Originally Posted By: RJM AcresI put a dead goat at the edge of the woods a few months ago. Within 2 days there wasn't a bone or any other remain to be found.
Just depends. I have bones from steers that died 3 years ago still right where I left them. Oh, I mean they're scattered and such, but the bones are very much still there. In fact, anymore, I collect ear tags as evidence of dead because I can't remember if this steer carcass is from this year or last year.
But I'm out here on the plains. In the woods, where stuff is wet... they decompose faster. I've spent time in the Pacific NW as a biologist and it's a little different up there. Stuff does disappear a lot faster. Something as rare as "Bigfoot" presumably is certainly might not be discovered for a long time.
If you haven't seen it, the Paranormal episode here:
HERE is pretty good. I particularly like the hair analysis and the analysis of the Patterson footage. Assuming the documentary is factual, WHATEVER the hair is, remains unidentified (according to the show).
Even out here, strange things happen. Besides the cattle mutilations- which I have not personally seen, but have talked to brand inspectors who have- every year, I have sections of fence just absolutely busted down. I've had sections busted out for 3-4 posts on each side and the fence laid straight out the ground. Something hit it and hit it hard. I don't think elk because we really don't have many elk out here and elk tend to more just crush fences that they can't jump. I have found long brown hairs 24" long in the fence- like horse hair, but we don't have horses in those pastures and no one reported injured horses. I suspect Barbary sheep. We do have Barbary strays and I don't know how they go over/thru fences. The hair would match their "beards". But, I don't know for sure. All I know is something interesting and unusual happened (and they didn't clean up after themselves!!!!).