The Search for Bigfoot
Reading this article, I’m a bit confused. I always thought that Bigfoot lived in the Northwest of the United States, but then again not all camp stories can be true I suppose. Good luck to the adventurers described below. I can’t help but think it’s a little weird and more than a bit coincidental that the leader of the expedition is named Matthew Moneymaker. Go figure.
Researchers will visit Michigan’s Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the legendary creature known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch."
The expedition will focus on eastern Marquette County, said Matthew Moneymaker of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.
"We’ll be looking for evidence supporting a presence. … We hope to meet local people who might have seen a Sasquatch or heard of someone else who had an encounter," Moneymaker told the Daily Press of Escanaba.
The legend of Bigfoot dates back centuries. But skeptics have challenged accounts of sightings, and practical jokers have staged hoaxes that have included grainy film footage of people dressed in costumes.
But Moneymaker said members of his organization have either glimpsed Bigfoot or gotten close enough to hear the creature in all but three of 30 expeditions in the United States and Canada.
The late Grover Krantz, a Washington State University professor who specialized in cryptozoology, the study of creatures that have not been proven to exist, believed Bigfoot was a "gigantopithecus," a branch of primitive man believed to have existed 3 million years ago.
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Actually, there have been and currently are sasquatch sightings in every state in the continental U.S. except Hawaii. People seem to assume they’re holed up in the Pacific NW but they’re pretty much wherever large uninhabited tracts of land are. Oklahoma has more sightings and encounters than the NW, with midwestern states like Missouri, Indiana and Michigan close behind.
I remember stories about the “hairy man of the woods” and the “werewolf” that supposedly lived in the vast wooded areas surrounding my hometown in Illinois till a friend and I had our own encounter in 1981. I suspect if you talk to an elderly friend or relative no matter what their location they’ll have similar stories, told in confidence of course. For some reason people just can’t handle the thought of something that large that close to civilization, and after a sighting will endure silence rather than ridicule. But the stories still somehow get out and passed down -if you ask and find out.
I agree Moneymaker is a tragically suspect name for someone heading a group trying to prove a rare creature’s existence, but he was born with it long before he started the group.
One more thing, that press release chaps my hide. Near the end it says Gigantopithecus was a branch of primitive man. It was a branch of giant *ape*, not man, and it shows an unprofessional lack of investigation by whatever hack journalist wrote the release .
-Graf
[...] remains are merely those of a coyote. Better luck next time folks. Remember, there’s always Sasquatch and the Yeti, not to mention Nessie down in Loch Ness. True believers, keep the dream [...]
you do know bigfoot is a lie
wow who ever think this is real is a loser