{"id":3066,"date":"2020-11-10T17:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T22:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2022-11-09T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:14:44","slug":"the-legend-of-bigfoot-a-primer-on-the-mysterious-sasquatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/the-legend-of-bigfoot-a-primer-on-the-mysterious-sasquatch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Bigfoot: A Primer On The Mysterious Sasquatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>#kt-layout-id_71f8a0-6d > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_71f8a0-6d > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_71f8a0-6d > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_71f8a0-6d > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_71f8a0-6d > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_71f8a0-6d > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_71f8a0-6d\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_71f8a0-6d\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_91ce20-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_91ce20-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_91ce20-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_91ce20-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_91ce20-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_91ce20-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_91ce20-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_91ce20-8f{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_91ce20-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_91ce20-8f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_91ce20-8f\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p><strong><br>What Is A Cryptid? Let\u2019s start there!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to \u201ccryptids\u201d\u2014that is, creatures alleged to exist that have not been confirmed by science\u2014top honors for the greatest share of worldwide fame probably boil down to three. We\u2019re talking Nessie, the plesiosaur-like lake monster of Scotland\u2019s Loch Ness, for sure. The other two are big, hairy hominids: the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, of the Himalaya and his North American counterpart, Bigfoot or Sasquatch.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_f53e1d-75 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_f53e1d-75 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_f53e1d-75 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_f53e1d-75 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_f53e1d-75 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_f53e1d-75 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_f53e1d-75\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_f53e1d-75\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_1ec4ae-b8\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Bigfoot-has-become-ingrained-in-the-popular-psyche.jpg\" alt=\"Famous Bigfoot Sightings\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bigfoot has become legitimately ingrained in the popular psyche in both the United States and Canada, and most especially in the hulking biped\u2019s \u201cclassic\u201d (but not exclusive) homeland of the Pacific Northwest. The dense, dripping, temperate rainforests of that region\u2019s maritime realm\u2014from Northern California up to coastal British Columbia and southeastern Alaska\u2014are the quintessential stomping ground of Bigfoot, though a fair amount of Sasquatch lore hails from the vast backwoods of the Inland Northwest as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet Bigfoot\u2019s also claimed to be a resident of timbered haunts far from this zone, including the Southern Rockies, the Midwest, Atlantic Canada, and the Appalachians\u2014and meanwhile he appears to have a bevy of close cousins leaving giant spoor all the way from the Mogollon Rim of Arizona to the mosquito-swarmed swamps of Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, in fact, with a more international perspective, Bigfoot might be considered merely the North American representative of a whole family tree of smelly, hirsute apemen: not only frosty-coated Yeti, but also Yah Ren of western China, Quidili of the Caucasus, Almas of Central Asia, and countless others. Whether you relegate these figures to the realm of mythology or cast your allegiance to the \u201chominologists\u201d who hunt for physical evidence of yet-undescribed close simian relatives of ours, it\u2019s pretty clear that the collective human subconscious is haunted, one way or another, by visions of big, shaggy, wild versions of our own kind.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image_0143cc-b9 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image_0143cc-b9\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-legend-of-bigfoot-and-sasquatch-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-3157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-legend-of-bigfoot-and-sasquatch-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-legend-of-bigfoot-and-sasquatch-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-legend-of-bigfoot-and-sasquatch-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-legend-of-bigfoot-and-sasquatch-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-legend-of-bigfoot-and-sasquatch-700x366.jpg 700w, https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-legend-of-bigfoot-and-sasquatch.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_02e0a6-61 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_02e0a6-61 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_02e0a6-61 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_02e0a6-61 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_02e0a6-61 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_02e0a6-61 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_02e0a6-61\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_02e0a6-61\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_c3f689-38 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_c3f689-38 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_c3f689-38 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_c3f689-38 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_c3f689-38 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_c3f689-38 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_c3f689-38 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_c3f689-38{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_c3f689-38 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_c3f689-38 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_c3f689-38\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Introducing Bigfoot<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we go any farther, we probably ought to provide a snapshot of the cryptid in question. Considered broadly, the sheer tonnage of Bigfoot descriptions suggests a basic look (and odor): a bipedal primate or primate look-alike, covered in thick hair ranging from reddish to black, standing anywhere from six to more than twice that tall, and altogether foul-smelling. While Bigfoot is often portrayed as silent in many encounters, it\u2019s also said to emit high-pitched shrieks and howls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And despite its imposing size and burliness, the picture of Bigfoot we get from the majority of modern accounts is one of a shy, unaggressive animal\u2014although, as we\u2019ll see, many of the American Indian stories often linked to Bigfoot, plus some of the 19th- and early 20th-century allegations of the cryptid, paint a somewhat more antagonistic impression.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_d30b42-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_d30b42-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_d30b42-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_d30b42-87 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_d30b42-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_d30b42-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_d30b42-87\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_d30b42-87\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_2317fa-ed > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_2317fa-ed > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_2317fa-ed > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_2317fa-ed > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_2317fa-ed > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_2317fa-ed > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_2317fa-ed > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_2317fa-ed{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_2317fa-ed > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_2317fa-ed > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_2317fa-ed\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sasquatch-in-Indigenous-North-America.jpg\" alt=\"Some tribes really love Bigfoot\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sasquatch in Indigenous North America<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSasquatch\u201d is an anglicized derivative of the Halq\u2019emeylen (Coast Salish) word&nbsp;<em>se\u2019sxac<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>sasq\u2019ets<\/em>, roughly meaning \u201cwild man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the power of the Bigfoot story is the connections it has to American Indian legends, stories, and beliefs, in other words, it has deeper roots to this continent than the various other \u201cman-beast\u201d claims from Euro-Americans and Euro-Canadians over merely the past few centuries. Many indigenous cultures in North America tell tales of \u201cwild men\u201d of one kind or another, and certainly the tribes of the Pacific Northwest have rich mythology along these lines. The Kwakiutl speak of Bukwas, the \u201cWild Man\u201d; the Puyallup and Nisqually of the Puget Basin feared visits to their fishing villages by the Tsiatko, hirsute giants of the mountains with owl-like calls. The Yakima on the east sides of the Cascade Range refer to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonencyclopedia.org\/articles\/bigfoot_sasquatch_legend\/#.X3EZg5NKiRs\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cStick Indians,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;mischievous, thieving figures that have been connected to Bigfoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service, Kathy Moskowitz Strain, who wrote the book&nbsp;<em>Giants, Cannibals, and Monsters: Bigfoot in Native Culture<\/em>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/adventure\/outdoors\/a23622082\/bigfoot-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">told&nbsp;<em>Popular Mechanics<\/em>&nbsp;in 2019<\/a>, \u201cSome tribes really love Bigfoot, they have a great relationship with him. To other tribes though, like the Miwoks, he\u2019s an absolute ogre, a monster, and something best left alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_b2ec12-8b > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_b2ec12-8b > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_b2ec12-8b > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_b2ec12-8b > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_b2ec12-8b > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_b2ec12-8b > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_b2ec12-8b\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_b2ec12-8b\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_61c0ec-de > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_61c0ec-de > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_61c0ec-de > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_61c0ec-de > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_61c0ec-de > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_61c0ec-de > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_61c0ec-de > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_61c0ec-de{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_61c0ec-de > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_61c0ec-de > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_61c0ec-de\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Famous Historic Sightings of Bigfoot<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, tallying the number of alleged Bigfoot sightings from all corners of the U.S. and Canada would be a fool\u2019s errand (not that there aren\u2019t droves of Sasquatch fanatics dutifully trying to compile them all). But it\u2019s certainly worth describing some of the truly iconic and historical run-ins that have helped build our modern conception of this all-around celebrity of a cryptid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name \u201cBigfoot\u201d wasn\u2019t applied to the hairy forest giants of the North American wilderness until 1958, when a bulldoze operator named Gerry Crew made plaster casts of epic footprints he found along a muddy road near Bluff Creek in the backlands of Northern California. He referred to whatever hefty brute made the tracks as \u201cBigfoot,\u201d and the name stuck. (It\u2019s worth noting that \u201cBigfoot\u201d was, nonetheless, a moniker in pretty wide currency in the American West earlier than this, as it was used more than once to label large grizzly bears that became infamous for killing livestock and\/or eluding hunters.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But tales of Bigfoot-esque beasts certainly predate Crew\u2019s footprints in the annals of early white settlement of the North American continent. In 1811, David Thompson wrote of finding huge footprints, some 14 inches by 8 inches, in the drainage of the Athabasca River in the Canadian Rockies\u2014often pegged as an early reference to Sasquatch, though Thompson reckoned they were likely left by a bear.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_8a1231-48 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_8a1231-48 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_8a1231-48 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_8a1231-48 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_8a1231-48 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_8a1231-48 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_8a1231-48\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_8a1231-48\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_2d367b-0f > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_2d367b-0f > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_2d367b-0f > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_2d367b-0f > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_2d367b-0f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_2d367b-0f > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_2d367b-0f > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_2d367b-0f{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_2d367b-0f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_2d367b-0f > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_2d367b-0f\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Baumans-Tale-via-TR.jpg\" alt=\"Theodore Roosevelt heard about the Bigfoot\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><br>Bauman\u2019s Tale, via T.R.<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Theodore Roosevelt recorded a chilling story in his 1893 tract&nbsp;<em>The Wilderness Hunter<\/em>&nbsp;that he heard from an old mountain man named Bauman. It concerned a beaver-trapping expedition Bauman and a companion had taken long before into a remote Rocky Mountain valley in the Montana Territory. An unseen animal leaving large bipedal tracks trashed their camp and made unearthly noises around it at night\u2014unnerving developments that ultimately convinced the two trappers to get out of dodge. On their day of departure, after Bauman had gone out alone to retrieve the last of their traps, he returned to camp to find his partner dead, with a broken neck showing fang marks.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_392a4e-d6 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_392a4e-d6 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_392a4e-d6 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_392a4e-d6 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_392a4e-d6 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_392a4e-d6 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_392a4e-d6\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_392a4e-d6\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_dc6dee-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_dc6dee-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_dc6dee-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_dc6dee-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_dc6dee-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_dc6dee-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_dc6dee-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_dc6dee-d2{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_dc6dee-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_dc6dee-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_dc6dee-d2\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Ape-Canyon-Fight.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific Northwest are rife with Sasquatch lore\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Ape Canyon \u201cFight\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Certain corners of the Pacific Northwest are especially rife with Sasquatch lore, among the most notable (along with Northern California) being the vicinity of Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington. Mount St. Helens\u2014known in native Salishan tongue as Loowit\u2014is, of course, best-known today for being the most active and volatile of the Cascade Range volcanoes, having unleashed a catastrophic eruption, in May 1980, that ranks among the most significant natural disasters in modern U.S. history. But this brooding stratovolcano, set off by her lonesome well west of the main Cascade Crest, might also be considered a nexus of Bigfoot activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spend much time exploring the isolated country around Mount St. Helens\u2014rugged and bedraggled timberlands snarled with logging roads\u2014and it\u2019s easy to fall under the Bigfoot spell. That\u2019s especially so if you know some of the local folklore. Native peoples referred to a cannibalistic race,&nbsp;<em>skoocums<\/em>, resident in this vicinity. And in 1924, one of the most famous\u2014and dramatic\u2014alleged Bigfoot encounters went down within shouting distance of Loowit. That summer, a group of gold prospectors&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/history\/2018\/01\/1924_bigfoot_battle_on_mt_st_h.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed to have run into four \u201cgorilla men\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;about eight miles from Spirit Lake, the large body of water northeast of Mount St. Helens (then widely known for its postcard beauty, later for becoming clogged with sediment and blasted logs after the 1980 eruption). The men fired on these ape creatures, and believed one had been killed in the encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That night, back at their cabin in the defile now known as Ape Canyon, the prospectors were allegedly set upon by the vengeful \u201cgorilla men,\u201d who hurled large rocks at the structure and tore open a hole in the roof. Their story was widely shared in the press and even prompted an investigation by the Forest Service, which, needless to say, didn\u2019t go anywhere. An&nbsp;<em>Oregonian<\/em>&nbsp;story from the time relayed the miners\u2019 description of those gorilla men, which were estimated to be on the order of 400 pounds each: \u201cThey are covered with long, black hair. Their ears are about four inches long and stick straight up. They have four toes, short and stubby.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_ed5381-38 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_ed5381-38 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_ed5381-38 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_ed5381-38 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_ed5381-38 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_ed5381-38 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_ed5381-38\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_ed5381-38\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_3dbb3c-f1\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Abducted-by-Sasquatch.jpg\" alt=\"Squatches over a fire\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Abducted by Sasquatch<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1950s, one Albert Ostman claimed he\u2019d been kidnapped by a Sasquatch family in 1924 when he was camping by himself in coastal British Columbia. This was a multi-day ordeal that, in Ostman\u2019s telling, ends up sounding really rather laidback\u2014though it started off, he claimed, with a large Bigfoot throwing him over his shoulder and hauling him roughly to the family cave. There Ostman was held captive for days, guarded over by females and impressing the gang by cooking meat brought back by the male \u2018Squatches over a fire. He eventually escaped after one of his captors ingested some of Ostman\u2019s snuff and the whole apeman crew became distracted.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_227abb-2b > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_227abb-2b > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_227abb-2b > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:26px;grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_227abb-2b > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_227abb-2b > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_227abb-2b > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_227abb-2b\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_227abb-2b\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_2d031e-71 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_2d031e-71 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_2d031e-71 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_2d031e-71 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_2d031e-71 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_2d031e-71 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_2d031e-71 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_2d031e-71{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_2d031e-71 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_2d031e-71 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_2d031e-71\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Patterson-Gimlin-Film.jpg\" alt=\"Patterson-Gimlin Film has inspired multiple generations of cryptozoologists\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><br>The Patterson-Gimlin Film<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no more famous piece of Bigfoot evidence than the so-called Patterson-Gimlin Film, a short length of footage captured in 1967 in the Klamath Mountains of Northern California by Robert Patterson and Bob Gimlin. Along Bluff Creek in the Six Rivers National Forest\u2014the very same drainage where Gerry Crew found those footprints nearly a decade before\u2013the two men caught about a minute of film showing what Patterson claimed was a female Bigfoot (since nicknamed \u201cPatty\u201d), striding rather unhurriedly away and tossing a few glances over her shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That encounter\u2014which also turned up some footprints in the alluvium\u2014has been vigorously debated ever since, but no question that the Patterson-Gimlin Film has inspired multiple generations of cryptozoologists and Bigfoot obsessives.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_bbdc39-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_bbdc39-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_bbdc39-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_bbdc39-87 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_bbdc39-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_bbdc39-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_bbdc39-87\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_bbdc39-87\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_974ecb-41 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_974ecb-41 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_974ecb-41 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_974ecb-41 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_974ecb-41 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_974ecb-41 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_974ecb-41 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_974ecb-41{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_974ecb-41 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_974ecb-41 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_974ecb-41\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Controversy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it really possible that, in this day and age, a creature as large as Bigfoot can remain mostly hidden from view\u2014and completely outside formal scientific verification? Why don\u2019t we have confirmed Bigfoot carcasses or bones, as we do of every other living mammal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Needless to say, these are questions to which the conventional scientific community has a ready answer: because Bigfoot isn\u2019t real. It\u2019s a myth that dreamers, suckers, charlatans, and snake-oil salesmen have perpetuated all these decades\u2014driven, variously, by overactive imaginations, mystical or paranormal proclivities, gullible personalities, or old-fashioned, get-rich-quick greed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_16cd76-49 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_16cd76-49 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_16cd76-49 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_16cd76-49 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_16cd76-49 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_16cd76-49 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_16cd76-49\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_16cd76-49\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_e2ca05-fd > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_e2ca05-fd > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_e2ca05-fd > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_e2ca05-fd > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_e2ca05-fd > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_e2ca05-fd > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_e2ca05-fd > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_e2ca05-fd{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_e2ca05-fd > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_e2ca05-fd > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_e2ca05-fd\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Bigfoot-Sighting-Map.jpg\" alt=\"finding the true bigfoot\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The footprints? Mostly faked, and otherwise mistakenly identified bear tracks. The pictures, videos, and eyewitness sightings? When they aren\u2019t all-out fraudulent (accomplices wearing cheap gorilla suits) or imagined, explainable as glimpses of black bears dashing across boondock roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We mentioned earlier those footprints found by Gerry Crew in 1958 that launched the whole \u201cBigfoot\u201d name\u2014well, those, as it happens, were fakes. The hoax was revealed by its perpetrator, construction worker Ray Wallace, just before his death in 2002. Many other Bigfoot reports have been definitely exposed as deliberate frauds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, believers remain in abundance, all around the world, and not all scientists are so quick to flat-out deny Bigfoot\u2019s existence. Such high-profile biologists as George Schaller and Jane Goodall have at least entertained the possibility that Bigfoot\u2014whatever it might be\u2014is a flesh-and-blood creature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the most prominent Bigfoot researchers is a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.isu.edu\/biology\/people\/faculty---professors\/jeffrey-meldrum\/\">Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum<\/a>, who edits a journal called&nbsp;<em>The Relict Hominoid Inquiry<\/em>; he doesn\u2019t self-classify as a Bigfoot \u201cbeliever,\u201d because he\u2019s convinced the beast exists based on the physical evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Patterson-Gimlin Film is interesting in that it has, thus far, been impossible to completely explain away, despite the prevailing opinion that it shows nothing more than a person in a gorilla suit (or analogous outfit). Indeed, in 2005, a&nbsp;<em>National Geographic Channel&nbsp;<\/em>documentary featured the supposed confession of one Bob Hieronimous, who claimed to be, wearing a costume, the lady Bigfoot in that much-scrutinized reel. Yet Hieronimous\u2019s testimony has itself come under heavy question, and it\u2019s safe to say the matter\u2019s far from settled. Many have tried to duplicate the basic look and gait of \u201cPatty\u201d in the Patterson-Gimlin footage\u2014the walking pattern, the play of sunshine on the fur, the shift of alleged muscle under said fur\u2014with prosthetics, and it\u2019s been surprisingly hard.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_f4a773-15 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_f4a773-15 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_f4a773-15 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_f4a773-15 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_f4a773-15 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_f4a773-15 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_f4a773-15\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_f4a773-15\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_60bc20-c0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_60bc20-c0 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_60bc20-c0 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_60bc20-c0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_60bc20-c0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_60bc20-c0 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_60bc20-c0 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_60bc20-c0{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_60bc20-c0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_60bc20-c0 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_60bc20-c0\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techwriteredc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sasquatch-Kin.jpg\" alt=\"Sasquatch is highly savvy primate\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Many who are convinced that Bigfoot is real believe the shaggy giant to be some primate relative of ours\u2014maybe even a very close cousin. It\u2019s often been suggested that Sasquatch is a relict population of an ancient hominid line: perhaps a surviving stock of the titanic Pleistocene ape known as&nbsp;<em>Gigantopithecus<\/em>, or even the descendant of some hideout australopithecine lineage that made it over to North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even in this day and age of Google Earth, the terrain of the Pacific Northwest\u2014dominated by rough and steep mountains cloaked in some of the thickest, most tangled temperate forest in the world\u2014and its dark, rainy weather make for a mysterious landscape with plenty of remote, hard-to-access corners. This eternal frontier, Bigfoot believers contest, provides\u2014like the alpine wilderness of the Himalaya, supposed haunt of the Yeti\u2014a sanctuary for a creature that may also be behaviorally disposed to staying out of sight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Sasquatch is some yet-undescribed, highly savvy primate,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bfro.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization suggests<\/a>, \u201cthis species, having likely evolved alongside humans, became astonishingly adept at avoiding human contact through a process of natural selection.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_158c70-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_158c70-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_158c70-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);padding-top:var( --global-kb-row-default-top, 25px );padding-bottom:var( --global-kb-row-default-bottom, 25px );padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}#kt-layout-id_158c70-87 > .kt-row-layout-overlay{opacity:0.30;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){#kt-layout-id_158c70-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){#kt-layout-id_158c70-87 > .kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_158c70-87\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_158c70-87\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-1-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_0d9d20-88 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_0d9d20-88 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_0d9d20-88 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_0d9d20-88 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_0d9d20-88 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_0d9d20-88 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_0d9d20-88 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_0d9d20-88{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_0d9d20-88 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_0d9d20-88 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_0d9d20-88\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sasquatch Kin<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll close here by noting that Bigfoot\u2019s apparent cousins aren\u2019t only to be found in remote taiga and snowfields in Asia: there\u2019s a whole cast of hairy characters in America sharing physical characteristics with Sasquatch and boasting their own local mythos. Perhaps the most widely known of the Bigfoot brethren is the Skunk Ape, an ill-smelling denizen of the swamps, backwaters, and brush of the American Southeast and particularly Florida. Another bottomland-dwelling, apelike character is the Honey Island Swamp Monster of Louisiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there are the Fouke Monster of southwestern Arkansas\u2019 Piney Woods, the Mogollon Monster of the extensive ponderosa woodlands along Arizona\u2019s Mogollon Rim, Ohio\u2019s Grassman\u2014no shortage, in other words, of Sasquatchian lookalikes in places far removed from the conifer cathedrals of the Northwest.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigfoot is considered the North American representative of a whole family tree of hirsute apemen. 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