>>988985I'm not claiming credit for Bigfoot being a widely-known phenomenon. I'm just claiming that most of the "Bigfoot sightings" in Oscoda County, MI in the early to mid 2000's were actually me. That spike in sightings caused the area to become known as Michigan's "Bigfoot capital," or some other tourist-friendly slogan, and also lead to Mio, a town in Oscoda County, starting an annual Bigfoot-themed festival.
Based on this experience of mine, and also things I've read by guys in England who faked crop circles, and other information about hoaxers the world over, I've started really doubting that a lot of this stuff could actually exist.
I mean, maybe, MAYBE somewhere way out west where nobody at all lives, there could be a huge creature that isn't known to science. But that creature sure as shit doesn't live anywhere in Michigan. Even the UP has too many people out in the woods. They would have found something better than my footprints, "nests" made out of grass, and the other crap I left for people to find. They would have a body of a dead Bigfoot by now, or at least a good photograph.
Bigfoot, however, is an exciting story. It's the kind of thing people want to believe, so they do. Bigfoot makes the world more exciting. When people see an old, blackened snag, they think it's a bear. When they see a bear, they think it's Bigfoot. The world is more exciting that way.
>>988987There are ways you can get fake toes to wiggle around. You can do things like rig up wooden or plastic "bones" inside rubber toes, or even use real animal bones. If your dad had an old copy of Gray's Anatomy in the basement while you were growing up, you could even use string to make it move in realistic ways. I never went that far, but I thought about it.
>>989034Sure, but I usually found out what they were, eventually. An example of that would be the saw-whet owl, which sounds really weird until you know its just an owl.
