Dec 30, 2023 08:18 PM
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)
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)
