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Seriously Seeking Sasquatch

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on May 14th, 2007

Seeking sasquatch

Scientists studying phenomena believe creature exists; many questions surround Bigfoot sightings

Do you think there is an apelike creature, Bigfoot or sasquatch, living in the forests of the Northwest? What do you make of the 15-inch footprints that have been found all over and by the hundreds, if not the thousands? What do you think of the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film of a so-called Bigfoot walking in Northern California? Are all the purported sightings of Bigfoot just hoaxes or simply misidentifications?

Did you know there are bona fide, Ph.D.-bearing scientists studying the Bigfoot phenomena who are convinced there really is such a creature? Were you aware that one of those researchers taught for 30 years at Washington State University until his retirement in 1998 and another currently teaches at Idaho State University?

Are those enough questions for now?

Actually, probably not, for this is a subject with lots of questions – and hardly any answers. But the questions are fascinating, and the new prospects for answers are astounding.

So, a few more questions: Have you ever heard of Bigfoot sightings in North Idaho? Did you know that one of the hottest areas for recent, as well as older, Sasquatch records is the part of the Blue Mountains that straddles the Washington-Oregon border just outside Walla Walla? Were you aware that documented sightings of Sasquatch in the West date back to 1811?

Let’s stop with the questions, and I’ll begin to answer a few of the historical ones.

I’ll skip all the Native American “legends” that relate to sasquatch except to point out that the term “sasquatch” comes from the Salish family of languages used by tribes in the Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia, to describe a Bigfootlike beast.

The name “Bigfoot” was coined by a reporter to portray the source of some huge tracks found near Bluff Creek, Calif., in 1958.

In 1811, a 14-inch footprint was observed near Jasper, Alberta. In 1840, a missionary to the original inhabitants of the Spokane area wrote home concerning a problem with hairy giants that were stealing salmon. In 1893, Theodore Roosevelt published a story of a sasquatchlike creature told to him by an “old mountain hunter in Idaho.” And in 1925, the Oregonian newspaper reported on a group of miners who had been attacked by stone-hurling sasquatchlike animals at their cabin near Ape Canyon on the flank of Mount St. Helens.

All these reports predate – from 147 years to 33 years – the Bigfoot hoopla that started in 1958 with the Bluff Creek footprints.

When I was a teenager, the 16 mm Patterson-Gimlin film purporting to show a walking female Bigfoot was touring the Northwest, and I attended one of the showings. At the time, many people were calling the creature a “man in a monkey suit.”

In 2002, someone confessed to being the “woman in a monkey suit,” but her assertion failed to hold up. Recent evaluations of the film have found no evidence of a hoax. Certain anatomical details of the creature are too odd, yet real, to have been faked.

Sasquatch resources

Web sites

Bigfoot encounters

Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization

Bigfoot Information Project

Books by experts on sasquatch

“Bigfoot Sasquatch: Evidence,” Grover S. Krantz, Ph.D., deceased physical anthropologist from Washington State University, 1999.

“North America’s Great Ape: The Sasquatch,” John A. Bindernagel, Ph.D., wildlife biologist actively researching sasquatch in British Columbia for more than 30 years, 1998.

“Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science,” Jeff Meldrum, Ph.D., physical anthropologist at Idaho State University, 2006.

“Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us,” John Willison Green, a journalist reporting on sasquatch evidence for 50 years, 2006.Stephen Lindsay
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA

This article, the first in a three part series, has some inaccuracies in it.

You can read the second part here on Cryptomundo at Sasquatch CSI.

You can read the third part here on Cryptomundo at Sasquatch Sightings Abound.

The reference to a confession by the “woman in a monkey suit” is an apparent mis-labeling of an Ivan Marx photo, as reported here on Cryptomundo by Loren Coleman.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 8:34 am and is filed under Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, Books, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, Forensic Science, Sasquatch. You can follow responses via our RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is not allowed.

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5 Responses to “Seriously Seeking Sasquatch”

graybear responds: May 14th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
If not for the sasquatch, why is the area called “Ape canyon”?
dogu4 responds: May 14th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
I’m looking forward to this series. Thanks for puttin’ it up. It looks like it will attempt to give a realistic appraisal of the research, which helps to heighten the public’s awareness and acceptance, and refute the notion that this area of research is totally without merit, which will encourage more reports and maybe bring forth more evidence.

And for what it’s worth, Greybear; I’d heard that “ape canyon” was named for an informal group of hikers and climbers who frequented Mt St Helens and who called themselves the Mt St Helen Apes after their mountain climbing prowess. Seems to me that early encounters called these creatures “wild Indians” or “mountain devil” or something like that since the use of the word “ape” to specifically mean the taxonomic line that we refer to today only dates back 150 years or so.
Rillo777 responds: May 14th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Gee, and I had heard from the skeptics that Ph.D. -bearing scientists who actually believed in Bigfoot were a hoax or at least a misidentification based on blurry photos and questionable footprints. Imagine, to find out they are real after all!

Maybe Mr. Standing could petition to have them protected.
HOOSIERHUNTER responds: May 14th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Wasn’t it named Ape Canyon after the hunters had a run in with some sasquatch back around 1924? I believe I read that in one of Mr. Coleman’s books.
Craig Woolheater responds: May 16th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
The second article in the series has been posted here at Cryptomundo.

See: Sasquatch CSI

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