Sherpas guiding a
Japanese Everest Expedition are woken by a Yeti peering
into their tent .
. .
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A
notorious short piece of cine-film shot in 1967 at Bluff Creek, in north
California, near the Oregon Border, appears to show a female Bigfoot
casually walking away from the camera. The creature had allegedly been
active in the area ten years previously, plaguing a team of road-builders
not only by leaving convincing footprints, but also by playfully moving
heavy equipment about. In October 1967, two men — Roger Patterson and
Bob Gimlin — were on a Bigfoot expedition in the area when they suddenly
came across this one, standing by a creek. Patterson seized his
cine-camera and shot several feet before the film ran out. The film has
been hotly contested over the years, with claims that a confederate in an
animal skin impersonated the creature; but Patterson and Gimlin stuck to
their story, which has never been convincingly demolished. This is the best of
all the evidence ever offered.
In every mountain range in the world live people who tell stories of a strange,
lumbering, manlike creature; of footprints too large to belong to any human; of
isolated communities living in fear of a monster that goes by many names.
Whatever the name, the description is roughly the same; height,
up to 10 feet; weight, about 300 pounds; appearance, hairy and apelike, but
walks upright on two legs; species, unknown.
Living in impenetrable woods appears to be a characteristic of these creatures
everywhere they are sighted, thus supporting the theory that they are
evolutionary dropouts seeking refuge from an inimical world.
The late
Ivan T. Sanderson —
world famous zoologist and writer who published exhaustively in scientific
journals under the auspices of the
British Museum, the
Chicago Museum of Natural History and other institutions, holding degrees with honors from
Cambridge University, in Botany, Zoology, and Geology (he also studied
Anatomy and Physical Anthropology) — accumulated material for over 30 years
on the subject of mysterious man-beasts. According to his research and work,
not one, but possibly four separate types of these creatures still walk the earth!
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