Bigfoot!

 In our society, believing in Bigfoot is generally considered to be peak craziness, right?

However, I listened to a 6-part podcast from Astonishing Legends on the famous Patterson-Gimlin film of Bigfoot, taken in 1967 in Northern California. Over the course of 14 hours or so they made a very convincing case that the film captured a real creature. It does seem clear that the film does not show a guy in an ape suit, which is the mainstream explanation that makes people feel good that there is nothing to the Bigfoot myth or the paranormal. 

Personally, I have no problem believing such strange things exist that we have no explanation for. 

The main problem with a lot of paranormal things, like UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot and other weird events, is that for whatever reason, bona fide cases get tangled up with clear cases of fakery. So it's easy for people to write off the better cases as fakes and not have to worry about things they can't explain. There's a lot of psychology to this, and you can imagine why the powers that be prefer the easy explanations.

I will further say that I understand why most scientists, zoologists and naturalists don't take Bigfoot seriously (although the related creature Sasquatch is taken seriously in Canada)-- there's never been a body or bones found for these creatures. Not even dung or hair has been identified as coming from them. So there is something weird about them. They also have some supernatural properties like appearing or disappearing suddenly or not appearing to be wounded by bullets.

But this film is powerful evidence for a real phenomenon. And there are other films of Bigfoot which I find believable too. But the Patterson-Gimlin film is still the best, and because it was in the pre-digital era, is definitely not CGI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q60mSMmhTZU