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1000 sightings, rare photos, maps, firsthand eyewitness accounts.
The
front cover photo is taken from a motion-picture film shot by bigfoot investigator Roger Patterson near Bluff Creek, California,
in 1967. Below, experts comment on the Patterson film:
"Perhaps
it was a man dressed up in a monkey-skin; if so it was a brilliantly executed hoax and the unknown perpetrator will take his
place with the great hoaxers of the world. Perhaps it was the first film of a new type of hominid, quite unknown to science,
in which case Roger Patterson deserves to rank with Dubois, the discoverer of Pithecanthropus erectus or Java man..."
Dr. John Napier - physical anthropologist,
formerly head of the primate program at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington
"...with all the diversity of human gaits, such a walk as demonstrated by the creature in the film
is absolutely non-typical of man." Dr. Dmitri Donskoy
- Chief of the Chair of Biomechanics at the USSR Central Institute of Physical Culture in Moscow
"My subjective impressions
have oscillated between total acceptance of the Sasquatch on the grounds that the film would be difficult to fake, to one
of irrational rejection based on an emotional response to the possibility that the Sasquatch actually exists. This seems worth
stating because others have rejected similarly to the film. The possibility of a very clever fake cannot be ruled out on the
evidence of the film. A man could have sufficient height and suitable proportions to mimic the longitudinal dimensions of
the Sasquatch. The shoulder breadth however would be difficult to achieve without giving an unnatural appearance to the arm
swing and shoulder contours. The possibility of fakery is ruled out if the speed of the film was 16 or 18 fps. [No one knows
at what speed the film was shot.] In these conditions a normal human being could not duplicate the observed pattern, which
would suggest that the Sasquatch must possess a very different locomotor system to that of man." Dr. D. W. Grieve - Reader in Biomechanics at the Royal Free Hospital School
of Medicine, London
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