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Among the undaunted was Jack Grimm, a restless Texas oil millionaire who previously had searched for quarries less tangible than the Titanic: Noah's Ark, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Between 1980 and 1983 he lavished $2 million on three elaborate Titanic expeditions, masterminded by Columbia University Marine Geologist William Ryan and Fred Spiess of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Using prototypes of the Knorr- Suroit sonar technology and submersible cameras, Ryan and Spiess mapped large swatches of ocean floor and took intriguing images of something that Grimm, at least, is convinced resembled the propeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: After 73 Years, A Titanic FIND | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...everyday, anonymous Cambridge resident, incredibly lonely, but basically inconspicuous. It is this enigma of identity which makes the Action Man such a legend in his own time. In fact, to identify and confront the Action Man would constitute the destruction of a time-honored myth, like Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness monster. A captured Bigfoot is just another mammal; a captured Nessie is just another reptile; an exposed Action Man would be simply just another pervert...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Giving Good Phone | 4/2/1985 | See Source »

...Mansi's inability to recall the spot where she took the shot. Paul Kurtz, 55, professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, reckons that the locals may just be feathering a Ness. "It's about as real," says he, "as Bigfoot, UFOs and the tooth fairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 13, 1981 | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...Classics' Development Officer, Gary "Bigfoot" Bosnic described his colleagues as "a bunch of idiots." Tim Carey, whose player notes read, 'May surprise, but we doubt it,' said, "They get girls...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Harvard's Vagabond Cagers | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

BRITISH COLUMBIA--"A big, furry foul-smelling creature" emerged from the woods and surprised a group of Canadians about 35 miles east of Vancouver Sunday, and many people in the area are convinced it was "Bigfoot," the legendary apelike creature who supposedly lives in the Pacific Northwest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Furry Beast | 5/18/1977 | See Source »

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