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Whether the large, hairy hominid known as Bigfoot truly roams the wilderness of Humboldt County hasn’t deterred scores of enthusiasts and a television series from joining a nearly 60-year quest to find signs and footprints of the ever-elusive creature.

But one local scientist and professor says the search for Bigfoot opens a larger discussion about what the science world deems worthy of research and what happens to those fields that fall into what he calls “the crackpot realm.”

Read: Professor: Bigfoot exists, and science should care »

Of all of the many Nessie-related subjects documented by me down through the years (and now collected together in my forthcoming book Here’s Nessie: A Monstrous Compendium From Loch Ness), few have incited as many inquiries to me from readers and correspondents as the extraordinary ‘frog as big as a goat’ supposedly sighted one day by diver Duncan Macdonald while underwater in Loch Ness during the late 1800s.

Read: A Frog as Big as a Goat – The Most Mystifying Loch Ness Monster Sighting Ever? »

If you are looking for the truth, you will find it here.

Read: Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend »

…Stepp attended a conference on all things Sasquatch to celebrate the launch of the Bigfoot section of the China Flat Museum in Willow Creek. There he introduced himself to Jeffrey Meldrum, professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University and an oft-interviewed Bigfoot researcher. Meldrum’s area of focus is the evolution of bipedalism — the anatomical distinctions and development of our ancestors that led to our walking on two legs, including the dynamics of their footfalls, footprints and skeletons.

Read: Why one scientist thinks taboo fringe theories are a big hairy deal »

Witness Tim was walking along a street along side the Darling Ranges at Kalamunda during the night, when after hearing noises, he spots a half man/half primate standing in the trees watching him.

The headlights of passing cars illuminate the area, providing him with a good view of the creature.

Read: Yowie Spotted at Night »

Bigfoot: an historico-ecologico-anthropoidologico-archetypal study of the creature and its believers

Read: Giant Hairy Apes in the North Woods: A Bigfoot Study »

Join us as we welcome Ken Gerhard to discuss one of the great Cryptozoological mysteries of our time, Big Birds and Pterosaurs. Whether prehistoric leftovers or undiscovered species, perhaps nothing is more frightening than the terror that comes out of nowhere to swoop down and snatch it’s victim, only to fly off and never been seen again.

Read: Monster X Radio: Animal Extant ‘Terror from the Skies with Ken Gerhard’ »

A report comes in to the GCBRO of a terrifying Bigfoot encounter in the swampy Sabine River area in SW Louisiana. Living on a huge 5000 acre wooded farm, the Dyess family have had numerous encounters with Bigfoot coming into their yard, screaming at night and even frightening them when they are out hunting. They’ve taken casts of the huge tracks they’ve found. They’ve stopped hunting and going into the forest- south Gulf Coast Bigfoot Organization team must come and help remove their problem. In the meantime, the team has a run-in with their old rival Dr. Web Sentell.

Read: Killing Bigfoot: Bayou Bigfoot »

The Texas Bigfoot Research Center celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Original Texas Bigfoot Conference held on September 15, 2001 with this year’s event to be held the weekend of October 14-16, 2016.

Read: 15th Anniversary Texas Bigfoot Conference »

Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland’s Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to have seen “an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.” The story of the “monster” (a moniker chosen by the Courier editor) became a media phenomenon, with London newspapers sending correspondents to Scotland and a circus offering a 20,000 pound sterling reward for capture of the beast.

Read: This Day in History: Loch Ness Monster Sighted »

The team receives a special invitation to investigate the Klamath reservation in Southern Oregon, where bigfoot sightings are a regular occurrence. The team investigates a canyon so squatchy, the tribe themselves don’t dare to venture in after dark.

Read: Finding Bigfoot: Squatching on Sacred Ground Full Episode »

People who have seen or experienced events connected to Bigfoot truly come from every walk of life. There doesn’t seem to be any one thing in common. It can happen to anyone… A man hunting at his deer lease, to the woman driving home from work late at night. It can happen at any age and at any time of night or day. I have worked with nurses, lawyers, teachers, oil field workers, truckers, carpenters, expert guides, engineers, and people in the military, mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, and more. It doesn’t seem to matter who they are, or what they do… OR whether they believed or didn’t believe in the existence of this creature.

Read: Do Bigfoot Witnesses Have Anything in Common? »

Scott Herriott, filmmaker of the classics Squatching/Journey Toward Squatchdom, is planning a new Sasquatch film project and has started a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund it.

Read: The Hopefully Great 2016 Bigfoot Trail Expedition »

Tracking the Stone Man is a collection of essays from Dr. Jones’ youthful introduction to Bigfoot to his becoming a leader in the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO). Perhaps most interesting are Dr. Jones’ adventures and encounters in the wild forests, steep ridges, and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains, the highest mountains east of the Rockies

Read: Tracking the Stone Man: West Virginia’s Bigfoot »

The 2016 Arkansas Bigfoot Conference will be April 23rd at the Vilonia Arkansas Municipal Building at 18 Bise Road. The cost is $10 for the day (9am to 6 pm) and you get your tickets at the door that day. Hope to see you there!

Read: 2016 Arkansas Bigfoot Conference »