There’s been a long debate on if certain cryptids are flesh and blood entities, or may have supernatural origins. The ability for some of these cryptids like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the dog man to perform disappearing acts without a trace have fueled this speculation for years.
With the stories of Skinwalker Ranch becoming increasingly popular, this discussion remains relevant. The History Channel show “The Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch” plus the latest U.S. Department of Defense approved “Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program” by James Lacatski, Colm Kelleher PhD, and journalist George Knapp have resurrected tales to new audiences of mysteries beings, large creatures, giant wolves, and other unsolved anomalies.
There are plenty of shows, groups and researchers who have studied Sasquatch and treated it like a physical being. Filmmaker Seth Breedlove and his Small Town Monsters crew have been documenting finding Bigfoot through their “On The Trail Of Bigfoot” series. Breedlove has been in the trenches tracking the cryptid, and believes it's a biological beast.
“It’s a flesh and blood, biological creature seemingly related to the great apes,” Breedlove said. “It’s pretty clear through the evidence we do have (which, granted, isn’t much) that these things exhibit behavior that would place them somewhere between a gorilla and a chimp.”
Longtime Bigfoot researcher Ron Morehead has been in the Bigfoot game for over 45-years. The man behind the famous “Sierra Sounds” (alleged audio evidence) used to focus on the physical, but he wrote the book “The Quantum Bigfoot” that theorizes more of a spiritual and quantum physics angle that looks at entanglement, telepathy and other “supernatural” things. In a previous interview with punkrockandufos.com, Morehead alluded that Bigfoot could be both biological and supernatural.
“They talk, leave footprints, defecate, and pro-create…that means they are physical, “Morehead said. “ However, I believe they are a remnant of foreign intervention into the genome of a primate and the DNA was altered by an advanced technology. Over eons, some have been diluted down by cross-breeding with humans, thus making some more human-like than others. This alien component gave them the ability to do things that we are currently trying to understand. I personally believe that quantum physics is the answer to understanding. Nothing is actually ‘supernatural’, just our lack of understanding what is ‘natural’ for humans as a species. We just haven’t evolved enough yet.”
In two recent social media polls from this writer’s personal accounts, two different audiences shown the split. On Twitter, 70.6 percent said Bigfoot is a supernatural being, while 29.4 percent voted biological. On Instagram, 72 percent voted biological, and 28 percent said supernatural origin.
“I've seen way too much crossover between them all to ever discount a potential supernatural influence,” said Greg Newkirk, founder of the Traveling Museum of the Paranormal & Occult. “For me, it's all likely different masks worn by the same thing. For the amount of Bigfoot reports that continue to roll in each year, physical evidence is stunningly rare, which means either there is an incredibly well-orchestrated hoax happening across the world, or there is a giant hairy monster that manages to be encountered quite often and disappears into thin air. Sounds a lot like a ghost to me.”
As there have been videos, foot prints (casts) and first-hand accounts of Bigfoot, there still is a definitive, missing piece of evidence to solve the debate. Maybe this is a mystery, that isn’t intended to be solved?
“All of the problems that Bigfoot researchers have, from the lack of bodies, to tracks which suddenly stop in the middle of a field, down to stranger issues like electronic malfunctions or the so-called ‘ infrasound hypnosis,’ those are all accounted for if you begin to look at Bigfoot as a kind of entity that manifests in the same way we experience ‘ghosts’,” Newkirk said.” Black and white thinking does not lend itself well to the world of the unexplained because it already implies you know the answer. That kind of thinking might be fine for skeptics and true believers, but for people actually interested in the mechanism behind the phenomena, the world of the unexplained is a sea of grey.”
-MIKE DAMANTE
If you are a fan of Small Town Monsters, “Hellier,” and Bigfoot, check out Mike Damante’s latest book “Punk rock and UFOs: Stranger Than Fiction” that features interviews with Greg Newkirk, Ron Morehead, Seth Breedlove, folklorists, and others. Order here.