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Does a hulking, hairy, 800-pound, nine-foot-tall, elusive primate roam the woods and forests throughout North America—and the world? What should we make of the grainy videos and photos and the thousands of eyewitness reports? Audio-recordings exist purporting to be the creatures’ eerie chatter and bone-chilling screaming. Whether called Sasquatch, Yeti, Bigfoot, or something else, bipedal primates appear in folklore, legends, and eyewitness accounts in every state of the union and many places around the world. The fascination with the man-beast is stronger than ever in today’s pop culture.

Read: The Bigfoot Book: The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti and Cryptid Primates Coming Soon! »

Join Monster X hosts Gunnar Monson and Shane Corson as they sit down with Bigfoot witnesses who have come forward to share their encounters.

One witness will share his encounter from Arkansas.

Read: Monster X Radio Archive: Encounters of the Squatchy Kind »

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? »

Mark and Seth wrap up small town monsters month with a spotlight of the little-known, utterly-bizarre Monroe Monster. A possibly atomic energy created creature who prowled the town of Monroe during one particularly memorable summer during the 70’s. Then they give their final thoughts on the first SasWhat themed month and we’re done.

Read: SasWhat: Small Town Monsters Month Finale: The Monroe Monster »

“Next to Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman, probably the most talked about cryptid ape is the Orang-pendek, a small, bipedal creature that dwells in the thick forests of Sumatra.”

Read: Creature of the Month – From Sumatra »

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 »

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 »