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Not sure if this is the right section for this, but I got this in the mail today. When i was a kid traveling through Oregon in the back seat, this book kept me company on most trips. Somewhere along the line, it got lost. Never thought I'd see it again. This book, along with In Search Of, Mysterious Monsters, and LOBC were what really fueled my fascination. By chance, i saw it online looking for something else and i was 6 years old again. This is a silly post brought to you by an overgrown child who feels like he met his first childhood friend after nearly 50 years. Just curious who else has it, read it, and what uour thoughts are of it. (Btw....can you believe it? $1.25 back in 1973! )

I literally have no idea what these things are. I thought that I did years ago before I started spending a fair amount of time actually looking into the phenomenon rather than just studying it by reading the works of others. I think that hardliners on both sides are approaching the topic with their minds already made up…and will selectively decide with reports and evidence they want to accept in order to reinforce their theories. The undiscovered ape idea doesn’t hold water for me anymore. You end up doing more mental gymnastics to explain away even the slightly stranger stuff than you do to wholeheartedly embrace a total paranormal approach. Just an ordinary ape… with abilities so far beyond any other creature on earth that it might as well be alien. A 100% success rate of avoiding a provable death or discovery. The ability to use infrasound in a manner which is impossible (since we have at least scientifically studied infrasound and know its limitations) and which is unparalleled in the rest of the natural world. The ability to avoid sophisticated infrared cameras, but it couldn’t avoid a couple of cowboys with 1960s technology. Strength, speed, agility, and stealth which have no near equal anywhere in the animal kingdom. Physical senses that seem to excel in every category with no accompanying weaknesses. The fact that they seem to be everywhere, yet nowhere. At least the paranormal approach allows one to accept that there are rules to the universe of which we are currently unaware. However, the paranormal theory can be kind of an excuse to present any crazy theory you choose to adhere to without presenting any of your own findings or evidence. So much of that world is unquantifiable. If that’s the case…why even bother looking into it? Also, so many hardcore supernatural Sasquatch proponents are just so obviously bad storytellers desperate for attention. Both worlds are so riddled with fraud and lies. We spend more time speaking with first hand witnesses nowadays then we did in the past. The amount of lies that are told for no reason at all is staggering. Not everyone, not even a majority… but, a very sizable percentage just seem to make this stuff up for no apparent reason. Either attention, casual mischief, or maybe they want the world to have a little bit of magic so badly that they are willing to lie to total strangers for no reason just to foster the idea that there is something strange going on in our mundane world. The slow roll UAP disclosure kind of reveals that we don’t know as much as we thought about how the physical world operates. If you can’t see parallels between that paradigm shift and what might very well be going on with the Sasquatch phenomenon… For myself… I had a sighting of something when I was a boy in the George Washington National Forest. I have never had another Sasquatch sighting, but I have seen some weird stuff that shouldn’t be possible. I have found footprints and other physical evidence that match up with what people associate with Sasquatch… tree twists, structures, heard whoops. I have also seen weird lights… flashes and orbs. Seen other things that I would have previously thought impossible. Things that I have shared other members of this forum for their own analysis. So, at the end of the day…I don’t think either camp is 100% right or wrong. I basically just made a long winded post to say “I don’t know and I honestly don’t think anyone else does either.”