Monday, January 09, 2006

Is Bigfoot dangerous?


This is a question that I'm sure has been pondered by more than one person in the Bigfoot field. My main question is, how many CREDIBLE reports are there of attacks on humans, and more to the point, how many of those resulted in death? The instances of attacks that resulted in serious injury or death are rare, unless you look at the report from Teddy Roosevelt's book The Wilderness Hunter which details two trappers who went into the wilderness of Idaho, and only one (Baumann) came out. The other one was killed by an unknown animal (which is never identified, but unusual tracks are found) which may or may not have been a Bigfoot retaliating over being shot at by one of the men. The famous Ape Canyon incident from 1924 detailed a retaliatory attack from a group of creatures who were also shot at, but none of the men were seriously injured. These are two rare occasions of violence against humans however (that's if the Baumann incident was a Bigfoot attack since the creature was never seen). The Skip Frombach incident where he was chased down the mountain was possibly a case of a creature protecting its territory and not a true incident of aggression. Do I believe Bigfoot COULD be dangerous? Yes I do. Do I believe they would attack and eat humans given the opportunity? No I don't, and I'll tell you why. Many people have gone out into the woods year after year, and more often than not they have come back alive, but some may have been parallelled by an unseen creature, or have heard strange sounds in the woods, or even had rocks thrown at them. This, of course, is just examples of Bigfoot protecting its territory, just like any other animal, but more particularly like a gorilla. Is there intended malice towards humans from these creatures? I doubt it, because I;ve been in the vicinity of these creatures on more than one occasion, and only had rocks thrown at me before hearing a strange, hyena-like laughter. If these creatures were true predators towards humans, we would know more about them by now. So the answer to the question, is Bigfoot dangerous, is a flat-out no, but they CAN be.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's crazy.

I love learning about these creatures

There are probably plenty of them hiding
Deep in the forests because they hide from
Humans

People are greedy. If they truly know Bigfoot
Does exist, they would only try killing them
For wealth..it disgusts me

-conde

Anonymous said...

I think that if you show them respect. .. They won't hurt you. .. Just trow rocks for territorial reasons...

Unknown said...

They can be cannibalistic according to some researchers, like finding dead bodies 30 ft up a tree with the head completely turned around or ripped apart. Some think it would be a older rogue male like lions. Humans are easy prey.