The story of Bigfoot has been popularized by the media for years. These stories often come from stories passed down through generation like many urban stories .Many claim they have seen bigfoot but the only thing they have to show for it is a blurry picture.in the site inside history.com “The FBI investigated bigfoot in 1976 saying it had no trace to any animal. You might say that means nothing but every animal has a distant relative like wolves and dogs and cat and lions . With this piece of evidence it shows that there is no possible way creatures like bigfoot exist. Even if it did exist it is a non intelligent bipedal animal the chance of it surviving and hiding from us is next to none.
The first bigfoot sighting was from the late 1800s to early 1900s . Assuming bigfoot was real it would be dead by now. Unlike a turtle that can live for hundreds of years , bigfoot has been described as an ape-like creature. With this information I have listed the average age life expectancy is 30 to 45 years old. Even if you were to say that we have witnessed this a published article named quantamagazine.org says, “The human mind can imagine things that are not real”. The likelihood of bigfoot adapting to the ever growing human and still managing to hide is extremely small . Bigfoot is allegedly 10 to 13 feet tall so it will be hard for it to hide. You could say that it could have evolved but it takes thousands to millions of years to evolve ,so there’s not a chance that has happened. If it was real it would have move variation. The main reason people believe bigfoot is real is due to cultural belief. Many people believe tradition without proof. Take the Native American tribe of Oregon who use it as a traditional belief .Coastal tribes in Oregon link bigfoot with wild men. They say they had giant footprints similar to the one people claim bigfoot .This information was provide by Oregon.cycoplida.com .There is no proof that these legends exist yet people believe it. For example a kraken a beast that lives in the deep sea, we now know there is a creature called a giant squid that matches the description from back then .Similar to this is Moby dick, a creature similar to is a blue whale but back then it would have been considered a mythical creature .The same could be said for bigfoot. It could be a bear standing on its hind legs or it could be an urban legend that is not meant to be taken seriously .In the year of 2024 we know there have been people with abnormally large feet. It is called acromegaly. This condition allows your feet to be way bigger than average . we have the technology we have then man power perhaps the reason we haven’t found bigfoot is because it is not real. In this short blog I hope I have put your mind at ease and proven to you that the creature known as bigfoot is not real.
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