Bigfoot

NugginHaving travelled a lot of the pacific northwest here in Canada and also having witnessed the occasional footprints of sasquatch [unfortunately failing to be other than forgery in the cases I saw] the subject was a favorite of mine at one time as well.However as I checked in to the stories the pattern that tended to stand out most in my eyes from the anecdotal reports going back a hundred and twenty or so years is that the most plausible explanation was as a narrative device to prevent the spread of settlements of whites into the area.The sasquatch is not the only story told. In my teens back in the early '70's there were even then stories of the existence of dinosaurs in the areas north of Pitt Lake B.C. where there was also rumoured to be a huge motherload of gold found.Of course the people telling the stories tended to be older fellows with a penchant for exaggeration and a bottle of whiskey.Yet the possibilty is intriguing since the forest lands of the region are quite dense and I can vouch for the ability of a man to hide quite easily from others {as I sometimes did with my friends} however I doubt very much that the capability of a creature, such as the sasquatch is described as being, would be able to avoid detection unless the numbers of them were both incredibly few and their social structure non-existent since these tend to be signs easily discovered within a forest due to the numerous opportunities to disturb the soil of the forest from day to day activities.As a caveat in favour of the animal though I will mention here that a small plane once was lost in the interior forests north of the Fraser Valley and were not discovered until 20 years after despite an intense search effort. Apparently the plane was finally located eventually and was found to have actually been within the search grid that was checked.
I could also relate that in the mid '80's ,at a small lake my friends and I used to frequently swim in there happened ,one day , to be a small accident in which an elderly couple drove off the road into the lake and though they were promptly rescued , police divers that went into the lake to recover the truck, discovered another vehicle close to where the truck was found and remains were found within the car.
The person was a school teacher from Surrey B.C. who {in 1964 IIRC} apparently was driving to visit relatives in Mission and never arrived. Further investigations revealed that the weather on the night he was driving to Mission was foggy. Just before the Lake there is a curve in the road and as near as they could reconstruct he simply drove across the lanes and off the road into the lake. We swam for years there unaware of the tragedy that had occured laying in the water not 30 feet below and had been there for a couple decades.Anyway I for one think the evidence is highly weighted against the existence of Sasquatch.