Overview of Evidences of The Existence of Bigfoot

The subject that I have chosen to discuss for my expository essay is the existence of Bigfoot. I intend to show that the animal known as Bigfoot is real through the evidence that I intend to present. I will show that threw fossil records, videos, still pictures and eyewitness accounts, folk lore that has been passed down for, as well as footprint and hair samples that Bigfoot does in fact exist.

Paleontologists have shown that a creature exist that fit the exact size and physical description of what a modern day Bigfoot is supposed to match. Fossils found in both China and Russia are credited as being an ancient species of ape known as Gigantopithicus. Some scientist hypothesis that this animal may have crossed the land bridge connecting Russia to North America the same way that ancient humans did. Although it is claimed that it went extinct thousands of years ago, in the past hundred years there have been multiple species of mega fauna that were thought to be extinct that scientists have found thriving, alive and well. Also, until the 1900s most western civilizations did not believe in the existence of mountain gorillas. Because they had not explored that far into the jungles of Africa and thought they were only tales of mythical creatures that the Native tribes believed.

There are many videos that can be used to support the existence of Bigfoot. The most famous being the Patterson footage. Shot in Northern California by Roger Patterson in 1967. Modern special effect experts and videographers have analyzed this film and say that at the time that it was shot what is seen on the film would have been impossible to fake. The footage clearly shows a large bipedal animal approximately seven to seven and a half feet tall walking up the mountainside, turning and looking at the film maker and then disappearing into the woods. There are numerous other videos that have been analyzed by top videographers and primate experts and they cannot definitively disprove that what is shown is a living animal.

Game trail cameras have taken numerous pictures of bipedal ape like animals walking past them. There images are captured in the same way as a deer or elk. This has happened in forty-nine states as well as Canada. Hikers, hunters and outdoorsmen have reported sightings and encounters for hundreds of years. Some even report being attacked.

Almost all Native American tribes in North America have legends and stories passed down threw the ages of what they call either the hairy man or a man of the forest. There’s also painting and cave drawings in both America and Canada that have been dated back over a thousand years and intermixed with the men, buffalo, deer and elk are large ape like animals walking on two legs. Most native tribes say that the animal that we call Bigfoot is actually highly intelligent and much more closely related to man then to animal.

Thousands of footprints have been found. Scientist have taken casts of them and taken them to top scientific teams for examination. Many of the samples that have been studied have come back with results saying that they are not a hoax due to the gait pattern, the flexation between the heel, pad and toes, and the presence of muscle striations. Numerous hair samples have also been found and sent to top DNA laboratories for analysis. Many of them have came back showing that they come from a living animal that has primate DNA but they do not match any known primate that has their DNA on record. The sample does show that they are not from any know animal that lives in the area where they were collected.

I believe there is ample evidence that proves the existence of Bigfoot. I have presented only a small amount of the immense evidence that exists. I believe that scientists need more time and funding to study this animal and if they did it would only be a matter of time before irrefutable proof would be presented to the world.