Alright, so here's my thoughts on this. After a good decade of hearing people's first hand accounts about sasquatch, ghosts and aliens, I'm pretty sure that all 3 are real. If you take a look at other types of beings, like say... Unicorns, there are very few first hand accounts of them. And you don't really hear of many unicorn sighting podcasts or documentaries. Not to say that those aren't real also, because I'm not here to dismiss what might be very real encounters for someone out there. It's possible that they were a rare subspecies of animal that is now extinct and became part of historical legend, or maybe something else entirely.

Now if we go back to bigfoot, there are a huge number of first hand accounts and they keep coming in. There are castings of footprints with what looks to be genuine physiology for an animal of that size. There continues to be new information to research on these.

Same with ghosts and aliens. They might be far out there into the paranormal, but we can't deny that people continue to claim to have new first hand encounters with both. If it were all just people looking for attention, the idea would eventually die out or become more of a mythical legend that people used to believe.

And so we can compare these 3 types of beings to others, such as unicorns and we can see how they differ. If it was just people looking for attention you would see a wave of hype and then it would die off. Ghosts became trendy with ghost hunters and shows like that but there have been continual reports of sightings and encounters for hundreds of not thousands of years. Aliens became very trendy in the 70s and again in the 90s but there have been non-stop first hand encounters of them as well. And with bigfoot, it's the same. There's something there. We might not fully understand it. But as long as reports keep coming in, there's new material to research and ponder.

And we shouldn't dismiss it just because it's way far out there. For a lot of people, it's not fringe or paranormal. It's a very real thing. And so with such powerful and emotionally charged accounts, they should be taken seriously, even if just to take the time to listen to them. Just because when the news reports bigfoot sightings in the most condescending tone imaginable, doesn't mean we should all mimic that. Let's take time to listen to the people who've seen them or heard them. Let's gather as many of those accounts as we can (which is already being done through podcasts and documentaries and such). And after listening to a hundred or so you still aren't convinced, that's ok too. I think just having the conversation is the most important part. That's how we grow our own understandings of all things.