Bigfoot Book, The : The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti and Cryptid Primates (The Real Unexplained! Collection)

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Books by legitimate scientists in support of unclassified primates are rarer than sightings of the Mothman. This groundbreaking work by Dr. Jeff Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, is perhaps the most authoritative of them. In it, Meldrum, an expert in the evolution of hominid bipedalism, argues for the existence of Sasquatches owing to their apparent physical traits inferred from footprint evidence and the Patterson-Gimlin film that shows what appears to be a female Bigfoot walking at Bluff Creek, California, in 1967. Those anatomical observations, Meldrum suggests, including the shape and structure of the Sasquatch foot, are biologically consistent for an animal of the reported size and weight of Bigfoot. His book constitutes a wider scientific inquiry into the topic. There’s a twofold appeal to this superbly researched book, a compendium of northwest coastal Bigfoot reports and lore by a retired professor of anatomy and physiology. First its geographical focus is the pristine and exceptionally remote north coast of British Columbia and the adjacent Alaska panhandle — part of the largest stretch of temperate rain forest in the world and a paradise habitat for Sasquatches. Second, the book explores, fairly in-depth, local indigenous lore about the creatures, which tend to be neglected by other writers. The book includes some interesting photos and sketches detailing specific encounters. Concept image of a man looking at a Bigfoot-like creature. (Image credit: David Wall via Getty Images)

The video was posted on Oct. 30, 2012 and has amassed more than 7.6 million views on YouTube. According to account uploader "Beard Card," the pair were on a camping trip hoping to get a closer look at deer on a hill. "On our way up, we thought we saw a bear, until the monster stood up and looked right at us," Beard Card wrote in the video description. "We ran straight to the car after that, leaving our tent and everything behind. It's probably all still up there." Prospector Albert Ostman claimed that he spent around a week with a Bigfoot family near Toba Inlet, British Columbia in 1924. Ostman was camping alone when he says he was scooped up in his sleeping bag by a papa Bigfoot and taken to meet momma Bigfoot and two Bigfoot children. Ostman was supposedly held captive by the family, but said he eventually escaped when papa Bigfoot ate Ostman’s chewing tobacco and fell ill, according to a retelling of the story in anthropologist David Daegling's book " Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend" (AltaMira Press, 2004). Halpin, Marjorie Myers and Ames, Michael M. (editors). Manlike Monsters On Trial: Early Records And Modern Evidence. Vancouver, British Columbia: The University Of British Columbia Press, 1980. Meldrum noted that anatomical features visible on the film, such as the proportions of the face, match up with early humans such as Paranthropus boisei— a species that lived around 2.3 million years ago to 1.2 million years ago, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The size of the creature in the film is estimated to be between around 6 feet to 7 feet (1.8 to 2.1 m) tall. I've got over 300 footprint cast copies and original materials in my laboratory that form the basis of a remarkable body of data that attests to the fact that there is something out there leaving these footprints." Meldrum said. "And the most straightforward answer is that it's a bipedal primate species that's not recognized by science."

Hall, Mark A. and Loren Coleman True Giants: Is Gigantopithecus Still Alive? NY: Anomalist Books, 2010. This journalistic work by one of the earliest Bigfoot investigators is a foundational pillar of Sasquatch studies and an absolute must-read. Green was a British Columbia newspaper reporter and publisher who caught the Bigfoot bug in the 1950s, just before Sasquatch became a household name. He spent his life diligently compiling reports and publishing catalogs of those encounters in book form with the sober, critical eye of a journalist. This title, his magnum opus, includes the now famous story of prospector Albert Ostman, whom he interviewed and who claimed he was kidnapped by a Sasquatch while in his sleeping bag at Toba Inlet, BC. A still image alleged to be of Bigfoot taken northeast of Eureka, California in 1967. (Image credit: Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images) His three-part project takes the myth of the shy giant allegedly hiding in the wilds of the west coast as a jumping-off point, leaving behind the cryptozoological to pursue something more tangible and knowable. What begins as an inspection of Bigfoot as a sociological phenomenon leads Rofé and his partner-in-true-crime, journalist David Holthouse, to a 1993 triple homicide said by locals to be the handiwork of the infamous ape-creature. But there’s a far darker truth buried deep beneath the legend, pertaining instead to a mammal capable of greater violence than any other in the animal kingdom. “Some monsters are real,” warns the production’s tagline; naturally, it’s referring to homo sapiens.

It looks like a gorilla squatted down, big broad shoulders, little peaked head and it's pulling off chunks of wood that seems to demonstrate extreme strength. Then, all of a sudden it stands up and it's got these long legs," Meldrum said, impressed by the video but yet to examine it in detail.In North American folklore, Bigfoot or Sasquatch are said to be hairy, upright-walking, ape-like creatures that dwell in the wilderness and leave footprints. Depictions often portray them as a missing link between humans and human ancestors or other great apes. They are strongly associated with the Pacific Northwest (particularly Oregon, Washington and British Columbia), and individuals claim to see the creatures across North America. Over the years, these creatures have inspired numerous commercial ventures and hoaxes. The plural nouns 'Bigfoots' and 'Bigfeet' are both in use.

I hope the choices assist those folks who are attempting to build a good resource library of new and old Bigfoot books. Here we go…Daegling, David J. Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America’s Enduring Legend. AltaMira Press, 2004. But this is an unemotional survey of what I consider the ten best books on the subject matter. It is true that some of the discussed books are exceedingly rare and out-of-print but if you look hard enough and scour the four corners of the internet long and hard you are likely to be rewarded. Bayanov, Dmitri. America’s Bigfoot: Fact, Not Fiction – U. S. Evidence, Verified in Russia. Moscow: Crypto-Logos, 1997.