Some Observations on Bigfoot Observations

Some Observations on Bigfoot Observations

"Do It Yourself Doodler" is the artwork/cartoon site where I got this cartoon of a lady Davy Crockett hot on the trail of a Tennessee Bigfoot woman. Besides providing humerous commentary, I thought the portrayal of the Eastern Bigfoot female was good and its actions true to the reports. The reports say that you can be looking straight at them and they disappear right from view-the more obvious solution being that they are exteremely adept at hiding.

One of the sites by a "Statistics Nerd" shows a county-by-county mapping of all supposed Bigfoot sightings since the 1870s. While generally informative it runs into problems when not all of the conties are of comparable dimensions: there is also no indicator as to which counties have one or two reports and which ones have hundreds.

On the other hand, this map from The History Channel (2009) shows the density of the reports as accumulations of the red dots. The accumulations of reports come in two areas, the Puget Sound area in the West and (surprisingly) Ohio in the East, Ohio probably represents the part nearest the Appalachians where the human population is densist: I assume the Bigfoot population is denser in the more uninhabited mountainous regions nearby, but that there are fewer witnesses there,

DERIVING FROM THE STATISTICS AT MY DISPOSAL,

"BIGFOOT" AS I TAKE IT IS A NON-SPECIES-SPECIFIC TERM, NOT ALL "BIGFOOT" REPORTS ARE DESCRIBING THE SAME THING. "SASQUATCH" SHOULD BE SPECIES-SPECIFIC AS THE WEST-COAST GIGANTOPITHECUS-LIKE CREATURE, BUT IT IS MISAPPLIED COMMONLY ALSO TO THE EASTERN BIGFOOT POPULATION. "EASTERN BIGFOOT" IS A SMALLER AND MUCH MORE HUMAN-LIKE CREATURE.

AND WE HAVE SKELETAL MATERIAL ASCRIBED TO EITHER SPECIES, BUT THE SCIENTIFICALLY-DESCRIBED REMAINS GO WITH THE EASTERN POPULATION, AND THEY ARE MUCH LIKE FOSSIL HUMANS FROM EUROPE AND ASIA.

Best Wishes, Dale D.