I'm pleased to have guest blogger Imogen share her piece on encountering Bigfoot:
I Know What I Saw…
My interest in the Bigfoot phenomenon started when I read the following
passage written by a friend who recounted a close encounter she had with
the creature itself. Her account is brief, but compelling, and read as
follows:
“At
the risk of sounding crazy … I once saw something like a Bigfoot
myself, high in the Cascade Mountains in the dead of winter, on a
moonlit night, while descending a mountain snowfield. After watching
"it" approach for about one minute, and when it had come to within about
200 feet, I turned to my climbing companion to say that I was having a
REMARKABLE hallucination. But before I could say a word I saw that my
companion had gripped his ice axe with both hands and had raised his ice
axe above his head in self-defence. So NOT a hallucination. "It" was
about ten feet tall and leaving BIG footprints in the snow. The
scientists will tell you that there cannot be such creatures, and their
reasoning is persuasive - unless, of course, you happen to have seen
one.”
She
makes a good point in the last sentence, and it is one that cannot be
gainsaid by any scientist. In the words of the famous UFO documentary,
“I Know What I Saw”. Yes, people can be mistaken. But not so mistaken
that they are hallucinating a ten foot creature stood in front of them
at the same time as another person to their right. Sure, some sightings
could be as a result of
substance abuse But how many? Seriously.
Watching the
Paul Freeman footage from
1994 in the same mountain range, I just wonder if it is the same animal
she saw. To my mind the Freeman footage is compelling. If I ever had
any doubts, my friend’s story and the Freeman footage combined dispelled
them forever. She would never lie about such a thing, and the fact that
there were two witnesses just strengthens my belief in her story. There
is nothing that is ten feet tall she could have mistaken it for.
Likewise, the Freeman footage is too poor in quality and too early,
technically, to have been faked or tampered with. Along with
Jeffrey Meldrum’s analysis of the
casts Freeman made, I find it to be credible testimony. Sometimes what you see is what is there. It is as simple as that.
Paranormal Theories
One much-debated aspect of the Bigfoot phenomenon centres around the
possibility of Sasquatch being paranormal in nature. Perhaps, like
Mexico’s mysterious dwarfs,
and the fairies of long ago, there is transcendent quality to the
creature. It seems to play with us, in the way that orbs tantalise us
with their appearance and instantaneous disappearance. Could Bigfoot,
some wonder, be a manifestation of the same inexplicable entities, in
crypto-human form? What both UFO and Mexican dwarfs have in common is
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. People not only see them, but are
materially affected by them in the real world. The Mexican dwarfs knock
people off their bikes and frighten children playing ball after dark.
They are violent and malevolent in nature, and there have been dozens of
reports, from quite traumatised, and in some cases injured, victims.
There is no explanation for the encounters, but they have happened. The
same is true of UFO encounters, of course, with real physical craft
being witnessed and filmed all over the world, in the thousands. Some
YouTube UFO posters have actually given up uploading their footage as
they have so much of it. Orbs are a daily occurrence, and yet there is
no explanation for them either.
Is Bigfoot A Paranormal Entity?
For me, no. I did consider the possibility that the creatures could be
another type of ‘alien’ for a while. The fleeting sightings, the
vanishing, the lack of hard evidence, the total inability of anyone to
have secured irrefutable proof – to me these put Bigfoot into the
‘Nessie’ camp. I have read widely on the UFO phenomenon and the
different ‘species’ of alien that are reported by witnesses varies
enormously. From the ubiquitous ‘greys’, to the mysterious ‘Nordics’,
all the way to the Reptilians and towering Annunaki, there is no
shortage of close alien encounters, with no end of strange beings. Each
witness knows what they saw. But does it make it real? It’s a subject I
have still to tussle with, but since reading on this and other sites I
have read enough evidence – which I did not know existed, I may add – to
convince me that Bigfoot is a real world creature. A gentle, shy
creature in fact. The gentleness of movements
and the relaxed body language of the being captured by both Paul
Freeman’s video are rather touching. I am glad to read that there are
people speaking out against the Kill and Capture mentality of those who
want another trophy on the wall and the attendant fame that would no
doubt follow. What I saw on the Freeman footage is a vulnerable looking,
gentle creature who needs to be protected, and defended, and certainly
not hunted and killed.
