6. Harrison River Area, Plus Klemetu and the Nearby Islands off British Columbia Sasquatch habitats exist throughout British Columbia. You can also attend the annual International Sasquatch Symposium in Vancouver or go visit the Sasquatch (Dzunukwa) totem poles at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology. Campgrounds named Bigfoot and Sasquatch often have statues of the hairy primates at their entrance, especially in the Harrison Hot Springs area.
7. Pike National Forest, Colorado The sightings in the Pike National Forest are a local secret. One authentic road sign in the park warns motorists of frequent Bigfoot crossings.
8. Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon Mt. Hood has been an active Bigfoot area since the 1800s. The shops in nearby The Dalles, Oregon, usually have Bigfoot souvenirs because this town was formerly the location of Peter Byrne’s now defunct Bigfoot Research Center.
9. Payette National Forest, Idaho Payette National Forest is one of the hidden secrets of the Bigfoot world; much more is going on in Idaho than most people realize. Serious researchers only are allowed access to Jeff Meldrum’s collection of over one hundred Bigfoot casts at Idaho State University.
10. Jackson County, Murphysboro, Illinois The home of the Big Muddy Monster is a quiet town. Low-key local acknowledgments like T-shirts are hard to find but surface occasionally.
11. Tuscarawas-Coshocton Counties, Ohio On the edge of Appalachia, this is the territory of the Ohio Grassman. An annual Bigfoot conference takes place in Newcomers-town, where casts, books, T-shirts, and more are available.
12. St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana This is the stomping ground of the Honey Island Swamp Monster. Boat tour guides are aware of the monster’s history. An exhibit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans has a life-size representation of the monster.
13. Everglades-Big Cypress Swamp, Florida Active pockets of Skunk Ape encounters abound throughout the swampy environments. Shops along Alligator Alley carry artifacts from fake ape heads to T-shirts acknowledging the creatures.
14. Marion County, Texas Here lies Caddo Lake, a spooky spot linked to the Boggy Creek activities. An annual Bigfoot conference at Jefferson focuses on the Texas Bigfoot.
15. Pike County, Missouri This is the home of Momo, so active in the 1970s and still seen around today. Talks at the local Louisiana, Missouri, library occasionally discuss Momo’s place in Bigfoot history.
16. Allegheny-Fayette Counties, Pennsylvania Still haunted by the hairy relatives of Jan Clement’s Kong, this region is abuzz with Bigfoot stories. An annual East Coast Bigfoot Researchers Conference takes place in Jeannette.
17. Lake Louise-Jasper, Alberta Reports of the hairy giant of the woods date back to the 1800s in Lake Louise-Jasper. New reports come in yearly. The Natural History Museum, Clock Tower Village, in Banff, has a life-size exhibit of a Sasquatch.
18. Antelope Valley, California Antelope Valley sees a lot of unusual Bigfoot activity but does not get much publicity, even though it is so close to Los Angeles. South of the city, in Orange County, there is a little Bigfoot museum (with Gigantopithecus skull replica, Bigfoot casts, Bigfoot books) at Knott’s Berry Farm, near their Bigfoot Rapids water-rafting ride.
19. St. Clair-Sanilac-Huron-Tuscola-Saginaw Counties of Michigan The “thumb” of Michigan has seen decades of Bigfoot encounters, with possible migrations into the Sister Lakes and Monroe areas. Recent activity hints that this could be a good location for searches. The Michigan Magazine Museum on M33 between Fairview and Comins has an exhibit of a Bigfoot track cast taken near there.
20. Northern Maine Ninety-five percent of the state is covered in trees, and indications are that the down east side of the Appalachian Mountains, from Aroostook to Kennebec Counties, still serves as a route of activity for what the Micmacs called the Gugwes. In Sidney, look up Richard Brown to see his Bigfoot track casts. Jay Carr’s Outdoor Museum, all the way at the very end of Interstate 95, in Houlton, Maine, has a Bigfoot statue outdoors.
APPENDIX B
Scientific-Quality Replica Bigfoot Track Casts
For those interested in studying Bigfoot further, obtaining well-duplicated footprint casts is an important research and educational step. As early as 1959, Bob Titmus shared copies of his casts. In the 1960s, Roger Patterson sent a copy of a Bigfoot cast as part of the membership to his field research organization. In the 1990s, the International Society of Cryptozoology, a now-defunct scientific body, sold copies of the 1982 Grays Harbor casts to support their mission.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Grover Krantz began molding and recasting, with the assistance of anthropology graduate students, several certified Sasquatch footcasts in the same fashion he had employed to reproduce high-quality skulls of fossil hominids. Krantz wished to share with other Bigfooters and anthropologists this evidence of a unique new primate in America. Krantz passed away in 2002, but various companies and individuals are carrying on his legacy by distributing these artifacts.
Contact the following sources for more information on their products:
GLEN EVANS (private collector)
ADDRESS: 1612 Via Linda
Fullerton, California 92833-1574
E-MAIL: [email protected]
Bossburg, Washington, “Cripple Foot” Footprint Casts with Painted Bone Structure (both feet—right (deformed): 16.5 inches; left: 18 inches), 1969. Full-color, illustrated, foam-core-mounted informational poster included.
Bluff Creek, California, Footprint Cast (17 inches), 1964. Full-color, illustrated, foam-core-mounted informational poster included.
Blue Creek Mountain, Washington, Juvenile “Dermal Ridges” Footprint Cast (14.5 inches), 1967. Full-color, illustrated, foam-core-mounted informational poster included.
Blue Creek Mountain, Washington, Knuckles÷Thumb÷Thumbnail Cast (10 inches across), late 1980s.
Blue Creek Mountain, Washington, Full Hand Cast (11 inches from third digit to heel of hand, whitewashed by Bob Titmus), late 1980s.
BONE CLONES/KRONEN OSTEO
ADDRESS: 21416 Chase Street #1
Canoga Park, California 91304
E-MAIL: [email protected]
Bossburg, Washington, “Cripple Foot” Footprint Casts, 1969, licensed by Dr. Grover Krantz’s estate.
Gigantopithecus and Meganthropus skulls, reconstructed by Dr. Krantz, and also licensed for reproduction by Bone Clones by his estate.
SKULLS UNLIMITED INTERNATIONAL
ADDRESS: 10313 South Sunnylane Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73160
E-MAIL: [email protected]
Grays Harbor, Washington, Footprint Casts ( 38 × 18 cm; WFP-16 Replica Single; WFP-17 Replica Pair), 1982.
Contact expert tracker Zack Clothier ([email protected]) regarding the availability of his copies of various Bigfoot casts from around the country. He can also assist with instructions on the best techniques for locating and obtaining Bigfoot track casts, refined to the specifics of your locale’s fieldwork site.
Copies of or questions about field-obtained Bigfoot casts or other evidence would be appreciated by the author of this book. Contact me at: Loren Coleman, Post Office Box 360, Portland, Maine 04112.
e-mail: [email protected]
On the Matter of Style
The style of this book and the use of capitalization for the undiscovered primates under discussion (e.g., Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch, Abominable Snowman) follows the “manual of style” that has been adopted by the International Society of Cryptozoology’s editor, Richard Greenwell, and the ISC scientific, peer-reviewed journal, Cryptozoology. Greenwell details the proper capitalization of cryptozoological names, before and after discovery, in a footnote in Cryptozoology, volume 5 (1986), page 101. His formalization of this matter is furthermore based on what occurs in systematic zoology, firm ground indeed.
Greenwell is clear in his example:
Native name: okapi.
Western name for presumed, undiscovered animal: Okapi.
Common name after discovery and acceptance: okapi.
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For our extended use, this translates into:
Native name: yet-teh or yeti.
Western name for presumed, covered animal: Yeti.
Common name after discovery and acceptance: yeti.
and
Native name: oh-mah.
Western name for presumed, undiscovered animal: Bigfoot.
Common name after discovery and acceptance: bigfoot. Therefore, as Bigfoot has not technically been “accepted” by systematic zoology as of this date, the capitalized form will be employed in this book.
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