1) People certainly encounter creatures of that kind, and have done so for a very long time. There are medieval European accounts of "woodwoses," described as hairy humanoids who lived in the forest.
2) BHMs (big hairy monsters), to use the Fortean term for them, aren't all of the same kind. I'm pretty sure that the yetis of the Himalayas and the sasquatches of the Cascade Mountains are large bipedal apes, probably descended from the Gigantopithecus known to paleontologists, but some other BHMs act like preternatural beings -- for example, they vanish into thin air, leaving tracks that just stop in the middle of nowhere. So each sighting has to be assessed independently.
3) Always worth reading or (if you have the chance) listening to, but don't take them in the simpleminded white-guy way.
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Re: Monsters and Bigfoot
Date: 2023-03-20 05:43 am (UTC)2) BHMs (big hairy monsters), to use the Fortean term for them, aren't all of the same kind. I'm pretty sure that the yetis of the Himalayas and the sasquatches of the Cascade Mountains are large bipedal apes, probably descended from the Gigantopithecus known to paleontologists, but some other BHMs act like preternatural beings -- for example, they vanish into thin air, leaving tracks that just stop in the middle of nowhere. So each sighting has to be assessed independently.
3) Always worth reading or (if you have the chance) listening to, but don't take them in the simpleminded white-guy way.