The Best 50 Bigfoot Books: 2014
Posted by: Lyle Blackburn on July 29th, 2014
I’m honored that The Beast of Boggy Creek grabbed #13 on the list of best Bigfoot books of all time.
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I have some reading to do as I’ve only read two of the top-ten.
However, I noted that list compiler Loren Coleman has his own book at #5 and Jeff Meldrum’s at #8.
For anyone who has ever read the two books, such a ranking is only possible if
a) one is biased and not objective; or
b) concerned more with older reported sightings or evidence and not ones since the PG film.
I thought the newer, much better illustrated, lengthier, better edited, and more objective (although still not enough) book by the ISU professor was a far better source and one much more likely to open the minds of bigfoot skeptics.
I think the bear-sasquatch profile comparison illustration in Meldrum’s book alone will do more to quiet naysayers about misidentifications than almost any evidence short of an actual corpse.
I recognized the covers of several of the older paperbacks and while I don’t recall specifics, I know I read and probably at one time or another owned at least two of them, nearly four decades ago. I vaguely remember one of them or perhaps it was a contemporary I checked out from the library opened my eyes to the possibility that all that appears in print is not well-reasoned, accurate and the gospel, bet-your-house-on-it truth, a pretty startling revelation to one still in elementary school.