American Bigfoot
By Jeff Hilling
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"I'm going to tell you the truth about Bigfoot. More specifically, answer the $64,000 question: Is there any reality to the existence of a hairy unknown bipedal creature, commonly referred to as Bigfoot?"
-Jeff Hiiling: Author of The Great Bigfoot FIlm Mystery, and Bigfoot Booyah.
American Bigfoot: A thought provoking cryptozoological work of logic, theory, and history.
•Are we really getting closer to discovering the truth about Bigfoot, or are we further than we've ever been?
•Is it possible that we have missed the narrow window of opportunity altogether in discovering a new species?
•Is there any way to conclusively prove the existence of Bigfoot without a body? (The answer may surprise you.)
• How Roger Patterson could have proved the existence of Bigfoot, without killing or capture.
• What is the Psychological Sasquatch, and is it dangerous?
• The Theodore Roosevelt Bigfoot connection.
• Why some of the weirder Bigfoot evidence may actually be the real thing.
• Why the majority of researchers are on the wrong track.
• The startling truth of what is getting in the way of finding Bigfoot.
•Why everything you think you know about Bigfoot, may be completely wrong.
•A new theory of Bigfoot (the fact), and the possible origins of Bigfoot (the fantasy.)
Jeff Hilling
Jeff Hilling is an author, researcher, and historian. He is also an expert on the Patterson film and on the history of Bigfoot. He is the creator of the website Pattersonfilm.com, a website that explores all angles of the mysterious enigmatic masterpiece known as the Patterson film. Jeff has appeared as a guest on dozens of radio talk shows internationally including Coast to Coast AM with George Noory;The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell, and Now That’s Weird U.K. to name a few.
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American Bigfoot - Jeff Hilling
AMERICAN BIGFOOT
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Published by Jeff Hilling in association with PattersonFilm Dot Com
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CONTENTS
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HISTORY
INTRO
WHO LIKES BIGFOOT?
THE BURDEN OF PROOF
BIGFOOT, WE HARDLY KNOW YOU!
TRIBES OF WANNABES & BOB ANONYMOUS
THE THEORY OF THE AMERICAN BIGFOOT
WHAT'S REALLY BEHIND THE RISE IN BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS?
THE BIGFOOT THAT WAS NOT
BIGFOOT: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND BEYOND
VOTE FOR BIGFOOT
CLOSING CREDITS
HISTORY
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From The Book by Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States of America-The Wilderness Hunter, written in 1892...
Frontiersmen are not, as a rule, apt to be very superstitious. They lead lives too hard and practical, and they have too little imagination in things spiritual and supernatural. I have heard but few ghost stories while living on the frontier, and these few were of a perfectly commonplace and conventional type. But I once listened to a goblin story which rather impressed me. It was told by a grizzled, weather-beaten old mountain hunter, named Bauman, who was born and had passed all his life on the frontier. He must have believed what he said, for he could hardly repress a shudder at certain points of the tale; but he was of German ancestry, and in childhood had doubtless been saturated with all kinds of ghost and goblin lore, so that many fearsome superstitions were latent in his mind; besides, he knew well the stories told by the Indian medicine men in their winter camps, of the snow-walkers, and the specters, and the formless evil beings that haunt the forest depths, and dog and waylay the lonely wanderer who after nightfall passes through the regions where they lurk; and it may be that when overcome by the horror of the fate that befell his friend, and when oppressed by the awful dread of the unknown, he grew to attribute, both German ancestry, and in childhood had doubtless been saturated with all kinds of ghost and goblin lore, so that many fearsome superstitions were latent in his mind; besides, he knew well the stories told by the Indian medicine men in their winter camps, of the snow-walkers, and the specters, and the formless evil beings that haunt the forest depths, and dog and waylay the lonely wanderer who after nightfall passes through the regions where they lurk; and it may be that when overcome by the horror of the fate that befell his friend, and when oppressed by the awful dread of the unknown, he grew to attribute, both at the time and still more in remembrance, weird and elfin traits to what was merely some abnormally wicked and cunning wild beast; but whether this was so or not, no man can say.When the event occurred Bauman was still a young man, and was trapping with a partner among the mountains dividing the forks of the Salmon from the head of Wisdom River. Not having had much luck, he and his partner deter- mined to go up into a particularly wild and lonely pass through which ran a small stream said to contain many beaver. The pass had an evil reputation because the year before a solitary hunter who had wandered into it was there slain, seemingly by a wild beast, the half-eaten remains being afterwards found by some mining prospectors who had passed his camp only the night before.
The memory of this event, however, weighed very lightly with the two trappers, who were as adventurous and hardy as others of their kind. They took their two lean mountain ponies to the foot of the pass, where they left them in an open beaver meadow, the rocky timber-clad ground being from thence onwards impracticable for horses. They then struck out on foot through the vast, gloomy forest, and in about four hours reached a little open glade where they concluded to camp, as signs of game were plenty. There was still an hour or two of daylight left, and after building a brush lean-to and throwing down and opening their packs, they started up stream. The country was very dense and hard to travel through, as there was much down timber, although here and there the somber woodland was broken by small glades of mountain grass.At dusk they again reached camp. The glade in which it was pitched was not many yards wide, the tall, close-set pines and firs rising round it like a wall. On one side was a little stream, beyond which rose the steep mountain-slopes, covered with the unbroken growth of the evergreen forest.
They were surprised to find that during their short absence something, apparently a bear, had visited camp, and had rummaged about among their things, scattering the contents of their packs, and in sheer wantonness destroying their lean-to. The footprints of the beast were quite plain, but at first they paid no particular heed to them, busying themselves with rebuilding the lean-to, laying out their beds and stores, and lighting the fire.
While Bauman was making ready supper, it being already dark, his companion began to examine the tracks more closely, and soon took a brand from the fire to follow them up, where the intruder had walked along a game trail after leaving the camp. When the brand flickered out, he returned and took another, repeating his inspection of the footprints very closely. Coming back to the fire, he stood by it a minute or two, peering out into the darkness, and suddenly remarked: Bauman, that bear has been walking on two legs.
Bauman laughed at this, but his partner insisted that he was right, and upon again examining the tracks with a torch, they certainly did seem to be made by but two paws, or feet. However, it was too dark to make sure. After discussing whether the footprints could possibly be those of a human being, and coming to the conclusion that they could not be, the two men rolled up