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Is Bigfoot dead? (cryptid community) - C C - Dec 30, 2023
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2023/12/is-bigfoot-dead/
EXCERPTS (Benjamin Radford): Twenty years ago, in this magazine I wrote an overview of the evidence for Bigfoot. Titled “Bigfoot at 50: A Half-Century of Bigfoot Evidence,” it was meant to give skeptics and layfolk alike a concise overview of the variety and quality of evidence proffered to date for the existence of the elusive bipedal creature said to roam North America.
[...] As we approach a quarter-century into the new millennium, Bigfoot is nowhere to be seen. While Nessie searches and chupacabra reports still make the news with some regularity, Bigfoot—once ubiquitous, from monster trucks to pizzas, beef jerky to the Six Million Dollar Man—has been relegated to a handful of cryptid conferences and the occasional fruitless “reality” television search. In fact, Bigfoot hasn’t even appeared on the cover of this magazine for well over a decade (that’s me in a Bigfoot costume on the March/April 2002 cover).
The goal of this article is to update readers on the status of the evidence for Bigfoot. There are of course no huge surprises at the end... (MORE - missing details)
RE: Is Bigfoot dead? (cryptid community) - Magical Realist - Dec 30, 2023
Poppycock! Benjamin Radford is a known ideological uberskeptic who makes his money by trying to debunk everything he can. If Bigfoot died he wouldn't have anything to write about except maybe chemtrails. I otoh have it on good word that Bigfoot is alive and well and currently residing near Durango Colorado:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/us/bigfoot-sighting-colorado.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmlnr6zTJc