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I need you all to suspend your disbelief for a moment
I know some of you are already boiling with rage just reading the above but please hear me out
preface: I don't believe in Bigfoot
all I'm saying is Les Stroud has an entire life doing outdoors television series where he camps on his own and he's done a series on Bigfoot. Its genuinely very interesting even just from a cultural perspective. It's all free on YouTube actually
Second this. Les Stroud is a Canadian treasure.
Shouldn’t have to suspend disbelief. Disbelief in something is just as blind of a conviction as belief in it. What is unbelievable is that before the internet existed, we have separate accounts of hairy forest hominids on every single continent, and the oral tradition on these non-human beings is surprisingly consistent. That seems like a statistical improbability to me. But I don’t have first hand experience with the forest cryptids so I remain open to either possibility. Either humans have a collective mass global hallucination, spanning millennia of experiences (which is on its own intriguing), or there really is a magical forest cryptid. Holding either position doesn’t improve or detract from my life. So there’s no reason to believe, or disbelieve in Sasquatch or Yeti or Yowie or Mapinguari or any of their other names.