Month: November 2020

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It started with André the Giant

I was about 9 years old or so and I saw the infamous two part episode of “The Six Million Dollar Man” called “The Secret of Bigfoot” and it blew my mind. I already had read about the episodes coming soon in TV Guide so knew that Bigfoot was to be portrayed by my favorite wrestler André the Giant. But knowing who was in that costume didn’t keep away the nightmares. That ice tunnel terrified me.

As so began a life long fascination with Bigfoot.

The photo above is of Kenneth Johnson the writer/producer of those episodes. He is holding a plaster cast of Andre the Giant’s size 24 foot.

"The Six Million Dollar Man" and bigfoot

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Finding, Not Hunting.

So the Bigfoot finding begins. And that’s the word that is important: finding. Finding, not hunting. Let’s look at the various meanings of the word “hunt”:

  1. to pursue for food or in sport
  2. to manage in the search for game
  3. to pursue with intent to capture
  4. to drive or chase especially by harrying
  5. to traverse in search of prey

None of these apply. I mean no harm and don’t plan on doing this for sport or capture. I am not going to be hunting him. I just hope to find him. And to do that, I will look. I might setup trail cameras and bait but I will not hunt. I will look and wait and be patient. I want to find him or proof.

This is my intent.

PS – I call him Bigfoot cause every time I try to type the word Sasquatch I screw it up and that really hurts my brain.