Data BAE writes “Total Number of Bigfoot Sightings (1900-2018) The Most Active Bigfoot Sites in the US. Numbers are estimation based on the Sighting Reports added to the website.
Data Source: Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO)”
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Bob M
Now overlay deer and elk populations time frame population and I believe you have something
Lisa B
Bob M that would be amazing to see
Michael L
I AGREE AND WOW!!
Richard W
Very interesting data, and well presented.
Renee S
Key word being “reported, ” as we well know that so many eye witnesses do not report their encounter, much less tell a single soul. Nonetheless, the reported numbers are interesting.
m99
The BFRO formed in 1995, 26 years ago. The reposts are sometimes short & sweet, but reported. I was wondering how many sightings Weren’t reported to them (such as, how many has Wes listened to that aren’t reported elsewhere? Or how about Dr. Bindernagel, Rest His Soul, and others, independent of one another?). It’s staggering I’m sure. Then there are those who have never ever reported their sightings for fear of ridicule, or have and no one takes them seriously .
Lisa B
This is pretty cool. I was a little surprised to see Illinois so close to the top. I was born in north Chicago but all of my family is from central Illinois. I understand the food source, nothing but farms and lots of wildlife, but where I’m from is mostly flat and no trees. When the corn is high, lots of land to hide on. When corn is gone…where are they?
Thanks for sharing this one Wes!
PATRICK
Surprised to see my Florida so far up, number 3.
Randy M
Take this and mactch it up with the people population growth in each state and see how close it is I bet it is almost matches growth vs sightings
Thomas W
I had a slightly different take, use sightings per capita to normalize for the size of the population. E.g. if there were 100 sightings in MT which is .01% of the population vs. 1000 sightings in CA at .001%……MT actually has a higher likelihood of an encounter (reported) and therefore likely more of a sasquatch population. A regression with Deer/Elk or black bears would be fascinating.
RALPH B
Well that about settles it then. The numbers speak for themselves. So all those delusional people mistaking a bear for a bigfoot?…NOT!
What are people seeing here in OZ then?…..we aint got no bears!….them damn stinkin Yowies!
Lisa B
This is actually quite amazing! Look at the dramatic changes during the 1940s and 1950s! What happened back then, except for WWII and the first atomic bomb dropped on the planet? Isn’t that about the same time UFO sightings were reported frequently? I think the answers are right in front us but we can’t see it…
Eric S
I don’t understand why the people who make these things think that background music is necessary, the topic is interesting enough.
Look how much more credible these witnesses seem talking about a strange topic without ‘scary’ background music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73ZiDEtVms8
Lisa B
Hi Eric S -thanks for the link. I don’t mind the music so much, it’s when they play it so loud, that bothers me. Hard to listen, let alone believe what they’re saying, when the background sound is louder than the person talking. Even when it’s a visual video, it’s hard to focus on what’s being shown, when the background noise is so loud.
Charles R
How many sighting witnesses has Wes brought forward in a little over 4 years. Maybe one thousand, definitely in the high hundreds. How many of these folks reported their encounters to the BFRO? I would bet damn few.
Jeff M
I suspect the actual numbers would be much higher if all sightings were reported. The BFRO is just one site that’s collecting sighting data. If only 10 percent of sightings are being reported to the BFRO; I suspect it’s far less, then the population of BF could be in the high six figures or in the millions across the North American continent. I have to admit that I have no factual data to support my position but given that people will not go out of their way to make a formal report leads me to believe this is the case.
Wes, how many people have you interviewed that reported their sighting to the BFRO? 1 percent? 5 percent?
Charles R
Yes Jeff M. I guarantee it is far less than 10 percent. I have always used a figure in the past of 1 out of 20 ( it is impossible to know the real number and it may be 1 in 100 ) are reported anywhere due to the stigma associated and ridicule imposed on those that do. Also before the great influx of the internet, avenues to report anything that would get published were very limited. Those days are changing and people seem more free to talk of what happened. I have thought for years the number of NA Sasquatches is above 100,000, but of course this is impossible to know also. I do think they are not as rare as some highly degreed folks in this field seem to think. In the last decade it has been realized the Sasquatch are not just habitants of the great forests, instead they are equally at home in and around the outskirts of major cities and the many rural and agricultural towns, where getting food is very easy, just as long as there are rivers and creeks and enough cover during the daytime.
Matthew W
How do we determine what percentage of sightings reported are false or mistaken? Should reports from states where marijuana is legal be discounted by 50%? Hysteria over one publicly reported sighting can produce numerous fake, imagined or mistaken sightings. Ask any police department about the number of bogus calls when the local media breaks a compelling report.
Horace M
Simian species suffer from many of the same same devastating diseases that decimated the first nations populations as well as subsequent epidemics (polio, typhoid, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella). It only makes sense that a cryptid hominid species would be similarly decimated and slow to recover (low fecundity). An increase in the number/frequency of sightings could be due to a) a recovering population, b) increased reporting bias – more people likely to report (less stigma) and, c) fragmentation of habitat / resulting habituation.
Charles R
I totally agree with you Horace M. I think the westward expansion during the late 1700’s and 19th century definitely brought the pox and other diseases to the Sasquatch, along with the cutting down of forest for farmland and building this nation. In fact it could have decimated their populations. Maybe the Sasquatch developed immunities to the pox and our vaccinations of dreaded diseases stopped the spread. For decades now the Sasquatch would have the ability to recover populations and living close to humans and being able to obtain their food at night is easy for them to live.
Matthew W
What if a Bigfoot eats a human child that has been vaccinated?
Ruth B
Very nice presentation. It’s interesting that more sightings were reported in Michigan for quite awhile before Washington took the top spot.
William R
Great presentation! What I took away from it is that there are significantly more sightings reported EAST of the Mississippi River. So much for the Northwest being ground zero! Plus, these are BFRO reported sightings. I’ve seen other databases the put the Eastern part of the US much higher. I also think that 1 out of 50-100 sightings get reported. I personally think that Sasquatch are not rare. I’d conservatively estimate the US/CAN population at 150k+.
Matthew W
Estimate or total guess?
m99
Based upon the reports from and to the BFRO. Date. Actual.
Daniel Y
Very cool graphic
James A
YIKES…cuz I’m from Michigan. Who knew.
m99
Gumshoguy knew. He’s in Michigan too. He’s not around very much now, but I don’t know the reason for that. He has droves of info/data on the MI Sasquatch and had a sighting himself.
m99
Loved it! Yeah, Sasquatch is real, or else all those people made it up, reporting it at the expense of their credibility. Right! Thanks this was another Great Catch Wes.