Even More: Bigfoot is not Paranormal

“The other argument I hear often is that “if they’re so smart why do they allow themselves to be seen at all?” One, I think they get caught unaware too from time to time, especially at long distance–which a lot of sightings come in from. Two, I think they are curious about us, and often times venture into our world to see what we’re up to. Third, I think there are enough people roaming that they can’t always avoid being seen.

Our handle on “intelligence” as a concept frequently seems to me shaky at best. Most sightings aren’t for long, at all; most witnesses really can’t do anything about what they see (other than report it which count on it, most don’t); the impact on the individual seen is, generally, pretty minimal, from what we can guess from the record. Like most animals, they know what we’re capable of, and tend to avoid us. But they are gonna get caught from time to time; they just are. Making a living in the outdoors is hard work requiring frequent tunnel focus. You are gonna get seen doing it, by most everything in your vicinity with eyes, sooner rather than later.

Their curiosity is one of the best documented things about them; and it aligns well with what we know from other wild animals, primates in particular. Practically everything “venture[s] into our world to see what we’re up to,” sooner or later; in truth, other animals probably don’t get caught at it that much either, comparing the times we catch them to the times we (probably) didn’t. An animal thin on the ground will just be around us less, is all.

And as to the sheer numbers of us: count on it, that is gonna be a factor, because most sightings, really almost all of them – contrary to what the skeptics try to put over on people, but perfectly congruent with what we know from other animals – are gonna be at the places where our habitat and theirs join. In deep backcountry, we don’t belong. Most everything back there has long cleared the vicinity before your prying eyes get there, for the places you aren’t…and generally, no one else is either.

And I still don’t believe humankind is so superior that it can’t be bamboozled by other critters on the planet. And whenever we can’t figure something out, the paranormal always gets dragged into the equation. Paranormal is the go-to “magic” explanation of earlier centuries. And before you start dog-piling me, I’m not turning up my nose at the paranormal–I’ve seen and been party to enough weirdness that I give the paranormal it’s due.