A long article, yes, but fairly easy to read. (And it’s from my home state.) So what do you think is the likelihood that a large humanoid or ape-like species is alive on our planet and remains undiscovered? Do humans have a need for such mysteries, which verifying could destroy, as the author hints in the end? It seems that people believe in such things the world over (I also found a recent article about the Yeti in Tajikistan). What about Slovakia? Have you ever gone out in the woods looking for something? Would you join an expedition like this?
It is funny, that within a controversial topic like this, it was not the topic itself that caught my attention, but the attitude of the author of the article. With all due respect, I must state that I really do not understand his intentions. He was, on one hand, trying to find some definite proof of the existence of the Sasquatch to prove the sceptics wrong, on the other hand, once he was given the opportunity, he pushed it away. I am aware of what he wrote about the mystery, so important to him, becoming just another dry fact, the mysterious animal becoming just another primate, but still. I do not find his reasoning very persuasive. All the “imponderable questions” that had been hunting him for ages could have been answered, and the contribution to the science would, in my humble opinion, have exceeded the loss of the mystery that surrounds the whole Sasquatch issue.
ReplyDeleteMr Bures decided not to take the chance, which seems like a real shame to me, even though he might not have discovered anything, just like the many investigators before him. But from what he wrote, it really sounds like he was not prepared to say goodbye to the mystery. I personally find it a little bit irrational, since the Sasquatch is not by any chance the only undiscovered secret of this planet, but then, who would act rationally? I must admit that I might not, as well. It sometimes really is hard to move on from one period of life to another, and a scientifically-based discovery like this would certainly change Bure’s life dramatically.
Nevertheless, sometimes it is essential to move on. Sometimes a change like this is exactly what the mankind needs. Where would we be, if we were too scared to discover anything new? If people never tried to find out how our organs work only to make the process of it an eternal secret? Although I can to certain extent relate to Mr Bures, I hated reading the part in which he describes resolving not to investigate further, not to try to find something, even though he felt like there was a chance he could. Again, I am highlighting that he might not have found anything. But it is the decision not to even try that counts. I was dearly disappointed with this decision and thus with the end of the article and I hope that the majority of investigators involved in this particular case is different in this matter, otherwise we will never find out anything about it and the Sasquatch issue will really remain mysterious to all of us forever.