Bigfoot Around the World

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    Yowie, Yeti, Orang Pendak, Bigfoot, Yeren, Sasquatch, Windigo, Skunk Ape, Mapinguary, Maricoxi, etc, are all names for various alleged undiscovered hominins around the world. Bigfoot is not just a phenomenon limited to North America. Peoples the world over have reported sightings of creatures that fit the description of sasquatch for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

    This article from Crystalinks.com hosts a very comprehensive listing of bigfoot sightings from all around the world. I've been a follower of bigfoot research for most of my life, and yet, this article taught me a thing or two.

"Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is a figure in North American folklore alleged to inhabit remote forests, mainly in the Pacific northwest region of the United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia. In northern Wisconsin, Lakota Indians know the creature by the name Chiye-tanka, a Lakota name for "Big Elder Brother".
Bigfoot is sometimes described as a large, hairy bipedal hominoid, and many believe that this animal, or its close relatives, may be found around the world under different regional names, such as the Yeti of Tibet and Nepal and the Yowie of Australia.
Bigfoot is one of the more famous examples of cryptozoology, a subject that the scientific community tend to dismiss as pseudoscience because of unreliable eyewitness accounts, lack of scientific and physical evidence, and over-reliance on confirmation rather than refutation. Most experts on the matter consider the Bigfoot legend to be a combination of folklore and hoaxes."

    Considering the incomplete fossil record and all it has taught us about previous hominins to inhabit this planet, it seems to me that most of these alleged bi-peds are entirely possible. Nothing highlights this fact better than the 2003 discovery of Homo Floresiensis, as touched upon in this post.

    Whether you're looking to brush up on your global bigfoot knowledge, or just interested in learning more about other cultures' versions of the big guy, this article is definitely worth your time. The same site also hosts other information on Cryptozoological matters that explores other cryptids ranging from believable to outright weird.

    Thanks for reading!

 - A.Z.