Bigfoot, reality or made up?
People around the world report having seen a large human like, hair covered creature that walks upright. Many of these descriptions are nearly identical. There have been over eight hundred reports of a large hairy creature in the wilderness of Washington State alone. I myself have never seen a Bigfoot but I do believe that man has not yet reached the pinnacle of total knowledge and therefore I believe that anything is possible. I know that some of the reported sighting seem a little strange and sound like fakes to me, but does that mean that they are all fake? For a possible answer to these questions we only need to look to our recent history.
In the mountains of Rwanda a large hair covered creature was reported by the locals for years. These reports were widely dismissed because at the time no one who was classified as a scientist had seen them. In 1902 German Captain Robert von Beringe came across a large creature matching the description of the locals. He was unable to identify the creature and was able to kill two of them in an attempt to identify them. The information below was taken from
www.berggorilla.de *At an altitude of 3,100 m, the two Germans put up their tent, after they had tried to level the ground with moss they had gathered. The ridge was so narrow that the tent pegs had to be fastened into the slopes. The askaris and the porters sheltered in rock caves and tried to protect themselves against the bitter cold with the help of fires.
And so the scene was set for the historic encounter that von Beringe described in the Deutsches Kolonialblatt:
From our camp we saw a herd of large black apes who were trying to climb the highest point of the volcano. We succeeded in killing two large individuals. With a great rumbling noise of falling rocks, they fell into a crater opening towards the northeast. After five hours of strenuous work we managed to get one animal up on a rope.
*The retrieved animal was a large, human-like, male ape with a body length of 1.5 m and a weight of more than 200 pounds. He had no chest hair, but enormous hands and feet.
"Unfortunately, I was not able to identify the genus the ape belonged to",
the Captain wrote with regret. He thought that it could not be a chimpanzee because of the animal's size, and, until then, the gorillas that were known to live in the lowlands had not been found in the area of the East African Great Lakes.
The population of the gorilla is now believed to be at about seven hundred. That number has grown over the years from an original estimate of only around fifty. With number this low the gorilla seem to not only maintain a population but have gone into a sort of population boom. While researching the Bigfoot I discovered that some of the scientist who would weigh in on the Bigfoot estimated that there would need to be a population of over five thousand Bigfoot to support a "breeding population." Why is this number so much higher for the Bigfoot?
It only seems logical to believe that if you have two creatures of a similar nature and in similar habitat the numbers should also be closer. A difference of more than four thousand seems a little hard to explain. Is this a case of main stream science discriminating against the yet undiscovered Bigfoot, or are there other reasons to explain the difference in the numbers?
I don't have the answers to the questions but I am sure that some of you out there can help me with this topic. Please feel free to respond with your thoughts and opinions’.
