Sasquatch: A New Estimate of the Situation
Posted by: Micah Hanks on December 3rd, 2014
Micah Hanks has a new article at Mysterious Universe that begins:
Bigfoot is the name commonly given to a large, bipedal creature presumed to exist in North America, with similar varieties of man-monster reported in countless other parts of the world. Right from the outset, we must ask, in fairness, whether this rather awkward name is entirely warranted; are we really to presume that the creature, if it exists, possesses feet any larger in proportion to the rest of its body than its hands, nose, or any other part?
The question may seem absurd, and for a number of reasons. Why, some would argue, debate the name used for the creature if it is a term that has become recognizable in relation to discussion of it? Others would argue that the debate over a name is equally worthless for reasons of doubt pertaining to its existence in the first place: how could anything so fantastic really exist? If anything, a name so absurd as “Bigfoot” is proper for something that is little more than a legend, albeit a rather persistent one.
But maybe we can’t so easily dismiss the existence of a creature which, for purposes of clarity, and perhaps some integrity, we will refer to henceforth in this article as Sasquatch. Despite the scientific argument that such a creature could not exist and remain undetected, let alone feed itself and maintain a breeding population while doing so, a plethora of anecdotal reports exist that suggest, strongly at times, that something is indeed going on. What that is, of course, remains a mystery.
To be clear, what I’m interested in learning most are stories from readers that detail your experiences, observations, or encounters with something resembling the Sasquatch of myth and folklore, popularized in books and television programs aimed at “finding” and proving its existence, but which thus far have fallen just short of the mark of doing so credibly, and to the satisfaction of scientific rigor.
Read the rest of the article here.
About Micah Hanks
Micah Hanks is a writer, researcher, lecturer, and radio personality whose work addresses a variety of areas, including history, politics, scientific theories and unexplained phenomena. Open minded, but skeptical in his approach, his research has examined a broad variety of subjects over the years, incorporating interest in cultural studies, natural science and scientific anomalies, and the prospects of our technological future as a species as influenced by science.
He is author of several books, including his 2012 New Page Books release, The UFO Singularity, as well as The Ghost Rockets, Magic, Mysticism and the Molecule: The Search for Sentient Intelligence from Other Worlds and Reynolds Mansion: An Invitation to the Past. Hanks has served as a consulting editor for Intrepid Magazine, FATE Magazine and The Journal of Anomalous Sciences. He also writes for a variety of other publications including New Dawn, Mysterious Universe, and UFO Magazine. Hanks has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs, including Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Whitley Strieber’s Dreamland, National Geographic’s Paranatural, the History Channel’s Guts and Bolts, CNN Radio, The Jeff Rense Program, and many others. A weekly podcast that follows his research is available at his popular site, www.gralienreport.com, in addition to a news and current events podcast, Middle Theory, at www.middletheory.com.
