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Posted: Tue Oct 21st, 2008 06:00 am |
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I read somewhere that bigfoot ranges from 6 to 20 feet in height. So I thought, Wonder how tall that really is? I threw together this chart so that you can compare what the difference between a 6ft and a 20ft bigfoot would be.
First, note that the creature is not necessarily accurate in proportions, it's a modified Gigantopithicus silhouette so there is plenty of room for error in finger, arm & leg length, chest width, etc... But then again who really knows? People don't even agree if they are 6ft or 20ft. And second, I can post a smaller image. Actually this is the smaller image. The original was 5000x2000. But if it's too large for some screens and you really need a sized down version, let me know.
Attachment: Bigfoot_Model_Tall_Small.png (Downloaded 170 times)
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Posted: Tue Oct 21st, 2008 03:23 pm |
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Twenty feet huh? I sure don't want to step in a pile of guano that THAT big boy left behind!!! And I sure don't want him PO'd at me. My first reaction to the idea of a 20 footer is NFW!
But I should be more tactful and say that a) I've never seen nor heard a sighting report of one that size, b) I've never seen nor heard of any evidence (prints, scat, etc) to indicate the possibility of one that size, c) the caloric intake requirements of a mammal that size would be tremendous, leaving even more evidence of its feeding habits, d) when you get to an animal of that size and bulk, it's ability to conceal itself has surely got to be compromised, so sightings of the big ones should be more common, per capita, than the smaller ones, and e) there are probably some bio-mechanical/skeletal limitations that come into play for any upright primate over 10 to 12 ft tall (but I ain't no biologist/anthropologist, or whatever, so I'm pretty much guessing on this item).
Now, ten-footers I know of for sure, first hand. The one that I saw on our farm in 1979 was right at 10 ft tall. I was able to gauge his height quite accurately by three different things that he walked past.
The upper limit of what I've heard of is 12 ft. I even saw one down in the Big Thicket of east Texas that, at the time, I thought was a twelve-footer. Thinking back on it now, I'm not so sure. It was beige in color, and when I first saw it, it was running with another booger that was around 7 ft tall. Thinking about it now, I don't think there was 5 feet difference in their heights. Also, it's a fairly well known effect that lighter colored objects appear somewhat larger than darker objects of the same type. When those boogers loomed up in my headlights, the size of the big one was absolutely shocking to me. But, even though I have doubts about it being a 12 footer, I still think it was at least a 10 footer. But I digress.....
I've heard and read enough reports, and seen enough evidence that I believe that 12 footers are a probability. And probably pretty close to the upper limit of RFP height.
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Posted: Tue Oct 21st, 2008 04:54 pm |
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Twenty feet huh? I sure don't want to step in a pile of guano that THAT big boy left behind!!! And I sure don't want him PO'd at me. My first reaction to the idea of a 20 footer is NFW!
Me either and too! I can not talk about these 20ft ones never seen one. I think perceptions are in the eyes of the beholders. Thats not saying they do not exist. I have heard that there are giants North and of course in Russia.
After thinking about this a bit. I don't think I can ever say I have seen one over 9 maybe 10ft. The closest and largest guy was squatted down. His shoulder width was very impressive. I would guess over 4 & 1/2 ft wide . Squatted he was over 5ft tall.... I can't imagine the bulk of a 12 ft guy. How broad would a 20 ft one be?
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Posted: Tue Oct 21st, 2008 05:27 pm |
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I'm not saying there isn't a 20 foot tall one out there and I'm definitely not saying there is one. At 6ft it could have a 1.5ft wide chest and still be a little bulkier than an average human. At 20ft that's more like a 5+ft chest. A tape measure helps put into perspective the mass an animal that large would have. The reports of 20 footers most likely come from the same people that say they saw something that was 5x the size of a man... That would be 30± ft. People usually exaggerate on size due to linguistic habits rather than to mislead. That's most likely the reason for the 20ft tall accounts. But who knows.
From a more logical approach you could ask why an animal not on savannas, tundra or plains (or in rivers or oceans) would need to be that large. 12± feet and less should be more than enough to stay top predator when caloric intake (as Catamount said), shelter and locomotion are concerned. Size should (in theory) be in direct relation to a requirement the species must meet for some reason or another, causing the smaller ones to die out.
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Posted: Thu Oct 23rd, 2008 02:47 am |
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I only remember hearing one report of a 20-footer. I can't remember the details, but it involved two guys hiking out west. They each apparently saw different BFs on opposite sides of a meadow. Only one said the creature he saw was 20 feet tall. As I recall, he saw it at a distance with trees behind it, and I think there was some speculation that a rise in the elevation of the land between him and the creature and the trees behind the creaure might have created an optical illusion of greater height. I wish I could remember where I read the report. Possibly the BFRO site?
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Dutch
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Posted: Thu Oct 23rd, 2008 10:19 am |
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Your're right Lorraine. It's on the BFRO website and the 1st witness actually drew pictures to show how the terrain might have fooled the 2nd witness into believing the subject was 20 ft tall. I don't remember what state it was in, so finding it on the website was pretty much fruitless.
The witness was quite the artist, also.
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Posted: Thu Oct 30th, 2008 01:25 am |
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| The missouri monster MoMo was reported to be 12 feet tall, but understand that this information is from a frightened witness, i read a report of a 5 foot BF broad jumping a 50 foot ravine, a 300 lb creature with 30 inch legs . this is not likely, start estimating distance and height in your yard, then measure to see how close u get
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Posted: Thu Oct 30th, 2008 09:10 pm |
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| Some things to give perception and take in account are is power lines by Oklahoma rules is the sag in between poles should be 25 ft, a basket ball rim is 10ft. your ceilings are generally 8ft, I cant remember the standard height of a door. These are just few things that we see everyday we could use to identify their height. 7Fireflys once had a tree marked off increments of one foot once my eyes looked at the 10ft level it seemed impossible they could reach that height but.............?
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Posted: Thu Oct 30th, 2008 09:59 pm |
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| The largest I have ever seen was 11 ft. I saw him standing next to a tree behind a stand of youpons. Visually, I noted a ring around the tree that was at the top of his head, so I could go back and measure later. The next day, Kelly and I tried to recreate for a photo graph but the creature had been so much taller than the youpons that I could not even see Kelly standing in the place where he had been. She had to hold up a pvc pipe with I think was a hat on it to reach the ring on the tree. We were finally able to measure it at 11 foot. I was able to see his chest, shoulders and profile as he made his turn and then downward. He appeared to be naturally proportioned to his height and not particularly bulked out. From where I stood, he really did not seem that big but I was about 25 yards from him. Without a reference of scale, it is difficult to be acurate.
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Posted: Thu Nov 6th, 2008 03:39 pm |
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| i found the orignial newspaper story on the missouri monster ,it stated that the creature was 6 ft tall
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Posted: Sat Nov 8th, 2008 11:17 pm |
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My little bros measured the tree limb where they saw him and said it was approx 8ft tall... no twenty footers there that I know of 
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