I thought at first I had triggered an avalanche of some type until I saw a big black hairy mask behind all of those rocks and twigs. Elmer Skip Frombach junior, interview Unsolved Mysteries
The facial area wasn’t really covered with a lot of hair; eyes seemed normal ... Seven maybe seven and a half feet tall ... Maybe three hundred and fifty pounds. Sergeant Larry Gamache
I could see his arms, the shape of everything ... The whole world slowed down when I saw this. Just disbelief. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. Tim Martindale, British Columbia
That’s when we’ve seen he wasn’t human. He was a sasquatch. Edeas Felix, Norwegian fisherman
There’s no question that eye-witness accounts are not the most reliable form of data. But one has to take into account though the remarkable consistency and the pervasiveness of this experience that is shared by so many people. Professor Jeffrey Meldrum, Idaho State University
We have very compelling evidence in the form of multiple samples – fifteen-plus samples – which defy identification, which cannot be attributed to any known animal. And yet show primate characteristics. Jeffrey Meldrum
He’s tall. He’s dark. And he’s been spotted everywhere from Australia to the Himalayas. Exactly who or what is the wild man of mystery we call Bigfoot? And does he exist outside our imaginations? Paranormal? Bigfoot
1967 ... Two cowboys, avowed Bigfoot fans, went in search of the creature and apparently captured it on film. They recorded a giant hairy female in full stride, a creature that was to become the poster child of the Bigfoot movement. ibid.
Hundreds maybe even thousands of giant footprint plaster casts have been taken over the years in an effort to prove the existence of Bigfoot. ibid.
Worldwide people report seeing a strange creature. Bigfoot Encounters: Paranatural, National Geographic 2013
But most in the scientific community do not believe this creature exists. ibid.
6Sasquatch and Bigfoot sightings almost always occur in or near bear habitats. ibid.
I don’t think Bigfoot is a biological problem. Dr David Daegling, anthropologist University of Florida
I’m amazed through all the years various people that have been hunting Sasquatch, though the years have not really found any what we call bone or dental evidence of the creature. That to me would be very satisfying. Professor Daris R Swindler, Professor of Anthropology University of Washington
Prince of Wales Island off the coast of Alaska: for centuries the native American community here has reported regular encounters with a tall hairy beast. Finding Bigfoot I, Animal Planet 2011
The team and I are entering into North Carolina’s expanse of fifty thousand acre Uwharrie National Forests ... A goldmine of Sasquatch reports. Finding Bigfoot II
In Florida some people believe that their swamps and forests conceal a mysterious and malodorous monster. Finding Bigfoot III: Swamp Ape
The forests of Oregon are another place where unverifiable stories and vague fuzzy pictures get labelled as definitive proof of the existence of Bigfoot. Finding Bigfoot IV: Fishing For Bigfoot in Oregon
The rugged wilderness of south-western Washington ... Recently a hiker captured a photo of a lone creature on a mountaintop. Finding Bigfoot V: Frozen Bigfoot
The team from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organisation leave the safety of the USA for the wild Canadian Rockies. Finding Bigfoot VI: Canadian Bigfoot, Eh?
Strange tales of giant beasts. Half ape and half human. Massive footprints of mystery creatures found around the globe. Ancient Aliens s4e7: Aliens and Bigfoot s4e7, History 2012
How has it remained so elusive? ibid.
Could such creatures be extraterrestrial in nature? ibid.
From the Yeti of the snow-peaked Himalayas to the Almasty of Russia and the Sasquatch of the western USA every culture has a name for it ... It’s about hunting for answers. Bigfoot Files, Channel 4 2013
The Himalayas is the birthplace of the Yeti ... Sightings are rare and evidence is scant ... Every part of Himalayas has its own Bigfoot legend. ibid.
Polar Bear + Brown Bear = ‘really important scientific discovery’. ibid.
The Pacific northwest has been home to over a thousand alleged Bigfoot encounters. Bigfoot Files II: Sasquatch
I’ve come to where the faith was born over fifty years ago – Willow Creek, northern California. ibid.
There were seven samples from Washington State: two were cows, one was a black bear, one was a white-tailed deer ... canine – a wolf or a dog ... a horse in Texas, a raccoon in Arizona, and way up in Michigan – a porcupine. ibid.
Russia: home to the Almasty ... The Almasty-Neanderthal theory – the idea was developed fifty years ago. Bigfoot Files III: Almasty
The tale of Zana – the so-called Wild Woman of the Caucasus. ibid.
It became increasingly difficult to believe that a giant apeman could stay hidden in the wild. Over the years the footage being claimed as Bigfoot seemed to get worse and worse. Morgan Matthews, Shooting Bigfoot: America's Monster Hunters, BBC 2014
I became fascinated by this world of Bigfoot hunters and Bigfoot hoaxers. ibid.
More than seven feet tall, over 500 pounds, bigger than any man ... could it all be one of the biggest cover-ups in history? Conspiracy Files Unsealed: Bigfoot, Blaze 2012
A giant beast is said to roam North America. Up to ten feet tall, weighing up to a thousand pounds, and covered with foul-smelling fur. Many dismiss it as a fantasy. While others have spent decades collecting evidence trying to prove its existence. Who or what is Bigfoot? Could it be true that one of our earliest ancestors is still living among us today? Is Bigfoot a case of mistaken identity? Some kind of elaborate hoax? Or could the truth be hidden in the complexities of the human brain. BigFoot: The Missing Evidence ***** Channel 5 2014
Near the top of the trail [Jason] Miller heard something far from ordinary. ibid.
Stories of primitive humans walking on two legs lurking in the remote corners of the world have existed for centuries. ibid.
Himalayas – in 1951 a team of adventurers was making the first ever attempts to climb Mount Everest ... He discovered a series of footprints in the snow ... New evidence was found – this time in America ... A set of giant footprints ... the name Bigfoot was coined. ibid.
The film caused a sensation, and before long purported sightings of the creature exploded. ibid.
Jeff Meldrum – a professor of anatomy and anthropology at the University of Idaho ... He believes Bigfoot is real ... The hundreds of footprint castes he has collected over the years. ibid.
They are not hard scientific evidence. ibid.
Giganthropithicus is thought to have become extinct for three hundred thousand years. ibid.
In 2004 a species of giant chimpanzee called the Billy Ape rumoured to hunt lions and sleep on the ground just like humans was found alive deep in the Congolese jungle. Could Bigfoot be the next species to emerge? ibid.
Covered in brown smelly fur, bears closely match many of the descriptions of Bigfoot; except for one key fact – eyewitnesses always described Bigfoot on two legs. ibid.
Over the last fifty years thousands of Americans are adamant that they have seen Bigfoot ... Many of these sightings are far from fleeting. ibid.
No samples of a living creature have ever been found ... Nor have any remains been discovered ... Bigfoot is most likely to be a case of mistaken identity: a trick of the human mind. ibid.
There was no doubt that we were looking at some sort of man – not homo sapiens but some sort of strangely hairy man. Dr Bernard Heuvelmans, zoologist, re Minnesota Ice-Man