Aliens vs. Bigfoot

I dunno, that's a good question, who would be,

what would the general populous be more skeptical of,

Bigfoot or aliens?

If I ever get abducted by aliens,

I'm gonna ask them what's the deal with Bigfoot?

Careful now, Bigfoot, no question,

but I'm definitely more

tailored to the fascinated by Ufology.

There is something that those people are drawn to.

I love exploring that plane,

its color,

its

joy

its mystery and living in that mystery.

I really think that it's okay

that people go out in search for these things

and wanna know more about life beyond where we are.

There's something there.

I really think people who go in search of Bigfoot

and I think people who go in search of aliens

I think they're very similar and here's why.

A lot of people who studied

and there are people who take just simply

a scholarly academic approach to the study of the unknown,

and that's what science is all about.

If you have a question that you don't know the answer to,

you have a hypothesis,

you test that hypothesis with evidence

and if your hypothesis proves to be untrue,

you come back and you re-hypothesis.

It was "Harry and the Hendersons"

the movie "Harry and the Hendersons"

that really sparked my interest in Bigfoot

and similarly to "E.T."

which sparked my interest in extra terrestrials, right,

there was this infusion of love,

of tenderness, of kindness in both of those films

and so, from the earliest age my interest

in anything paranormal, extra terrestrial in origin

was grounded in this idea that

perhaps there are species out there

yet undiscovered or proven to exist in the mainstream

that

are not caged and restricted

by the same kind of shortcomings that human beings have.

The biggest difference between cryptozoology and Ufology

whether it's doing research,

speaking at conferences, lectures, TV shows,

things like that,

the biggest difference is that a lot of UFO research

is sort of historical going through files,

speaking with witnesses.

Cryptozoology, because it's the study of unknown animals,

there's a great deal of research done out in the field

in forests, in woods, in lakes, mountains,

So, cryptozoology lends it more to

expeditions and being on the road

whereas Ufology is scrutinizing cases

and documents and files.

So, one is very much outdoors, another one is

pouring over material, that kind of thing.

So, there's definitely a little bit of a difference

I think, between the UFO and Bigfoot community.

Bigfoot community tends to be a little more grounded,

a lot of these guys,

there's just guys only about in the woods,

they're pretty down to earth

and they know the animals, they know their species,

you know, they just either I've had when

I've seen something unusual they can't explain, you know,

they don't think of it in terms of

I think so much in terms of like anthropology or biology,

a lot of these guys 'cause these guys,

some of these guys are hunters or they're just

guys that live out in the woods

and they're pretty regular people.

It doesn't attract as many crazy people to

or let's say delusional, to be honest, you know,

as the UFO field does and it's not as,

there's less politics.

I think especially today,

the UFO field is very politically motivated,

you know, everything,

it's been hijacked a little bit by

some group of people that

where the UFOs are coming second behind

the worship of certain politicians or,

you know, it gets tied up with like a QAnon phenomena

which I personally think is utterly ridiculous.

So, there's a lot more conspiracy theories out there

that I think are kind of going off the deep end

and then attracts a lot of those guys.

Yeah, it's interesting 'cause

there is not much cultural crossover between the alien fans,

the ancient alien fans,

the conspiracy theorists about governments and

stuff like that,

the Bigfoot people, the ghost people

and there really should because

basically we're all the same in the sense,

if you put us all together,

you'd have a really, really massive block

of voters and political activists because

we're all people that recognize in one way or another

that the world that we're presented on TV is not reality,

that there is a much deeper, maybe darker,

but certainly more interesting reality that we exist in

than what we're sold every day.

There's a lot more things going on than just

who's gonna win the Super Bowl?

The Chiefs by the way.

You know, there's more stuff going on than that

and the, you know,

the impeachment farce that's going on right now,

it's all for show and it's all to keep us distracted

from the ghosts and the Bigfoots

and the things that don't fit

and the aliens and the ancient aliens,

just to keep us from really focusing on the truth

because if we did focus on that, we might get distracted

and not really think it was that important

to go to work tomorrow

and that's what keeps the engine of civilization running.

We had a fascinating conversation with Mike Bara

on the way up the mountain.

He was tired, this is before this whole

virus thing came out and he started,

he was saying that, yeah, I got an insider CIA guy that

has said that we have a virus

that targets certain ethnic groups

and the whole, everybody in the truck we're just like,

what are you talking about?

And it's right as the whole thing was gonna breaking free

but it doesn't look like that was the,

it just started in China or whatever, but it was,

that's, you know, you get all kinds of insider info

from these guys and then

when they say they got a contact,

it's hard not to, you know.

I really think that it's okay

that people go out in search for these things

and wanna know more about space

and wanna know more about life beyond where we are.

We have predilections to violence,

to disorder,

vengeance, anger, hatred, all these things and

when I saw those movies when I was a child,

I thought, what if there really is a species out there that

was kind and compassionate and they

were not a species of of war or conflict?

There are scientific species, right?

Like "E.T." the extra terrestrial

or "Harry and the Hendersons"

that maybe all these setting's a Bigfoot which

keep their distance for the most part,

Sasquatch or Yeti.

That they're intelligent enough to stay away from us

because maybe

they don't wanna get involved with our conflicts

and they can see how aggressive we can be,

not that we always are,

but we have people out there that are actually

with guns hunting for Bigfoot

which I just think is absolutely absurd

and I highly, highly condemn it.

It really just ticks me off that people would do that

because there's just not enough good evidence

that I've seen, that Bigfoot or Sasquatch is

aggressive and violent towards human beings.

They may be at times confrontational

in that they approach and come close to us, to eyewitnesses,

but that does not justify

looking for a trophy just to prove that some species exists,

because again, for me,

it's something more meta, it's bigger.

The search for strange creatures or

extraterrestrials visiting here,

whatever you're searching for, for me it all means

something much bigger than ourselves.

For me, that's one of the main reasons why

I kind of, like cryptozoology in many ways more than Ufology

because I enjoy the sort of

road trip expedition aspect of it,

hitting the road and potentially, you know,

staking out to the Lake

where something has been seen for seven days.

You know, for me, that's more exciting than just

pouring over something

that's been released on the Freedom of Information Act

from 50 years ago, which is really still cool material

but I kind of liked that sort of

pitching the road angle more than anything else, yeah.

Personally, I think both

UFO's and Bigfoot are equally believable

but for different reasons.

I think because the UFO phenomena, we have so much

evidence now, I don't wanna say proof

'cause we don't have the smoking gun, you know,

but obviously recently we've seen

various governments including ours