Where Bigfoot Walks

The book Where Bigfoot Walks, Crossing the Dark Divide, was written by Robert Michael Pyle. The book is full of chapters of Pyle's destinations and experiences. The Dark Divide is the name where Bigfoot sightings are recorded often. While he trekked through the Dark Divide, Pyle found a giant fossil footprint. This Dark Divide is the region stretching across the mountains and plateaus of Washington and northern California. Pyle also talks with Northwest Coast Indians, and he asked them questions. These Indians tell him about their encounters with the creature. One Indian tells him, "I went on foot in there for fifteen miles, spent days and days, and saw no sign of that Bigfoot... I think its a hoax." This Indians is discussing when he went through the Dark Divide. Robert even goes to a conference in British Columbia in 1994. At this conference all he learned was that many of these guys were not interested in finding Bigfoot but they actually wanted to be Bigfoot. Ultimately Pyle discovers a few things about Bigfoot - and a lot about the human need for something to believe in and the need for wilderness in our lives.


As I started this research project I was very interested in looking at what researchers say about Bigfoot and what they have found. I was very open-minded about it. In this book though, even a researcher is being let down by his findings. when Pyle attended the conference he was sad to come by men who just are itching to find something out there. Many hunters just wanting to kill something. Kill something no one has ever seen before. Which makes this source good for my research particularly because I realized how unauthentic every sighting can be. how made up the sightings can be.



This book was a little hard to read and get into. I skipped around in the different chapters to make it interesting to read. The book itself was pretty boring and not what i would pick to read. But for the benefit of my research it helped me. And I feel this book helped me make my decision on how I feel about Bigfoot. And that made this book great to read. Pyle never found what he wanted to. Yes, the fossil of the foot was amazing but besides that he was disappointed. and so am I with my findings.

Pyle, Robert Michael. Where Bigfoot Walks Crossing the Dark Divide. New York. Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Print.

Hoax, Pranks, the full bit.

In the book The Life and Times of a Legend BIGFOOT written by Joshua Blu Buhs, he discusses in the Bigfoot chapter about a man of the name Crew who lived in Salyer, California. On August 27, 1958, he went to work doing road service. crew parked by his bulldozer and noticed a few footprints in the leveled earth but didn't think much about them. Once he got into the bulldozer and looked down he realized the prints were big and manlike. When he discussed this prints to Shorty a fellow worker they discussed that it may be responsible for other disturbances. The summer before a 450 pound drum of diesel fuel was missed placed and a 700 pound spare tire found its way into a ditch. But in this area there is history of practical jokes, stories of giant turtles and panthers, and even sea serpents. Someone even made the comment that Crew's mysterious tracks were left by Paul Bunyan's two year old son. The new went on the write a story that the footprints may be from a gigantic, retarded Indian. The Indian was said to have run away from a camp. Or of a boy whose parents tied him to a tree, entirely naked except for a wide leather belt. He was over six feet and weighed about 250. He had rather long hair all over his body. Many of these tales were versions of older legends told and passed down.


The stories upon stories told in this chapter are insane. They all sound like a small town trying to make a name on the map. A bunch of old men with nothing better to do with there time. All the stories were pranks and set up for a good paper. Everything was published to the papers. And even int his chapter they discussed a contest where you could send in the funniest practical joke and get a reward. The whole chapter was exciting to read to just think about the imaginations these men have.

Blu Buhs, Joshua. The Life and Times of a Legend BIGFOOT. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. 66-87. Print.

BigFoot Found!

This video is a news real informing us about three men in California who said they found bigfoot. They found the Bigfoot in Georgia, where they shot him. They have put him in a freezer to keep it preserved. The man they interview is Tom Biscardi, a Bigfoot hunter, very famous. They inlisted this man to come to Gergia and see this creature in person and scope it out. In the interview Biscardi says he went to this freezer and saw it in person and that it is clearly real. He even poked at it. The anchor women, Megan, notices how fake the face of the Bigfoot in the freezer looks. She compares the face to a maks, a halloween mask. All he can say is that yes its real, Tom even invites Megan to come see this creature in person to prove it is real.

This is just the biggest bull crap I've ever seen. That this is what the news would report is crazy to me. The face obviously looks fake. And it clearly is a prank, which shows all the information I have found is just proving me right and my father wrong. (About Me, to undertand)

Momo

In Loren Coleman's book Mysterious America he begins his Bigfoot chapter with a detailed case. It takes place in northeastern Missouri. The name of the monster that is reoccurring is the "Momo", which is a the newspapers abbreviations for "Missouri Monster". It was along River Road that stretched north from Highway 54 along the Mississippi River. Here there is a long standing tale of a phantom man who walks the streets then disappears. Mary Ryan and Joan Mills were not on this road in July 1971 but not far from it. Ryan and Mills had taken the highway back to St. Louis because they were looking for a nice picnic spot. They found a promising spot, they turned of on a dirt road put the blanket down and got out the food. Mary Ryan recalls, "We were eating lunch when we both wrinkled up our noses at the same time. I never smelled anything as bad in my life." Joan commented that they were smelling a whole family of skunks. Then suddenly her jaw drops and she points towards a brushy thicket behind her companion. Ryan says, "It was half-ape and half-man." And according to Mills, "Then it made a gurgling sound like someone trying to whistle underwater." They tell you that the half-ape half-man stayed its distance from them and eventually wasnt interested anymore. they knew that there story would be very hard to believe but there commetn on that is "but all you have to do is go into those hills to relize that an army of those things could live there undeteced."


This case is helpful to my source to understand what people have seen and to hear different stories. But as a non believer myself I'm trying to be convinced and this didnt work. The whole story just seemed way to thought out to be real. And I couldnt take any of it seriously. The writing was great through out the chapter but this case just turned me off because it seemed to be trying to hard to say "Hey, Bigfoot is sooo real."

Coleman, Loren. Mysterious America. New York, NY: Pocket Books, 2001. 188-205. Print.