Allegedly, the creature is seven or eight feet tall. Tufts of white hair cover his eyebrows and the knuckles of his toes. The hair across his abdomen and forearms is a yellow or blonde colour. ~snip~
Posted on 07/08/2005 9:12:59 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
Are big footprints bigfoot prints?
James Boston Lakeside Leader
Nobody wants to talk openly about the footprints found in the bush near the Blue Sky Road, 60 kilometres north of town. There’s a certain reluctance to having one’s name attached to a story about one of North America’s most enduring mysteries, the existence of Bigfoot. A man who wished to remain anonymous delivered photographs of the footprints to the The Lakeside Leader last week. The creature that made them leaves an impression 15 inches long and several inches deep with grooves that would indicate short, claw-like toenails. They are unlike any bear print. The man who took the pictures believes the creature must have been enormously heavy, because the feet of a human barely leave an impression in the soil. He says that rumours of the Bigfoot have been circulating for years among those who leave in the wilds north of Lesser Slave Lake. He was prompted to go in search of evidence of Bigfoot’s existence when stories began to circulate that someone had recently come face to face with the creature. A source at Fish and Wildlife confirms that a man did report a sighting about a month ago. Fish and Wildlife officers took a plaster cast of a footprint, but it is said to be of poor quality because the sighting wasn’t immediately reported. Also, during the delay heavy rain had eroded the impressions. The man who reported the sighting wasn’t interviewed for this article. Family members who spoke to The Leader say they don’t want the publicity. The man who photographed the footprints, however, claims to have heard the tale of the sighting. Allegedly, the creature is seven or eight feet tall. Tufts of white hair cover his eyebrows and the knuckles of his toes. The hair across his abdomen and forearms is a yellow or blonde colour. Bigfoot sightings in Canada, or at least those reported in the media, go back nearly one hundred years. One of the earliest stories to appear about the Bigfoot was a 1929 article in McLean’s magazine written by J. W. Burns, a schoolteacher in British Columbia. Burns was the first to use the name Sasquatch for the Bigfoot, a word he created by mixing two words from aboriginal languages describing the creature, sokqueatl and soss-q’tal. As of yet, no conclusive evidence of Bigfoot’s existence has ever been found.
Allegedly, the creature is seven or eight feet tall. Tufts of white hair cover his eyebrows and the knuckles of his toes. The hair across his abdomen and forearms is a yellow or blonde colour. ~snip~
Oooh, the newspaper 'silly season' is traditionally August, but it appears to have arrived early in Alberta! ;-)
Well, maybe it's hot up there.
It's NEVER hot up there. Tepid, maybe.
Well, it just needs to be warm enough to have an excuse to drink a 6-pack, and you end up with either a UFO or Bigfoot photo.
Isn't ALWAYS warm enough to drink a 6-pack!
Hey, I'm Irish...and I've been to Alberta in late November, and still managed to crack open a tinny or two! (Not to mention taste some of the dodgy home-distilled wines those people make!)
A story about photos, that doesn't publish the said photos is a non-story.
Even the WWN ("The world's most reliable newspaper") does better than that...even if they have to create the "photos" themselves.
Patterson swore on his deathbed that film was true. And the people who were consulted about re-producing it said if you had a few million you MIGHT be able to come close, but probably never that good.
I once saw a computer enhanced copy. It plainly is not a man or a woman or Janet Reno in a suit.
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