June 10, 2009
Bigfoot? Swamp Ape? Booger? Something is around. Footprints have been found.
Since at least the last week of May 2009, there have been a series of sightings of hairy hominoids in South Carolina. Chief Joe Van Parkman of the Columbia Police Department reported on May 29th that his department had received reports of a large bipedal creature being spotted around the area of the Columbia Waterpark.
“We are investigating this strictly from the viewpoint of public safety and that alone,” Parkman said. “My biggest fear is that someone might be trying to perpetrate some kind of hoax and could get hurt.”
The following footprint photo was taken of one of the tracks discovered.
Too bad there is no scale in this published Columbian print.
Of course, a track found might not have a thing to do with the sightings. I think this might be especially true since that footprint looks an awfully lot like a raccoon track to me (compare an example below). Just my opinion.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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