Admittedly, I thought Bigfoot, Dogmen and UFO's were all as bunk as the tooth fairy - then, I traded my city warehouse job for a job as a logger in remote northern Vermont and was outside in deep woods for up to 12 hours a day and 5-7 days a week. I instantly noticed very weird stuff would occasionally happen, like wood knocks where no people were, strange sounds and other bizarre activity. After a few years I eventually had a sighting of a BF and wrote of it on here. I get no one will believe me but that instant, my life changed and I realized that if these things were out there, the possibility for a lot of other things existed as well. So, tho I haven't seen a dogman, I know there are tens of thousands of reported sightings and I just can't write anything off any more after what I saw.
I think for most close minded people, like I was, just need some type of jolting experience like that to pull them out of the way they think. I can't think of anything other than a first hand experience that would have got me to really look in to the evidence, listen to the high ranking testimonials, look at the trace evidence, the mass sightings and give the truly unexplainable cases a fair listen. Now, that doesn't mean I just automatically am willing to believe everything YouTube says, agree with everything David Icke says, call all this weird stuff extra terrestrial, but I am 100% certain that there is a lot going on that normal people simply don't know about.