Articles and Papers
In Depth
- The
Sasquatch: An Unwelcome and Premature Zoological Discovery?
by
John A. Bindernagel
Over 3000 North American reports of a large
hair-covered bipedal animal resembling an upright gorilla have been recorded
and reviewed. More importantly, over 100 different tracks attributed to such
an animal have been cast and archived. At the same time, wildlife biologists
and other zoologists continue to ignore this evidence and to reject papers on
the subject submitted for presentation at professional conferences.
- Historical
Overview and Basic Facts Involved in the Sasquatch or Bigfoot Phenomenon
by John Green
I describe six decades of increasing
interest in and knowledge about Bigfoot or sasquatch, and efforts to gain
scientific attention. Exploiting my massive data-base, I offer some
conclusions about these creatures and comments on some of the objections that
have been raised.
From personal knowledge of Roger Patterson, I
contradicts the notion that the Patterson film was faked. And from direct
first-hand knowledge and by citing dates, I expose the fallacy of recent media
accounts claiming that a certain Ray Wallace started the whole thing by faking
some footprints.
- Living
Ape-Men (in 12 parts)
by Michael A. Cremo and Richard
L. Thompson
Is it really possible that there could be an unknown
species of hominid on this planet? Many will find this hard to believe for two
reasons. They suppose that every inch of the earth has been quite thoroughly
explored. And they also suppose that scientists possess a complete inventory
of the earth's living animal species. Both suppositions are incorrect.
- Everest 1951:
the footprints attributed to the Yeti — myth and reality
by
Michael Ward
For centuries, mountains have given rise to legends
about supernatural beings such as the Yeti of the Himalayas. The legend of the
Yeti was enhanced by the finding of footprints in the Menlung Basin during the
1951 Everest reconnaissance expedition. This report provides a possible
explanation of the Menlung footprints based on developmental abnormalities,
physiology, and pathology of the foot.
- Acoustic
Analysis of Unusual Large Animal Vocalizations (external site)
Preliminary acoustic analysis of unusual large animal vocalizations
recorded on April 20, 2003 in Snohomish County, Washington.
- Seeing is
believing, or is it? How scientific is 'Wildman' research?
by
Helmut Loofs-Wissowa
A surprising reappraisal has been taking place
in human biology during the past few years.
- Bigfoot — a
contemporary belief legend
by Joyce Bynum
Almost
every American has heard of the large, hairy "ape man," sometimes called
Bigfoot or Sasquatch, who appears mysteriously from time to time; but few
realize that sightings of this creature are not limited to the Pacific
Northwest but occur throughout the United States and Canada.
- Further
Notes on the Role of Folklore in Hominology
by John
Colarusso
Two tales, one from the Ubykh of the Caucasus, the other
from the Bella Coola of British Columbia, are briefly examined for both
fact-like and fantastical elements regarding hominoid creatures
- The Status of
Wildman Research in China
by Zhou Guoxing
Chinese
historical documents contain many references to Wildman, a supposed large
unknown primate reported today in numerous provinces.
- The Yahoo, the
Yowie, and Reports of Australian Hairy Bipeds
by Colin P.
Groves
Questions surrounding the supposed Yahoo, Yowie, or supposed
wild man of south-eastern Australia are examined in light of what is known of
the Australian mammal fauna, the nomenclature of the wild man, the role of the
wild man in both Aboriginal and Anglo cosmologies, and the claimed existence
of the wild man himself. A giant marsupial, such as a wombat, may have
survived the megafaunal extinctions, giving rise to the wild man reports.
- Diagnosis of
the 'Wild Man' according to Buddhist Literary Sources from Tibet, Mongolia and
China
by Emanuel Vlcek
By these three literary
sources on the existence of the wild man, Czechoslovak science contributes to
the solution of this very interesting dilemma of the existence and diagnosis
of the snow man. Is he a myth or a living creature?
- Anatomy and
Dermatoglyphics of Three Sasquatch Footprints
by Grover S.
Krantz
Casts of three large human-like footprints were made by U.S.
Forest Service personnel in June, 1982, in southeastern Washington State. The
fine-grained soil preserved many impressions of dermal ridges and sweat
pores.
- Abominable
Snowman
by William L. Straus, Jr. (with responses)
During recent years, stories have been coming out of India and Tibet about
a giant mammal that lives above the snow line. According to some accounts,
this creature is more than 7 feet in height, walks erect, has an apelike head
and face, and is covered with heavy blond or reddish hair.
- Investigating
Sasquatch Evidence in the Pacific Northwest
by James A.
Hewkin
Unpublicized Sasquatch investigations were conducted in
remote areas of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, and other areas of the
Pacific Northwest, over a 10-year period beginning in 1973. Various forms of
evidence were uncovered, including eyewitness testimony, footprint tracks,
split stumps and logs, and rock piles. Some of the evidence indicates the
presence of a still-unrecognized species of large, bipedal primate in North
America.
- Statistical
Analysis of Sasquatch Reports
by Barbara Wasson
A
statistical analysis of 619 Sasquatch reports.
- Sasquatch
Handprints
by Grover S. Krantz
Two plaster casts have
been obtained of handprints of the reputed Sasquatch. The prints measure more
than half again greater than normal human hands and are relatively very broad.
The thumb is non-opposable and there is correspondingly no elevation of the
thenar eminence. Characteristics of these handprints, as with associated
footprints, suggest their makers were gigantic hominids.
- Results of a
Questionnaire on the Sasquatch
by Ron Westrum
The
returns of 26 respondents to a questionnaire on the sasquatch are
presented.
- Some Pacific
Northwest Native Language Names for the Sasquatch Phenomenon
by
Bruce Rigsby
This paper provides two instances of cross-genetic
lexical borrowing of the name for the Sasquatch phenomenon among Pacific
Northwest native languages.
- Anatomy of
the Sasquatch Foot
by Grover S. Krantz
Many plaster
casts and photographs of footprints have been examined in detail which were
reportedly made by a species of bipedal primate, the sasquatch or bigfoot.
They prove not to be simply enlarged human footprints but show several
peculiarities. These include flat arches, a double ball, and enlarged heels.
Examination of leverage mechanics of the human foot indicates that with
excessive body weight certain modifications would be advantageous. The
expected modifications are the same as those seen in the reputed sasquatch
footprints.
- Cripplefoot
Hobbled
by David J. Daegling
Evidence for Bigfoot
gains credibility when the possibility of human fabrication can be ruled out.
The trackways of a crippled Sasquatch are said to provide such a compelling
case, but examination of this claim suggests that hoaxing the footprints may
have been a fairly manageable endeavor.
- Teaching
Anthropology and Critical Thinking with the Question "Is There Something Big
Afoot?"
by Turhon A. Murad
A course exploring the
notion of whether Bigfoot, the sasquatch, the yeti, or any other such bipedal,
hairy manlike monster might really exist can be an excellent opportunity to
teach anthropology and critical thinking to students who are in desperate need
of such instruction.
- The Sasquatch
Foot Casts
by John Berry and Stephen Haylock
Believing in the paleontological existence of Gigantopithecus
(and actually possessing an ash tray said to be made from a cast of its jaw)
we decided to deal with the phenomena of the Sasquatch in two parts; first of
all to briefly review current literature on the subject, secondly to give the
result of our extensive examination of the three recent Sasquatch casts,
loaned to us for a year by Professor Krantz.
- Old Literary
Evidence for the Existence of the 'Snow Man' in Tibet and Mongolia
by Emanuel Vlcek
- On Neanderthal
vs. Paranthropus
by Dmitri Bayanov and Igor
Bourtsev
We warmly welcome Strasenburgh's response (CA
16:486-87) to Porshnev's article and our comments. It is encouraging and
refreshing to deal with a critic who does not "quietly ignore" the
subject.
- The
Troglodytidae and the Hominidae in the Taxonomy and Evolution of Higher
Primates
by B.F. Poshnev (with comments by several
anthropologists and a reply by Dmitri Bayanov and Igor Bourtsev)
The
present crisis in current ideas on the evolution of higher primates calls for
revision of certain postulates and rehabilitation of the Haeckel and Vogt
hypothesis of a "missing link" between apes and man.
- A Species
Named From Footprints
by Grover S. Krantz
A
reconstruction is presented of the living appearance of the fossil species
Gigantopithecus blacki; this is then compared with evidence for a
reported wild animal in North America. These two forms are provisionally
equated, thus giving a formal name to the living animal known as sasquatch, or
bigfoot. Alternative taxonomic designations are also suggested in view of the
possibility that future discoveries might show this equation to be
incorrect.
- Attitudes
of Physical Anthropologists toward Reports of Bigfoot and Nessie
by J. Richard Greenwell and James E. King
In the summer
of 1978 we surveyed 300 America and Canadian scientists on their attitudes
toward the existence of the supposed Bigfoot (sasquatch) of Northwest America
and the unknown animals supposedly inhabiting Loch Ness, Scotland (hereinafter
called Nessie).
- Report on the
Film of a Supposed Sasquatch
by D.W. Grieve
The
following report is based on a copy of a 16mm. film taken by Roger Patterson
on October 20th, 1967, at Bluff Creek, Northern California, which was made
available to me by René Dahinden in December 1971. In addition to Patterson's
footage, the film includes a sequence showing a human being (height 6 ft. 5½
in.) walking over the same terrain.
- What Is The
Sasquatch?
by John Green
Based on a study of more
than 1,000 reported sightings of manlike monsters, this article presents a
statistical survey of the characteristics of the beings seen and of conditions
under which they were sighted. The author notes similarities between these
sightings and those contained in Russian studies. He concludes by making
inferences from the sightings concerning the nature and distribution of the
creature.
- The
Credibility of Sasquatch Witnesses
by Barbara Wasson
The approach to the Sasquatch question has traditionally been either from
the theoretical, anthropological aspect, or from the unorganized trial and
error techniques of the layman hunters and investigators. The first are
conceptualized as having only sat in their ivory towers, the second as having
rushed out into the wilderness in a frenzy chasing the tailless hairy monster.
Some slight emphasis has been put on the gathering and naieve statistical
analysis of the data. Some of the investigators have taped interviews of
witnesses to the alleged sasquatch sightings, tracks, and damage attributed to
our great hairy friend.
- Carved Stone
Heads of the Columbia River and Sasquatch
by Roderick
Sprague
Several prehistoric carvings collected in the lower
Columbia River valley share non-human but anthropoid features. A relationship
between these stone heads and Sasquatch phenomena is suggested.
- Bigfoot's
Screen Test
by David J. Daegling and Daniel O. Schmitt
Recent analyses propose that the 1967 film of "Bigfoot" documents a large,
feral nonhuman primate unknown to modern science. Known sources of measurement
error and existing data on human locomotion suggest a more cautious
conclusion.
- Tracking
Bigfoot on the Internet
by David Matthew Zuefle
Two
years of "hunting" Bigfoot in cyberspace tells you little about the
never-confirmed giant bipedal creature but a lot about those who hunt for it.
Some are sincere searchers; for others, the idea is a complex and flexible
belief system that serves multiple needs and roles.
- Dermal Ridge
Examination Report
by J. H. Chilcutt
Latent
Fingerprint Examiner's report on a footprint cast taken in Pike County,
Georgia in 1997.
- Sasquatch:
Size, Scaling, and Statistics
by W .H. Fahrenbach (in
three parts)
Measurements and estimates on Sasquatch dimensions,
collected over the last 40 years in the Western U.S and Canada, were subjected
to statistical analysis and extrapolation by scaling laws appropriate to
primates and mammals. The study has yielded average population values for foot
length and width, scaling factors of foot length to height, values for weight,
plantar pressure, walking and running gait, speed, and a tentative growth
curve as a function of time for the female of the species. The results suggest
a substantial population with traits different from those of other higher
primates and man.
- Toward a
Resolution of the Bigfoot Phenomenon
The 1998 NASI report by
Jeff Glickman (in three parts)
The Bigfoot phenomenon may
be the result of a combination of sociological origin, physical manifestation
through willful manufacture, and the by-product of cataloged and uncataloged
animals. Observational data related to the Bigfoot phenomenon is presented and
analyzed to identify its origin. Human and animal archetypes are used to
demonstrate the inclusion or exclusion of these archetypes within the
observations. An argument of continuity, the expectation that there may be a
continuous record of the existence of an organism, is employed to include or
exclude the possibility that the observations originate from an uncataloged
animal. The plausibility of an uncataloged animal is examined through
ecological analogy.
- Analysis of
Feces and Hair Suspected To Be Of Sasquatch Origin
by Vaughn M.
Bryant, Jr. and Burleigh Trevor-Deutsch
The authors have examined
five specimens of preserved feces and three specimens of animal hair suspected
to be of Sasquatch or Bigfoot origin. They find that two of the fecal and two
of the hair specimens are definitely attributable to known animals, but the
remaining samples are not. Recognizing the limited sample studied, they call
for further such analyses to ascertain the origin of the unidentified
specimens.
- Estimates of
Pitch and Vocal Tract Length from Recorded Vocalizations of Purported
Bigfoot
by R. Lynn Kirlin and Lasse Hertel
Having
analyzed a tape recording of purported Bigfoot speech using accepted
techniques of signal processing, the authors conclude that the means and
ranges of the recorded pitch and estimated vocal tract length of the speakers
indicate that the sounds were made by a creature with "vocal features
corresponding to a larger physical size than man." They also conclude that the
tape shows none of the expected signs of being prerecorded or rerecorded at
altered speed and hence diminish the probability of a hoax.
- Sasquatch and
Scientists: Reporting Scientific Anomalies
by Ron Westrum
This article explores the dilemma which confronts the observer of an
apparent scientific anomaly: should he report the phenomenon and face possible
ridicule or should he refrain from reporting and so question the reliability
of his own mind or senses? The author examines how the response of the public
and the media to observations or obvious hoaxes which resemble the observer's
experience may either inhibit or encourage reporting.
- Evaluation of Alleged
Sasquatch Footprints and their Inferred Functional Morphology
(external site)
by D. Jeffrey Meldrum
Throughout
the twentieth century, thousands of eyewitness reports of giant bipedal apes,
commonly referred to as Bigfoot or Sasquatch, have emanated from the montane
forests of the western United States and Canada. Hundreds of large humanoid
footprints have been discovered and many have been photographed or preserved
as plaster casts. As incredulous as these reports may seem, the simple fact of
the matter remains — the footprints exist and warrant evaluation. A sample of
over 100 footprint casts and over 50 photographs of footprints and casts was
assembled and examined, as well as several examples of fresh footprints.
- Population
Clines of the North American Sasquatch As Evidenced By Track Lengths and
Estimated Statures
by George W. Gill
This article
notes that there is a striking degree of internal consistency amongst reports
of purported Sasquatch sightings and footprints. The author applies zoological
rules of distribution to the reported stature, track length, and fur colour of
the creatures and finds that the conformity of sighted characteristics to
these rules is high. He concludes that such evidence argues against
considering all such sightings as hoaxes and that it supports the possibility
that these beings are natural phenomena.
- Preliminary
Description of the External Morphology of What Appeared to be the Fresh Corpse
of a Hitherto Unknown Form of Living Hominid
by Ivan T.
Sanderson
This paper describes the 'discovery' of the corpse of
what appears to be a hominoid type of anthropoid, fully clothed in hair,
preserved in ice in a glass-covered coffin that is kept at 5-degrees F.
- Film
Resolution
by W. H. Fahrenbach
In view of the renewed
vigor, not to mention imagination, that the Patterson movie frames are being
examined, I will repost this discussion on resolution (with verifying
recalculation and minimal changes) that went out about a year ago. Usually
such examination is done on prints that are magnified to or well beyond the
limit of profitable enlargement with the result that the optical "noise" of
the emulsion, usually called the grain, assumes a life of its own and invites
spurious and fanciful interpretations. In order to give would-be analysts a
cautionary yardstick, I provide the following details and
calculations.
General Interest
- The beast with
no name
In the depths of the Congo lives an elusive ape unlike any
other. What is this mysterious creature, asks Emma Young.
- The not so silly
Bili Ape
The Dark Continent may yet harbour secrets long after its
opening up by Western explorers. Karl Shuker examines the evidence for an
unknown species of great ape reported in the jungles of the Congo.
- Wanted: Dead or
Alive
The cryptozoological community is divided on whether America's
most famous mystery creature — Bigfoot — should be shot to provide a
scientific specimen. John Betts canvasses the opposing opinions of two leading
Sasquatch hunters.
- Will the real
Bigfoot please stand up?
Is this photo the evidence of Bigfoot we've
been waiting for? Bob Rickard dons his woodsman kit and heads, cautiously,
into the wilderness to find out.
- Man-beast hunts
in the Far East
Primates in remote regions are wrong-footing the
scientists
- The
Abominable Showman
The Minnesota Iceman melted mysteriously away after
prominent cryptozoologists pronounced it a genuine hominid in the late 1960s.
Ian Simmons, preparing for the Fortean exhibition 'Of Monsters and Miracles',
went in search of the fairground curiosity and met the creature's exhibitor,
the tractor-freak Frank Hansen.
- Thoughts on
the Patterson-Gimlin Footage
by John Green
Almost
thirty-seven years ago two young men from Yakima, Washington, Roger Patterson
and Bob Gimlin, emerged from a remote forest in the northwest corner of
California with a brief 16-millimeter film showing a hairy creature walking
along a sand bar on its hind legs, and the debate on whether their film shows
an unknown animal or a man wearing a fur suit has gone on ever since.
- Meet The
Sasquatch
by John Green
Early on an evening in mid
August of this year (1968) two men from Stewart, British Columbia were driving
down an old mine access road. They had been hunting grouse but were also on
the lookout for bear.
- The
Sasquatch
by James Halpin
To hear some of the
unlikely stories, the whole business sounds like a collection of tall tales,
legends or just plain superstition: A shaggy humanoid roams the alpine heights
of British Columbia, the coastal wilderness of Washington and even the
lonesome reaches of California's Sierras.
- Bigfoot
Lives
by Michael Schmeltzer
One by one, the
strange-looking pieces of plaster are removed from the shelves of a specimen
cabinet and laid ever so gently on a nearby tabletop.
- Tracking the
Swamp Monsters
by Joe Nickell
Do mysterious and
presumably endangered manlike creatures inhabit swamplands of the southern
United States? If not, how do we explain the sightings and even track
impressions of creatures that thus far have eluded mainstream science? Do they
represent additional evidence of the legendary Bigfoot or something else
entirely? What would an investigation reveal?
- Bigfoot
Proponent Comes to the End of the Trail
by Michael
Dennett
Leon Paul Freeman, a central figure in the hubbub that
passes for Bigfoot research, died on April 2, 2003, at age fifty-nine. His
position within the inner circle of Bigfoot enthusiasts was the result not
only of his prolonged activity but his alleged sighting — and subsequent
footprint discovery — in June 1982 of a huge, ape-like bipedal monster in the
Blue Mountains spanning the Oregon/Washington border.
- Our last
monster
by David Brewster
Kicked around for 50,000
years, mocked, driven into exile and pursued by eager bounty hunters how much
more can the Sasquatch endure?
- Looking for Mr
Big
by Ross Crockford
So far, John Bindernagel and
the rest of the Sasquatch hunters have only a few footprints and the famous
Patterson film to show for their efforts. But the search continues...
- A long, long
look at a Bigfoot!
by Vance Orchard
Except for the
1967 filming by Roger Patterson, there is not much to support belief in the
existence of a Bigfoot, other than the telling of experiences by persons
claiming to have seen one.
- Glimpsing the
Bushman
by John Bernard Bourne
When I came north, I
chuckled at tales of a tall, hairy creature. Until I saw something.
- The Bluff
Creek Tracks
by John Green
The tracks that were
observed in the Bluff Creek drainage in northern California in the 1950's are
not just another set of tracks that can easily be set aside as something
tainted by claims of fakery while other tracks are still presumed to be
genuine.
- Ray Wallace's
Hoax Claim
by John Green
So Ray Wallace supposedly
told his family that he created "Bigfoot" by walking around in California with
a pair of huge carved wooden feet, and his family supposedly believed
him.
- Bigfoot
by Philip L. Simpson
The North American equivalent of the
legendary "Abominable Snowman" or Yeti of the Himalayas, "Bigfoot," whether he
exists or not, has been a part of American popular culture since the late
1950s, with isolated reports stretching back even earlier.
- Results of the
New World Explorers Society Himalayan Yeti Expedition
by Marc E.
Miller and William Cacciolfi
In February and March, 1986, the New
World Explorers Society (NWES) conducted 14 days of on-site fieldwork in the
Khumbu region of the Himalayas.
- Yeti: The
Giant Cousin of Ramapithecus
Do the giant 'Ape like
Men'or 'Men like Apes' supposed to have been extinct, some 10-15 million years
ago still exist in Hindukush-Himalayas?
- The Creature
from the Avalanche
by David Helton
What did Tony
Wooldridge see and photograph standing in the melting snow on a Himalayan
mountainside? Was it, at last, a yeti? Wooldridge himself thinks so.
- First
Photos of the Yeti: An Encounter in North India
by Anthony B.
Wooldridge
In early March, 1986, the author observed and
photographed a large hominid-like animal which was believed to be the
Yeti.
- Cryptic Odds
J. Richard Greenwell of the International Society of Cryptozoology ranks
and reviews the 4 most well known of Bigfoot-type creatures.
- Almasty
Man
by J Richard Greenwell
Some 35,000 years ago,
modern humans appeared in Europe and Neanderthal humans disappeared. But was
their exit complete? And who are those hairy folk that people keep seeing in
the Caucasus?
- The Other
Orang
by Debbie Martyr
It has a man's face and a
gorilla's torso. Officially, it doesn't exist, but try telling that to the
people who've met it.
- Abominable
Jungle Men
by Ivan T. Sanderson
- To Be or Not to
Be: Arguments For and Against the Sasquatch
The existence of the
Sasquatch has been debated by scientists and Sasquatch watchers for several
decades, with heated and occasionally quite personal accusations lodged by
both sides.
- Mecheny, the
"marked" wildman of Siberia
by Maya Bykova
- New Bigfoot
Photo Investigation
Mark Chorvinsky investigates and reports on a
controversial new photo from one of the Bigfoot field's most neglected and
most important figures: Ray Wallace.
- A New Yeren
Investigation In China
by Grover S. Krantz
During
late May and early June of 1995 the author spent 17 days in the People's
Republic of China with Japan Television Workshop making a documentary on the
Yeren or Wildman. One of our projects while there was participate in an
expedition to Yuan Bau Mountain, in the Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region of
southern China, to interview two natives of the Miao nationality who had
claimed recent Yeren sightings.
- Are We Ready for
"Bigfoot" or the Loch Ness Monster?
Department of the Interior, Fish
and Wildlife Service news release December 21, 1977
- Sasquatch
Investigations in the Pacific Northwest, 1990
- Sasquatch
Investigations in the Pacific Northwest, 1991
- Sasquatch
Investigations in the Pacific Northwest, 1992
- Sasquatch
Investigations in the Pacific Northwest, 1994-96
by James A.
Hewkin
A series of field reports concerning continuing attempts to
obtain evidence for the Sasquatch (Bigfoot), a reported large, unknown primate
in North America.
- Close, but
still no cigar
by Ian Simmons
Promoters of Fortean
mysteries should allow investigators open access to original data and
witnesses. if they don't says Ian Simmons, they shouldn't be surprised at
being branded fakers.
- The Chinese
Yeti
by Myra Shackley
- A Hominologist's
View from Moscow, Russia
by Dmitri Bayanov
- Sasquatch, Fact
or Myth?
by Cliff Kopas
A creature that has dwelt for
centuries in the misty lands of fantasy may soon merge from its status as a
myth and in stark realism become a monster or even newly discovered type of
man. It is the Sasquatch of British Columbia, Canadian near relative of the
Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas and first cousin of Mr. Bigfoot of
California.
- The Strange
Story of America's Abominable Snowman
by Ivan T.
Sanderson
Somewhere in the wilds of California there is a gigantic
creature which walks on its hind legs, leaves huge human tracks, and is
scaring hell out of everybody. What is it? Nobody knows — yet.
- The
Bigfoot/Sasquatch FAQ
Adapted from Henry Franzoni's original IVBC FAQ
- I Killed The
Ape-Man Creature Of Whiteface
by Frank Hansen
For
years the "specimen" has fueled a raging battle among scientists — is it an
incredible hoax or a fantastic anthropological find? Now, for the first time
anywhere, the man responsible for the biggest controversy to hit the
scientific world in the part decade presents his own story to the public, and
leaves it to the reader to decide if it's fact or fiction.
- Abominable
Snowmen Are Here!
by Ivan T. Sanderson
Sooner or
later somebody always asks me: "You don't think there is such a thing as an
Abominable Snowman, do you?" My reply is always the same: "No. I believe there
are hundreds if not thousands of unknown anthropoids, of at least half a dozen
kinds, running all over five continents." And I usually add for good measure:
"But they're not men, none of them lives in snow, and we
have no right to call them abominable."
- Bigfoot: To Kill
Or To Film? The Problem of Proof
by Dmitri Bayanov
An
e-book about the "kill or film" controversy
- First Photos of
"Bigfoot" California's Legendary "Abominable Snowman"
by Ivan T.
Sanderson
- Bigfoot:
Man, Beast, or Myth?
by T. Jeff Williams
The number
of reports from respected people, the finding of footprints in areas too
remote for pranksters to expect success, lends credibility to the belief that
something is out there. But what?
- A Sasquatch
Field Project in Northern California: Report of the 1997 Six Rivers National
Forest Expedition
by J. Richard Greenwell, D. Jeffrey Meldrum,
Mark T. Slack, Darwin A, Greenwell
The fieldwork being reported
here is the first of what may be a series of such efforts over a number of
years. We conducted the fieldwork over a three-week period in August of 1997.
Specifically, our purpose was to attempt to apply and utilize, for the first
time, scientific methodology and specialized equipment in a remote field
setting with the aim of obtaining evidence for this supposed large bipedal
primate.
- Sasquatches In
Our Woods
by John Bindernagel
Cockamamie myth?
Pie-eyed bear sightings? Not so, says this B.C. wildlife biologist — these
creatures of folklore really exist.
- Introducing
B.C.'s Hairy Giants
by J. W. Burns
A collection of
strange tales about British Columbia's wild men as told by those who say they
have seen them.
- Preliminary
Report of the 1999 Six Rivers National Forest Expedition
by J.
Richard Greenwell
We have recently returned from the 1999 Six
Rivers National Forest Expedition, our third annual field project to this
area. The purpose of this project was to attempt to produce new evidence for
the supposed Sasquatch or Bigfoot, a large, bipedal primate said to inhabit
the forests of North America.
- Rumble in the
Jungle
by Sian Hall
Reports of mysterious beast-men
come from all corners of the globe. Some such as Bigfoot and Yeti, are well
known. Sian Hall reviews the less familiar South African traditions of
man-like creatures.
- The
Sasquatch
by Clayton Mack
A chapter from the book
Grizzlies and White Guys - The Stories of Clayton
Mack.