Bigfoot in America (Sasquatch)

American Bigfoot investigator finds new footprints
Sasquatch print: Not everyone agrees with Bothell-area man

Bigfoot believer shows his proof
TACOMA, Washington - One night 54 years ago, Cliff Crook says, he stared into the face of a Northwest boogeyman. He called it a "woods giant." Today, it's better known as Bigfoot. "I had a real terrifying encounter," says Crook, now 69. "It's not something that goes away." He remembers the towering size, the ape-like face, the gurgling sound in the dark. He remembers the dog that charged into the bushes and then was tossed out and crashed onto the ground.

He remembers running away with three younger camping buddies. They arrived home a mile away, their bare feet bleeding. His friends’ parents weren’t too happy with him. “They didn’t want them around me anymore,” Crook recalled last week. The encounter fueled a lifelong obsession by Crook with the hairy ape-like creature.

He calls himself “America’s first Bigfoot investigator.” Others call him a hoaxer and an attention grabber. Crook appeared on the front page of The News Tribune in 1990 when some mushroom hunters found possible Bigfoot footprints near the Nisqually River. Crook found the prints credible. He called The News Tribune recently to announce more Bigfoot footprint news, what he called the biggest find in 30 years. More>>

Big Foot filmmaker sets sights on Humboldt
Franklin Stover (Humboldt Beacon)
A resident of Nevada City, California, William Barnes is a modern-day explorer whose strong sense of wonder fuels his drive to uncover age-old mysteries that have haunted humankind for centuries. While some have written off Big Foot as a corny hoax after the Roger Patterson film of 1967 was widely discredited, many go on in search of the allusive man-beast, undetered in their quest for cryptozoological truth.

Having seen the creature with his own two eyes, Barnes is convinced there is something to the stories, and is determined to set out in July to capture photographic proof of the creature. To help rally support around the investigation, Barnes set up a website (bigfoot24-7.com) and described his search as “the most penetrating search for Sasquatch/Bigfoot ever conducted in North America.” More>>

Could Bigfoot be on Sand Mountain?
Lionel Green (The Reporter)
A new Bigfoot research group is forming in Alabama. Hawk Spearman, who co-founded the now-defunct Alabama chapter of the Elusive Primates of North America, is helping launch the Southeastern Crypto Society. Oneonta residents Hawk and his wife, Karen, are avid Bigfoot enthusiasts... The old group had investigated some areas of Sand Mountain. The new group spent some time investigating strange reports near Weiss Lake in DeKalb County two weekends ago. “We heard a few vocalizations pretty far off in the distance,” Hawk said. More>>

• Museum exhibit explores history of Sasquatch
  "Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch" does not attempt to prove or disprove the existence of Sasquatch. Instead, it looks at how and why the story is so ingrained in the cultural fabric of the Northwest. The story of Sasquatch certainly goes far beyond the 1987 movie "Harry and the Hendersons" or recent beef jerky TV commercials. It has been told for centuries among Northwest Indian tribes. That mix of ancient mythology and modern commercialism is the focal point of a Sasquatch exhibit that opened Saturday at the Washington State History Museum.
• Bigfoot and God
  “I Found Bigfoot” (Jan. 14)... “Things” did roam California early on. When I was a girl playing in a Sierras forest, I came upon a 12-foot granite rock that had the head of a crocodile and an oval back, with a broken-off tail. Whatever legs it once had were melted away, but the curve of a shoulder showed near its short neck. A baby snuggled alongside. I conjecture that it was a concretion of an ancient saurid.