March 4, 2015
Does that Bigfoot standing amongst the trees in the park look suspicious to you? Be careful … it may be luring you into a trap. Not a trap to put you in a human zoo or pot of boiling water but a scientific experiment designed to see how people react to Bigfoot encounters.
That’s the latest story out of Edinburgh, Scotland, where Dr. Charles Paxton, a research fellow and statistical ecologist at St Andrews University, has admitted that he and his colleagues wear costumes and hide in the Royal Botanical Gardens in hopes of fooling unsuspecting visitors into thinking they’ve seen a Sasquatch or some other strange hairy creature so that they can watch and record their reactions.
Yes, it sounds like a dirty rotten trick but Dr. Paxton has actually done research before in cryptozoology, tallying Loch Ness Monster sightings and looking for statistical patterns. He emphasizes that these Bigfoot tests are serious and done in a scientific manner.
Visitors to the gardens are told beforehand that they will be part of an experiment. One group sees the fake Bigfoot and the other doesn’t. Both record their experiences and compare notes afterwards. The results are compiled and analyzed by Dr. Paxton and his team.
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See also:
Nessies of the Multiple Kind
The Loch Ness Monster Symposium
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
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