S1 E3: The Evidence

Wild Thing

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Science

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Let’s look at the evidence. There are footprints and sounds, grainy pictures, and the notorious Patterson-Gimlin film—that shaky 1967 video of a big, hairy beast striding through the forest. But how well does it hold up? We hear from a variety of people—the skeptics and the certain—who make their case for what evidence is out there. How much of it stands up to scrutiny?

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0:00.0	Okay, let's go over what the experts know.
0:05.8	Bigfoot exists.
0:07.8	So I had seen firsthand evidence of something being how they left these gigantic footprints
0:12.5	first pair I ever found with 14 and a half inches and the step length was 60 inches.
0:18.1	Indisputable facts.
0:20.0	And we now no longer have to talk about, oh do you believe Saswatch exists?
0:23.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah, it exists.
0:25.9	There's no question about that.
0:27.4	They exist as much as Irish people exist.
0:30.9	The beard tastes good.
0:32.8	You know, pizza's magnificent.
0:34.8	These are all facts.
0:36.0	Yes, got it.
0:38.5	Sasquatch is real as the hand in front of my face.
0:41.4	There's no evidence of Sasquatch.
0:43.6	Okay.
0:44.6	Bigfoot doesn't exist.
0:47.3	Footprints are not evidence because you did not see what made the footprint.
0:51.5	There's not a shred of proof.
0:53.5	Not a single drop of evidence.
0:56.2	No one's ever found evidence of unicorns or leprechauns or fairies.
1:00.7	We're resigned to believe that that's folk or it's myth.
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