Hansen: Brush with Bigfoot? Omaha Scouts' trip yielded a big, hairy mystery

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20140113/NEWS/140119557/1707#hansen-brush-with-bigfoot-omaha-scouts-1962-trip-yielded-a-big-hairy-mystery

By Matthew Hansen PUBLISHED MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2014 AT 12:30 AM / UPDATED AT 11:07 AM

Gary stands up in front of the Omaha Bryan High classroom. He is not here to talk about math or science or the dangers of driving while texting.

He is a contractor who long lived in Council Bluffs. Now in semi-retirement, he is an expert on a single subject.

“How many of you believe in Bigfoot?” he asks.

He looks around the room. One Bryan student tentatively raises his hand. And then a second, third and fourth.

FULL story, picture, and VIDEO at link.

[snooper2]

1. I blame stupid tv shows...

ghost hunters, finding bigfoot...


they take an already gullible person and add a little more stupid

Then they take it to the next level...

Aliens built the pyramids! Shit, we have somebody here who is "skeptical"


But But, there are cave drawings with people wearing space helmets!

[Iggo]

2. Oh, come on.

[hlthe2b]

3. Meh... looks like a big guy wearing fur robes--the Grizzly Adams look...

Show grainy footage and sadly, some will believe anything.

[MADem]

27. What is with the 'grainy footage' these days?

I have a fifteen dollar tracfone cellphone that I bought on sale, that takes movies. The pictures are NOT grainy, even in low light. I should imagine that anyone with a decent video system, either phone or dedicated, could get pictures that aren't all blurred or pixelated.

[NuclearDem]

4. Any response to that other than "Bigfoot is a (synonym for myth)"

is just depressing.

[Berlum]

5. The Olde Timers say the Bigfoot people are incarnations of the spirit of truth and honesty

...and that is why so few people are able to see them. If you are not a fully honest and truthful person, or if you are caught in the poisonous illusions of materialism -- so the oral teachings maintain -- you will not see him or any evidence of him. So it has been said on this continent for many thousands of years.

[NuclearDem]

8. Bigfoot made crop circles.

[deutsey]

12. I thought Steve Austin settled this once and for all

Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is an alien cyborg created by a group of aliens visiting earth; he was constructed by the alien Shalon in imitation of a lower form of life from the alien homeworld, using a technology called "Nyosynthetics," an advanced form of Bionics which are powered by Mergeron. He was created to cultivate mystery and fear in a remote part of the Pacific Northwest in order to protect the location and identity of the alien's secret base.

http://bionic.wikia.com/wiki/Bigfoot


That seems most plausible to me, anyway.

[NuclearDem]

13. Resisting urge to post "it was aliens" guy...

[Union Scribe]

20. You shouldn't ever resist that urge

Because that guy will ALWAYS be hilarious

[Coyotl]

25. I'm not sayin' Bigfoot exists, however ....

[Union Scribe]

31. Ah, that's the good stuff right there

Thanks!

[MADem]

29. That picture is hilarious! "We're adults...and we're making money at this asinine BS!"

They look like two players in an SNL skit trying to not crack up!

[longship]

6. Whatever... Show us a real body.

That's the only thing that would convince me that Bigfoot exists in reality. And I think it would be cool if there was a bipedal hairy creature living in North America. But the Bigfoot exists claimants have some real problems.

1. Bigfoot claims are riddled with fraud.
2. A stable breeding population would likely have to be hundreds of individuals.

No credible physical evidence short of a whole example, either alive or dead, will suffice.

But Bigfoot is still cool, even though it's likely fictional.

[Vashta Nerada]

11. Haven't you ever seen "Harry and the Hendersons"?

[Berlum]

15. No. But I have listened with interest to what traditional elders say

..people have been mocking them, and stealing their land, and perpetrating genocide on them for over 500 years, so they are accustomed to being kissed off and denigrated by arrogant folks who claim native peoples embrace "woo."

Yet the Bigfoot tradition and understandings go way back, many thousands of years before imperialist invaders came to trash the continent and its teachings, its people and its environment.

[Vashta Nerada]

16. Wait...what?

What does this have to do with bigfoot?

[NuclearDem]

17. What do the crimes against the Natives

Have to do at all with whether Bigfoot exists or not?

[Berlum]

18. Kissing off native peoples and teachings is part of an enduring pattern

Kissing off native Bigfoot teachings is part of that pattern.

[NuclearDem]

19. Fine, teach the stories as what they are--folklore.

Exactly how we do with European folklore.

But saying that Bigfoot isn't real is no more an affront to the Natives than saying dragons aren't real to East Asian cultures. Folklore and myth aren't fact.

[Berlum]

23. Where did I say Bigfoot was real? Don't put words in my mouth.

I have made no assertion whatsoever about Bigfoot, only stated that there are old native teachings about this.

Do not twist truth.

This is the same degenerate kind of response that the NBC Crop Circle post got last week. I never asserted that the crop circle was created by some unknown or alien force. I simply reported that NBC reported that a crop circle had been observed in California. Then the Scientific Materialist Cabal went berZerkers trying to prove that I was a dumbass for believing in some "alien force" that was totally their own twisted invention and projection.

So get a grip on reality, folks. Try acting like real scientists and not Scientific Materialists with a FatHead full of rigid beliefs and preconceptions, and a flimsy grip on facts.

Let me spell it out: I don't know whether Bigfoot is real. I have made and will make no assertion about that. What I do assert is that there are ancient Native teachings about Bigfoot.

Those teachings exist whether Scientific Materialists believe in them or not, and whether the Scientific Materialist FatBrain Kabal chooses to continue their arrogant and ill-informed trashing of Native ways or not.

[NuclearDem]

24. "Scientific Materialist FatBrain Kabal"

That totally makes me want to take anything you say seriously.

[Berlum]

26. I dislike it when people put false words in my mouth

... you can take that seriously.

[NuclearDem]

28. Fair enough.

Neither do I like being called part of "a fathead kabal" for thinking scientists should spend their finite resources on things like AIDS research, green energy, and particle accelerators rather than crop circles, Bigfoot, and reincarnation.

[MADem]

30. +1,000 nt

[zappaman]

37. +100,000! n/t

[edhopper]

35. Let me helper you there champ.

It doesn't exist. No evidence and a lot of what is claimed doesn't work with what science knows about primates and animal populations.

What Native Americans say is important culturally, but has no bearing on the validity of this imaginary creature.

[zappaman]

38. You do realize you are talking to

a CHEMTRAILS believer, right?
Seriously...Chem-fucking-trails.
Good luck convincing them that Bigfoot doesn't exist!

[edhopper]

42. Sure

hence my condescending tone.

[Coyotl]

40. Thanks for clearing that up.

[edhopper]

7. It's a bear on it's hind legs

responsible for many bigfoot sightings.

[GeorgeGist]

9. Why do you push this shit?

SERIOUSLY!

[Vashta Nerada]

10. This is the stupid we have to deal with in this country.

I wish shows about bigfoot hunting and finding aliens were banished from tv.

Whatever happened to quality educational programming?

[WilliamPitt]

14. I like the idea of Bigfoot.

I like the idea that there are huge swathes of forest in Oregon and Washington State untouched and unvisited by the European visitors currently occupying this land mass. I like the idea that it's possible because, well, we haven't been in there to prove conclusively that it isn't.

I hope Bigfoot exists. I hope we never find him.

[Ichingcarpenter]

21. He's a achampion

[Skidmore]

22. Me,too. There is a certain romance and mystique to the notion that is appealing.

Now, as for aliens, I'm certain that there are other life forms in the universe. We probably just wouldn't recognize them as such when we see them.

[Coyotl]

41. In the densely-wooded ecology in the PNW, good luck seeing the mammals you know are there.

There are bears in my area eating the apples, etc. Good luck spotting them stealthfully negotiating our vast national forest. Likewise for big cats and so many other large animals. Even the elk keep us few humans a good distance away.

Knowing every species leaves some form of evidence, like scat, consider how many caves have archaeologists dug without finding any evidence? Not even one bone.

[bowens43]

32. I think its funny that many of those skeptical of bigfoot beleive in invisible gods....

[mockmonkey]

33. Bigfoot lives in Central Wisconsin

When I lived in Neillsville Wisconsin a newspaper delivery man saw a Bigfoot and reported it to the Sheriff's Department.

From the transcript:

332: Was it standing on 4 legs or 2.

JH: It was standing on 2 legs. It looked like a, like a king-size gorilla. I mean a huge bastard. That's what it looked like. He was all hair, the arms, legs, head, everything was allhair. It was a dark grayish color from what I could make out. And he had something in its, in its hand, it would have been the right hand like it might have been a carcass of a goat or something, I don't know. I didn't pay, really get a good look and I didn't want to wait around to find out. I seen that I got the hell out of here.

332: Were you scared?

JH: You're damn right I was scared. I was shitting right in my drawers; I got to tell you, all that's to it.

Later he told his wife.

When I walked through the door, I told my wife I wish to hell you went with me, and she says why and I says I think I see that goddamn "Big Foot" and she says see, I told you they exist, I says well goddamn, I never believed until now.

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/sbs/clarkcounty2.htm

It's got to be true because it's the best place for a Bigfoot to hide, open farm land with scatterings of woods that hunters invade every year looking for deer. I think he keeps his spaceship underground to avoid the locals.

[Lex]

34. Big Foot wrote a book. You should read it. It's hysterical.

http://www.amazon.com/Me-Write-Book-Bigfoot-Memoir/dp/0452286859/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1389647390&sr=8-7&keywords=bigfoot+books

[MisterP]

36. fits the distribution map...

http://sinclairthebudgie.deviantart.com/art/Woodwose-natural-distribution-map-413404481

[Jenoch]

39. When I was quite young in the 1960s my family

drove a motorhome to Alaska on the Alcan Highway. Back then 1,200 miles of the highway was still unpaved. My dad told us to look for sasquatches. We saw lots of animals bear, deer, moose, but never a sasquatch. If there was a population of sasquatch, I would believe the Yukon would be where to find them.

[BootinUp]

43. LOL nt

[Orrex]

44. Bigfoot is a bionic monster controlled by Sandy Duncan.

You know it's true.

[struggle4progress]

45. You've convinced me to dig out all my old ufo photos from my scouting days

Our whole troop was briefly abducted by aliens. They performed experiments on us that left us smelling like burnt hemp, before they dropped us off at a Dairy Queen somewhere in Oklahoma. Nobody believed us, but fortunately, we got pictures of the space ship