THERE ARE THREE MAIN THEORIES ON BIGFOOT AND ALL OF THEM WILL ATTRACT  PEOPLE
                                     WHO LIKE THEM AND THINK THAT THE OTHER ONES ARE ALL WRONG.
 

1)  BIGFOOT DOES NOT EXIST.  IT IS ALL A HOAX, A MISIDENTIFICATION, OR A GIANT MISTAKE.

2) BIGFOOT  DOES EXIST BUT AND IS  AN ANIMAL, A PRIMATE, RELATED EITHER TO HUMANS OR TO GORILLAS, BUT AS YET NOT CAUGHT.

3) BIGFOOT EXISTS, BUT NOT AS A NORMAL ANIMAL, BUT RATHER AS SOMETHING  "NOT-NORMAL", IN ONE OF
    SOME DOZEN ALTERNATE POSSIBILITIES, AND THIS EXPLAINS WHY IT HAS NEVER BEEN CAUGHT.
 

PART ONE IS ESPOUSED BY SKEPTICS WHO THINK PARTS 2 & 3 ARE ALL NONSENSE.

Flesh and Blood people  (the majority of email bigfooters, and newbies)   cannot view  any possibility of the Alternative Theory
ever happening, since they cannot imagine ANYTHING ever happening that is in the Alternative mode. It is a case of black and white
vs. grey.  F&B people tend to ridicule and even persecute Alternative theory people, but they are unable to produce the evidence
(none in 1,406 years) that will validate their position.

Alternative Theory people are often field investigators who finally had strange or paranormal events happen to them while doing
investigations  and intelligent novices who simply add up all  the facts and the non-facts and make a rational conclusion.

Investigators usually start as  SKEPTICS, and take maybe 5 years  to change to F&B people. Most stay that way all their lives, despite
the moist feeling they get by pounding their heads

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on the brick walls of frustration.

Some, after 5-10 years of actual field work, finally transition to the ALTERNATIVE THEORY.
 

Does holding theory mean one stops doing research?

No - if you think about it, studying something that can shape-shift, disappear, leave tracks that "end" for no good reason in snow or mud,
seemingly morph into other animals  or even people, paralyze investigators in their sleeping bags temporarily, create "missing time" with
some F.I.s or witnesses, is really far more important to science than discovering   just some new ape.  Think about that.
 

                                 DO F&B  AND ALTERNATIVE THEORY PEOPLE HAVE TO BE AT WAR OR CAN THEY DO FIELD WORK TOGETHER??

The answer is yes, they can work together  to mutually  find out what is going on at any given site.  Each can "work their side of the bushes"
and compare notes, evidence, photos, later around the campfire.
 

**  This is the BOX, that the AT people ask the F&B people to "think outside of"   ("Think outside the box")

At the B.I.P., we encourage all beleivers and non-believers to work together, regardless of theories.  Treat this as the BIG TENT of Henry
Franzoni, where all are welcome to join together, discuss and debate without acrimony. (We have had one exped. with a Major Skeptic
from CSICOP and we learned that BF activity starts up when the skeptics drive home.)

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