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"Bigfoot isn't Real, Grandpa!"

Or so say my six and four year old granddaughters. What do they know? So, this morning while my son and daughter in law had them out and about, Bigfoot paid a visit to their secluded five acres on which they live in the woods.



Hasbro makes these big plastic Yeti (close enough) feet that strap on like a pair of sandals. Wearing these, I made a pass through their yard and left some pretty distinctive Bigfoot prints. Heh heh heh... "Bigfoot isn't real, grandpa." We'll see...

My only concern is that this might scare them. Anticipating that, I picked up a kids' story book from our local Bigfoot Espresso coffee stand in which a little boy gets lost in the woods. A big, kind hearted, friendly Sasquatch rescues him and reunites him with his family. I've emphasized over the years with them that Bigfoot is friendly, and helps people who run into trouble in the woods.

They haven't gotten home to see them yet. They should be there within the hour.

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Nice! Keep us updated! I assume your kids are in on it to ensure that the grandkids see them?
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Oh yeah, they are in on it. They will make sure the granddaughters see the prints.
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This is great...waiting for the update.
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Well, it looks like I need to make another trip out there tomorrow...

Just got off of the phone with them. They were almost too excited to even talk. They told me that I wouldn't believe what they found in the yard when they got home - BIGFOOT TRACKS!!! I told them that simply could not be, since "Bigfoot isn't real". They said nope, they were wrong and now they believe! Now they are all worried that the rain might wash them away tonight before I can see them tomorrow, and then I might not believe them. I told them that boy, I don't know - they almost had me convinced that Bigfoot wasn't real. I better see tracks tomorrow... They are having their mom take photos and send them to me just in case...
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Bad grandpa, but very good, excellent, love this!
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That is exactly how the bigfoot rumors were started. Men in huge wooden footprints leaving footprints in plain view.

It has been going on for many decades.

Have fun with the kids!
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Seen this in Woodfords General Store this morning after hiking with my dog. So, I had to take some pictures.

Fun activity with the kids
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A girl friend of mine and I know someone who believes. So, I sent her the pictures.
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That sounds like a lot of fun!!!

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My family has a Bigfoot story. It is my FIL's father. Both now deceased.

The Father of my FIL was a Nazarene Minister. Conservative. Lived somewhere in the PNW at the time. Pretty rural. Gets the call at night. Widow. Dogs barking. Smell. He leaves his family with a gun. Big prints threw a freshly plowed field. Weird smell. EVERY ONE of the Bigfoot tale datapoints is in this story.

Father of FIL ends up spending the night. You get the picture.

And? My conclusion 50+ years later? This was a cover for a booty call.

The story was too perfect.
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Wear a heavy pack so you make deeper prints
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I bought a gorilla suit for camping in Sasquatch country…

On our dirt bike trip last year, I snuck up to the campfire wearing it and scared the 5hit out of my commercial pilot buddy.
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That is exactly how the bigfoot rumors were started. Men in huge wooden footprints leaving footprints in plain view.
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for realism. id swallow a bunch of whole corn kernels and drop a huge deuce between my giant footprints. realism. take a water bottle and "drill" a big pisshole right before the deuce.
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Just back from my son's house and a visit with the granddaughters. It just keeps getting better...

They are back to claiming that "Bigfoot isn't real, grandpa!". So, I asked them, how do they explain the footprints across their yard? What could have possible made them? You folks will love this:

It was clearly a herd of banana slugs. That's their story. Banana slugs devouring the dirt into the shapes of Bigfoot footprints. I asked them how the footprints could be so far apart, how this rampaging herd of banana slugs could have gotten from one footprint to the next without leaving tracks? Their stunned silence, glancing back and forth at one another, then grandma, told me that they had not thought this part of their story through all that well. Then the four year old blurted it out:

"They flew, grandpa!". The six year old was quick to back her up, nodding approvingly. I told them that I thought maybe they had made this up. Let me get this straight - a flying herd of banana slugs, eating dirt to form the shapes of Bigfoot footprints. "That's it, grandpa!" Uh huh...

I'm going to have to up my game. This is far from over. My son has a game camera next to a small stream that flows through the back of his property. I'm liking unclebilly's idea of a gorilla suit. I bet I can even find a Sasquatch suit. They all leave to go elk hunting in a couple of weeks. That gives me time to turn one up.
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This reminds me of a YT short-

https://youtube.com/shorts/IdDCQ2ODLpE?si=kZkOLTpUC-zElIrL

Good luck Higgins!
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I'm loving this.

Banana slugs? They have quite the imagination.

Maybe a tuft of hair on a tree limb?
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Awesome story!!

Mine turned out a bit different.


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