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...where the truth stops and the fables begin. Nobody believes in The Blue Ox. Yet a lot of lumberjacks will swear by the existence of a giant humanoid standing close to ten feet tall and weighing up to 1000 pounds, called "Bigfoot" in California and the Pacific Northwest and "Sasquatch" in British Columbia...
...circle of locals sitting in a bar is hardly an unimpeachable source, but broader opinion at times supports the Sasquatch story. Some anthropologists and zoologists, too, believe a Bigfoot or Abominable Snowman may exist in the coastal mountains. Eyewitness reports and folk-legends are supported by footprints and fossil evidence as well as by less-convincing alleged hair and alleged feces. Bigfoot is big business as well. Magazines such as True and Argosy run frequent articles; Willow Creek, Calif., holds a Bigfoot carnival every year during which the townspeople put Bigfoot footprints on the sidewalk and sell Bigfoot ashtrays...
...young woman claimed to have been raped near Bemidji, Minn., by the iceman, a Bigfoot-like creature, and at least one tabloid screamed, "I Was Raped by the Abominable Snowman." A Canadian logger waited until 1957 before claiming he had been carried off to the home of a Sasquatch in 1924. Though still in his sleeping bag when he arrived, his report suggests, he soon adjusted to life as captive of a Sasquatch family of four. He said he escaped after a week...
Films of the Sasquatch, Tuesday, March...
...Foot. The Sasquatch is, or may be, an abominable snowman from British Columbia. A film that may be evidence that the Sasquatch really does exist is being shown in 35 mm at Quincy House...