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I had a professor last semester who believed that Bigfoot (among other 'supernatural phenomena') is/are actually interdimensional beings 'operating in a frequen

I had a professor last semester who believed that Bigfoot (among other 'supernatural phenomena') is/are actually interdimensional beings 'operating in a frequency just out of our bandwidth', which was his justification for why 'video evidence' for them was always so poor and low detail/obscure. Of all things, I'm always surprised at how well bigfoot has captured people's imagination, for what would just seem to be a glorified gorilla

steve19 7y ago
I dont think bigfoot or "large cat" sightings would capture the imagination of Africans. In Africa they have other mythical beings, which in some cases are large reptiles. A lot of sightings are proven hoaxes so the out of focus images no doubt were intentional. I doubt an extra dimension reptile would somehow be restricted to a random lake in Scotland. Now if people started sighting Nessie in London...
nvrspyx 7y ago
One of my favorite pastimes is listening and reading about paranormal/alien encounters and theories. I don’t believe a lick of it, but I find it entertaining to hear theories that make you question reality, if just for a moment. My favorite that I’ve heard thus far is that humans are a product of alien genetic engineering combining alien and primate DNA. This supposedly involved multiple “steps” to get what we know as humans with protohumans (e.g. Neanderthals) being previous “steps” or attempts. Bigfoot is either one of those “steps” or attempts. I’ve also heard a theory that Bigfoot was a “happy accident” and carries out duties for the aliens. I think the latter has come about as a way to explain some supposed connection between Bigfoot and the missing 411.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  > One of my favorite pastimes is listening and reading about paranormal/alien encounters and theories. I don’t believe a lick of it, but I find it entertaining to hear theories that make you question reality, if just for a moment. The thing is, when you think about it, reality is probably much stranger than you give it credit for. All we know about reality is what we perceive and infer from those perceptions... among which is quite a bit of knowledge about how fallible our ability to perceive reality actually is. Most of what you think you know is inferred from memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and/or relayed by others, which is at least as unreliable. And the kicker is, our understanding of what reality is relies on the assumption that reality is even understandable to us in the first place, which is not a given.
  - 0_gravitas 7y ago
    Which is why anecdotal evidence is useless, and study's of very large n's are the closet we'll get to a truth
GuiA 7y ago
Hopefully that professor didn’t teach anything close to electronics/physics/chemistry.
- 0_gravitas 7y ago
  Thankfully he didnt, but he is a well tenured English teacher who like to focus on biblical themes. Hes a nice guy really, and I liked him as a person, but he is absolutely batshit insane, this was just one of his "eccentric" beliefs

steve19 7y ago

I dont think bigfoot or "large cat" sightings would capture the imagination of Africans. In Africa they have other mythical beings, which in some cases are large reptiles. A lot of sightings are proven hoaxes so the out of focus images no doubt were intentional. I doubt an extra dimension reptile would somehow be restricted to a random lake in Scotland. Now if people started sighting Nessie in London...

nvrspyx 7y ago

One of my favorite pastimes is listening and reading about paranormal/alien encounters and theories. I don’t believe a lick of it, but I find it entertaining to hear theories that make you question reality, if just for a moment. My favorite that I’ve heard thus far is that humans are a product of alien genetic engineering combining alien and primate DNA. This supposedly involved multiple “steps” to get what we know as humans with protohumans (e.g. Neanderthals) being previous “steps” or attempts. Bigfoot is either one of those “steps” or attempts. I’ve also heard a theory that Bigfoot was a “happy accident” and carries out duties for the aliens. I think the latter has come about as a way to explain some supposed connection between Bigfoot and the missing 411.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
> One of my favorite pastimes is listening and reading about paranormal/alien encounters and theories. I don’t believe a lick of it, but I find it entertaining to hear theories that make you question reality, if just for a moment. The thing is, when you think about it, reality is probably much stranger than you give it credit for. All we know about reality is what we perceive and infer from those perceptions... among which is quite a bit of knowledge about how fallible our ability to perceive reality actually is. Most of what you think you know is inferred from memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and/or relayed by others, which is at least as unreliable. And the kicker is, our understanding of what reality is relies on the assumption that reality is even understandable to us in the first place, which is not a given.
- 0_gravitas 7y ago
  Which is why anecdotal evidence is useless, and study's of very large n's are the closet we'll get to a truth

GuiA 7y ago

Hopefully that professor didn’t teach anything close to electronics/physics/chemistry.

0_gravitas 7y ago
Thankfully he didnt, but he is a well tenured English teacher who like to focus on biblical themes. Hes a nice guy really, and I liked him as a person, but he is absolutely batshit insane, this was just one of his "eccentric" beliefs