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Bigfoot: Alive and Living in Greater Minnesota?
KSAX (ABC) ^ | 5/22/2010 | Megan Brown

Posted on 05/22/2010 11:23:45 PM PDT by shibumi

BENA, Minn. - Bigfoot alive and living in northern Minnesota? The co-founders of the Northern Minnesota Bigfoot Society say, "100 percent yes."

They said they have received more than 75 reports of sightings, captured images, and Bigfoot footprints in just three years. They're sharing their insight while sorting fact from fiction as they take KSAX on the hunt for Bigfoot.

"I'm a skeptic of Bigfoot because I've trapped this whole area and never, ever did we see any Bigfoot tracks or see Bigfoot anywhere," William Tucker of Bena said.

Long time trapper William Tucker is anything but a believer, but just miles away from Bena, mind boggling footprints were found.

Each track was a bit different, different pressures, different depths, eliminating the possibility of some sort of footprint stamp.

This is just one of the things the co-founders of the Northern Minnesota Bigfoot Society say confirms the fact, Bigfoot is out there.

"I'm 110% convinced that it exists. There's just too much evidence, too many people's emotions showing when they recount their stories," Bob Olson, a co-founder of the Northern Minnesota Bigfoot Society said. "One lady cries when she recounts her story of how this thing stood up and looked at her. She felt it looked into her soul."

Since 2006, Olson and Don Sherman have received about 75 reports of similar Bigfoot sightings in Northern Minnesota, some of which have been captured on camera.

The most recent was captured in Remer. Though to some, the image may look like a man in a suit, a comparison with 6 foot 5 inch Bob Olson showed this man would have had to have been at least 7 feet tall.

Sherman and Olson say "wood knocking" is just one more way Bigfoot makes his presence known. Olson said Bigfoot responded to him at Carey Lake when he knocked on a tree five times.

What about bones? One KSAX reader says, "I believe Bigfoot is 100% real, as are a lot of the other creatures of Cryptozoology. But i believe in their true form, they are spiritual creatures, that manifest in flesh as they so desire. That is why we will never find bones, or other such evidence of them."

On the other side of the coin, Olson says giant bones belonging to Humanoid creatures were found in the late 1800's, stretching 10 to 12 feet.

While there haven't been any Bigfoot skeletons found, many trappers say they've never come across any bear, wolf, or other large animal skeleton either.

Other signs Bigfoot exists include branches plucked straight out of trees, strange looking shelters, and stick men to warn other Bigfoot of humans in the area.

"When there's stuff that doesn't go away, there's gotta be something to it and the evidence just keeps mounting up," Olson said.

For some Bena residents, the legend of Bigfoot is far from a tall tale.

"I never seen it, but like I says I believe in it," New Prague resident Leo Hinderscheid said.

"I don't know what to say Megan but I believe in it and that's the way it will be," Helen Tibbetts of Bena said.

So, the hunt for Bigfoot continues.

If you've seen, heard, or had some kind of Bigfoot encounter, Bob and Don want to hear about it! You can reach them at 218-308-1451.

Profile photo courtesy of Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center

Check out KSAX-TV's Two Part Series on Greater Minnesota's Haunted Places.

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Written for the web by Megan Brown

mbrown@ksax.com


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bigfoot; cryptobiology; cryptozoology; godsgravesglyphs; jojogunn; jpb; kooks; sasquatch; ufo; wheressonofbigfoot
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To: shibumi
knocked on a tree five times.

He should have knocked three times........

41 posted on 05/23/2010 3:35:07 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Peanut butter was just peanut butter until I found Free Republic.........)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

That’s an insult to Bigfoot.


42 posted on 05/23/2010 3:45:23 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (He promised hope; he gave us hype. He promised change; he gave us chains!)
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To: shibumi; Carry_Okie; clamper1797; EggsAckley; hedgetrimmer; jahp; TwilightDog
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No, dude.

Bigfoot totally lives in Santa Cruz County, CA.

43 posted on 05/23/2010 3:46:29 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: skookum55

I didn’t scoff, I posted.

(I believe in Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Montauk Monster, UFOs, Ghosts, Haunted Houses, Alien Abduction, the Legend of Atlantis, Psychokinesis, Telepathy, Reincarnation, Crop Circles, Mothman, the Bermuda Triangle, the Face on Mars and that Art Bell loves his teenage Filipina bride just for her mind.)


44 posted on 05/23/2010 4:01:54 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: Kozak

White Bear Lake


45 posted on 05/23/2010 4:02:46 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: shibumi
We had some big foot sighting around here a few years back one of the local bar owners was making a big deal of it. I think to round up business

They stopped when I spread the word that the next time one was seen I was going to put a pack of hounds on the trail and run it down.

The sightings stopped, a couple of months later I heard that a couple of the local teenagers had gotten a hold of a gorilla suit and would run out into the road way ect just in time to be seen.

They heard about the hounds and decided it was most likely best not to get treed so they stopped.

46 posted on 05/23/2010 4:39:04 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: riverrunner

a couple of months later I heard that a couple of the local teenagers had gotten a hold of a gorilla suit and would run out into the road way ect just in time to be seen.

Nice...teenagers get pumped full of lead die in tragic Big Foot prank...film at 11.


47 posted on 05/23/2010 5:18:53 AM PDT by oust the louse (Just when you think they can't get any more stupid the Dems trip all over themselves and do so.)
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To: shibumi
"I never seen it, but like I says I believe in it," New Prague resident Leo Hinderscheid said.

Why the heck is some yokel from New Prague chiming in on this story? NP is in my neck of the woods south of the Twin Cities metro cell. Bena and Remer are half the state away from here well to the north. Why not consult somebody from Cedar Rapids, Iowa?
48 posted on 05/23/2010 5:25:06 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: shibumi

when bigfoot finally comes out of the woods and makes his presence known, will he be considered a legal American and qualify for unemployment benefits or a position in the white house?


49 posted on 05/23/2010 6:06:05 AM PDT by TheTeaPartyChannel
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To: Anti-Utopian
I saw a shaved one running around the White House the other day. It was wearing a blue dress it found in a landfill.

You couldn't be more wrong. It found that dress in a bag of rags.

50 posted on 05/23/2010 8:53:35 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Slings and Arrows

Oh joy. The next bigfoot hoax. It’s sorta fun watching them play out. I liked the realistic suit one last summer.


51 posted on 05/23/2010 9:21:37 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
"Old Lady?!?"

"Is that YOU?!?"


52 posted on 05/23/2010 9:46:43 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

man, he is almost as ugly as Waxman. Just, ewwww-w-w


53 posted on 05/23/2010 10:39:54 AM PDT by redhead (Eat dessert for breakfast. --Me)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Lived in Montgomery for fifteen years, and lots of those guys go up around Bemidji to fish in the summer.


54 posted on 05/23/2010 10:42:28 AM PDT by redhead (Eat dessert for breakfast. --Me)
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To: redhead

The outside mirrors the inside. That picture doesn’t do him justice.


55 posted on 05/23/2010 10:48:38 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Just another day in Oceania.)
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To: shibumi

No, Darlin’! Old Lady is someone else, but here I am, TheOldLady, and it’s nice to know that you were behind the last bigfoot hoax. I’m surprised you admit it though.


56 posted on 05/23/2010 10:59:57 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: shibumi
I was deer hunting a number of years ago near Bemidji, MN and just before the sun came up I hear a loud crashing through the woods. It came closer and closer and I got my rifle ready just in case in was the big buck I wanted to hang on my wall. It stopped, and started and nearly circled my deer stand for over a half an hour. After the sun came up I got just a small peek at it and determined it was a grouse before it flew away.
57 posted on 05/23/2010 11:06:16 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: shibumi

I wondered what happened to Jesse Ventura...


58 posted on 05/23/2010 11:16:19 AM PDT by MortMan (I'm just an injet printer in a holographic world...)
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To: shibumi
I didn’t scoff, I posted.

(I believe in Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Montauk Monster, UFOs, Ghosts, Haunted Houses, Alien Abduction, the Legend of Atlantis, Psychokinesis, Telepathy, Reincarnation, Crop Circles, Mothman, the Bermuda Triangle, the Face on Mars and that Art Bell loves his teenage Filipina bride just for her mind.)

I apologize for the misunderstanding -- my "You scoff" was meant to be taken as plural; I simply replied to your original post to address most of the other posters who seem to be scofftics. However, your statement of belief in Art Bell loving his young Filipina wife for her mind betrays your scoffticism -- you didn't really expect me to believe that, did you? I'll put the baby shoe money on bigfoot before I'll put it on Art's non-lustful intent.

59 posted on 05/23/2010 12:37:47 PM PDT by skookum55 (A natural-born US citizen since 1955.)
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To: Salamander

BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!!!


60 posted on 05/23/2010 4:40:00 PM PDT by Ronin
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