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ISSUE NO. 14
BIGFOOT RECORD
"The World's Leading BIGFOOT Newsletter".
Hello out there fellow BIGFOOT research enthusiasts. In this issue, you will see a variety of
information about BIGFOOT such as sightings, book reviews and drawings of BIGFOOT.
So feel free to send any information on BIGFOOT to:
BILL GREEN 21 BENHAM ST. APT. F BRISTOL, CT 06010
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o Lucas Garcia JR
from 95.
Bill
Treen
Drawing of BIGFOOT
Courtesy of M-M.

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CREDIT: MICHAEL JOINER
Report on the sightings of the Bigfoot in New Mexico
By the Southern Sasquatch Society 5/8/95.
We've done a extensive look into the possibility of Bigfeet
in the state of New Mexico. Since 1968 there have been seven
sightings. As I will list chronologically:
1) Summer 1968/ N. of Anthony/ Couple/ While driving on highway
10, saw black Bigfoot with wavy hair eating a road kill.
Noted, BFN p.177
2) 1969/ Chuska Mts. 2 Navaho shepherds/ Shot at 8ft Bigfoot
which ran wounded into canyon; helped by two others.
Noted, BFN p. 183
3) Jan. 1970/ Clifford Heronemus, Robert Davis, Carl Martinez,
David Chiaramonte/ Bigfoot ran beside witnesses' car 45mph
until they shot at it. Noted BFN p.183
4) 1971/ Chuska Mts./ -/ Bigfoot taking sheep from corrals;
one seen walking with sticks on its arms. Noted BFN p.188
5) Oct. 1980/ Gene Bryan, Mike Waldrop/ While camping with
families, heard loud scream and saw creature standing by
tree. Noted BFN p.229
6) Oct. 1980/ Artesia/ Marion Dean/ Saw black 7ft Bigfoot with
white eyes standing in alley near her apartment.
Noted BFN p.230
7) June 1986/ Mescalro Indian Reservation/ Indian Woman/ Saw
black Bigfoot eating apples out of trees: the next day
saw the same Bigfoot behind her house on a cliff watching
the house. Indian woman to Michael Joiner.
The 6 of the sightings that I have listed were noted in
the Bigfoot Casebook and the other was uncovered in research.
I will go though them one at a time to show what was uncovered.
The Anthony sighting took place at midnight on a four lane hyw.
I was unable to find the couple, but I did search the area in
question. I found the area to be part Franklin Mts. who's highest
mountain is 5,900ft. The vegetation in the area is one of desert,
with srub and one seed juiper trees. The climate is very arid,
with an average amount of rainfall under 10 inches. The wildlife
in the area consist of bobcat, skunk, and coyote. There are
some bear in the mountains, but are rarely seen. After being
in the area I see no way that a Bigfoot could have been seen.
The area is desert in 100 miles square. There
could be no way for a Bigfoot to get there unless walking over
a large desert. Also there is no adequate water or food, thus
I rule that what was seen was a coyote or bear nothing else.
Madison, The Capital Times
OCT 16 884
Madison (Wis.)
It was real, and no one can tell me it wasn't'
Richard Heide
8516 W Capal De
Mower W153727
OCT. 16, 1984
Images such as Bigfoot almost universal
The Associated Press
Wayne Lung, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman. displays the
plaster cast of the foot of a creature sighted in 1982 near
Walla Walla, Wash. Also shown is a sketch of "Bigfoot"
drawn by the Forest Service employee who says he sighted the
creature.
By JAY RATH
Capital Times Staff Writer
Just in the outer fringes of the headlights, not
quite out of the headlight range, I saw this big hairy
thing. It scared the devil out of me. It was probably
seven or eight feet tall. It was running across, from
south to north, and I jumped a four or five-lool
barbed wire fence."
The story of what Dennus Fewless saw near Dela-
van that late night in July 1964, is one of Wisconsin's
few reports of Bigfool
Bigtool, also known by the Indian name Sa
qualch, has been described by hundreds of people
since the 1800s as a large, heavy ape-like creature
that walks on two legs Defuuuve proof of the crea-
ture's existence has not yet been found
Whule most sighungs are reported to have oc
curred in the Northwest. Sasquatch has been re
ported across the United States from Arizona to
Maine, from Washington to Flonda
Just as often as sighungs are made, large tracks
are found, earning the legendary creature the ruck-
name, "Bigfool"
In addition to the report by Fewless, bow hunters
in Fremont, near Weyauwega, have said they saw
the creature in 1968
A Delavan nalive. Fewless said he was driving
home around midnight after working at the Admiral
Televison Corp. in Harvard, IL After turning onto
Wisconsin 89 from U.S. 14 his headlights picked up an
animal running across the road, from field to held
on two legs. It was dark colored and weighed be
Iween 400 and 500 pounds
"I was awful scared that rught" said Fewless H.
That was no man. It was all hairy from leet to
head"
The next day Fewless and his wife returned to the
spol, to look for footprints or other evidence The hot
July sun had hardened the ground so that there were
no tracks "Rut we found where the corn had been
pushed back aside." Fewless s
Robert A. Hrightman, a professor in the Depart
ment of Anthropology at the University of Wiscon
sin, has studied reports of Bigfoot in the sensational
press. He said he doesn't believe the creature exists
But he still is interested in studying why people be
eve the reports
"I think it fits into a larger tendency that you can
observe in every human society," said Brightman
"Images like Bigfoot, images between humans
and animals, seem to be common to people of all
states of society," he said. "If it's not universal, ILs
close to universal"
Stories of near-human creatures are indeed wide
spread Ancient Greece had its hall-man, hall-horse
centaur. Besides Sasquatch on the North Pacific
Coast, there is Nepal's Yeu the Abominable Snow
man China has a wild man and Russia has a snow
man. Theorists have seized on the widespread na
Lure of these stones as proof of the creatures exist
ence.
Brightman likes to keep an eye on publications
such as the Nauonal Enquirer, in which he said Big
foot stones surface every two or three weeks. Hed
vides the published accounts be fods there into
three categories:
1. Rigfoot the Monster In this version, the huge.
slavering creature stalks humans and attempt to
kill and eat them. Only narrow escapes allow these
stories to be told at all. This kind of story. Brighuman
said is in the tradition of wild-man and werewolf
legends
2 Bigfoot the House Pet This docule. dependent
creature is in need of human and and care A recent
example of this type of story Brightman said was
headlined "1 Deuvered Bigfoot's Baby As the story
goes, an Alberta farm girl went into the family barm
where she discovered a female Sasquatch in labor
The giri aided in delivery. In the dawn, the creature
expressed its heartfelt grautude in a touching hyp
nouc gaze. The beast looked right into the prism
and left
1 Bigfoot Friend of Man In this third categor
injured hunters and last travelers are befnended b
the gentle giants who and them Someumes ue
creatures lead the humans to a cave or dwelling
where Bigfoot nuclear families are coserved.com
plete with speech or some other method of sending
complex messages to each other
The tale by Fewless, however, doesn't easily fil
into any of these categones
"I'm no nut" said Fewless I'd been making that
same drive right after night It wasn't just a one-
right affair I know what to look for You know what
deer look like or skunk or bear you know what
that looks like.
This didn't look anything like that at all he
added "As far as I'm concerned it was real and no
one can tell me it wasn't"
Not all Sasquatch reports are as simple and
straightforward. Some of the stories are strange and
outlandish
Brightman said that because the stones are en
widespread it leads one to believe that they may
serve some intellectual or emotional function. Some
people just may want to beueve in a Big Fool
Hrightman says society may feel a need to sepa.
rate itself from animals to know how we are diller
ent Creatures that merge the characteristics of
man and animal let us define ourselves more clear-
ly The closer the creature comes, the more specific
we can inake the rules for being human
Credit Paul cuttle
RICHARD HEIDEN via COUD-I

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SASQUATCH SIGHTINGS IN THE B.T.
(Bridgewater Triangle)
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1995
* * *
TOWN/CITY
STREET
Bridgewater
Bridgewater
DESCRIPTION
DATE/
AREA
TIME
A large hairy creature
Woods
walking upright
1970
A huge bear-like
creature lumbering
Woods
1970
Early Aft.
Bridgewater
Broad St.
Tall furry creature with Woods
big shoulders & long
200'
dark brown hair walk-
Bridgewater
Elm St.
W. Bridgewater North St.
W. Bridgewater
ing slowly behind hill
Tall furry man-like
creature
Tall furry man-like
creature w/orange-red
eyes, standing eating a
pumpkin.
Tall furry man-like
creature with fangs &
reddish-orange eyes
standing upright.
Suddenly, ran down a
path when campfire
became bigger.
behind a
small hill
Back of a
garden in
front of
1978------
Early Aft.
woods.
In
Hockomock
Swamp
45' from
campfire.
8/5
1985
CREDIT TO:
Joseph De andrade
Very late
at night
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1995 3
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Why the legend
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By Caroline Davies
THE existence of "Bigfoot",
a yeti-type humanoid crea-
ture whose giant footprints
were said to have been found
in America, was probably an
elaborate hoax, according to
new research presented in
London yesterday.
The tracks, measuring 16
inches by seven inches, could
have been made by a "foot"
carved from wood, sus-
pended from cables and
pressed into soft mud.
The Bigfoot phenomenon,
which has spawned a com-
mercial culture in America.
including Bigfoot pizzas and
special snow skis, began in
October 1958 when some
road-builders took a plaster
cast of a footprint they
claimed was found at "Bluff
Creek. 20 miles north of
Klamath, California.
Its photographs were pub-
lished around the world, and
several crypto-zoologists.
people dedicated to
researching the existence of
such creatures as the Abomi-
nable Snowman, began
detailed investigations.
But, claims Professor
Loren Coleman, Bigfoot was
a prank, played on the con-
struction gang by its boss.
Mr Ray Wallace. In a paper
presented to the Fortean
Times UnConvention 1995 at
the University of London he
said previously unpublished
letters from researchers
threw doubt on the theory
that a Bigfoot ever walked in
the aptly-named Bluff Creek.
Prof Coleman, 47. a profes-
sor of child welfare at the
University of Southern
Maine, in Portland. said the
circumstances of the discov-
ery had never been seriously
examined before.
He added that the
respected zoologist Ivan
T Sanderson, who spent
much time researching Big-
foot, had interviewed all par-
ties concerned in the find. He
never publicly expressed
doubts about the authentic-
ity of the footprints, but did
in private letters, only
recently discovered.
The Bigfoot legend was
born when one construction
worker, Mr Jerry Crew, dis-
covered the footprint and
took a plaster cast to his local
newspaper office. Men work-
ing at nearby Mad River said
that they too had seen prints.
Later, it was discovered
these workers were also in
the employ of Mr Wallace.
Hair and droppings purport-
edly from Bigfoot were later
proved to be from moose.
Prof Coleman believes
that Mr Wallace may have
used the pranks to "keep
some control of his Indian
workers, who told tales of
hairy forest cannibals and
Indian-devils".
Prof Coleman and Bigfoot
Credit: Loren Coleman.

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Bigfoot Hairs
Undergo DNA
Analysis
R
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Fo
- Scientists are trying to pin
down Bigfoot by the hair of
his chinny-chin-chin.
Ac
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Ohio State University rc-
searchers are using DNA
analysis on a few tufts of hair
found in a Pacific Northwest
forest where three men, in-
cluding two former forest
rangers, spotted a group of
"Bigfoots" about 100 fcct
away in the dark.
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"I don't expect anything !
to happen because I'm pretty
skeptical about this. But
good science requires some
wild-goose chases from time
to time, Frank Poirier, 1
chairman of the Ohio State's
Department
Anthropology.
of
The analysis should deter-
mine if the hair came from a
human or another known
primatc.
"After the creatures left,
they picked up hair from the
locale, as well as footprints
and knuckle prints," he said.
One of the men, Wes
Sumerlin, of Walla Walla,
Wash., hopes the DNA test-
ing proves what he already
knows: They're out there.
"There's no doubt in my
he said
mind I saw onc,
Sunday.
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century, October 20, 1967,
to be exact. On this day in
Bluff Creek, California the
late Roger Patterson col-
lected photographic evi
dence, a film of a Sas-
quatch. The Patterson film
is to the Bigfoot field what
the Zapruder film is to the
Kennedy assassination.
Throughout the pages of
this issue we explore the
intricacies of that film, the
filmsite, the involved inves-
tigators and the aftermath.
As you read remember:
closed umbrellas don't
work. Neither do closed
minds.
No Bigfoot has ever been
killed or captured, and no
carcass or bones have ever
been found.
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Ohio lab tests hair
sent from Washington
after Big Foot report
COLUMBUS, Ohio Scientists
are using a new DNA matching pro-
cess to determine whether tufts of
hair recovered in August in the Blue
Mountains of southeast Washington
could belong to Bigfoot.
The two tufts of hair, each consis-
ting of about a dozen strands, were
sent to Ohio State University.
Paul Fuerst, an associate profes-
sor of molecular genetics, and a
graduate student are using a DNA
testing procedure being developed
by the FBI for analysis of hair
strands that lack the roots normally
needed for identification.
The technique should be able to
determine whether the hair came
from a human or another known
primate.
The creatures reportedly were
seen by forest rangers at a distance
of about 100 feet in a dense forest.
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050
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SANDUSKY REGISTER - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1995
Will DNA nab Bigfoot?
COLUMBUS (AP) - Research-
ers at Ohio State University hope
to come within a hair of verifying
the existence of Bigfoot.
Scientists are using a new DNA
matching process to determine
whether there may be more to the
sasquatch legend than some blur-
ry film footage and a few giant
footprints.
The new evidence consists of
two tufts of hair, each consisting of
about a dozen individual strands,
recovered in Washington state
after a recent sighting.
J
A
"This is the first time that I'm
aware of that anybody will be able
to do any DNA extractions (on Big-
foot)," said Frank Poirier, chair-
man of the Ohio State's Depart-
ment of Anthropology. "I don't
expect anything to happen
because i'm pretty skeptical about
this. But good science requires
some wild goose chases from time
to time.
The testing is being done for the
Oregon Regional Primate"
Research Center.
'Good science
requires some wild-
goose chases from
time to time.'
- Frank Poirier
OSU scientist
"Oregon has a large number of
(Bigfoot) samples, all of which
they treat with great skepticism,"
said Paul Fuerst, OSU associate
professor of molecular genetics.
"These two batches sent to us had
the best possibility of being real.'
The creatures reportedly were
observed at a distance of about 100
feet in a dense, dark forest.
"It was a sighting by forest rang-
ers," Poirier said. "After the crea-
tures left, they picked up hair from
the locale, as well as footprints and
knuckle prints.
Hundreds of observers have
described Bigfoot as being a furry,
muscular primate standing 6 feet
to 10 feet tall. There is the blurry
1967 film of a creature fitting that
description and some footprint
casts, but most scientists find this
insufficient proof.
Fuerst and a graduate student.
Jamie Austin, are using a DNA
testing protocol being developed
by the FBI for analysis of hair
strands that lack the roots normal-
ly needed for identification.
Austin, a forensic scientist, is
using the Bigfoot hair as well as
human and chimpanzee hair to do
an independent genetic evaluation
of the protocol.
The technique should be able to
determine whether the Bigfoot
hair came from a human or anoth-
er known primate, Austin said.
Tests so far suggest the hair did
not come from a primate.
If the Washington hair samples
turn out to be from an unknown
primate, Poirier wants to compare
them with a single hair reputed to
be from the Chinese "wildman." a
human-like primate he has investi-
gated in Asia.
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Credit John Green,
DO SASQUATCHES MIGRATE?
There has always been speculation that sasquatches might migrate
with the seasons, so that it might be possible to establish that they would
be passing certain points at certain times of year.
I have looked for evidence of this in my computer entries in
three different ways:
Relationship of altitude to the time of year.
Relationship of direction of travel to the time of year.
Relationship of location to the time of year.
None of these has shown any consistent pattern that would
indicate migration.
Average altitude of incidents is highest in the summer, which
is probably normal for most animals, but it is lowest not in the winter but
in the spring, and the difference is less than 400 feet. Since human
observers also would tend to be at higher altitudes in warmer weather
there is probably no significance in these figures.
Direction of travel could be expected to be the most promising
indicator, since a migratory pattern would surely be south prior to winter
weather and north when winter is over. Alternatively, near the coast,
there could be a movement west in the fall and east in spring.
Unfortunately I have only 126 track reports and 82 sighting
reports in which direction of travel is indicated. Even making some of
these do double duty (counting "northwest", for instance, as both north
and west) the numbers are small.
There are 14 northbound reports in spring compared to 9
southbound, which looks a bit promising, but in fall there are 27 northbound
and only 20 southbound. In fact 54% of the directions noted were northbound,
and if that were statistically valid all sasquatches would eventually end up in
The only season when a majority headed south was
the Arctic Ocean.
summer, 25 southbound, 19 northbound.
East-west results were similar, with 54% headed west, and the
greatest imbalance, 21 west to 13 east, coming in the spring when migration
theory would have suggested travel in the opposite direction.
Looking at location, there is a complete jumble, with the
distances involved probably too small to mean anything even if they were
consistent. Perhaps the results could be summed up by noting that if
the average latitude and longitude is worked out for reports in each of
the four seasons, the locations for all four come within a circle just 30
miles in diameter, which, incidentally, is in Oregon just southeast of Portland.
The two sightings from the Chuska Mts. were both on the
Navaho Indian Reservation. The first involved two shepherds
who shot and hit the Bigfoot. I've been to the Reservation and
talked with many of the Indians. They were most helpful. It
was however in their opinion that a spirit was seen. Although
I respect their beliefs I feel that maybe it could be something
else. The area is mountainous and has many valleys that could
hind a creature. However the climate is very dry and the
vegetation can be both thick pines and srub. Two other Bigfeet
were seen. Thus there would have to be enough food to support
a small group of the creatures. This would be very hard in an
area that would require the creatures to hunt continuously.
I was told that the Navaho people have a wolf god. This god
dress as a wolf. It is possible that some of the sighting might
result from this. However the second sighting might well be
something else. Most of the people that I spoke with did not
believe a Bigfoot was reasonable, but poor Indians that were
living in the mountains. Also it can not be ruled out that drink
might be involved. Gallup has the highest rate of alcoholism
here and happens to be right in the next to the Reservation.
My though is that it is possible that Bigfeet were involved, but
the area is surrounded by desert and there is not a lot of food
to keep them.
In January 1970, a Bigfoot was seen on near Zuni. I went
to the area and found a creditable number of people that said
that felt the stories were true, but none had seen anything
since then. The area is semi-desert with in the southern part
of the Chuska Mts. I was not able to find the youths now grown.
John Green wrote in his book" that he had received a number
of sightings in the area on both sides of the Arizona and New
Mexico border". This vegetation is not the best to support a
large group of Bigfeet. However it is possible that if more
time could spent in the area it could prove or disprove, the
whole idea of Bigfeet in New Mexico.
The sighting at sitting Bull Falls is interesting, and
may be connected with the sighting in Mescalro. The area is
some what pine forested. There are camp areas around the falls
However the mountains in the area are no
and plenty of water.
more than 6,000ft. in the Guadalupe Mts. The two witness were
not found, but the locals in the area talked about the creature
that shows up every now and then. It is my opinion that the
seen at Sitting Bull Falls is the same one
creature that was
seen in the area around Mescalro. Which is about 80 miles north.
I have traveled the possible route of the Bigfoot and it is
possible to travel through many valley's that connect the two
areas. The Indian woman that was interviewed was reluctant to
talk about it and has no reason to lie. I believe that the
Bigfoot could migrate between the two areas during summer and
winter. There is enough food in both areas to support at less
a rogue male. Where elk, bear, and coyote, live in relative
comfort.
As for the sighting in Artesia, I see no way a creature
could live there or even get there! This sighting should
bedisregarded and as a mistake.
In conclusion I believe that there is a 10% chance that
Bigfoot is residing in New Mexico. Although I don't discount
the sights, having been in the area it is hard to imagine a
creature living here very long. The idea that a creature such
as Bigfoot traveling through the desert does not make much
sense. After living here nine years, I explored many areas
offorested land. I think that it's safer looking else where
unless a new sighting or two come to light.

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CEC
387 HIGH ST.
BRIDGEWATER, MA. 02324
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Joseph M. De Andrade
President
Sunday Standard Times
MAGAZINE
August 27, 1989
INSIDE
This article is from the Boston magazine.
April 1988. Page 16.
JOHN URSINO
WILDLIFE
SASQUATCH
IN SUBURBIA
Y
OU DON'T HAVE TO GO
all the way to the red-
wood forests of the Pa-
cific Northwest to find a big-
foot creature, or a Sasquatch.
At least that's what Joseph
DeAndrade of Bridgewater
says.
DeAndrade, 33, a security
officer, had a close encounter
of the shaggy kind 10 years
ago, and now he leads expedi-
tions into the infamous
Bridgewater Triangle, searching
for an answer to the mystery
The Bridgewater Triangle.
which includes parts of
Bridgewater, West Bridgewater,
and Raynham, is notorious as
the scene of UFO and creature
Sightings, says DeAndrade.
And the stones aren't coming
from Bridgewater State Hospi-
tal, either. Some local police
say that they've heard about
such encounters, although
West Bridgewater patrolman
Philip Tuck. 50. insists, "I've
April 1-188
THE RE
been in this town 14 years, and
not once has a bigfoot been
reported.
"I myself have seen a big-
foot," says DeAndrade, refer-
ring to his 1978 experience in
the Hockomock Swamp, a
5.000-acre woodland tract that
spans several neighborhoods in
the Bridgewater Triangle. "I
saw it across a pond in the day-
time," he repeats. "It walked
like a man but real slow, like
Frankenstein. I turned my head
to tell my friend with me, then
it was gone.
Undaunted by skepticism.
DeAndrade also claims that he
and several fnends heard "hor-
rifying, evil, hungry" howls
during a 1985 Hockomock
monster search. And he says
that he will be leading "ade-
quately armed" expeditions
into the swamp again soon, in
the hope of bringing back some
physical evidence of the
creature.
With DeAndrade and his
creature seekers on the prowl
the bigfoot better watch its
step
or at least stay on its
JOCS
-David Gianatusto
Credit to Bonnie Stump-Shirazı
Bigfoot in Rathbone?
'If it's a hoax,
someone did
a good job...
By MELANIE CONTY
Staff writer
RATHBONE Bigfoot may be
stomping around town, according to
people who found huge footprints,
hairs and uprooted vegetation near
an area pond. area residents suspect.
Officials at the New York state
Department of Environmental
Conservation and Cornell
University are examining the find-
and said they do not know who
ings.
or what they're from.
"If it's a hoax, then someone did a
pretty good job of setting this thing
up," said Michael McKeon, a DEČ
spokesman in Albany. "And if it's
not a hoax. then we'll have to see if
Bigfoot's out there.
The prints were each 15 inches
long, five inches wide and embed-
ded at least an inch in the mud.
McKeon said.
They were spaced over 40 inches
apart and casts taken showed
bunions on the feet.
sure.
McKeon said he didn't believe the
claims at first. but now is not so
Nellie Ferry of 6788 Hardscrabble
Road spotted the prints Aug. 9.
when she and her husband. Joe.
were fishing at a neighbor's pond.
A few days later more showed up.
and then on Wednesday more
appeared on the pond's other side.
"I'm not saying (Bigfoot) is what
this thing is, but we're trying to get
an idea. Ferry said.
"The DEC said it's not human.
Neighbors in this rural area about
six miles outside of Addison say
there are intrigued and a bit anxious
about the situation.
· but it's not an animal."
They report hearing noises - and
sometimes a stench
the remote pond.
coming from
"My daughter rides her horse up
there." said one woman.
"That's our back vard. Tha's why
we live up here because we feel safe.
Now, I don't feel so safe.
Many of the neighbors don't want
their names used.
"People will think we are crazy,
she said.
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NELLIE FERRY points to an area of a large footprint, some of which has been washed
away. The Leader/John Kellehe

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