Name: Minh Le Class: ESL 015/ Dr Adams Goertel Argument paper

There are a lot of rumors in the world that have existed for very long time and been passed down generation to generation. Numerous of arguments about these rumors happen daily because people cannot bring up the conceivable evidences to support their claims. One of the famous rumors is about Bigfoot that is assumed to appear in the North American half of century ago. The rumors keep growing to present and people are still seeking the proofs to prove for the existence of Bigfoot. However, there are several reasons point out that Bigfoot is just an imagination production of human. For half of century since the first time the scandal emerged, people have not discovered enough scientific proofs to prove for the existence of Bigfoot. Majority of evidences are fraudulent, the rest of them are misidentified and skeptical. Moreover, people are on purpose to create the evidences for their personal aids such as rewards, fame or simply seek attention. Recently, people are hunting the physical evidences such as pictures and voices recording of Bigfoot. After all, most of them are artificial and unreliable. In September 2000, a Bigfoot research team claimed that they detected the first actual Bigfoot body print, which the creature left behind its back after grabbing some food. The unanswered question is why did Bigfoot leave the tracks while it tries to hide itself? The other evidence is the short film was shot in Bluff Creek, California by

Roger Patterson and Bob Glimlin. Bigfoot was captured while he was walking to the forest and turning his head back to the camera. This movie was used to be confirmed that it is not and it cannot be a hoax. But later on, many questions about the authentic of the movie were raised. For instance, Grover Krantz disputed that the creatures chest size was not fit to the human size. John Napier, an anatomist and anthropologist, analyzed the Paterson film and found out many problems with it such as the step length is inconsistence with the tracks allegedly taken from the site (Radford 4). Finally, he came to the conclusion that the walk essentially human in type and could be made by a modern man (Radford 4). Indeed, the equation of the existence of Bigfoot and their evidence doesnt have solutions because there are too many solutions and they are inconsistence to each other. The rumors of Bigfoot are also the opportunities for the hoax. Today people can make money by uploading their clips to the video sharing websites such as Youtube.com. YouTube said today it has paid out more than $1 million to its user partners through its partner program (Gannes 1). Thats why people put an infinitely weird thing that attracts the online folks on the Youtube.com to get paid. There is no suspicious that any videos relate to Bigfoot are becoming very hot topics and attract millions of views. For example, the 48 seconds video Provo Canyon Bigfoot Encounter? of the Youtuber Beard Card has attracted 7.180.366 curious viewers and the number are not stopping growing. Most of these videos have common points that they captured something big, black and hairy. In addition, the quality of the clips is too low to determine what did the videos record. On the other hand, although the reliability of Pattersons clip still is a question, he was becoming very famous after

publishing the video and Patterson made quite profit from the film, including publicity for the book he had written on the subject and an organization he had started (Radford 4). Furthermore, the Spike TV is offering $10 million on which team will seek out the rumored creature and people seem to be very excited (Speigel 1). Definitely plenty of pranksters will post thousands gigabytes of fake pictures and videos to the internet in order to be the winner. Undoubtedly, the rumors of Bigfoot have brought a lot of attention to the hoax. Even though numerous of evidences were found, they are not enough persuadable to conceive people that Bigfoot is real because those evidences are mismatch to each other. Some tracks have toes that are aligned, other show splayed toes. Most alleged Bigfoot tracks have five toes, but some casts show creature with two, three, four or even six toes (Radford 3). Clearly, these evidences cannot come from the same spices of creature. It is impossible that Bigfoot have been living for half of century but not recognized because Bigfoot is too big to survive without bringing to the light. Likewise, there are no real somatic samples such as hair, blood or fossils of Bigfoot have been collected. With the development of technology today, the fact that the huge creature like Bigfoot can exist without noticing is absurd. In many years recently, plenty of previously unknown animals were discovered. But for the most part, they are tiny, microorganisms and insects (10 Reasons Why Bigfoot's a Bust: Photos 1). For example, according to Brandeisky in the article The top newfound species 2012, seven out of nine creatures are in range from small to very small sizes. It doesnt

make sense that the tiny animals can be discovered but the monster like Bigfoot is unable to find out. On the other hand, people can take advantage of the satellites with very sensitive sensors to research the unrevealed areas on the earth. Some of those satellites are used for seeking and protecting endangered animal before they are disappeared. Sensors on the satellites can collect information such as the vegetation, climate, and topography of remote and unexplored regions (Roach 1). Thousands gigabytes of pictures range from the forests to the deserts regions all over the world are collected from those satellites every day for researching. Apparently, except the situation Bigfoot is invisible, it is impractical that they can hide themselves in this modern world.

Although a lot of evidences in the forms of voices recording, pictures, videos and prints foot were collected, very few somatic samples such as hair and blood of Bigfoot have been recovered. When the scientist analyzed those samples, most of them turn out to be bogus or undetermined. Bigfoot hair turn out to be elk, bear or cow hair, for example, or suspected Bigfoot blood is revealed to be transmission fluid (Radford 5). According to Grover Krantz, a large amount of things like hair has been collected around the vicinity of Blue Mountain and they were examined by people at many different countries (Radford 5). The results were slightly different but definitely those things were unrelated to Bigfoot. Some samples under the science test turned out to be synthetic fiber, the others were artificial products. Besides the somatic samples, people collected a jawbone that was suspected Bigfoot fossil (Gigantopithecus Blacki: The Real Bigfoot 1). But after scrutinizing, the scientists

declared that the bone has existed for hundred thousand years ago and more importance, its living area was not North American but China. Assuming that Bigfoot was used to exist at China, that is the vast distance for observing Bigfoot while standing somewhere in American. Obviously, the Bigfoots somatic evidences are still very limited and so does their reliability.

If Bigfoot really appeared since the rumors have grown rapidly and they closely relate to human, they should breed to maintain their spices. Depending on the time the rumors have raised, the estimated population of Bigfoot is anywhere for two-thousand to six-thousand Bigfoots (Guenther, Matthew and John 1). With that population, it is difficult to answer the question: Why people cannot approach closer to Bigfoot since the scandal was sparked? Even though the controversial topics about Bigfoot keep going on day after day, it is more reasonable to believe that Bigfoot is not a real creature. Since the rumors about Bigfoot have grown up, except the fraudulent evidences that were made up for cheating, people haven't approached closer to the scientific proofs to confirm the existence of Bigfoot. In addition, Bigfoot cannot cover himself from peeking of human with modern technologies, which can detect the extremely tiny living things at the unreachable regions. At the bottom line, if the stories about Bigfoot are the salad bows, the main ingredients probably will be the combinations of imagination and hoax.

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