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Mary Ann Stoner
Daughter Of
Born: June 1827 in Snyder County Pa
Born: June 1827 in Snyder County Pa
Died: 18 Apr 1900 in Snyder County, Pa
(1) Josiah Lumbard (likely not married)
Son of
Born: in Maine (According to Joseph's death certificate)
Born: in Maine (According to Joseph's death certificate)
Married 1845 in Penn Twp, Snyder Co PA
(2) Jacob Duck
Born: Sept 1 1822
Died: Dec 12 1862
Children to Josiah Lumbard:
Joseph Asher Lumbard 1844-1915
Children to Jacob Duck:
(obit tells us that 3 daughters preceded her in death)
Emma Duck 1849
William H. Duck 1853
Henry Duck 1856
Mary Duck 1858
Edward E. Duck 1867
The death certificates for two of her children list her birth place as Snyder County Pennsylvania.
1844 - son Joseph Asher Lumbard is born
Family accounts say that Joseph's father was a traveling salesman from Maine, and was not married to Mary Ann. Joseph's birth certificate lists his father as Josiah Lumbard of Maine.
Daughter Emma Duck is born - which leads me to believe that Mary probably married Jacob Duck in 1848, or before.
Name: Mary A Duck
Age: 23
Birth Year: abt 1827
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1850: Penns, Union, Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
Family Number: 1134
Household Members:
Name Age
Jacob Duck 26
Mary A Duck 23
Joseph Duck 6
Emma L Duck 1
(Note that Joseph Lumbard is listed as Joseph Duck in 1850 & 1860)
Name: Maryann Duck
Age in 1860: 32
Birth Year: abt 1828
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1860: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
Post Office: Selinsgrove
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Jacob Duck 37
Maryann Duck 32
Joseph Duck 16
William Duck 7
Henry Duck 4
Mary Duck 2
1862 - Her husband Jacob Duck dies
"Jacob Duck instantly killed while cutting timber just west of town by falling dead tree"
1863 - Receives letter from oldest son Joseph, who is serving in Civil War
Camp on the Rapidan Sept. 22nd 1863
Dear Mother,
Your very long looked for letter at length arrived and was received with great pleasure and satisfaction I am very pleased to hear that you are all well and that things are going so well. We are encamped in sight of the govnt Rebels. We are laying on one side of the Rapidan River and they are on the other. Our Pickets are within shooting distance of each other but since the first day they do not fire on each other. I was down to the river yesterday and there had a very good sight of the rebel soldier big as life on the other side of the stream which is not near as wide as Penns Creek and our pickets are on this side of it. They are very strongly fortified and will make a pretty good show of a fight but I have no doubt but that we will be able to drive them from the mountains upon which they are fortified: There is no telling when the fight will take place as we have had orders to be ready to fall in at a moments notice for the last week, but I think that a fight will very shortly take place. Well, I think that we are ready and will be more than a good match for them. You told me to obey Capt. Davis. There is no danger that I will disobey him I like the Captain very much. He is a brave and good officer and all the boys are very proud of him. He is _________________ and is very kind to me. I am sixth corporal and soon will be fifth. Theodore Parks Is 2nd Lieut. I also like Nel Byers. He has been very kind to me and used me as well as could be expected by ones own brother, but I like the Captain best. I get letters most every week from Mrs. Henry Bright In Sunbury and: you can __________________ and 20 miles around. she has sent me paper and postage stamps. Several times I wrote a long letter to Lock Haven but did not get an answer. I do not know whether she got it or not. I would very much like to hear from her often and if she would answer my letters I would write regular to her. Tell her this in your next letter, give her my address and then she can send: them right on to me. Tell her to address J. .A Lumbard Co. G, 147th PV ft Brig. 2nd Div. 12th Army Corps, Washington, D.C..
I got the postage stamps and all the things you have even sent. Shirts, tea, chocolate, paper, envelopes, handkerchief and so forth. Leut. Byers has not arrived here yet, consequently I did not get the things you sent by him, but will when he comes. ______ told me to keep ____________________________________________________________________ as there is no telling. If I live you will never suffer but should be killed
It might go very hard with you but we will hope for the best. It is all in the hands of the Ruler of the Universe and: as he wills it so it goes and we must think all is for the best. Should I fall it will not be in a Disgraceful manner _____________________________ ______________________that is right and just. Just think what would have become of the people if we had not whipped the Rebel Army at Gettysburg. I seen dozens of
people turned out of their homes and their grain destroyed and houses burnt and in some instances men, women and children killed but we sure drove them out of the old Keystone state and soon hope to see them conquered. Don't alarm yourself about my writing to that girl I have written my last letter and am satisfied. I just wanted to find out something and; when that is done, I am done also. I did not think she was such a darn fool as to blow about it but would keep it a secret since it has turned out as it did I have written my last to her.
I must bring my letter to a close. Give my best respects to Mrs. Davis. Tell Katy to write another big letter like the last one. Tell me what
Became of______________________________________________________________
you can send; me some this week. Write soon. I remain your affectionate son
J. A. Lumbard
Ms. Davis
Please hand this to .Mrs. Mary Duck. I direct this letter in your name so that mother gets it immediately for fear that she might not send to the office. Am obliged.
Your soldier friend.
J. A. Lumbard
Age in 1870: 42
Birth Year: abt 1828
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Selinsgrove
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Mary A Duck 42
William Duck 19
Edward Duck 3
Catharine Stom 66
In the 1870 census, a 66 year old Catherine "Stom" lives with them - but looking at the census, I think it actually says Stoner, not Stom - which would make Catherine Mary's mother.
1880 - In 1880, Mary's occupation is "baker"
Name: Mary Duck
Age: 52
Birth Year: abt 1828
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1880: Selins Grove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Baker
Household Members:
Name Age
Mary Duck 52
Henry Duck 24
Edward Duck 17
Mary Stoner is the mother of Joseph Lumbard. He wrote a letter to her, addressed to "Mother Duck", while in the civil war. We assume she married a Lumbard, and that he died before she married Jacob Duck, but I can find no record of who her first husband may have been.
From the files of Howard Scharf. He cannot remember who gave this to him, but it was obviously written by a grandchild of Joseph Lumbard.
Joseph Lumbard was born in Selinsgrove. His father was a traveling salesman from New England and in those days a salesman came to town by train or canal boat and would stay in town for several days. Joseph Lumbard was illegitimate, His father never returned to Selinsgrove but he had a sister from Danville who used to come and visit.
I remember one time when I was still living in Middleburg and was about four years of age, she came to visit us, She was dressed in green silk which made a noise when she moved. It had lots of lace made in the style of the late nineties.
When grandfather was about 15 he enlisted in the Army and was in the entire Civil War, He was only wounded once, when a piece of shell at Gettysburg hit him back of the ear When he returned to Selinsgrove after the war, he drank too much, I remember two interesting stories about him, Grandmother would not allow him to kiss her before the marriage, On the way to the minister (in a buggy he had hired to drive her to be married) he asked for one kiss and she replied "You have waited this long, you can wait another hour".
After the marriage he still drank. One night he was lying drunk in the gutter outside of the Methodist Church in Selinsgrove while a revival service was going on, He woke up and heard the singing, got up and went into the church, listened to the sermon and went up front when sinners were called. He went home sober and never again touched a drop of liquors In those days almost everyone kept a bottle of whiskey for colds. I know we did in our house, but Grandfather Lumbard never allowed one in his home.
His mother later married a man named Duck and had several children. I used to visit her home in Selinsgrove and knew Hazel Duck. She used to take me to Rolling Green Park. Grandpa Duck was dead and Grandmother Duck earned the living by baking bread. There was a large outdoor oven in the yard where the bread was baked and it always smelled so good around there. Besides Hazel there were several older girls who were married and I never knew them, but two brothers moved to Williamsport. When I was 10 or 11 years of age I used to visit Uncle Edward Duck. He was a floor walker in the rug dep. Of the big department store there. They were always very nice to me. After my mother had her operation in Williamsport, she went to Uncle Eds to get well.
Howard Scharf remembers that Joseph's father was a traveling salesman from New England, and that Joseph was born illigitimate - Mary Ann never married him.
"Josiah Lumbard was born in Maine circa 1820's. He came to PA early 1840's.
in 1844 he fathered my GGreat grandfather Joseph Ashur Lumbard. Can't
find marriage information, but I believe Josiah was married to Mary Ann
Stoner of Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA. He either died or moved on before
1850 because the census shows Mary Ann married to Jacob Duck and lists her
young son Joseph Lumbard as a member of the household." "She was married to Jacob Duck by 1850. Mary Ann and Jacob Duck and her small son Joseph Ashur Lumbard (c1844) were in the 1850 census. She lived in Selinsgrove and was born in 1827. I know a lot about her later life, but nothing of her early life. She was probably about 18 years old when Joseph was born. I know that Josiah Lumbard was from Maine because his name was on my GGrandfathers death certificate as 'Father'
and Mary Ann Stoner's name was also there as 'mother'." - From researcher Peggy Brill
Who Are Her Parents?
In 1833 & 1834 we find a Mary Ann Stoner in the Gettysburg Seminary Records - these records are not from Gettysburg PA, many of our Snyder county ancestors are listed in them. Mary is confirmed in 1844, along with a Christian.
Add in that a Catherine lives with Mary in 1870, and my best guess currently is that Mary is the daughter of Abraham & Mary Catherine (Funk) Stoner.
That's an unproven hunch at this point, and since Abraham did not die until 1870, census records might easily prove this wrong - as Abraham is not listed with Catherine at Mary (Stoner) Ducks home in 1870.
Abraham on find a grave - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=
The obit tells us that Mary had one sister alive in 1900, Mrs Daniel Hahn in Grand Rapids Michigan.
In 1833 & 1834 we find a Mary Ann Stoner in the Gettysburg Seminary Records - these records are not from Gettysburg PA, many of our Snyder county ancestors are listed in them. Mary is confirmed in 1844, along with a Christian.
Add in that a Catherine lives with Mary in 1870, and my best guess currently is that Mary is the daughter of Abraham & Mary Catherine (Funk) Stoner.
That's an unproven hunch at this point, and since Abraham did not die until 1870, census records might easily prove this wrong - as Abraham is not listed with Catherine at Mary (Stoner) Ducks home in 1870.
Abraham on find a grave - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=
The obit tells us that Mary had one sister alive in 1900, Mrs Daniel Hahn in Grand Rapids Michigan.


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sands are located.
Canada long has recognized the significance of these oil-rich sands
(sometimes referred to as "tar sands"); but until recently, this resource
has been viewed as only a potential source of wealth. The process of
deriving oil from the sand is expensive: Oil-laden rocks must be collected
and then heated to separate the petroleum from the surrounding minerals.
Though the technical costs of the process now are falling, the feasibility
of developing large-scale oil-sands projects remains questionable, since
they would be unprofitable if global oil prices fall below $50 per barrel.
The profitability threshold for oil-sands projects could come down a bit
more as Canada builds new gas pipelines and other infrastructure, but
compared to most of Canada's traditional drilling -- often profitable at
$6 per barrel -- oil sands remain a risky venture.
The Politics of Politics
The Liberal government that was in power during the 1990s promulgated a
series of laws designed to reduce the risks of oil-sands development and
encourage companies to take the plunge. Among the measures passed was a
1996 tax break -- essentially allowing the rapid depreciation of assets
used in tar-sands development -- that encouraged companies to find new
ways of approaching the tar sands. It is not clear whether this and other
tax breaks and subsidies were key factors that drove interest in the
resource, but it can be said that industry has invested heavily during the
past 11 years in technologies to exploit the tar sands.
The 1996 tax break is now at the center of a political storm in Canada.
Harper, a Conservative, was brought into office not on the strength of his
political ideology, but in a voter backlash over missteps by the previous
Liberal government. In order to consolidate his party's hold on power, it
is in his interest to move quickly -- while he is still in something of a
honeymoon period -- to call new elections, since most have concluded he
will. Harper, who is more conservative than the average Canadian, wants to
move his party and his government toward the political center -- and
rescinding the 1996 tax break is one of the options he is considering to
achieve this. The justification for the move is similar to that recently
given in the United States by Democrats, who sought to rescind a
Clinton-era "royalty relief" package: That oil companies are profiting
plenty with global prices at their current levels and do not need
additional tax breaks.
The easiest way to expand the Conservative Party's base is to capture
votes in the Greater Toronto Area. Therefore, Harper will have to part
with many of his more conservative positions, and to some extent sever his
Alberta roots, for political gain. Addressing climate change, standing up
to the United States and reducing subsidies to oil companies fit well into
a strategy designed to capture the political center.
The Politics of Climate Change
The Parliament resolution passed Feb. 14, calling for Canada to meet its
Kyoto Protocol obligations on climate change, should be viewed in this
context. The resolution also complicates the political problems associated
with accelerating oil-sands development.
Many Canadians are convinced by political rhetoric that their country
cannot meet the greenhouse gas emission reductions that Canada agreed to
in the Kyoto Protocol largely because unrelenting U.S. demand for energy
compels Canadian companies to increase oil and natural gas production.
That in itself is an energy-intensive undertaking -- and under the North
American Free Trade Agreement, Canadians are powerless to put a halt to
these energy exports.
The technicalities of extracting oil from tar sands also make for an
energy-intensive process, meaning that further development of tar-sands
projects would further increase, rather than reduce, Canada's greenhouse
gas emissions. With many in the country already upset that Canada is not
expected to meet its Kyoto commitments, efforts to develop tar sands as an
oil resource are viewed as a way of guaranteeing the country's Kyoto
The Politics of Terrorism
Even if there were not strong domestic arguments against the oil-sands
development, underlying sentiments about Canada's trade relations with the
United States should not be dismissed or understated. The Canadian public
senses that the United States uses Canada as a colony to supply its demand
for raw materials and energy, and the tar sands would be just another
example. Because NAFTA makes it impossible for Canada to prevent companies
from exporting raw materials freely across the border, and because it
consigns Canada to supply natural gas to the United States in perpetuity,
many Canadians have come to view the trade agreement as a strategic
blunder that reduced Canada to the status of a natural resources vassal to
the American overlord.
And with the call issued by al Qaeda on Feb. 14 for attacks in Canada --
specifically citing its energy relations with the United States -- there
likely will be a growing sense that Canadians have accepted vassal status
at risk to their own life and limb.
It does not automatically follow that jihadists, having issued the threat,
would be able to carry out a meaningful strike against Canada's energy
industry. Al Qaeda has used Canada as a base for operations in the past,
but at this time the militant presence in Canada appears to be more of the
"grassroots" variety than the well-trained or battle-hardened type. That
means that any attacks mounted in response to al Qaeda's call would be
more likely to involve "soft" targets -- or relatively unprotected assets
-- rather than "hardened" facilities that are critical to core operations.
Nevertheless, the threat itself (or an actual casualty-producing attack
against the public on Canadian soil) has the potential to damage
U.S.-Canadian relations. If al Qaeda's goal is to weaken the United States
economically, threats against one of its key energy suppliers -- issued in
a way or at a time that dovetails with existing public sentiment --
certainly could have an effect.
In short, none of these issues can be considered in a vacuum. The United
States has come to view increased oil production from Canada as a
significant piece of any strategy designed to promote "energy
independence." Meanwhile, pressure is building within Canada to slow the
pace and scope of the energy industry's growth, particularly as it relates
to oil sands. For the Canadians, questions about energy development place
the country's relationship with the United States front and center in the
political spotlight. And for the Americans, the stakes are just as high:
The Canadian debate casts a shadow of uncertainty over U.S. options for
reducing reliance on Middle Eastern oil supplies.
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Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White and the Illinois Press Association announced Wednesday the winners of the annual Spotlight on Achievement and Spotlight on Service awards recognizing outstanding literacy students and tutors in Illinois. The awards were presented at a ceremony at the State Library.
"I am honored to congratulate these outstanding students for their hard work and determination in seeking to obtain lifelong learning skills," said Secretary White. "And I am equally proud of our ten outstanding tutors for their generosity and encouragement in helping literacy students achieve their utmost potential."
Ten students were recognized for outstanding achievement in developing and improving their literacy skills. They are:
- Burnice Blair, a student at Common Place Family Learning Center, Peoria
- Marco Ceja, Waukegan Public Library (as a partner in Lake County Adult Learning Connection)
- Michael Dellar, Blue Gargoyle Community Services, Chicago
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- Christine Moeller, Illinois Eastern Community Colleges (Frontier), Fairfield
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The ten winners each received a $200 check from the Illinois Press Association Foundation, a plaque presented by Secretary White, a personalized Illinois Blue Book and ten books donated by Delta Systems.
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Last Wednesday morning, the media was all over first-term Mesa County commissioner Janet Rowland, whose major qualifications for the lieutenant governor post seem to be her gender, Western Slope address and healthy disdain for animal husbandry. "Homosexuality is an alternative lifestyle," she told Channel 6's audience last spring. "That doesn't make it a marriage. For some people, bestiality is an alternative lifestyle. Do we allow a man to marry a sheep?"
But word of Karr's detention in Thailand that afternoon wiped Rowland right out of the news.
Not from memory, however. When Clela Rorex first learned of Rowland's views on same-sex marriage, she couldn't believe it. "I was reading the paper during lunch hour and was completely shocked," she says. "It's still stunning to me that people make those kind of inane comments."
She heard plenty of them thirty years ago, when, as Boulder's clerk and recorder, she issued marriage licenses to a handful of same-sex couples -- the first official in the country to do so. Homosexuality was big news in Boulder back in 1975, and then-mayor Penfield Tate had alerted Rorex, who was just sworn in that January, that the issue of same-sex marriage might come up. Two months later it did, when two men were directed to her office by a conservative clerk in Colorado Springs. "They do that kind of thing in Boulder," the clerk told them.
"Honestly, I was pretty young," says Rorex, who went on to get her master's in both public administration and legal administration and has been with the Native American Rights Fund's Boulder office since 1992. "I had no real political background; I was not a political animal when I ran for that office. I didn't even know any gays or lesbians. I didn't know anything about the issue. I just operated from gut instinct."
And her gut told her to give a license to two men who loved each other and wanted to get married. "It felt like the right thing to do," she recalls, "but I couldn't have articulated why in 1975." She can today.
"Over all of these years, I've watched this issue, because of the place I was at that time -- the accidental moment of history I was involved in -- and I've grown to become a real staunch crusader for same-sex marriages," Rorex says. "I'm continually surprised that it has taken so long for people to give equal rights to same-sex partnerships."
And unlike Rowland, she never worried that recognizing such a basic right would open the door to bestiality.
But even thirty years ago, Boulder had more than its share of crackpots. And on April 15, 1975, a notorious media hound showed up in front of the clerk's office with both a horse trailer and the media in tow, and posed this question for the cameras: "If a boy can marry a boy and a girl can marry a girl, why can't a lonesome old cowboy get hitched to his favorite saddle mare?"
"He had it all staged, all planned," Rorex says of the late Roswell Howard. "The minute that I saw him pulling up, I just knew what was happening. Luckily, I had a few minutes to prepare."
So when Howard walked in and told Rorex that he'd like to marry Dolly, his horse, she went over the marriage-license application line by line. And when she got to the line about age, and Howard said that his intended was just eight, Rorex had to break the news that the horse was too young to marry without written parental consent.
"In retrospect, when I think about the horse incident, it brought a level of common sense to things," Rorex says. She'd been inundated with hate mail, Boulder was being compared to Sodom and Gomorrah, and state legislators had demanded that Attorney General J.D. MacFarlane study the legalities of same-sex marriage. But Howard's horsing around "truly tempered it, and more people saw it from a human perspective."
More people -- but not Rowland, then still a kid and blissfully unaware of the dangers of sheep thrills. "When she says something like this," Rorex says, "in my heart all I hope it does is make people shake their heads at the stupidity of remarks like that, and make them even more aware that ballot issues address human rights. That's my hope. And I certainly hope that the domestic-partnership bill will pass."
On Thursday, just as Boulder DA Lacy was holding her non-news news conference, Colorado Secretary of State Gigi Dennis announced that Amendment 45 would be on the November ballot, the eighth and last citizen initiative to make the cut. Although its sponsors subsequently withdrew the initiative, the domestic-partnership proposal lives on in Referendum 1, a bipartisan measure that came out of the Colorado Legislature and would allow a committed couple to enter into a binding contract. Not a marriage, not a pet-sitting operation, but a legal partnership.


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Bigfoot Facts :: More than you ever wanted to know about Mr. Bigstuff
This is the most comprehensive information available on Bigfoot. It's alot of information but it will give you a better understanding of what is generally known about our furry friend.
DESCRIPTION (Scroll down for a detailed description of Bigfoot)
Bigfoot is a large, hairy, bipedal non-human primate that is distributed over the North American continent to varying degrees of concentration. Its massiveness, deviation from human bearing and different gait leave no doubt in the mind of observers that they have seen a creature different from man or known animals. Bigfoot is a humanlike creature and has been reported most often in the mountains of California, Oregon, and Washington, and of British Columbia in Canada. Canadians call it Sasquatch. However, there have been legitimate sightings in all 50 states. Bigfoot stories resemble those about the Abominable Snowman, a hairy beast said to live in the Himalayas and other mountainous areas of central and northeastern Asia called Abominable Snowman.
Descriptions of the Bigfoot vary slightly, but the creature is most often described as taller than a human (up to three meters in height), heavily built (up to 500 pounds), and covered in long, thick brown, red or black hair. Like an ape, it has thick fur, long arms, powerful shoulders, and a short neck. It walks upright with a smooth, graceful, long-striding two-footed walk. The footprints left by the creatures are, on average, considerably larger than that of a human (approx. 16 inches). For the most part, the creatures have been shy and reclusive. They normally try to avoid contact with humans. Every now and then there are reports of sightings in populated areas.
Tens of thousands of people have reported seeing the Bigfoot or its footprints. There is no question that the vast majority of legitimate Bigfoot sightings go unreported because of the stigma and ridicule that people who have witnessed the creature often endure. That being said, there have been literally thousands of reported encounters all over North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
North American native folklore and cultural artifacts (such as masks, totem poles, and carvings) exist in abundance, demonstrating the prehistoric knowledge of these creatures. Native accounts discuss Bigfoot with names peculiar to each linguistic and tribal group.
Among Euro-Americans, early reports talk of these beings with names like "wild men".
The first known written account of such a creature in western America dates back to 1811 and appears in the journal of one David Thompson, surveyor and trader for the Northwest Company of Canada. But accounts from the eastern United States appear soon thereafter. In fact, the oldest North American newspaper account appeared in the Exeter Watchman of New York on September 22, 1818.
In 1840, Elkanah Walker, a pioneer and missionary to the Spokane Indians in Washington State, recorded in his diary tales he had heard from the natives about the race of giants who lived in the snow-covered mountain peaks, who stole salmon from the Indian nets and whose smell was nearly intolerable.
In 1892, a German fur trapper by the name of Bauman was hunting
with a friend around a section of the Salmon River in the
Bitterroot Mountains between the state of Idaho and Montana
(where Bigfoot sightings continue to this day). Their terrifying
encounter with Bigfoot was recorded in a book by
Teddy Roosevelt
called, "The Wilderness Hunter", published in 1892.
A Colonist newspaper from the early 1900s in Victoria, British
Columbia, printed several stories about "monkey men" being
spotted in remote wooded areas.
Bigfoot sightings are continually reported to this day in all 50 states. For a comprehensive list of sightings by state and county, check out the Bigfoot Field Research Organizations website. They have the most comprehensive sighting database as well as the most up to date scientific info on Bigfoot. Find them here.
For many years Bigfoot was considered to be restricted to the Pacific Northwest. This region was perceived as the only area of North America sufficiently forested and undeveloped to support a population of this species without it's members being commonly observed. However, there have been sightings in all 50 states and Canada. Areas in the Midwest, south and east coast have hundreds of sightings but have been treated as local phenomenon. Reports of regional monsters quickly become items of local folklore and, as such, are treated as unscientific and of merely local interest. Thus we have the skunk ape or swamp monkey of Florida, the brush ape of Missouri (or MO-MO the Missouri monster), the fouke monster of southwest Arkansas and the grassman of Ohio.
Total numbers for the species in North America have been estimated by various approaches to be from a few thousand up to 10,000. By comparison, black bears number between 650,000 and 700,000 in North America., including all of Canada and part of Alaska
In western culture, Bigfoot and Sasquatch are the most recognizable and often used names. The name "Bigfoot" comes from the 1960's and was coined by men who found footprints in their Northern California logging camp. The media adopted the term and it has been widely used ever since. The word "Sasquatch" comes from the native Salish language and means "wild man". Indian tribes across North America have more than sixty different terms for the Sasquatch.
NORTH AMERICA - Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, WildMan, Man Bear, Wicca, Bukwas, Wooley Booger, Skunk Ape, Chickas, Yowie, Hill Ghost, Monster of the Mountain.
EUROPE - Kaptar, Biabin-guli, Grendel, Ferla Mohir, Brenin Ilwyd
AFRICA - Ngoloko, Kikomba, Waterbobbejan.
ASIA - Gin-sung, Yeti, Yeren, Mirygdy, Mecheny, Chinese Wildman, Nguoi Rung
THE PATTERSON FILM - On October20, 1967, two men on horseback, Roger Patterson, who shot the film and Bob Gimlin, a friend, took to the northern Californian woods of Bluff Creek in the hopes of photographing one of these elusive creatures. They were not disappointed. In the late afternoon, Patterson and Gimlin encountered the creature. Patterson's horse reared and knocked him to the ground. He quickly jumped up and ran toward the creature. It responded by simply walking away. Gimlin kept his friend covered with a rifle in case it attacked. It walked into the trees and vanished. The two men decided against following the creature thinking there maybe a confrontation with either it -or more of its kind that could be in the area. After it was filmed, many scientists dissected the footage. Some claim the film was indeed that of an unknown animal. Others claim it was merely a man in an obvious monkey suit. The creature that was filmed was a female, breasts are clearly visible in many frames of the film.
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Scientists who have studied the film have said that the stride of the creature is larger than that of a man. The reality is, the Patterson footage has never been discredited. In fact, the North American Science Institutes (NASI) forensic examiners studied the film for 3 years and concluded " It could not be demonstrated to be a forgery ." They also say it would have been extremely difficult for a man to simulate this large stride. Footprints were also found later at the same location. The footprints were the same type as typically found at a Bigfoot sighting.
FOOTPRINTS - There have been hundreds of footprint casts made by extremely respected researchers as well as amateur Bigfoot enthusiasts. The average length of the Bigfoot tracks measured and reported over the years from various parts of North America is 16 inches. Footprint casts with dermal ridges, have been authenticated by a leading primate fingerprint expert as an "unknown primate ." Dermal ridges are as precise as fingerprints.
There is plenty of food in the areas the Bigfoot frequents to sustain a large community of these animals. Here is a general list of what they could survive on:
Plants - there are many wild plants, flowers and roots that are edible such as mushrooms, berries wild onions
Nuts - there are acorns, pine cones and a few other edible nuts
Fish - salmon and trout
Insects - snails, grubs and grasshoppers are just a few examples
Red Meat - deer, small mammals and rodents.
White Meat - various fowl
Skin color ranges from the deepest black or charcoal to deep
brown, "sunburned" reddish brown, and gray. Some areas, like the
nose, appear at times in a shiny, oily black color. The palms
are lighter in color, and the soles of the feet quite light,
presumably as a result of thick sole pads composed, as in other
primates, of fat and connective tissue. A few albinistic
sasquatches have been seen, whose skin color was pink.
The sasquatch is covered with hair, not fur. Fur has guard hairs
and an undercoat, while primate hair consists of one type of
hair alone. The sasquatch, being a primate, does not molt its
hair, but it is replaced one hair at a time, hence is not found
in wooly batches.
Color of the hair ranges from black or dark (50%), through
various shades of reddish-brown and gray to white. The body can
have varicolored patches of hair. Older animals have
increasingly grey hair, though color does not appear to change
from childhood to adulthood. Hair is variously glossy clean and
shiny, fluffy, or dirty, matted and unkempt ("angora goat
dreadlocks"), probably a function of native curliness, age, or
of recent immersion in water or lack thereof. Females have been
reported to be cleaner than males.
Hair length ranges from 3" to around 2' (15" longest measured in
hand, longer observed in the wild). There is no taper or color
banding other than graying with age. Long hair covers the head
and, almost invariably, the ears; very short hair on the face;
occasional reports of heavy hairiness in male faces ("mustache"
and "beard") vs. no facial hair in females; long hair across the
top of the shoulders (once described as "bouncing like a cape"
); long hair on the forearms ("like a spaniel"); different
orientations of hair on back; breasts in females hair covered
(contrary to a mistaken claim in the literature); long hair on
buttocks, sometimes overhanging them; groin with enough hair to
obscure genitalia; and long hair on the calves (like "bellbottom
pants" in a sasquatch observed standing in snow). The hair stood
visibly on end in situations where the sasquatch appeared
Under the microscope (Fig. 2), the average diameter of hair is
65 µm (40-90 µm), these values derived from 15 separately
collected samples in four States. The cortex has a uniform
reddish tinge plus fine pigment granule distribution, whereas
the medulla is absent. Intense efforts at DNA analysis of the
hair have been uniformly negative, possibly a function of the
lacking medulla. Most human hair (Fig. 3) has a medulla, if only
fragmentary, but fine blond hair occasionally looks similar to
sasquatch hair. Hence, there is no absolute distinction that can
be made. Hair from other forest species, like rodents,
carnivores, and ungulates can be differentiated without question
About 10-15% of close encounters are connected with an intense,
disagreeable stench, comparable to the odor of smegma. Gorillas
under conditions of distress exude a gagging, overpowering
aroma, the origin of which is the axillary organ, i.e., the
armpit with its apocrine sweat glands. The same anatomy probably
pertains to the sasquatch.
Many reports refer to uneasiness of man or animals ("being
watched") well ahead of any subsequent encounter. A pheromone
effect has been suggested, meaning the release of a behavior
pattern, "fight or flight", by an airborne molecule.
Head and
The head, though massive by direct comparison to that of man,
has been described as "relatively" small for an animal of that
size, indicative of a rather small brain. The head develops a
sagittal crest in adult males as well as in females, probably
bony, which sometimes produces the effect of a person wearing a
hooded sweatshirt. Some animals, possibly younger, have a round
head. Brain volume is probably close to or slightly above that
of the gorilla.
There is a conspicuous brow ridge with a receding forehead,
giving the eyes a deep-set look. The face (Fig. 4) is rather
flat with prominent cheekbones, a square jaw, and the mouth
region is only slightly protuberant. Deep brown eye color
predominates, with a "red" component common (probably a
bloodshot sclera). A white sasquatch was reported to have blue
eyes. Night reflection from eyes varies most commonly between
red and yellow and is probably dependent on pupillary size
rather than true reflectivity.
The nose is near human in shape, though "pug" or flat, sometimes
with forward directed nostrils. The mouth is often reported to
be thin-lipped, with yellowish, square teeth with human
appearance. When larger canines have been seen, they did not
project substantially beyond the plane of the other teeth and
would be subject to wear with time. Ears are almost invariably
hidden under hair and have been reported to be either rounded or
Muscles from the back of the head flare out to the shoulders to
obscure the neck. A result is that, as in weight lifters, the
body is usually turned with the head when a rearward view is
Overall, sasquatches seem to exhibit as much individual
diversity in looks as do people, ranging from a typical ape
appearance to one described as "an old Indian". The cause may
well be the result of the animal not being subject to predation,
its young being nurtured and protected into near adulthood, and
differences in appearance not being a selective handicap. The
same considerations apply to the diversity of coat colors.
The trunk is generally carried at a forward angle of about 15°
("hunched over"). This means that the species has not achieved a
full upright stance, a difference from human beings, although at
times the animals stand up straight. When ultimately a specimen
comes to hand, the hip anatomy will be of telling importance to
the evolution of an upright stance.
The shoulders are proportionately wider than those of man,
measuring about 40% of the height in a sasquatch compared to
25-30% in man. Large sasquatches have been described as having
four to five foot wide shoulders. They are barrel-chested, with
a large respiratory tidal volume, often commented upon when
their stertorous breathing has been heard. The Patterson
sasquatch (filmed in the famous 1967 movie), a female slightly
below the mean height of the population, has a chest
circumference of about 60" (a value calculated from available
images). This circumference would be about 65" for the
average-sized animal and well above 75" for the largest
individuals that have been seen.
Females have breasts, small and conical near puberty, rather
heavy and pendulous during reproductive years and shrunken in
old age. They are hair-covered except for the nipples and
The arms are massive and might exceed human length somewhat,
frequently reported as hanging close to their knees, though
accentuated by the slouching stance of the animals. They are
particularly hairy along the forearms and end in very large and
massive hands (once described as "the size of paddles").
The hand deviates in slight but significant ways from the human
model (as derived from hand and knuckle prints). Fingers are
generally shorter, especially the thumb, and the latter is
carried "farther toward the wrist" as compared to the position
in man. The hand largely lacks the thenar pad (the mounded
muscle at the base of the thumb), a corollary of the lowest
opposability found in the higher primates. The hand is
proportionately broader than that of man, palm width in adults
measuring up to 8". Both finger and toe nails are deeply colored
("nicotine stained"), presumably a combination of dirt and thick
keratin, though fingernails are light colored in some. There are
no claws.
Young males have a V-shaped trunk, tapering from a wide chest to
a narrower waist, whereas the female trunk has an overall barrel
shape. Female hips seem to be broader than those of the male.
Either sex rarely has a protruding abdomen (other than during
pregnancy in the female). Genitalia in the female are hidden by
hair, as are generally those of the male. The massive sexual
swelling, observed in some female apes, has not been seen in the
Legs and
The legs are massive, especially the thighs, in one case
reported to be the diameter of a "garbage can" (about 20"), but
even in the (female) Patterson sasquatch about 15" thick. The
calves are also unusually muscular, the gastrocnemius (calf)
muscle being particularly prominent in rear views of the
Patterson sasquatch.
Feet are most amply recorded by way of innumerable measured
footprints. They range in recorded length from barely walking
infants at 4"-5" to known female prints and very large
presumptive male footprints. The mean length of 702 prints
(collected over nearly 50 years) is 15.6" with a range of 4" to
27", and a mean width of about 0.45 times that of the length.
This proportion remains about the same with increasing length of
the feet. Feet grow in excess of gain in height of the animals
to compensate for the exponential increase in weight with linear
dimensions. The foot does not have an arch, but retains the
primitive primate midsole flexure of apes, called a metatarsal
hinge. During running, often only the anterior half of the foot
(anterior to the metatarsal hinge) contacts the ground. The toes
are capable of substantial splaying in slippery terrain,
especially abduction of the big toe. The sole is very thick and
indents deeply over uneven terrain without harm to the animal.
Body Size
and Weight:
The height average for the sampled population is 7' 10", derived
from a combination of eye witness estimates and scaling from
footprints. Babies shortly after birth are small (and "ugly", as
one eye witness commented) by human standards, but grow rapidly
and evidently walk at an early age. Aside from infants being
carried, small walking sasquatches, 3-4' tall, have been seen.
The animals reach maturity at a height of 6'-7' and the largest,
reliably estimated individuals exceed 10'. Males are taller than
females, but seemingly by no more than about a foot at the
median of the population.
Weight is difficult to estimate on sight and seems to vary from
animal to animal as much as in people, but a tight, established
relationship exists in primates between chest circumference and
weight. Applying this formula, the average sasquatch can be
estimated to weigh 650 lbs, the Patterson sasquatch 540 lbs, and
the maximum (for a 24" or larger footprint) probably to exceed
1,000 lbs.
The sasquatch is a predominantly nocturnal animal and its night
vision exceeds that of man substantially. It is probable that
this increase in night vision is a function of a larger eye and
pupillary size rather than a reflecting layer. The animals walk
with ease in seeming total darkness, but forage during the day.
An indication of their nighttime activity is the fact that they
are seen as frequently during the night, if not more often, than
during the day, despite the limited sight distance and detection
by nocturnal observers.
Other Senses:
In parallel with other large primates, sasquatch senses are
acute but probably not more so than those of a human aborigine,
e.g., American Indians before the deterioration of their senses
by pollution and noise. They detect the approach of man by
simply remaining still in forested environment, but there have
been many occasions where a sasquatch failed to detect a resting
person in full view, simply because the animal was preoccupied
and the person did not move or make a sound.
The sasquatch seems hardened to pain and discomfort, living in,
to our perception, disagreeable climates and walking through
blackberry thickets, Devil's Club, icy streams, and sharp rocks
without deviation, though they seem to value on occasion the
soft comfort of mole hills, moss or a freshly graded berm of a
forest road, as their footprints testify.
Diet and Digestion:
The sasquatch is an omnivore with a substantial carnivorous
component to its diet. They have been observed directly to eat
leaves, berries, fruits, roots, aquatic plants and other
vegetable matter, catch fish, dig up clams or ground squirrels,
and prey on poultry, deer, elk and bear. In addition, they eat
other odd items, such as young evergreen shoots, crayfish, road
kill, meat or fish from human storage sites, hunter-killed game
animals (these sometimes snatched in front of the hunter), and
occasional garbage. They take an occasional livestock animal,
but not with sufficient frequency as to produce organized
They appear to kill large prey animals by a blow with the fist,
rock or stick or by twisting their necks, sometimes to the point
of decapitation. Liver and other internal organs are their first
targets. The remaining meat is sometimes stored on the ground
under a haphazard shelter of sticks or lifted into tree forks
above ground. No compelling evidence exists that they store food
in any substantial way beyond this; only rarely has a sasquatch
been observed carrying a fish some distance from its origin, or
a deer, presumably into hiding.
Caloric requirements per gram of living matter decrease as a
function of total mass of the animal. Nonetheless, the
nutritional needs of an average sasquatch can be calculated to
amount to about 5,000 calories per day. This amount can only be
fulfilled by rather constant searching for food and especially
by intermittent predation. Sasquatches have been seen both with
substantial girth as well as looking decidedly skinny.
Drinking has been observed by small animals dipping their faces
into the water, while adults commonly drink out of a cupped
hand, or resort to a cupped leaf or a dry, hollow stem of a
Their feces are sausage-shaped, up to 4" inches in diameter and
up to three feet long, forming a folded heap. They are replete
with numerous intestinal parasites, including hook worms, as
well as small bones, hair of prey and ample vegetal matter. A
sasquatch has been observed to wipe itself with its hand and
lick its fingers briefly, a decidedly simian gesture.
Growth and Reproduction:
Through several longitudinal studies and incidental observations
of footprints of family groups, an approximate growth scale has
been constructed. Sasquatch infants are born small ("like a 4
lb. preemie"), but are very fleet-footed at just a few years of
age. The infant stays with the mother until puberty at age 10 or
so, measuring about 6' in height by then. Offspring seem to be
spaced about 5 years apart, as judged by the admittedly small
sample of grouped footprints; thus, a smaller infant will have
the company of an older sibling for some years. A young male and
one barely maturing female, as evidenced by immature breasts,
about 7' and 6' tall, respectively, were seen keeping solicitous
Mating has been observed primarily between May and June, mostly
between established pairs, and there is a suggestion of the
birthing time lying between February and May. The duration of
pregnancy (probably near 9 months) is partly related to the
average weight of the species. Birth has been (very rarely)
reported to occur in the squatting position, with other
individuals nearby. The spacing of offspring is presumably
governed by lowered fertility in consequence of demand feeding
as well as infant mortality. On two occasions, females were
observed carrying a dead infant.
A sasquatch can hypothetically be expected to have a mean life
expectancy of about 35 years, a number derived from a
relationship that exists in mammals between body mass and length
of life. Old animals have been seen to show all the signs of
wear, i.e., "snaggle teeth", "worn dreadlocks", as well as
thinned hair, deeply wrinkled skin and open sores. A dead
animal, if unattended, can be expected to be consumed rapidly by
various carnivores, the bones by rodents, the hair by moths and
any remainder would fall prey to the acidic environment of the
forests with no remnant left visible under seasonal leaf and
needle fall.
Physical Activities:
Most sasquatches are observed walking, and the observer almost
invariably comments on their smooth, long and fluent stride
("like cross country skiing" or "like riding a bicycle") with
wide arm swings. This effect is produced by their so-called
compliant gait, meaning that they do not lock their knees during
a step but keep them bent and thereby suppress the up-and-down
oscillations of the upper body that is so characteristic of the
human gait. Part of the sasquatch gait is a high foot rise in
back during the swing phase and a longer bipedal contact with
the ground. Step length averages 5', an interval that is
uncomfortable or impossible to duplicate or sustain for any
distance by a would-be hoaxer. The gait has very little
straddle, i.e., feet are put in line.
Running sasquatches constitute about 10% of all sightings. From
observed walking cadence, step length and reports of animals
running alongside moving vehicles, their top speed probably
rivals that of a running horse (near 40 mph). The step length
(measured from heel to heel) changes little whether the animal
walks on the level or uphill. When standing still, the sasquatch
will often remain totally immovable to escape detection, or at
best slowly sway from side to side. They have been seen to
assume the same sitting, squatting or lying positions that
people do, frequently shown by worn areas on their hair coat.
Quadrupedal gait is seen rarely in juveniles, although adults,
on ascending dense slopes, frequently pull themselves up on
adjacent trees with alternating arms.
In contrast to other higher primates, they seem to be powerful
swimmers, as seen by their sporadic presence on otherwise
uninhabitable small islands of the British Columbia coast and
direct observations of animals in or under water, doing a
They sleep in mostly temporary shelters, padded with available
vegetation. Caves and natural shelters seem to be used rarely.
Padding consists of ferns, moss, bear grass, soft evergreen or
rhododendron branches and leaves. Occasionally partial roofs are
fashioned over their resting places from broken boughs. Once
discovered, a nest is generally abandoned.
Their strength, especially upper body, is legendary. They seem
to take "pleasure" in exercising this strength, for example,
lifting basketball-sized rocks and throwing them in arcs to
scare off intruders, lifting the edges of mobile homes, cars or
trailers, lifting and throwing full 50 gal. drums (450 lbs.) or
240 lb rocks (weighed later), and spirally twisting the trunks
of small trees, possibly as territorial or way markers.
Vocalization and Communication:
On the whole, the sasquatch proceeds in silence. Patterned,
repetitive knocking sounds, produced with rocks or thick
branches hit against other rocks or dead trees, are apparently
used as long distance communication or deterrence.
Since they are a nocturnal species, they seem to rely on
vocalizations more than diurnal primates. They are capable of a
complex collection of sounds, starting with whistling (produced
in the throat), through moans, howls, hoots, grunts, extremely
deep growls, roars ("like a lion from the bottom of a 50-gallon
drum"), and chilling screams, rising from a low roar over
several seconds. More rarely, they produce melodic and imitative
sounds or complex vocalizations that give the impression of a
primitive language, even of a "woman talking" without the
"words" ever being intelligible.
The disturbing nature of the loud screams seems to lie in their
perceived near human quality, though too loud, enduring and
powerful to be attributed to any possible "real" person.
Giggling, laughing and crying sounds have been heard, sometimes
in response to appropriate events.
There has been little opportunity to study facial expressions of
the sasquatch, which are apt to be different from human ones and
might be misinterpreted. But very close observers reported a
comical look of surprise, when a sasquatch was suddenly
encountered at close range, evident curiosity, as well as a look
of "sheer terror" of a sasquatch caught between traffic on a
dark, rainy highway.
Social Behavior and Curiosity:
Despite the rare observations of sasquatch groups, they appear
to have more social cohesion than is generally assumed, moving
at times in a group that suggests an extended family. Under
undisturbed circumstances, the young play with each other and
around and on the adults, and sometimes small groups forage
together. Young ones are allowed to explore and be potentially
visible in a context where the adults stay out of view. Adults
seem remarkably indulgent of the infants, tolerating on one
occasion an infant's temper tantrum without intervention. In a
totally relaxed setting, the adults spend substantial time
grooming each other. On a few occasions, two or more sasquatches
were observed wrestling with each other with intermissions for
rest. It appears that older siblings, or at least juvenile
animals, sometimes care for younger ones. The need for large
amounts of food for any one animal may lead to a fusion -
fission type of social organization, in which individuals
separate to forage and come together for social activities.
The more frequent sightings of single males over females may be
due to these animals probing the terrain for new niches, food
sources or mates. They most probably form the majority of cases
in which curiosity lures an animal into plain sight. Such
curiosity-evoking events range from a lighted window in a
secluded house to barns with animals in them, unusual animals in
outside corrals, cars or equipment being repaired in a remote
location, loud noises like chainsaws or explosions, and
especially the screaming of children at play. Repeatedly,
sasquatches have watched in these contexts, occasionally for
hours, and even attempted interaction in the play of children.
Sometimes, a sasquatch seen in the open, will retreat into
cover, but remain to watch his observers from (incomplete)
Two noteworthy facets of sasquatch behavior have been observed
repeatedly. They seem to be rather "orderly", stacking rocks in
cairns during searching and not tearing human food caches or
backpacks apart randomly in the manner of bears. Secondly, they
have a tendency to leave "gifts" in the same location in which
food was deposited for them. These can range from little piles
of stones, a dog skull, handfuls of evergreen shoots, to small
live animals, like a goat kid, several live kittens, a turtle,
all taken from elsewhere, either as a "gift" or possibly as
shared "food".
Aggressiveness and Displays:
Their responses to people vary from immediate withdrawal, the
most common response, to lengthy inspection if no threat is
perceived. They seem to react in a more relaxed fashion to women
and children and avoid men, even in an accustomed setting,
possibly as a function of human body language. All told, they
are unaggressive to a fault, often leisurely retreating while
being shot at. There is no documented case in the past 100 years
of a sasquatch doing deliberate harm to a person.
Sasquatches seem to be indulgent of human children and small
animals, like puppies, goat kids, and kittens. Several reports
suggest that they may opportunistically retain small animals to
use as live toys or pets as has been observed in bonobos. On the
other hand, they reserve a special distaste for aggressive dogs,
as do gorillas. They deal with these by slapping them (causing a
75 lb. dog to fly 40') or flailing them against trees.
While scaring people out of their territory, they often run
alongside them, though out of sight, and only desist when the
terrain would expose them to view. This effort is sometimes
preceded or accompanied by tree shaking, pushing over of trees
or snags with appropriate noise, or simply by repeatedly
breaking large sticks or branches for the sound effect. The
apparent sounds of chest thumping have been heard, but the
behavior has not been seen. All these aggressive displays are
also found in the great apes.
It would be ideal for a human observer, in an unanticipated
encounter, not to stare at the animal, but to sit on the ground,
scratch him or herself, "groom" a companion, or "eat" anything
within reach in order to convey as benign an impression as
possible. In one instance, in which this behavior was followed,
the sasquatch tarried long enough to be "talked" to.
Tool Use:
This trait of the human species is largely absent in the
sasquatch. As mentioned above, they use branches and rocks to
hit trees or other rocks and they throw rocks and other objects
out of hiding to scare people out of their territory (as do
chimpanzees). Only one case has come to my attention of a boy
being inadvertently hit by such a thrown rock (though not
seriously injured). Rare reports indicate the possibility of the
sasquatch using sticks to kill birds or mammals or to dig in the
ground with them.
On one occasion they were observed to fashion "straws" out of
the stalks of dead weeds and to drink through them out of a
metal tub. They are undoubtedly observant of human
appurtenances, such as guns or obvious cameras, and may then
take extra care to avoid exposure.
Injury, Disease and Death:
Aside from eventual death after getting shot at or getting
injured on highways, sasquatches probably die from dental
disorders, infections, parasitic infestations and the rigors of
exposure to the elements. From their prey, they would become
parasitized with every type of intestinal worm as well as
flukes. The absence of corpses is expected in the montane
environment they inhabit, and it can profitably be compared to a
similar absence of bears that died of natural causes. There are
some minimal suggestions that sasquatches do not leave their
dead unattended, a further factor that would confound such
searches for a body.
The sasquatch is distributed across the North American
continent, from high northern latitudes in Alaska and the Yukon
to occasional sightings near river courses and forests in New
Mexico and Texas. Their highest concentration appears to lie in
Washington, Oregon and northern California, although the chances
of potentially more sightings in the wilds of Canada are
lessened by the lower human population density. Total numbers
for the species in North America have been estimated by various
approaches to be from a few thousand up to 10,000. By
comparison, black bears number between 650,000 and 700,000 in
North America.
Distribution of the sasquatch is presumably heavily influenced
by the availability of water, prey, and of dense cover as
afforded by northwestern rain forests, Sierra chaparral or the
riparian margins of any bodies or courses of water. Since the
latter provide secluded avenues throughout the continent,
occasional sightings are explicable in relatively arid regions,
though even there generally in the vicinity of stands of forest.
Similarly, swamps and marshes seem to afford them the desired
seclusion. Migration patterns, if they exist at all, have not
been established other than possible vertical movement to escape
severe winter conditions at higher altitude.
Sightings largely parallel the density of the human population,
within reasonable limits. Daytime and nighttime sightings are
almost equal in number despite the severely limited sight
distance and coverage for observers at night, an indication of
the much greater nocturnal activity of the sasquatch. Most
sightings consist of chance encounters with single individuals,
mostly males by default (identification made difficult by the
hairiness of the species). It appears that the animals can be to
a considerable degree habituated to the presence of a person.
They are more likely to become "tamer" with a woman, over a long
period, provided they are fed and not bothered, such as being
illuminated at night. Under such long established circumstances,
they allow themselves to be seen during their normal activities,
even during daylight hours, but mostly at dawn. They are
reported substantially less frequently during the late winter,
but outright hibernation is not known to occur in primates,
though torpor is a possibility. It is probable that in the
winter the animals adopt a retiring life style with little
activity in some protected niche, surviving on predation and
some available vegetation.
Sasquatches of the size mentioned in this article would be
expected to roam over a substantial territory to support
themselves, possibly hundreds of square miles. Twisting off of
small trees, nocturnal screaming and defecation in conspicuous
spots have been suggested as possible territorial devices, all
of these known from other great apes. In the predominantly
forested terrain that they inhabit, footprints are seen with
difficulty at best, and it would, at first sight, seem unlikely
that they deliberately post or hide them.
Evolutionary discussion at this stage would consist of rather
futile conjecture when a single good DNA analysis of a piece of
skin or well-preserved blood could narrow the choices
dramatically. The species is deviant from Homo sapiens by
anatomy (crest, feet, musculature, body posture and gait),
behavior (nocturnality, lack of compelling tool use, lack of
language, lack of cultural traits) and sociology, traits that
all argue against a close relationship to modern man. Its
potential competitiveness for the same natural resources and
space as that used by man may well have been contributory to the
evolution of their nocturnal and elusive life style. The
paleontological affiliation or identity with Gigantopithecus, as
championed by the late Grover Krantz, has many aspects to
recommend it.
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House Publishers Ltd., Saanichton, B.C., Canada.
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British Columbia Press, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and London.
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