Sasquatch Lives in PA?
November 13th 2007 02:15
Do you believe?:
So as you have all certainly heard by now, Sasquatch has been "seen" in the Allegheny National Forest on Sept. 16. More specifically a hunter, Rick Jacobs, had set up an automatic camera that snapped pictures of something. The something has been variously identified as a juvenile sasquatch and a skinny mangy bear. Now, assuming that these pictures are in fact un-doctored images, the likelihood that the animal pictured is a bear seems unlikely. What seems far more likely is that the "mangy bear" theorists are doing what scientists have been doing for the last hundred or so years. Confronted with something that they can't readily fit into a taxonomic category, they're trying very hard to wedge it into one. Because the bigfoot mythos has been relegated to the arena of "crazy people" and folklore, scientists are almost incapable of accepting the potential reality of one. However, it might do the biologists of the world some good to take a lesson from archeology. Until Heinrich Schliemann dug it up, the city of Troy was nothing but a thing of legend. Just because you haven't seen it, dissected it, and decided that it is sufficiently different from anything else to have its own name oh scientists of the world, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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