Bigfoot Afoot in 2003


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Dec 10, 2003


Some things never go out of style. Bigfoot, aka Sasquatch, aka Yeti, has been puzzling people for centuries in every corner of the globe. 2003 brought no end to the Bigfoot mystery.

Unfortunately, 2003 brought no solution to the mystery, either. It didn't even bring any major clues. Bigfoot is as elusive now as he has ever been, and the answer to the ultimate question of his existence depends on who you ask. Science is relatively open-minded. Bigfoot looks an awful lot like the "missing link" between man and ape, so evolutionists have nothing to lose by finding definitive proof that Bigfoot really is roaming the globe.

For those of us who believe, for whatever personal or sentimental reasons, that Sasquatch exists and only manages to elude our clumsy attempts at capturing proof, I provide to you a by no means complete run-down of 2003's Bigfoot sightings. Consider it the tip of the iceberg.

The Top 10 Bigfoot Sightings in 2003

1. Bigfoot was spotted in Beijing, China. This sighting was big enough to hit CNN in June. Several Bigfoot sightings were reported to, and reportedly investigated by, Chinese authorities. The creature was sighted in a nature reserve in the Hubei province.

2. In September, two pre-teen children saw Bigfoot in Hiouchi, CA. Almost simultaneously, others reported seeing Bigfoot in Klamath, CA. Both places are part of the greater Del Norte County. Does that name ring a bell? It should. It's where the most legendary-and most controversial-Bigfoot film ever produced was recorded in 1967.

3. A Yeti's paw was found in Siberia in October. Well, that's what the locals are calling it, anyway. A mountain climber found the severed paw embedded in permafrost high in the Altay mountains. Scientists used X-Ray to determine the paw is several thousand years old, but were unable to identify the creature to which it belonged. It's interesting to note that in the Congo not long before, a previously unidentified type of ape was discovered.

4. Again in October, in Bennington, Vermont, Bigfoot was sighted by several people in cars, as they drove past the creature. Despite the fact that Bigfoot has been reported in Vermont since at least 1879 (when the New York Times published an account of Bigfoot in Vermont), most the eyewitnesses are skeptical. It seems a local joker is famous for pulling pranks on the townsfolk, and most feel that the Bigfoot in question was really the prankster in a gorilla suit. Or was it?

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1.   Dec 11, 2003 8:48 AM
Thanks for the update on Big Foot. Until now, I thought that most of the sitings were on the West Coast (USA). However, I doubt if it could be the missing link. I would expect that the missing link ...

-- posted by humorous_sage



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