When Hunting For Bigfoot, Look Up.
Way up.

Regular readers to ParaNorthern on Facebook or our website know that I am officially a Bigfoot skeptic. Even though I want to believe that a large primate inhabits the considerable wilderness of the North American continent, most of the so called evidence falls into the category of Bollocks. (Ask someone British.)

So when I read recently that some Sasquatch hunters are suggesting that we look to the tree tops for sleeping Bigfoot I laughed out loud. I could not picture something of the supposed mass of of this bipedal cryptid climbing a tree to get a good night's rest.

But then I saw this video.

The Problem With Bigfoot

When I see a heading like the one you just read I automatically think to myself "Like there's only one problem with Bigfoot."

Cryptozoology (the search for animals whose existence has not been proven due to lack of evidence - Wikipedia) should be feeling somewhat vindicated these days due to a few recent discoveries.

One was the definitive confirmation of the existence of the Giant Squid (Wikipedia, underwater photos from 2004, video of the giant squid that swam into Japan’s Toyama Bay in December 2015.

Another, and much simpler case is the return of cougars to areas of Eastern Canada where they were long thought extinct.

This is still up for debate with many still claiming that the Eastern Cougar disappeared over 70 years ago (Eastern Cougar declared extinct, says U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - CBC.ca) with evidence that cougars are on the prowl, at least in parts of northern Ontario. (read Cougars are officially back in Ontario)

Whether the cougars are the original Eastern Cougar, Mountain Lions that have migrated from the west filling in territorial predator gaps or cats that were once pets now released into wild seems to be only thing up for real debate.

Other animals considered to be mythical that turned out to be real over the past 100 or so years include:

Top 5 Bigfoot Photographs (March 2014) according to YouTube's Bigfoot Evidence

According to YouTube's Bigfoot Evidence text for this video "Thousands upon thousands of people across the United States and Canada have claimed to observe this legendary creature standing between 8 and 11 feet tall and 4 feet wide at the shoulders -- ordinary people, from children to the elderly, shocked, mesmerized and terrified at what was before their very eyes. Here are some recent photographs of the creature as of March 25, 2014."

As always, we have a few questions and observations about the Bigfoot evidence being promoted.