If you happen to know any true believers in Bigfoot and can engage them in conversation

about the evidence for such a fantastical creature, one thing you might get is the fact

that quite a few audio recordings purport to be of the elusive beasties' calls in the

wild.

Today, we're going to listen to some of these and see if we, too, are forced to conclude

that the reality of Bigfoot is indeed the best fitting explanation.

That's all coming up next on Skeptoy.

You're listening to Skeptoy, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoy.com.

And Bigfoot said,

Today, we're going to head out into the deep dark woods of the Pacific Northwest, legendary

home of a great hulking bipedal ape, the Sasquatch.

Known to us only by anecdotal accounts, Bigfoot, as we more commonly call it, is said to

be fond of making vocalizations, whistles, screams, and grunts.

Many a Bigfoot hunter has made recordings, and today we're going to listen to some of

the best regard of these and compare them to known sounds.

Will any of them stand up to scrutiny?

Well, we'll see.

Without further ado, we'll get right to what you most want to hear.

This is one of the most classic and best known recordings, a sort of long drawn-out howl,

said we've been recorded in Ohio in 1994.

Another really famous recording is this whoop.

Many of them follow this theme of high whistling or drawn-out howls, like this one claims to

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