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Producers from the Animal Planet TV program "Finding Bigfoot" have been filming in the Houghton Lake area this week, looking for signs of Sasquatch.

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no, I am NOT gonna play along, I got work to do here.

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Maybe the Thunderbird, too.

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Originally posted by WHOZIT:
I thought Bigfoot lived in the North West?

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Maybe the Thunderbird, too.

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I've seen the Thunderbirds. Great show...they can really fly.

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One of the signature Thunderbirds formations (and it’s probably used by every aerobatics group) is the Diamond. Four aircraft fly in a baseball-diamond-shaped formation only a few feet apart, and they usually maintain that formation all the way through a loop. The lead pilot guides the formation, while the other three have their eyes locked onto him, oblivious to all else, including their distance from the ground. Their jobs are to maintain a precise position to the lead, regardless of what he does. It’s a high-speed version of follow-the-leader.

That’s all well and good…unless something goes wrong with the lead aircraft, and that’s what seems to have happened on this particular day. Apparently #1's pitch control actuator wasn’t functioning properly and, rather than pull out of the bottom of the loop at about 100 feet above the ground, Major Norm Lowry’s plane continued into the ground.

Captains Mays, Peterson, and Melancon, piloting the #2, #3, and #4 aircraft, probably only had a split second to realize there was problem before they, too, followed their leader into the Arizona ground around Davis-Monthan AFB. All four pilots were killed instantly, and 1982's Thunderbirds season ended before it even began.

The “Diamond Crash” sparked heated debate as to the value of these exhibition teams. In less than a year, the Thunderbirds had lost millions of dollars of aircraft and, much worse, six highly-trained pilots. Families were being devastated, pilots lost, and dollars wasted on what amounted to 90 minutes of “hot-shot stunt pilot antics”.

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
It would be nice to know how all of these myths got started.

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Originally posted by CaveTroll:
Every state but Rhode Island has had a Bigfoot like cryptid reported. I've had an encounter in Connecticut. Can't say what it was, as it was nightime. I can say it was taller than me (6'2"), moved so fast through the cornfield I thought it might have a mini bike under it and it smelled to high heaven. It went west, I went east, as fast as my legs could carry me.

If I ever saw one in good light I'd hope to get clear photos/video. Even if armed I sure wouldn't shoot one. Science doesn't need to study one that badly. Given the number of bears killed by vehicles and the lack of Bigfoot roadkill it is either a sign of their intelligence, or evidence for their non-existence.

As far as urban wildlife, I recall a moose was wandering around Worcester, MA for a week back in the early 90's. The police and animal control authorities couldn't find it. A moose. In the city. A nurse going home from 2nd shift at Hahneman hospital hit it with her car and crippled it. Poor moose had to be put down. Wildlife can survive quite well in urban areas. It stands to reason that smart wildlife could do even better, if driven to survive in urban areas.

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
I don't personally believe that big foots exist, but if they did wouldn't it maybe be better if people weren't sure. If something new is discovered people tend to kill it and disect it, or lock it up for other people's amusement. Plus people in life need something to believe in that can't be proven, something to hope for, I think lots of people believe in cryptids because its fun to believe that something is out there, in a physical tangible form, that all our knowledge hasn't fully discovered or understood, not something like God or the fae, but something that is tangible and could someday be proven if the right people looked and tried hard enough.

I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Detailed, close-up picture of Bigfoot

http://www.oregonbigfoot.com/

Photo or photoshop?

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Quote PizmoBeach: "That's my 9th grade science teacher, Mr. Hadly."

You had a teacher who was a Bigfoot?
And you didn't tell us til now?

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Oonj: Oops! NM.

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Originally posted by CaveTroll:
10 bigfoot videos.

http://blastr.com/2012/04/10-awesome-bigfoot-sighti.php

Nothing up close or Hollywood quality.

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Everyone has an accent when you come from somewhere else, there seems to be no such thing as no accent. I'm sure people who speak fancy English on the BBC might think they have no accent too. I know what you mean though about feeling like people where you're from have no accent. I think everyone feels that way.

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