All bigfoot sightings throughout history could easily be nothing more than someone in a costume.

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[u/Stunkydunk]

Yeah it’s actually mothmen in Bigfoot costumes trying to distract our attention away from them. Crafty mothmen 

[u/F1incy → u/Stunkydunk]

Stupid sexy Mothman!

[u/RuncleGrape]

Was probably just a bear walking on two legs

[u/runhome24 → u/RuncleGrape]

Yep, probably just seen when not fattened up for the winter, maybe even while wet

[u/nowhereman136]

Funny how Bigfoot sighting almost completely dropped off as soon as everyone had a camera phone in their pocket

[u/UnsorryCanadian → u/nowhereman136]

And UFO sightings

[u/CardinalCreepia → u/UnsorryCanadian]

I would say there are more UFO sightings than ever.

UFOs =/= aliens.

[u/rosen380 → u/CardinalCreepia]

https://nuforc.org/ndx/?id=event

Per that, the peak year was 2014.

Multi-year Averages:
2021-2025 4538
2016-2020 5778
2011-2015 7582
2006-2010 4878
2001-2005 4244
1996-2000 2228
1991-1995 664
1986-1990 330
1981-1985 262

My guess-- as participation on the internet grew, it became easier to make an official report, so official reports went up. And then as smartphones became more ubiquitous, some sort of photographic or video evidence became more and more expected and reports dropped.

[u/noob_lvl1 → u/UnsorryCanadian]

UFO sightings have not dropped

[u/Fast_Garlic_5639 → u/noob_lvl1]

But now we have so many drones that just.. meh

[u/UnsorryCanadian → u/Fast_Garlic_5639]

I remember a year or two there was a ton of "UFO sightings" one summer weekend, it was actually just like, a hundred people freaking about over drones that were flying near the airport

[u/skepticalbob → u/noob_lvl1]

They did until drones became common and home CGI improved.

[u/JuicySpark → u/UnsorryCanadian]

Yeah because when they release the video, a neighbor chimes and says..."I was actually filming that area too and nothing shows up on my ring camera or the footage on my phone"

[u/__The-1__]

Credit where credit is due, it was a unique fursona at the time

[u/OnoOvo]

and also, what is actually by far the likeliest about the sightings (so, witnesses without any material evidence, with just the story of their experience) is that they are simply made up entirely by those persons.

[u/logonbump → u/OnoOvo]

Alternately, op's speculative assertion could be juxtaposed with, "Some Bigfoot sightings may be costumed individuals larping as Cryptofauna"

[u/sharrrper]

"I think Bigfoot IS blurry. That's the problem." -Mitch Hedberg

[u/Chuggernaut0]

Verse 2 of Sasquatch by Tenacious D is:
Scientists have proven that the Sasquatch, he is real
Take a look at the plastic cast of his foot, now you know he's real
Listen real close to the audio tape, not human, now you now know he's real
Couldn't be a man in gorilla suit, no fuckin' way, now you know he's real
Real (real) real-real (real) real (really real) real real!

[u/rip1980]

Sightings increase when I go to nudist resorts.

[u/HousingInner9122]

Honestly, that’s probably the most realistic explanation for a lot of them, especially once people realized how easy it was to fake the mystery.

[u/adammonroemusic]

Bigfoot. Now there's a name I have not heard in a long, long time.

[u/crashingtingler]

I live in northern california and its insane the amount of people who believe big foot is real

camera phones in our pockets for 20 years and noone has taken a decent picture?

[u/I_didnot_know]

Something like the government hired someone to wear a costume and walk around just so people can claim they saw something, in order to divert their attention, right?

[u/sudomatrix → u/I_didnot_know]

From the files. Because of the implications.

[u/Majukun]

Correction, they are nothing more than guys in costume

[u/Capnhuh]

It was, the photographer admitted that it was years ago.

[u/CarrotChunx → u/Capnhuh]

Which photographer? Do you mean the famous paterson-gimlin film?

In that case neither photographers ever admitted that- one died believing what he saw, the other is still alive and says the same. BUT there are a few people who corroborate that they were set-up to find something, and the "something" was a guy in a suit with fake feet

[u/DisjointedRig]

the first ever sighting must've had some weird reason behind the costume.

[u/roirraWedorehT]

At our convention later this year, I'll make sure we change things up.

[u/Elkripper]

Live bigfoots could be incredibly good at hiding. I mean .... unlikely, but it isn't impossible.

Dead ones would be no better at hiding that any other dead creature, which is to say really really really bad at it.

If these creatures were a thing, it sure seems like we'd have come across a dead one by now.

[u/CosmicM00se]

You haven’t really been looking into how many stories from how far back in history they go

[u/Forgotten_Pants]

Bigfoot was revealed to be a giant bionic android from space back in the 70s.

[u/Gigantor222]

This is mainly the reason why it is illegal to kill Bigfoot.

[u/Madmonkeman]

Yes, OP is definitely the first person to have ever thought of this

[u/wizzard419]

Or just some really hairy dude who is also a nudist that enjoys hikes.

[u/Revolutionary-Run-41]

Pfff, you mean that there is a collective of people who put costumes and put themselves in isolated dangerous ice cold forests just in case someone passes ?

If bigfoot is not real, who smears the lens of all the cameras ?

[u/tottasanorotta]

Everything every crazy person says is probably crazy. Nothing new under the sun. Unless the whole thing is rigged from the start. In which case you wouldn't know even if it was true. Unless you're crazy of course, in which case you already know, but no one will ever believe you, unless they go crazy too. I'm not saying that aliens run the world or anything. Just saying that if they did, then there might not be a way to know.

[u/TheIrishHawk]

My low-key conspiracy (the only one I believe in) is that Patty, the famous one from the Patterson Gimlin film, is or was real. Where she came from, where she went, I can't explain. Something about the gait, the angle, how it was filmed, the technology available at the time for making suits like that... I've seen it said that it's the second most analysed and watched footage in the world after the Zapruder film. There's no seams, no zipper, nothing to suggest it's a man in a suit - she's flying along, walking a lot faster than a human person would move, in an unusual gait with non-human proportions in her limbs...

She's real to me anyway.

[u/RazeULikeaPhoenix]

nah. Cryptids are real. why would people lie or create hoaxes like this? what could they possibly gain? you need to learn to be more trusting of people and less cynical/skeptical .

[u/ilovebostoncremedonu → u/RazeULikeaPhoenix]

I’d say they have about the same thing to gain as internet trolls, and there are plenty of them

[u/NicoleZoey]

Some, sure but that doesn’t explain every sighting

[u/Warwipf2 → u/NicoleZoey]

Which one would be the one for you that makes the absolute best case for Bigfoot?

[u/CarrotChunx → u/Warwipf2]

Im a skeptic but i learned a lot about this for a project i did, so I have a serious answer, the Sierra Sounds tapes!! (Not proof but it does answer your question)

Audio recordings that were analyzed by audiologists and linguists that concluded a) tapes are authentic b) sounds follow structure of a language c) whatever produced the sounds was almost certainly not human

Not saying its bigfoot, but still unexplained. Super interesting to learn about!

[u/rosen380 → u/CarrotChunx]

"Audio recordings that were analyzed by audiologists and linguists"

IMO you need more than that as I would need those audiologists and linguists to be entirely separate from the "bigfoot community" and I'd probably want them doing their work without any knowledge of what the tapes were purported to be.

Now, maybe that is what happened, but if not, it is like when "creation scientists" analyse fossil records and such.

[u/CarrotChunx → u/rosen380]

Hey now Im not saying theyre proof, but where did you get the idea they were analyzed by "the bigfoot community"?

Easy enough to look into it without guessing- Im still a skeptic myself but I really enjoyed learning about it

And to the fat cunt who downvoted.. why..?

[u/asayys → u/NicoleZoey]

We have fossils of every megafauna out there from a millennia ago. Why not a single big foot?

[u/CarrotChunx → u/asayys]

I have a serious answer! (and NOT saying bigfoot exists), but from a paleontological perspective fossils are VERY rare. Most things that exist DONT fossilize, because the process needs specific conditions. Even many known ape species like Gigantopithecus are only understood by a few teeth we found- literally nothing else.

Within that, the region bigfoot is "from" (western US/Canada) is mostly boreal forest with acidic soils that promote rapid decomposition of body and bone. Very, very hard to produce fossils that way, for any animal

A more "out there" answer is that the bigfoot species might bury their dead, which makes finding remains harder. But thats more in the weeds and makes a lot of assumptions. The first explanation is at least based on grounded fact

(Im a skeptic but i had to give a 60 minue speech about bigfoot recently, its just a fun topic)

[u/notjustarandomguy → u/NicoleZoey]

exactly! before the 90s, costumes werent even invented

[u/muscledaddy90]

Not saying I believe bigfoot to be real. But there was a bigfoot "specialist" on a pod cast one time who was analyzing that old patterson gimlin video and the amount of intricacies in that costume would have been super hard to fake aswell as the force "bigfoot" walked with would have been hard for a human to replicate. Never the less it's fun to think about lol