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Maybe not everyone believes in Sasquatch (or Bigfoot), but it’s still a good thing to look over your shoulder when you hike in southern Oregon.

Read: Hiking Sasquatch Country »

Humans have lived in California for at least 15,000 years. In 1848, The United States acquired the area that would one day become the state of California for $15,000,000 after signing the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War. California, famous for Hollywood, the Golden Gate Bridge, and earthquakes, is the most populated state in the union, and the third largest after Alaska and Texas. Outside the large cities (16.37 million people in the greater Los Angeles area) lie great expanses of desert, mountains (including Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park where Capt. James Kirk battled the Gorn in Star Trek), and forests. Despite the number of people, there’s plenty of room in California for monsters.

Read: Exploring American Monsters: California »

A woman comes face to face with a Gray Bigfoot on a full moon near Golden Fork Springs Idaho.

Read: Golden Springs Gray Bigfoot Sighting »

Bigfoot is, of course, the most well-known and widespread strange creature, and reported sightings of the large apelike beast aren’t unheard of in Alabama. They’re common enough that a man named Jim Smith created the Alabama Bigfoot Society, and the group’s website tracks recent sighting reports. One from January near Lake Guntersville, when a woman and her young son were reportedly trapped in a deer stand by a Bigfoot-like creature.

Read: From Bigfoot to big cats: What’s rumored to be hiding in Alabama’s woods? »

A group of disc golf players decide to mess with Sasquatch, only to find out that Sasquatch plays the game by his own rules. And always wins.

Read: Messin’ with Sasquatch: Fling It »

The Tennessee Valley Authority could use a monster, or the inkling of a monster, right now in Boone Lake, to bring out boaters, explorers, scientists and recreational types.

We could call him Booney. Oh, Booney? Yes, I saw Booney last weekend in the shallow channel of water that sits near the bottom of what is usually Boone Lake. With the atypical drawdown occurring this year while engineers inspect the lake’s dam for possible damage, there needs to be some kind of buzz to get people out on the lake.

Read: The benefits of having a lake monster »

Outside a grocery store three guys trick Sasquatch with a classic coin prank. But Sasquatch turns their prank into payback.

Read: Messin’ with Sasquatch: Heads Up »

To promote his current “Sasquatch Brigade” embroidered patch Kickstarter campaign, artist and cryptid fanatic George Coghill is giving away a set of the hairy ape-man cryptid trilogy of embroidered patches to Cryptomundo readers.

Read: “Sasquatch Brigade” Giveaway: Bigfoot/Yeti/Sasquatch Embroidered Patches! »

We visit the location of two Bigfoot sightings near the Flaming Gorge area of Utah.

Read: Flaming Gorge Bigfoot Sighting »

Tonight I speak with Randy Harrington. Randy Harrington had one of the best, close up encounters you’ll ever hear. After setting up a fake camp site to attract Bigfoot, Harrington hid in his truck. When the creatures stepped out of the woods and approached the site, it decided to check out the vehicle, where Harrington was hiding with his video camera and a handgun. He said he heard and saw the creatures rummaging through stuff in the back of the truck.

Read: Sasquatch Chronicles: Campsite Encounter With Sasquatch »

I wanted to share this article in light of the fact that Dr. David Oren and his search for the mapinguari is featured on tonight’s episode of Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot entitled Amazon Squatchin’.

In August of 1999 or so, I ran across the article in Discover magazine. It chronicled an ornithologist named David Oren’s treks into the Amazon in search of the Mapinguari, what is thought to be the still living giant ground sloth. The article detailed the derision that Oren suffered from his fellow scientists.

Read: Beasts in the Mist – The Mapinguari »

The team travels to the Amazon River basin in search of the mythical Mapinguari. With one eye and a gaping mouth on its stomach, the team does not give into the myth, convinced it’s yet another undiscovered primate, and set out to find it in the vast jungle.

Read: Finding Bigfoot: Amazon Squatchin’ »

This story comes to us from High in the Sierra Nevada Mountains when a lawyer on some down time got a bit more than he was expecting while camping off grid in the forest.

Read: Bigfoot Throws a Boulder at a Car in California »

The team gets a lesson in survival and in hunting for the Mapinguari from the Tatuyo tribe.

Read: Knock Once for the Mapinguari »

Sasquatch attend wedding

Read: Messin’ With Sasquatch: Wedding »