Mars Bigfoot
What if I told you that a cryptozoological legend truly does exist? Not just on this beautiful blue planet of ours, but also on our menacing red neighbor. What if I told you that I had proof of this legend? Would you read on or shrug it off as just another piece of that crazy fortean pie? Whatever you decide, view all photos and images with a grain of salt and an open mind.
The ‘face on mars’ was my first fortean foray into the mystique of conspiracy. However, I have since remembered that I may have been training for that fateful ‘day of the face’, as I like to call it, since the early nineties. The 3D Stereogram posters were all the rage with millions of people around the world trying their hardest to see a glimpse at a hidden spaceship or a Jesus face through all those random dots. Never being able to see through the pattern; I quickly gave up on the phenomenon.
Fast forward 10 years and my baby blue eyes were treated by what can ONLY be described as THE face on mars. The picture in question was taken in the 70’s, and has been the subject of much debate. Is it a face or just some shadow anomaly? Is it an archaic alien structure? Simply, is it real? For me, I would like to believe that it is real. Christ, we now know that Mars has water, what will we learn, or more interestingly, what will we be told ten years from now. As the years go by and the debates fade away we are only left with the photo. See for yourself and make up your own mind.
Without getting too caught up in the “face debate” I would like to shift today’s blog focus to another, much more recent photo taken on Mars. This picture, taken in 2004 by the Mars explorer Spirit, shows that maybe water isn’t the only new discovery NASA has made. The photo clearly shows a humanoid figure, maybe running down a martian hill or maybe it’s a martian Bigfoot that has just thrown or is fighting another figure. (Look at the dark mass on a rock just below the original figure.) Fascinating. But don’t let your imagination run too wild. When viewing the entire full image, this figure is merely 2 inches high. The web site BadAstronomy.com, laughed at the idea, “Puhlllleeeeze. A man? It’s a tiny rock only a few inches high. It’s only a few feet from the rover!” While this is possible, and probably the right reaction and answer, I cannot wait for the next NASA photo to hit the Internet. Until then I will revel in this photo of a “Mars Bigfoot”.
