Let’s face it, anyone has heard, at least once, about Bigfoot. It is now part of our cultural heritage that we will transmit from generation to generation. Together with Nessie and Chupacapra, Bigfoot will remain one of the most famous cryptids in the entire world.

While Bigfoot belongs to the Pacific Northwester Region of the Northern American Continent there have been sightings from all over the world. From the human encounters with it, Bigfoot was generally described as a huge, hairy, bipedal humanoid, with a weight of approximately 240 kilograms and a height of almost 3 meters.

Although it was popularized in the 20^th Century, mostly through movies and comic books, the Bigfoot story has a few hundreds of years, at least. The indigenous population of the Pacific Northwestern part of today’s United States, known very well this wild creature. Most of the recorded stories with wild huge beasts which resembled with humans or apes were found among the Native Americans who were living in Spokane, Washington. The indigenous populations (must be read as “Native Americans” or “Indian Americans”) were claiming that all these giant creatures were living on and near the mountain peaks, surviving on a diet of salmon. This was a great explanation at that time for the salmon which was stolen right from the fisherman nets.

Surely, all of the encounters with Bigfoot from the late 19^th Century and all along the 20^th Century were recorded and popularized, due to the spread of the newspapers, radio, and then television and Internet. The moment when the Bigfoot story was the most visible in its entire history, was in 1967 when Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin captured on film the “Sasquatch”.

Some are supporting the Bigfoot theory; others are telling that it was all a hoax from the start. The truth is that we are not having so many evidences that Bigfoot, Yeti, or what other name this wild creature is having across the world, really exists. In all our recorded history we are having just sightings of it, but no more than that. Till somebody will capture one, no one will be certain that Bigfoot really existed or exists.

The Yeti Discovered

Considered by many to be the world’s greatest living mountaineer, Reinhold Messner has seen a lot in his life. He’s the first man to have climbed Everest with no oxygen and the only man to have climbed all 14 of the world’s highest peaks. Furthermore, he also claims to have seen a yeti. That’s right. An abominable snowman.

But hold on. This elusive and legendary creature may not be exactly what you think it is. Messner, who has searched for the yeti for 12 years after his first encounter with one, claims the yeti to be nothing more than a Tibetan bear. Even so, to him all the myths surrounding this creature hold true. For example, the reason why there are sometimes only two footprints after a yeti sighting is because, in difficult snow, this bear will put the back foot in the footprint of the front foot.

He says that the reason these myths get started in the first place is because many of the originators live in areas without television or movies. Therefore, they have to create their own stories if they want entertainment. Over years, the more and more these stories get told, and the fact that some of these yetis can actually be hunted down since they truly exist (albeit in bear form), the faith in these myths hold very strong.

Although the lore of these beasts have attracted people from the world over, and even though the truth may be a bit hard to stomach, you have to hand it to a man who went against all the tribal lore, searching for the truth.

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