BIG FOOT
For hundreds of years, many people have sighted a seven foot tall hairy giant
living in the Northwestern Cascade mountains. Bigfoot researchers say Bigfoot
lives in the wilderness of the mountains because it is very easy for him to hide in
the dense forest. He is said to be omnivorous because we think he is most likely
related to gorillas. Researchers think he can eat meat because, like gorillas, he
has a forehead ridge that can store the strong tendons needed to chew meat.
He is said to be very strong because reports of large objects being mysteriously
moved come up once in awhile. Someone also reported a group of "bigfeet"
throwing small boulders at their cabin in the cascade mountains. Most sightings
report that he is on average, 7 feet high.
A very common trace of bigfoot are his enormous footprints. Most are 14-17
inches in length. What makes the foot prints so interesting is
that they have dermal ridges in them. (Like finger prints) Since
these prints are so detailed and small, it would be very hard, if
not impossible, to fake these. The footprints do look alike. The
footprint to the right greatly resembles the footprint to the left.
The footprint to the right was found in Bluff
Creek, 6 years before the famous 1967 film
of a Bigfoot was taken. These prints have
not been proven authentic or fake though.
Luckily, with all of the interest in Bigfoot, some research organizations are
dedicated to find a real live Bigfoot. The most well known
organization is the BIGFOOT RESEARCH PROJECT,
headed by Peter Byrne. They have people working every
day, taking calls of sightings. If there is a recent sighting of a
Bigfoot, they form a search party to hopefully find Bigfoot.
There are also many more organizations like this around the
country.
Now, I know some people are thinking, "Yeah right, show me a Bigfoot and then,
maybe, I'll believe." Well, like in all Unsolved mysteries, some won't believe in
anything until they have real proof. They think that it would be impossible for
anything to remain hidden for so long. Then how do you explain the discovery
of the thought to be extinct for 70 million years Coelacanth (A prehistoric fish)
found alive and well in 1938. And the until recently discovered Okapi. (like a
giraffe without the long neck) We had no idea that these creatures existed until,
whoops, there they were. So why would it be impossible for a Bigfoot to hide in
the large, dense forests of the Cascade mountains?
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