape",and many more. Some are probably alternate names for the same species, others may be entirely separate local species.
I saw one 44 years ago, almost 45 years ago now (November 1979), in West Virginia. I can tell you, al least in my experience, I had a 12 gauge shotgun with me at the time, and was not about to shoot that thing for fear that it might only piss it off and cause it to disassemble me in it's anger. On top of that, it had a disturbingly "human" quality to it, and contrary to popular belief, I can't just shoot another human being simply for existing - there has to be a much better reason than that to kill someone. It wasn't attacking me, and so I wasn't about to attack it, either. It's not like it was something I'd eat, so I left it alone for as long as it was willing to leave me alone.
When it looked at me... those eyes. I'll never forget the look in those eyes, and the expression. It was curious. Not afraid, not threatening, just... curious. Maybe it was wondering why I didn't run away. I dunno. I can tell you, however, that I didn't run because I couldn't. I was shaking like a dog shitting peach pits, and my legs would not work for me to run.
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