Word: sasquatch
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...AUDIENCE that can swallow the North American sasquatch will have little trouble digesting the relatively palatable giant rat of Sumatra...
Maybe the Sasquatch is only the pipedream of Patterson, Napier, and other researchers including Rene Dahinden and Boris Porshnev (who was better known as a historian of peasant uprisings in France). Yet other missing links have been found: The gorilla, a shy creature not at all like King Kong, was a legendary jungle man until authenticated in the middle of the 19th century, and only in the last decade were reports of proto-pygmies in Tanzania born out by the discovery of the Gombe stream chimp. Napier estimates that a population of 500-1000 Bigfoot could explain all the footprints...
MORE PERPLEXING than the Sasquatch himself is the societal reaction to the investigation. The Sikkimese and Tibetans never sold Yeti ashtrays. In the Himalayas no neighborhood whispering campaign ever ostracized investigators for antisocial speculation, broke up an investigator's marriage, or made witnesses fear for their jobs. All those things happened in North America...
...taxidermist spent quite some time looking for the Sasquatch in Canada, supported by an American millionaire. He used an original approach. He would snatch used sanitary napkins from women's bathrooms at gas stations, then run through the woods tacking them to trees in hopes they would attract a Sasquatch. If our mountain snowman when discovered really is abominable, he will have no trouble assimilating the traits of our society...
...Sasquatch symposium tonight at the Science Center at 8 p.m. includes Patterson's film and a long-distance phone interview. The film and lecture will be repeated...