The story of the Yeti or “Bigfoot”: sightings, doubts and testimonies over the years

Big foot or also known as the Stilli is a giant ape-like creature that some believe roams North America. It’s a species that is said to exist, and like the Goatsucker or the Loch Ness Monster, there is almost no physical evidence to suggest that it actually existed.

However, that doesn’t stop alleged sightings of the creature that never shows its face or Bigfoot enthusiasts from trying to prove the legend is alive.

Most Bigfoot sightings occur in the northwestern United States, where the creature can be related to myths and legends of indigenous peoples.

For example, the word sasquatch derived from Sasq’ets, a word of the Halq’emeylem language used by some Salish First Nations peoples of southwestern British Columbia, according to the Oregon Encyclopedia. That word means “wild man” or “hairy man”.

Time and time again the question arose as to why they needed to refer to such a creature like that. Did the natives see what we know today as a Yeti or Bigfoot?​

In 1884, the British Colonist newspaper of Victoria, Canada reported a “gorilla-like” creature captured in the area.

The Canadian Encyclopedia was followed by other news stories, mostly branded as false. The author of the book sasquatchJohn Green, R.compiled a list of 1,340 sightings throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. But the modern myth of Bigfoot or Sasquatch was given new life in the late 1950s.

In 1958 the Humboldt timesa local Northern California newspaper, ran a story about the discovery of mysterious giant footprints near Bluff Creek, California.

In the report, they referred to the creature that created them as “Bigfoot,” according to Smithsonian magazine. Curiosity about Bigfoot grew rapidly during the second half of the 20th century, after a magazine article Truepublished in December 1959, it described the 1958 find.

The last half century with Bigfoot

Over the past 50 years there have been over ten thousand eyewitness accounts of Bigfoot in the continental United States. In these accounts, the creature is usually described as 8 to 10 feet tall and covered in fur.

Eyewitness reports, or sightings, are the most common evidence advanced for the existence of Bigfoot.

Unfortunately, they’re based on human memories, which is somewhat unreliable. In crime cases, for example, witnesses can be swayed by their emotions and miss or distort important details. Along the same lines, people also tend to overestimate their ability to remember things.

When it comes to creatures like Big foot, the human brain is capable of inventing explanations for events that it cannot immediately interpret, and many people simply want to believe that they exist. Even despite all the evidence to cast doubt on these sightings.