Bigfoot hunters are using brand new, cutting-edge technology to prove once and for all that the mythical creature definitely exists.
Bigfoot hunters are using cutting-edge technology to solve one of the world’s greatest mysteries.
They are using sophisticated scientific methods to collect and validate evidence to try and prove the existence of the mythical beast. Bigfoot has long been depicted as a large ape-like creature, standing 10 feet tall with a barrel chest.
It is commonly described as being covered in thick black hair, with a small conical head and long powerful arms – as well as the iconic large feet. Hundreds of sightings have been reported in forests across the United States and Canada, with statements from witnesses as well as grainy photographs and videos, plaster casts of footprints, and recordings of unexplained sounds.
Boffin Dr Jamie Lewis of Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences has written a new book on the rise of ‘Bigfooters’ – speculators using technology to try to prove that the creatures are real. He spent three years, working with co-author Dr. Andrew Bartlett of the University of Sheffield, conducting more than 150 interviews with those searching for Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch.
Dr Lewis said: “Bigfoot exists. Not necessarily as a biological creature, but certainly as an object around which thousands of Americans organize their lives, collect and analyze evidence, and create knowledge. The idea of Bigfoot has captured people’s imagination for decades.
“As well as learning from scientific practices, Bigfooters use a set of modern technologies such as drones, thermal imaging and parabolic dishes in their investigations. They spend weekends, weeks and even months in the field.
“This is efficient behavior, as they need to locate, collect, and analyze even the most subtle traces, remains, and remains of an animal’s presence unknown to science. Skeptics may believe that Bigfooters are defying science by chasing an animal whose existence has never been proven.
“But my interviews revealed how Bigfooters piece together their ideas about scientific practices by putting together the pieces of what they believe to be tangible evidence.
“They may see what they believe is a footprint, or a disturbed area of woodland could be interpreted as featuring Bigfoot passing through, or hear a sound which they argue cannot be explained as that of any other animal. It is around these absences that many Bigfooters structure their arguments.”
The findings are documented in his new book, Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: On the Borderlands of Legitimate Science.
Dr Bartlett added: “If we are to understand how people outside science institutions attempt to collect evidence and make claims to knowledge – and this applies far more broadly than Bigfooting – we will not get very far if we dismiss their efforts.”
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