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These days, everyone knows Bigfoot.
Standing more than 8 feet tall and weighing over 1,000 lbs, if bigfoot exists, it is the largest of the hairy wildmen spotted around the world.
A handful of teeth and several broken jawbones prove an ape that tall was living in China at the same time humans were crossing to North America.
At this time, there is no way to know if that ape was bipedal like a man, or quadrupedal like a gorilla or chimpanzee.
Bigfoot has been sighted in nearly every US state and Canadian province.
Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Oh-Mah, or Ot-Ne-Yar-Hed legends stretch back into First Peoples culture as far as anyone can recall.
These creatures are celebrated in drawings and sculpture that survive today.
Bigfoot has made his way into every level of pop culture.
Some can’t resist the lure of a hoax, but a scientific body has united to weed the fiction from possible fact.
Indy Anna Bones mostly wanted to hug a Bigfoot.
Giving a scritch under the chin to this mythical beast had been a life goal since the 3rd grade.
Now she was looking for bigfoot on its own turf.
Indy Anna had uncovered a map she was sure would lead her directly to Bigfoot Country.
She landed in San Francisco, gateway to Northern California and the Pacific Northwest.
Indy Anna did not waste an opportunity to take in the landscape.
Or to ride an authentic San Francisco trolley.
Then it was time for serious research.
She visited the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton, outside San Jose.
The atmosphere was tight, but welcoming.
The museum opened in 2005 and is owned and operated by life-long Bigfoot researcher, Mike Rugg.
California is where the modern bigfoot craze began.
In 1958 a construction worker named Jerry Crews cast the tracks of what appeared to be a huge man.
The tracks accompanied mischief on the construction site. Equipment was vandalized, supplies knocked about, and great oil drums heaved into the deep canyons.
Near the same area in 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed what they claim was a bipedal ape walking along a creek bed.
This is exactly where Indy Anna's map was leading her.
Bigfoot tracks are currently the most plentiful physical evidence from this animal, and many examples were on display.
In a case outside, Indy Anna found a cast of the “Bossburg Cripple,” that appears to show a healed injury or birth defect.
Prints from this disfigured individual have been discovered on multiple occasions, but several high profile hoaxes are also associated with the Bossburg area.
Cinema typically portrays bigfoot as a dangerous beast, if not a villain, though there is little real world evidence to support this.
Bigfoot has become a symbol for the wild heart of America.
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