Bigfoot
Bigfoot also known popularly as the Sasquatch,
Momo, Skunk Ape, the list
goes on and on, is without a doubt, the most famous
of all hairy man-like
creatures. The following will make you a believer in
this overseen creature, it
made me one. Bigfoot is seen in every possible
location throughout the North
American Continent, mountains, swamps,
forests, crossing desolate and some not
so desolate roadways and on open
farmland. While its demeanor varies from docile
to curios to almost
threatening, its general appearance varies. Bigfoot is a
massive animal, its
average height is seven and a half feet tall, its weight is
said be between
400-500 pounds. It is covered almost completely in fur, and its
fur ranges in
color from the moist widespread dark red-brown to brown, black,
red, gray and
even white. It leaves its footprints behind as a calling card,
almost
taunting the researchers that feverently research this undiscovered
animal.
While its prints resemble mans,they are characteristically large
in
comparison, and instead of the weight distribution being concentrated
under the
heel and ball as in the arched human foot, the weight distribution
is more
evenly distributed over the flat, yielding Bigfoot foot. Most often
the prints
have five toes, occasionally however the tracks are apparently
three toed. The
three toed tracks can be theorized several ways; that there
is a unique variety
of Bigfoot in existence, while resembling the five toed
Bigfoot closely, it
retains a few distinguishing characteristics; another
theory is that some soil
conditions can cause the toes of Bigfoot to 'clump'
together. The proportion of
three toed tracks in comparison to the five toed
tracks seems to indicate that
three toes is the exception to the norm, and
that it is the result of some
environmental peculiarity. The main physical
characteristics attributed to
Bigfoot, other than size and foot shape,
are that it is bipedal and upright, has
wide shoulders and a heavy brow
ridge. Its eyes are sometimes said to appear to
be red in color, but are
mainly reported as yellow. Although no discernible
language has ever been
placed with Bigfoot creatures, they are very vocal.
Witnesses have
reported high pitched wails and low, growling roars, either
before and/or
after visually spotting a Sasquatch. On some occasions the sounds
have been
heard from two or more locations at the same time, apparently
in
communication with one another. Another possible form of communication
between
Bigfoot is the use of rocks or wood to make banging noises. Quite
a few reports
associate the odd repetitive banging sounds with Bigfoot, and
at times witnesses
have heard the sounds from two spots in the woods,
indicating communication, or
warnings of some sort. Some say the modern
Bigfoot legend was born in America in
1958, when, in the Bluff Creek
Valley region of California, a bulldozer operator
named Jerry Crew discovered
a series of sixteen inch long and seven inch wide
footprints in the mud. The
tracks literally covered the ground , they were
everywhere. The tracks went
up hills and down trenches, in place where man could
not walk. Crew and his
team had noticed the tracks like this for weeks, but for
the first time, made
a plaster cast. The truth is Bigfoot were sighted long
before 1958. Almost
all Native American cultures contain legends of creatures
that closely
resemble Bigfoot, and some reports indicate that early explorers
saw these
creatures also. Most 18th and 19th century sightings by
Non-Native
Americans refer to the creature as a wild man, or ape-man.
They were seen up and
down the east coast of the US and Canada, and the
deeper into the frontier
regions settlers moved, the move sightings occurred.
Bigfoot almost never
display aggressiveness behavior, and only one known case
has contact with a
Bigfoot resulted in death. There was a case of a
Bigfoot abducting a man while
he slept in his sleeping bag; in 1942 Albert
Postman was on a prospecting trip
at the head of the Tuba inlet, opposite
Vancouver.