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Research in Cryptozoology: Bigfoot Resources
Short introduction to library and web resources relating to cryptozoology.
Bigfoot Links
- Bigfoot - Wikipedia article on this alleged ape-like creature purportedly inhabiting forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
- Bigfoot ABCs - Organization undertaking research into these unique creatures and working to save their habitat.
- Bigfoot Chronicles - Contains sightings, links, and pictures.
- Bigfoot Encounters - Includes news, sightings, stories, newspaper and magazine clippings, videos, and interviews.
- Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization - Includes geographic database, theories, research projects, and tips on collecting evidence.
- Bigfoot at 50 - A skeptical review of the history of Bigfoot.
- Bigfoot in New York? - Contains links, pictures, and information.
- Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization - Contains links, stories, news, pictures, and information.
- Kentucky Bigfoot - Includes a siting database, pictures, reports, links, submit a report, and other Kentucky cryptid information.
- Mad River Sasquatch Study - A study on the possibility of Bigfoot within the Miami Valley of Ohio. Offers information, news, and sightings.
- Michigan Bigfoot Information Center - Information on the Study of Bigfoot/Sasquatch in Michigan
- Minnesota Bigfoot - Information about Bigfoot and Sasquatch in Minnesota.
- NESRA - North East Sasquatch Researchers Association - An association of independent researchers focused on field research.
- New Jersey Bigfoot Reporting Center - Database of Bigfoot sightings in the Garden State, with articles and book reviews.
- North American Bigfoot - Blog by bigfoot field researcher, Cliff Barackman, with bigfoot pictures, a cast database and bigfoot evidence for peer review. Report a bigfoot sighting with supporting evidence.
- Oregon Bigfoot - Includes sightings, news, journals, a FAQ, links, and a sighting reporter.
- Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society - Offers expedition and conference information, newsletter, forums, and links.
- Sasquatch Information Society - Includes news, pictures, research, and interviews.
- Sasquatch Watch - Contains articles, message board, and links.
- Sasquatch and Native Americans - Indian legends about the Sasquatch.
- TexLa Cryptozoological Research Group - Group researching reports of Bigfoot/Sasquatch and other cryptids in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.
- Texas Bigfoot - Offers sightings, audio and video, links, and information.
- Texas Bigfoot Research Center - Includes links, members, pictures, newsletter, and current investigations.
- The Bigfoot Research Network - A system to search for, document, and analyze potential evidence.
- The Honey Island Swamp Monster - Contains information and pictures.
- The Ohio / Pennsylvania Bigfoot Research Group - Conducts research in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Includes videos, sound clips, photos, and research information.
- This is Bigfoot Country: Washington State - Contains information, links, and photos.
- Virginia Bigfoot Research - Includes sightings, maps, information, pictures, and links.
- West Coast Sasquatch Research - Conducts research in British Cloumbia. Provides book reviews, FAQ, links, pictures, and news.
Books on Bigfoot at WWU Libraries
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When Bigfoot Attacks by
ISBN: 9781905723690Publication Date: 2011-06-01Native American legends speak of brutal wars between tribesmen and cannibal giants, an early form of ethnic cleansing from which only one side could emerge victorious. But are the stories true? 196 pp. -
Recasting Bigfoot by
ISBN: 9780557776214Publication Date: 2010-11-01Most people know that the modern legend of Bigfoot evolved out of the old Indian stories of the Sasquatch. But what most people do not know is that Sasquatch represented two tribes of primitive Indians that lived deep in the mountainous Saskahaua District of British Columbia. One tribe spoke something akin to the Douglas dialect. To the Indians they were giants. The irony, however, is that to the shorter races of the Pacific Northwest giant always meant 6 and a half feet tall. Despite 50 years of hype and hyperbole this is really the first book on the true Sasquatch. What underlies the bloated legend of Bigfoot is actually far more disturbing and intriguing than the popular myth-- disturbing because for 50 years "researchers" ignored the real footprint in order to chase their own created chimera; intriguing because there really was something startling to find. Recasting Bigfoot is both an expose of Bigfootery and a search for the identity of both tribes of "Sasquatch men." -
Bigfoot Casebook Updated by
ISBN: 0937663107Publication Date: 2006-03-01Over 1000 Bigfoot sightings and encounters, updated through 2004. One of the most significant books in the field of Bigfoot research is now available again. -
Bigfoot Exposed by
ISBN: 0759105391Publication Date: 2004-10-17In Bigfoot Exposed, biological anthropologist and primate physiology specialist David J. Daegling objectively examines the northwest American myth of Bigfoot. Using scientific methodology, Daegling systematically and persuasively repudiates the evidence purportedly demonstrating the creature's existence, and ultimately concludes that Bigfoot exists only in the popular imagination. -
Bigfoot! by
ISBN: 0743469755Publication Date: 2003-04-22For years, scientists and researchers have studied, speculated about, and searched for an enigmatic creature that is legendary in the annals of American folklore. Now, learn the truth about...BIGFOOT!
In this fascinating and comprehensive look at the fact, fiction, and fable of the North American "Sasquatch," award-winning author Loren Coleman takes readers on a journey into America's biggest mystery -- could an unrecognized "ape" be living in our midst?
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Where Bigfoot Walks by
ISBN: 0395857015Publication Date: 1997-06-18Robert Michael Pyle trekked into the Dark Divide, where he discovered a giant fossil footprint; searched out Indians who told him of an outcast tribe that had not fully evolved into humans; and attended the convocation in British Columbia called Sasquatch Daze, where he realized that "these guys don't want to find Bigfoot-they want to be Bigfoot." Ultimately Pyle discovers a few things about Bigfoot - and a lot about the human need for something to believe in and the need for wilderness in our lives. -
Anatomy of a Beast by
ISBN: 9780520255715Publication Date: 2009-06-02Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned the giant hominid into an American icon. Award-winning journalist Michael McLeod tells of Bigfoot's rise to tabloid stardom in a fast-paced account that begins with his own journey to investigate a famous 1967 film clip of a Bigfoot in a California forest. McLeod proceeds to uncover a trail of clues reaching from the late nineteenth century, when a few ambitious, imaginative naturalists and explorers synthesized historical and indigenous folklore with Darwinian ideas and speculated that a proto-hominid "missing link" might still be alive in remote areas. That speculation would eventually inspire a colorful cast of loggers, hunters, con artists, and businessmen in the twentieth century to create the modern myth of Bigfoot, all of them angling for a piece of a monster that the media and the public still can't get enough of. Told through vividly narrated interviews and anecdotes,Anatomy of a Beastoffers a unique perspective on the deep roots of counterfactual thinking--and how obsession and myth are created out of it. -
Monsters of Wisconsin by
ISBN: 9780811707480Publication Date: 2011-07-01Sasquatch in Dairyland
Rocky of Rock Lake
Dragons of Green Bay
Other bizarre creatures, including werewolves, flying lizard men, out-of-place kangaroos, goat men, and lake serpents. -
Strange Monsters of the Pacific Northwest by
ISBN: 9780764336225Publication Date: 2011-02-01Is it possible that unusual creatures share the Pacific Northwest with its 10.3 million human occupants? It's true! Oregon and Washington have misplaced alien invaders, such as a half-inch flea, a giant spider with a leg span of three inches, and a snakehead fish (made famous of late in four horror movies) that can breathe in water and on land, and grows to be about four feet long. There are sea monsters, from prehistoric times to the present, as well as freshwater phantoms said to infest lakes and rivers. The sky has winged wonders that resemble species long believed to be extinct. These are the stuff of nightmares: thunderbirds described as raptors, resembling eagles or vultures, with a wingspan of eight feet, as well as Bigfoot and other large bipeds. A comprehensive guide to a crypto zoo of the Northwest, this book details the Black Tamanous, a man-eating monster; a kangaroo man; the usual brownies, elves, fairies, gnomes, leprechauns, pixies, wee folk; and many more. You may find this research unsettling, even frightening. One thing is certain...a world of mystery awaits. -
Sasquatch by
ISBN: 9780765312174Publication Date: 2007-09-04In this landmark work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials. He gives an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism. Meldrum reports on the work of a team of experts from a wide variety of fields who were assembled to examine the evidence for a large, yet undiscovered, North American primate. He reviews the long history of this mystery--which long predates the "Bigfoot" flap of the late fifties--and explains all the scientific pros and cons in a clear and accessible style, amplified by over 150 illustrations. Anyone who has pondered the mysteries of human evolution will be fascinated and eager to join Dr. Meldrum in drawing their own conclusion. -
Sasquatch by
ISBN: 0888390181Publication Date: 2004-01-01Forty-five years ago giant footprints found in northern California brought Bigfoot to the attention of the world and revived interest in Canada's Sasquatch. Every year since then additional evidence has accumulated, and now that witnesses can submit information via the internet the trickle of reports has become a flood. John Green has been in the thick of things from the beginning. In Sasquatch, The Apes Among Us, first published in 1978, he sampled the evidence from the earliest records up the late 1970s and from all around the world, then concentrated on two aspects of the subject: the nature of the animal described and the wealth of reports from parts of North America outside the Pacific Northwest. When it came out "The Apes Among Us" was acclaimed as the definitive work on the fascinating subject of whether humans share North America with a giant bipedal primate that is unknown to science. Since then evidence for the existence of that unknown primate has grown expo9nentially, and individual scientists have written books about aspects of it. Remarkably, however, to most of the scientific world the evidence remains unknown and unexplored, and for those who do follow the subject this is still the definitive book.
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