Is Bigfoot Real?
Can Bigfoot be a Gigantopithecus?
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 the Associate Press carried an article on Bigfoot: "Sasquatch enthusiasts camp out in West Virginia mountains in search of fabled creature"
Mysterious Orang Pendek Apeman Spotted by British Expedition, September 2009
-- Telegraph (30 September 2009)
Bigfoot's Likely Haunts 'Revealed', July 2009
-- New Scientist (06 July 2009)
A former University of Minnesota professor, Grover Krantz, has spent much of his life in search of Bigfoot.
A former University of Minnesota Duluth Geology professor once went Bigfoot hunting in a foreign country under the guise of doing geological research.
Last year a veteran northern Minnesota and Wyoming hunter, and UMD graduate, told Tim Roufs that he encountered one north of Two Harbors.
In 2007 it was claimed that, "Within the last two years, there have been about 20 documented sightings [of Bigfoot] across Northeastern Minnesota . . ." -- Robert Olson of Deer River, MN
(Duluth News Tribune, Saturday, 13 October 2007, p. B1).
"'We’ve had actual sightings near Bovey, Nett Lake and around here,' said Donald Sherman, a facilities manager at Cass Lake Hospital and a member of the Leech Lake Ojibwe band"
(Duluth News Tribune, Saturday, 13 October 2007, p. B2).
Robert Olson of Deer River holds a plaster casting that he made from what he says are footprints of Bigfoot beings in Northeastern Minnesota.
Saturday, 13 October 2007 -- Duluth News Tribune
Since 2007 people were looking for Bigfoot in northern Michigan:
Team Heads to Michigan to Search for Bigfoot
(27 June 2007) -- FOX News
Before that were looking in Malaysia . . .
Hunting for Malaysia's 'Bigfoot'
(28 February 2006) -- BBCNews
And before that in China . . .
'Bigfoot' spotted in China
(30 June 2003) -- BBCNews
And elsewhere . . .
In search of Bigfoot
(28 July 2005) -- BBCNews
Many think Bigfoot is actually a prehistoric primate known as Gigantopithecus, "The Giant Ape," the last-known prehistoric ape.
Gigantopithecus is featured at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Iowa:
Gigantopithecus
Museum of Natural History, University of Iowa
Read (1) the most recent Associated Press article on Bigfoot (28 October 2009):
(That article can be found at http://www.startribune.com/nation/66888677.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUqEiaDUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUX)
Then read at least (2) two other articles on Bigfoot from the class Bigfoot page
(at http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcbigft.html#title)
and (3) read the short Wikipedia article on Gigantopithecus
(at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus)
Questions:
1. Do you believe Bigfoot, or a creature like Bigfoot (Sasquatch, Yeti . . .) exists?
2. Why? Or, why not?
3. Is it possible that Bigfoot is a Gigantopithecus?
4. Why? Or, why not?
Frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film
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