Sasquatch Lives!

Actually - Yeti are not rare sightings on the Tibetan Plateau - and "scientists" aren't backing off the DNA samples from over there. There is a land preserve for them on the Plateau to keep them safe from tourists etc.

I haven't looked at this link - so I'm not sure if this is actually new info or the same that is several years old at the least from the Plateau area. The Tibetan Plateau is the least explored region in the world and many parts of it have never been reached by humans (not our species of human, anyway). Over there a denial of Yeti existence would get you called obtuse or worse. Of course, over here - money is the sole decision of what science stands and which is buried.

I'm not sure how I feel about Sasquach, though - which would be basically a Western relative of the Yeti. We have a lot of unexplored land in the N. but not anywhere near that of the T. Plateau. My reservations about a Western version of the Yeti is that the sightings are just way rare for the amount of population here and the limitations of the land. I'm sure those that have been seen would just be drifters - explorers maybe. I doubt that any actual packs, settlements, whatever would exist over here with the limited space.

Speaking as someone well infiltrated into some scientific communities - you would probably swallow your tongue if you realized how much real, documented science is stopped by "OFFICIALS" and never reaches the public. The "official" word in Archaeology and Paleontology is fabricated to suit TPTB. They are quite voracious about science crews not upsetting the "official" point of view, too. I have a friend who was enticed by a spray of bullets to leave his findings. They didn't fit well with what we are being allowed to know. When you find the "official" word that placiates your own view of the world - I'll probably be likely to call THAT one poppycock.

It was cool to think there was a bigfoot for a moment, but you are right Kay. As Marketing Warriors we should be savvy to that kind of stuff.

It was a good thought Don!

To tell the truth Don, I thought you found this pic I posted on FB:rolleyes:

It was closer than just mammalian, but I can't remember details. Still - sightings in the Tibetian plateau region are not rare occurrences. They Yeti may just be a different form of simian, but they do exist - and they have built a preserve to keep people from shooting them in an area they are seen frequently. What we don't know is exactly how monkey or how human these things are. From pictures and accounts, they don't seem to me to be the same thing as Sasquach. Any way you look at it, though - any species smart enough, and able to, stay away from humans probably has a good chance of survival if they inhabit a region we aren't tearing the snot out of.

Kurt's theory of fuzzy big foot photos and videos: Because all the clear, in focus footage show it isn't a big foot.

The Plateau is the largest and highest plateau in the world. It runs about 1,600 miles - stretching from the Himalayas into china. North and south it's somewhere around 700 miles. The altitude is on the average of about 14,000 feet. Nobody knows what all is there. Farmers in the "foothills" often see Yeti's - similar to bigfoot, but I'm not sure they are the same thing exactly. They've had DNA evidence for them for several years now. At least 2 that I know of. The Reserve is to keep their natural environment from being over-run by humans. Nobody knows the exact nature of their environment. There are canyons that are impossible to get into - deep ones. There may be exits if you were to get down into one some way and poke around a little. It's not an area of the globe you'd want to just run a helicopter over. Winds that high can be pretty fickle.

There are legends about people going to explore and never coming back. Those types of legends are typical for regions that are mainly unexplored, though.

Sightings of Yeti can't even be compared to people running around after bigfoot. I don't think they'd be the same species and, as I said before - I don't think there's anywhere this side of the globe for them to exist without discovery. I could be wrong about that. If they are, a sighting somewhere in the 48 states would be isolated as a few might "explore" - but I don't think we'd ever have "tribes" of em out here. They'd have been discovered en camp long before now. There's too many people and nothing left unexplored. You can only hide forever singly or maybe 2.