What is bigfoot?

In the primitive jungle of North America, there have been rumors since 1955 that there is a kind of "bigfoot" similar to Asian savages living here. At that time, the newspaper also reported that a body was captured, killed and found, but witnesses denied that they had found the body of this "monster".

Found that this strange animal doesn't like sunshine. They like to go out at night. In order to know more about them, Ivan Max studied them as early as 1950s. Get some information about them from local Indians and Eskimos. By tracking and investigating them, it is found that these strange animals have the ability to escape the harm of the enemy.

People don't believe in such "big feet", and neither does Ivan. But in 195 1 10, Ivan found a strange footprint on the top of a dead horse in Sikoyu County, Northern California. He concluded that it was the footprint of bigfoot, which made him doubt his previous views for the first time.

One day, when Ivan Max was hunting a puma in Walter Mountain, Nevada, he found a black, tall and terrible humanoid creature 500 meters away. He immediately photographed it with a telephoto lens. He said: "That thing is too strange, strange, and it may be dangerous. I don't want to go near it again.

1One day in May, 970, he and Rene Dynton, a Swiss explorer of Bigfoot, once again discovered a large number of widely distributed Bigfoot in colville, Washington, and they also made a plaster model of this footprint.

Dr Grover Crantz, an anthropologist at Washington State University, commented after identifying the model: The footprints are abnormally curved, uplifted and meticulous, which is true in terms of anatomical accuracy.

1970 10 In June, a Bigfoot was hit by a car on the road north of colville. Max rushed to the scene after hearing the news. He saw that bigfoot, who was shot but not seriously injured, was covered in black hair. He ran away in panic and soon disappeared into the jungle. Max only took some pictures of animals stumbling. Soon, when Max was patrolling near Garib Bend in the east of Lake Pliester, Idaho, he suddenly found a reddish-brown "bigfoot" running towards a swamp, and its body sometimes showed human limbs and broad back between the trunks.

1972, in a snowstorm in northern California, there was a huge white-haired "Bigfoot" jumping around. Studies have shown that male chimpanzees also prance in storms, and with the maturity of the body, the body hair in some parts of the body will become particularly white. Does this white-haired "bigfoot" have the same habits as chimpanzees?

1977 In April, near the snowy mountain in Shasta County, California, Max found a male "Bigfoot" standing in the swamp, scooping water with his hands and shaking his body vigorously to drive away swarms of mosquitoes. Its fur is as bright as an otter, and the hair on its head is split in half at the seam, which is the characteristic of embryonic development. One day in 65438+February of the same year, when Max and his wife were searching along a footprint that might be "Bigfoot", they suddenly heard the sound of a broken branch approaching them. Max thought he had met a bear. He took the gun off his shoulder. Just then, suddenly a "Bigfoot" shook his head and came at them very quickly. Max knocked it down in self-defense

"bigfoot" rolled back and forth on the ground, struggling painfully, clutching his ass with one hand, jumping up and running behind a big tree, with a tired face and kicking convulsively. Peggy kept snapping the film until it was used up, and then took pictures with the camera.

Bigfoot limped away quickly, and soon stopped limping, but strode energetically. Max and Peggy followed "bigfoot" carefully.

After a while, "bigfoot" climbed a lava ridge, stopped, swung his long arm and looked back at Max and them menacingly. The hair on the top of bigfoot's forehead stands upright, which is terrible! In order to avoid its retaliatory attack, Max and Peggy left in a hurry.

Anthropologists believe that "bigfoot" is probably a vegetarian primitive man similar to Australopithecus robustus or Australopithecus bowman. They like to live in humid forests, and their leg posture, external shape of pelvis and male and female genitals are similar to those of humans.

However, most apes are not used to water, but bigfoot is very good at swimming and even diving, and is used to living on aquatic food in intertidal zones, streams, lakes and swamps. Anthropologists speculate that bigfoot is a water ape living in cold regions.

Ivan Max spent 33 years shooting a lot of precious scenes of bigfoot activities in North America, and Amazing Vision Company produced a large-scale documentary "The Mystery of bigfoot", which vividly showed the appearance and behavior of this animal and made the world amazed.

There is no doubt that bigfoot is the most famous mystery in hidden zoology in North America. Once it is proved to be true (any event that lacks real specimens will not make most scientists feel credible), it will make people have to re-examine the evolutionary history of mankind. Because if bigfoot really exists, they may be our close relatives. In fact, believers in bigfoot believe that they are either apes or early humans.

Bigfoot is a huge ape-like or anthropoid ape, which is widely distributed in the northwestern United States (Northern California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho) and western Canada (British Columbia and Alberta), where there are vast mountains and forests. Therefore, the existence of this animal-although all cases have not been finally confirmed, some witnesses themselves have been shocked-is at least possible, even if it is still incredible.

According to the results obtained by john green, a famous Canadian bigfoot investigator and writer, after studying hundreds of witness cases, the average height of these animals is 7.5 feet. They seem to like being alone and are rarely seen with other companions. Their bodies are covered with hair, and their limbs are not like apes, but more like people. However, their shoulders are wide, they have no neck, their faces and noses are flat, their foreheads are tilted, their brow bones are prominent, and their heads are tapered, which makes them more like animals than people. They eat both animals and plants. They like to stay up all day and go out at night, but they don't like to be active in cold weather.

The Colonial 190 1 published by Victoria, British Columbia, Canada reported the experience of a lumberjack named Mike King working in vancouver island near Campbell River. At that time, Kim stayed there alone because his porter said they were afraid of a kind of "monkey man" in the forest and refused to go with him. One night, the carpenter saw a "man and beast" washing feet in the river. After seeing him, the animal ran to the mountain in tears, and then stopped at a place to look back at him. Jin said that this animal "is covered with reddish-brown fur and has long arms, so it is very flexible when climbing mountains or' running' in the forest. The footprints it left are particularly human, but the toes are obviously long and wide. "

1904 12 14 The Colonial newspaper reported that four other reliable witnesses also saw animals similar to bigfoot in vancouver island. Three years later, the newspaper reported that some Indians had left their village. The residents were scared away by a "savage like a monkey", who "appeared on the shore at night and made mysterious strange calls". Residents in western Canada are very familiar with bigfoot in his hair. This is because a teacher named Burns often writes about it. He teaches on an Indian reservation near Harrison Hot Springs in British Columbia. From the stories of local Indians, Burns felt that bigfoot was not the same as the legendary "Super Ape", who was a clever and supernatural Indian giant.

Other people who claimed to have seen this hairy beast included a British Columbia man named Albert osterman. He stood up at 1957 and reported an incident that claimed to have happened at 1924. At that time, he was on an exploration trip in Doba Bay, opposite vancouver island. One night, while he was sleeping, something "fished" him up with his sleeping bag and was "carried" for several miles. When he was finally "unloaded", he found himself a prisoner of a family. There are adult men and women, boys and girls, and they are all giants like apes! Although these "people" are friendly to him, they obviously don't want him to escape. Only when an adult man has a severe cough caused by chewing tobacco will he have a chance to escape there. Osterman experienced this experience for six days. Those who visited him, including exotic animal experts john green and Ivan Sanderson, have no doubt about his honesty and mental health. Even primatologist Napier thought the incident was "convincing".

Another incredible story tells that a group of miners were attacked by some bigfoot, which happened in the San hellens Mountain and the Louis River area in the southwest of Washington. 1924 One night in July, two miners-for at least a week, they became a little nervous because they kept hearing strange and terrible screams from nearby mountains-saw an anthropoid animal that was only 7 feet high and shot. They quickly ran back to the hut, where, together with two other miners, they were attacked by a group of such animals all night. They threw stones at the house and tried to break in. Reporters from Portland Oregon newspaper found some huge footprints when they arrived at the scene. The place where this episode took place has since been called "Ape Canyon".

1967, Fred Baker, one of the parties to this incident, and his son Ronald published a pamphlet recalling this encounter, entitled "I fought with the ape-man on Mount St. hellens". 1982 In an interview with a Vancouver newspaper, 86-year-old Rand Mullens admitted that he and his uncle were two miners who caused this incident a long time ago. He joked that there was "a little trouble" on the way back to the station after fishing on the uncle and nephew. Ronald Baker rejected the idea that the whole story was just "a conspiracy".

Canadian newspapers began to report the appearance of bigfoot continuously. The name "bigfoot" was first used in the 1920s, when residents in the northwest were shocked by the huge footprints found in the outer suburbs. 1958, the mysterious bigfoot caught the attention of Americans. At that time, heavy machinery drivers working near Willow Creek in northwest California found a large number of footprints left by huge biped. These footprints appeared overnight on the ground that had just been leveled by bulldozers. After these footprints appeared many times, they were cast into plaster molds and published in newspapers.

In 1960s, bigfoot caused great repercussions among the public. Although scientists refused to admit that what eyewitnesses saw was what they claimed to have seen, and thought that those reports were just scams or just bears, some investigators, such as john green, René Dahendan and Jim McClaren, visited eyewitnesses and went to the jungle, hoping to get something and study eyewitness data, and wrote articles or books about their findings.

Ivan Sanderson, in his book Snowman from Legend to Reality published in 196 1, discussed in detail the first monograph on the bigfoot phenomenon, linking relevant reports in North America with reports on "savage" all over the world, including Mongolian Alma and Himalayan Yetai.

Among those who went to the wild to look for bigfoot, there was a man named Roger Patterson. He was a racing driver, inventor and investor. 1959 He saw an article about bigfoot in the magazine Truth, which aroused his curiosity. From then on, as long as time permits, he wandered in the northwest forest along the Pacific coast, hoping to see the "old face" of this animal. Later, he decided to shoot a documentary about this mysterious animal, so he took a camera with him when he explored and shot some scripts for future movies.

1 967101after the afternoon of October 20th1,Patterson and his companion Bob Gimlin are walking along Bluff Creek1in Six Rivers National Park in northern California. This area has become a tourist attraction, because so many activities in bigfoot-including eyewitnesses and footprints-have been discovered. In one place, a pile of wood in the middle of the river bed blocked their way and they had to make a detour. When they bypassed the Woods and went back the same way, they saw "that thing" that had been the focus of public attention for many years.

They saw a female bigfoot crouching in the water, then stood up and walked quickly to the nearby Woods, swinging her arms as she walked. This scene frightened Patterson and Jim Lin's mounts. Patterson's mount jumped up and fell on Patterson's right leg. As soon as the horse stood up, Patterson reached into the saddle bag and took out a 16mm camera. He jumped up and followed the footsteps of animals. There is only 28 feet of film left in the camera, and Patterson successfully captured the figure of bigfoot from different positions with this small film.

Patterson died on 1972, and he swore to the death that the witnessed event and the film he shot were true. Jim Lin, who is still alive, insists on this statement. Bob titmuss, the first investigator who rushed to the scene, found some footprints, whose positions were consistent with the escape route of bigfoot shown in the film. He made some plaster casts. These footprints also show that bigfoot climbed a hillside, stopped to sit in one place for a while, and turned to look at Patterson and Jim Lin, who had stopped tracking to find the two frightened horses.

Of course, it is not enough to really uncover the mysterious "Snowman" in North America by Paterson's movies, but we can't deny Paterson's efforts and contributions on this issue. Paterson's films are still worth studying and discussing.

1982, the mysterious Bigfoot caused an uproar again. On the morning of June 10, paul freeman, a former employee of American forest manager, was driving through the Blue Mountains of Marttila National Forest Park, which extends from southeast Washington to northeast Oregon. He saw a herd of elk, so he stopped, jumped out and followed the animals along the footprints, hoping to find some calves on them.

While bypassing a river bend, he smelled an unpleasant smell, and at the same time, he saw something on the other side walking towards the shore through the dense bushes. When the animal came to the open field, Freeman didn't believe his eyes. He just stood there and waited for a while and looked at this "huge animal", an 8.5-foot-tall bigfoot, and it glared back at him. In a few seconds, Freeman and the animal stared at each other at a distance of about 150 to 200 feet, and then bigfoot ran in the opposite direction.

Panicked, Freeman immediately told several bosses in Laavola, Washington. A few hours later, a team of forestry workers arrived at the scene of the accident in Oregon, which borders Washington State. They found 2 1 footprints, about 14 feet long and about 7 feet wide. They made three plaster models and took some photos.

1982 June 14, the Lavolara Forestry Bureau issued an announcement, stating Freeman's witness case and pointing out that the "identity" of the animals that Freeman claimed to have seen was "inconclusive". The Forestry Bureau also said that it had no plans to investigate the case further. However, four days later, it revealed that on 16, Freeman and a patrolman named Bill Ebouk found 40 new footprints on the Mill River watershed at the junction of Washington and Oregon.

On 17, Joel Harding, an American border patrolman, who is also a tracking expert and bigfoot skeptic, examined these footprints and concluded that they were all scams. He said that the most suspicious thing is that these footprints show dermatoglyphics, which is impossible for animals. However, it turns out that he is only wrong on this point, because advanced primates, such as monkeys, apes and humans, do have such wrinkles on their toes and fingers, which is the origin of fingerprints.

On June 1982, 1 1, the Amathila County Public Security Bureau of Oregon sent a team of five volunteers to the same place where Freeman witnessed the incident-Huxi area. These people are not looking for bigfoot, but for the body of a boy who disappeared not long ago. They came to this area because of the smell mentioned by Freeman, and they thought it might come from the decomposition of corpses. Although the research team found neither the body nor the smell, they found something else.

According to Art Si Nuo, the leader of the search team and a local businessman, the footprints found by the search team are far more than 2 1 footprint found by the Forestry Bureau. He said that the footprints extended for 3/4 miles, and they copied the best one into a plaster model. Si Nuo also said that all the evidence found supports Freeman's statement.

Soon, Grover Crantz, an anthropologist at Washington State University and one of the supporters of the bigfoot phenomenon in the scientific community, studied all these footprints. A week later, Crantz concluded that these footprints were left by two "independent individuals". One of them has a bigger toe than the average toe in bigfoot, and the other obviously has a second toe alone.

Except for these two points, these footprints are very similar to the typical bigfoot in the past. Footprints are about 5 inches long, and the size of each toe is much more uniform than that of humans. There is almost no arch, and there are two "meat balls" on the big toe.

What makes these bigfoot footprints more credible is that no human footprints have been found around them. Judging from the distance between footprints, bigfoot left footprints with a big stride. In addition, Crantz mentioned that these footprints went deep into the ground, and most investigators thought it required at least 600 pounds of force, but there was no evidence that it was caused by some mechanical force.

Other investigators still questioned these footprints. For example, these footprints are so perfect and the steps are so consistent. The average investigator estimates that the weight of this animal is between 800 pounds and 1000 pounds, but the depth of footprints found in the mud is by no means as deep as an animal of this weight should reach. In fact, these footprints are shallower than those left by investigators! In addition, Rodney Johnson, a wildlife biologist, believes that "this animal seems to have left these footprints by swinging its feet back and forth." He also pointed out that in a place where footprints were found, "it seems that some forest garbage (such as pine needles) was swept aside, which is by no means a natural situation."

Others questioned Freeman's honesty. Bob Titmus, who has been tracking the bigfoot incident for a long time, thinks that Freeman is making evidence artificially. In a TV interview, Freeman once admitted to forging these footprints of bigfoot! Although the footprints that Freeman "discovered" are not necessarily true, there are still a lot of footprints in bigfoot that need to be explained. John Napier wrote that if we want to say that all these footprints are forged, we have to believe an almost impossible fact: the discovery in all areas from San Francisco to Vancouver is a big conspiracy. But soon someone put forward another view, if this animal really exists in the northwest, why can it remain invisible forever?