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Posted by D-dirt on January 03, 1999 at 20:29:42:
In Reply to: bigfoot posted by Cindy Sallee on November 14, 1998 at 00:42:23:

: When I was a teenager one of my best friend's father
: claimed to have seen a "bigfoot like" creature
: standing in a ditch at the side of the road near his home.
: As my friend's father was police officer, I don't think
: he would have made it up. He died soon after we graduated so
: there are no details to this story available.
: It is in southeastern Indiana.

Not to pick on you personally, but other logical explanations exist for such stories, and I include ALL eyewitness reports. We all have imaginations, and the woods and the dark are spooky places and our minds can play tricks on us. I'm a lifelong outdoorsman with vast experience in the woods, but let me tell you about one of my hallucinations. I was hiking in the Cascades of WA one day when I spotted what I took to be a porcupine on a ridgeline about 100 yards away in a very primitive wilderness location. Now, I have a degree in wildlife resources and critters are my main reason for being out there, so I whipped out my binoculars to get a good look 'cause you don't see a porky every day. I sat and watched this particular porcupine for about ten minutes as it moved around on a log. Eventually I decided to move on up the trail in that direction and get a closer look. The trail wound out of sight until I topped the ridge about 20 yards from the spot where I first saw the porky. Imagine my chagrine when I discovered two female humans sitting behind the log! They looked rather askance at this lone man stalking up on tiptoe, to say the least! One of the women had a prodigious afro-type perm working, and was sitting in such way that only the top half of her head had been visible from where I initially saw her hair do/porcupine.
I have made numerous similar, if less vivid, misidentifications in the mountains and I really do know what I'm doing out there(?trust me?). I have even momentarily mistaken an old cow moose for none other than Sasquatch, if only for a fleeting second or two. My point is that a logical person can make outrageous mistakes when their imagination combines with odd light conditions, simple fear, etc.