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Issue Date: Monday, May 14, 2012 Issue: Senior Issue 2012 Last Update: Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Early photo of Bigfoot. Could he really be out there? - Beery
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Does Bigfoot even exist? Is he out there living in the wilderness hiding from the world, hiding from the people of today’s towns?  People have been searching for the so called “Bigfoot” also known as the Sasquatch. There have been many different ‘sightings’ in many different places all over the world.

The Pacific Northwest of America has its Bigfoot: A hairy, ape-like, biped that stands seven to nine feet tall and weighs between 600 and 900 pounds. Bigfoot, or as it's often called in Canada, the Sasquatch, is mentioned in several Native American legends. In fact, the term "Sasquatch" is Indian for "hairy giant." A typical Bigfoot print is 17 inches long and 7 inches wide, while the average human footprint is 11 inches long and 4 inches wide. The Sasquatch footprint has no arch, double ball, and sometimes appears to have only 4 toes.

According to UnMuseum.org; the first sighting of a Sasquatch by a man apparently came in 1811 near what now is the town of Jasper, Alberta Canada. A trader named David Thompson found some strange footprints fourteen inches long and eight inches wide, with four toes. According to the same website, In 1967 Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin, Bigfoot buffs, announced they'd captured Bigfoot with a movie camera. They filmed a few seconds of an ape-like creature, apparently female, moving across a clearing near Bluff Creek in northern California. While the film is not perfectly clear, there is no mistaking the creature in the film for a common animal. The movie shows either a real Bigfoot or a man in a clever costume. Nobody has ever proved the film fake, though some viewers were suspicious about the unnatural stride the creature had. One scientist who viewed the film, John Napier, of the Smithsonian Institution, admitted, "I couldn't see the zipper, and I still can't.”

Well we all guess if Bigfoot is real or not, but the golden question is, do you believe in Bigfoot?

http://www.unmuseum.org/bigfoot.htm


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