An Early Encounter With A Bigfoot?

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Quite Frankly just showed this documentary after his podcast. He does that at least once per week. Tonight's doc was about big foot.
This is a very good show about a small town in New York where several people had an encounter that haunts them to this day. 

Thanks for the video, Mystic.
I looked at documentary from Deutsche Welle, a German broadcaster that asked the question: 'Who were the Neanderthals?'

The reason for doing so is to look at the answers to that query and the video -just like many others, realistically fails to explain
where these hominoids went in regards of our ancestral lineage. The documentary is interesting, it details their assumed hunting
behaviour, their possible way of breeding and their social acts as we would perceive them today.

However, after explaining how they disliked interaction with early 'modern-man', it relates that they just 'moved away' before
becoming extinct around 40,000 years ago. Oddly enough, a physical description of the Neanderthal indicates they were built
to endure extreme climate and yet, the main reason the video offers for their extinction is a climatic change.

We're still learning about the Neanderthal, but I think if we can get to the point where we see that 'splitting off' and merging
as similar species is fairly normal, we'll stop perceiving the current modern man as the final product of the evolution of archaic
humans and possibly look back to see what other spurs from our evolutionary tree existed.

Bigfoot looks like us and it looks like an ape, now consider how we used to deem the Neanderthal. A squat lumbering oaf
who shivered in caves and chewed uncooked meat. Now we see our earlier cousin as a social creature that fashioned weapons,
utilised fire, knew the dangers of inter-breeding, vocally communicated to improve hunting tactics and even fashioned rudimentary
musical instruments.

It is intriguing to see that the earlier renderings of this presumed off-shoot of man offered brutish -almost ape-like facial features,
and as we learned more about their structured lives, science allowed them to look more like we do today.

Where will the shaggy giant that taps on windows and has the ability to avoid modern surveillance equipment be in our minds a
hundred years from now?