Why Do So Many People Still Want to Believe in Bigfoot?
The appeal of the giant, wild man, despite all evidence pointing to his mere existence being a hoax, holds strong
Bigfoot is still a big deal to many conspiracy theorists. (Cade Martin)
By Ben Crair
September 2018
Sixty years ago this fall, Bigfoot first stepped into the public consciousness. “Giant footprints puzzle residents,†a headline in the Humboldt Times announced. The small Northern California newspaper reported that a road construction crew had discovered humanlike footprints that were a massive 16 inches long. The paper was the first to give the mysterious animal that made the prints its memorable moniker—“Bigfootâ€â€”and the creature has been stomping through the American imagination ever since.
Today, the legendary beast seems to be everywhere: You will find Bigfoot looking awfully cute this year in two children’s films: The Son of Bigfoot and Smallfoot. Animal Planet recently aired the finale of its popular series “Finding Bigfoot,†which lasted 11 seasons despite never making good on the promise of its title. And the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization lists at least one report from every state, except Hawaii, over the past two decades. The most recent sighting, in June 2018, was by a woman in Florida who reported a creature that looked like “a large pile of soggy grass.†Other evidence in the database includes supposed Bigfoot scat, nests and noises. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, it may not make a sound—but it seems someone will report that a Bigfoot knocked it over.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-so-many-people-still-believe-in-bigfoot-180970045/#6KBxUkzLLSyI3HyZ.99
