Okay, okay, it’s not about reincarnation. But how can I resist posting an article with this title? And better yet, this article will spawn some great comments from readers…right? Come on, I know you are dying to take an intellectual stab at the bigfoot/alien debate 🙂

Is Bigfoot an Alien?

by Steve Bass (American Chronicle dot com)

When you say the word “Bigfoot”, many get mental pictures of a large, muscular ape with long hair sneaking through the woods of the American Northwest. Does Bigfoot really exist? If so, what is it? There are those who approach the Bigfoot question from a scientific point of view. Cryptozoology is the scientific study of and search for cryptids, animals which are beyond current zoological catalogues. Cryptids are often thought of as fantasy creatures and are ignored by mainstream scientists. Cryptozoologists, those who study cryptozoology, research anecdotes and legends from various cultures concerning creatures too fantastic to exist, such as Bigfoot (also known as the Sasquatch), the Loch Ness Monster, Pennsylvania´s Beast of Bray Road, England´s Beast of Exmoor (thought to be the motivation for the book The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), to sea monsters in general. There are literally thousands of such cryptid tales throughout the world.

Some cryptids have been proven to exist. One example is the Coelacanth, a prehistoric fish thought to be extinct. Numerous anecdotes of the Coelacanth were obtained from South African locals, but its continued existence was never verified until 1938, when a specimen was found in a fisherman´s nets. The Okapi is a former cryptid found in central Africa. It appears as a combination of a giraffe´s head, a donkey´s body, and a zebra´s legs.

The Sasquatch is probably the best known and most highly sought after of the cryptids. They walk upright, standing between 7 and 10 feet tall, are covered by brown and reddish fur, with a heavy brow, pronounced nose and wide mouth, are reported to have terrible body odor, and inhabit secluded forested areas. Despite their reputation for living in the Northwest, sightings of the Sasquatch extend into Oklahoma, Texas, the Carolinas, even Georgia and Florida. They are also known as the Yeti by the Nepalese of the Asian Himalayas, Yeren by the Chinese, and Yowie by the Australians. You have to ask yourself how the same creature can be so widely known by so many relatively isolated cultures throughout the span of history and not exist.

The Sasquatch has many commonalities with Extraterrestrials…

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