I believe in Bigfoot.

I totally do, I totally believe in Bigfoot.  I saw a very convincing documentary on the Discovery Channel or something that went into all kinds of forensic evidence and went to experts in fields like fingerprinting, statistical analysis, identifying animals by their cries, etc.  It convinced me. 

I think the real clincher for me was the fingerprint analysis of some of the molds people had made of Bigfoot prints.  The experts stated that the patterns on the prints indicated a primate, since they were made primarily of straight lines rather than curves and whorls, like human prints are.  But they didn't match any of the patterns for known great apes.  I thought that was pretty convincing. 

I guess believing in Bigfoot is part of my personal belief that we don't yet know everything about this planet, that big parts of it are still completely hidden to us and waiting to be discovered.  I like the idea that we might never discover everything there is to see and know here, that in some way we're still crouching in our caves wondering what all the sounds outside mean, or what the lights in the sky are or when they'll be back.  The idea of Bigfoot and other cryptids is the idea of man's continued innocence and potential, and I find that enormously appealing.