There's a boy in this house, a nine-year-old boy, whose interest in Bigfoot runs deeper than he is tall.
There are Bigfoot warnings made by him and posted in the boy room, one says (and I quote), "Caution: Serieous Bigfoot Territory!", there's a two-foot "life size" Bigfoot sketch on the wall, and there are near daily Bigfoot sketches on the table, not to mention a novel edition as well as a comic edition of his original book entitled, A Bigfoot-Sized Mystery. He's cleaned out the libraries in two counties of all their Bigfoot related books and has thoroughly researched any and every movie he can find about these tall hairy creatures, all the while wearing his Bigfoot t-shirt.
This boy has been wanting to post Bigfoot information here for quite some time, because you never know who might need it or want it. So, for his special boy night last night (he and I got to stay up later than anyone else and do whatever he wanted), he decided it was high time for his long-awaited Bigfoot post. Are you surprised? Are you ready?
Here, in his words is:
Bigfoot 101
Bigfoot is a huge, hairy, man-like bi-ped creature. As my mom said, I am extremely interested in him. He has five toes, although the Australian Bigfoot called Yowie, has four. Even stranger, the Bigfoot creature in the movie Legend of Boggy Creek, has three!
It is said to live in the forests of North America, mostly in California... and Colorado, I think. Bigfoot has many names. In China they call him Yer-en. In the Himalayas they call him Yeti, and on the Asian island of Borneo, he is called the Orange Pendek. In the northwestern part of North America they call him Sasquatch.
There have been many Bigfoot hoaxes, like the one at Bluff Creek, California, in 1967. Two men, named Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin (also known as Robert Gimlin), set out on their horses to Six Rivers National Park. They packed a gorilla suit on one of their horses. Gimlin put it on, and hid behind a tree (so no one would see him too soon) until he was signaled by Patterson. He walked in a timber-littered part of the Park. Patterson recorded Gimlin as he strode behind a huge pile of boulders. This film is the most famous piece of evidence (or so the believers thought) of Bigfoot. In fact, it is so famous, whenever you read a book or watch a documentary of Bigfoot, it's impossible not to see it (unless you lived before the 60's, which you probably didn't).
I haven't been able to figure out why I like Bigfoot, and I just don't know why.
Although Bigfoot is said to be harmless, like he was in Harry and the Hendersons, some stories go a little bit too far, like the one at Ape Canyon , where a whole group of Bigfoot started bombarding a home with humongous boulders. Obviously, if you bombarded a home with boulders, the home would have a lot of holes in it. A Bigfoot reached inside one of these "holes", and grabbed an ax (this is where it gets a little too out of hand), and tried to hack somebody in half. Had it not been for the gun in the hands of the man inside the house, the Bigfoot might have succeeded. But he dropped the ax. Now, does that sound a little bit far-fetched to you? I bet.
Another one which gets out of hand is the story about Albert Ostman. It was said that he was "kidnapped" by a Bigfoot, and brought to its home way up in the mountains. He realized that there was a whole family of Bigfoots. A father, mother, son, and daughter. Whenever Ostman tried to get away, the father would bring him back. The father got really into Ostman's tobacco, and ate a whole bunch. The tobacco made him really thirsty, and while the father Bigfoot went to get a drink of water, Ostman had the chance to escape. I think that Bigfoot is a little too primitive to have the brains to kidnap someone. That is also very disbelieve-able.
For further information, I recommend these books: Bigfoot by Steve Burgen (a book in the series Edgebooks), also, another one named Bigfoot, author unknown (to me), which is a book in the series Strange Encounters, Field Guide to the Sasquatch, also one that I don't know the author's name. The movies I recommend are: Harry and the Henderson's, Last Chance Detectives: Mystery of the Desert Bigfoot, and The Legend of Boggy Creek (I haven't seen this one yet, so I can't really recommend it yet, but I think it's going to be awesome. We rented it on Netflix, so it's coming either tomorrow or Friday. My mom and dad are going to screen it first. If I do get to see it at all, I'm thinking of watching it during the day.)
This is the end of Bigfoot 101.
Until next time,
The Nine-Year-Old Boy
