“Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learning how, come on and safari with me.” – Surfin’ Safari, The Beach Boys (1962)
Today, we’re going to hang ten with Bigfoot on the vast sea of potentially useless knowledge.
What did we ever do without the World Wide Web?
I just typed “Bigfoot” into a search engine box and got 28,900,000 results in 0.73 seconds. Nearly all of which are probably useless, totally unrelated to what I’m looking for or defunct.
But that’s not really the point.
It’s simply awesome the amount of information and misinformation that is available these days. Now I can do my research and get my laundry done at the same time as I have a virtual library accessible from my home thanks to a collection of technological magic.
When I’m not doing something important on the internet like looking at baseball boxscores, submitting blog entries, making Facebook posts or watching vloggers fish, sometimes I go searching for Sasquatch. And while you would think that those millions of hits in the search would produce a boatload of insightful and up to date information, I’ve found that such is not the case. My wanderings have found only a handful to be current, many simply borrow from other sites and others just have no visual or informational appeal.
As a result, I’ve really got a rather scant list of recommendations.
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (www.bfro.net) – Plenty of stuff here with photos, video, discussion and you can even sign on for an upcoming Bigfoot expedition. You can also view The Mysterious Monsters, The Legend of Boggy Creek, A& E’s Ancient Mysteries: Bigfoot and In Search of Bigfoot here. My favorite aspect of the site, however, is the sightings database as I get a charge out of reading the creepy encounters (several of which took place right in my neck of the woods).
Animal Planet Finding Bigfoot page: (https://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/finding-bigfoot/) – Fooled around on here checking out the teases and looks kind of fun. The delivery does a good job of pushing the creepy, tales around the campfire vibe as well. Of course, that’s the intent of a tease. Still not paying for television though.
North American Bigfoot Search – (http://www.nabigfootsearch.com/home.html) – A ton of stuff here could keep you busy for a while. Lots of reports as well as some interesting research into the history of disappearances in national parks over the years, never heard about that sort of thing before.
You know, this guy seems to have something going on with his website, too. And how about finding Bigfoot in the palm of your hand these days?
Beyond these sites, I generally find the news reports on the latest sightings to be the most interesting and also occasionally get lost on YouTube perusing some “entertaining” clips. Despite such a proliferation of easily accessible evidence, we still lack a definitive answer, which I suspect is a winner for “the web.”
In regards to “the web”, I’m sure glad there was no such thing as the internet when I was a kid. Don’t know if I would have ever gone out in the woods after seeing what was truly out there according to all of the video “proof” one can find these days. You no longer need a campfire, ghost stories or conniving adults to get you a little creeped out. Nope, a device with internet access can achieve the same result in broad daylight in the comfort of your own home, all by yourself. That’s a whole other kind of scary.
Of course, this meager offering scarcely scratches the surface of Sasquatch sites and articles out there. In putting this series together I came across many articles from news organizations, online publications, personal blogs and the like that were of interest. It’s just far too much to list so I’ll leave it to you to explore as you see fit and keep me posted. But surfers beware as it’s quite a jungle of information out there in cyberspace and you just can’t blindly accept every nugget of “truth” you dig up along the way.
My research for this posting did turn up the following gem, however, that I felt summed it all up quite nicely.
“The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source.” – Ben Franklin
Talk to you tomorrow. Troy