The Largest Feet In America

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The Loch Ness Monster, The Jersey Devil, and Aliens, they're all things considered to be myth, legend, and superstition, but none are as famous or known of as The Sasquatch. Over the years, research, sightings, and legends of this creature have spread across the United States, from the years of the earliest settlers and the Native Americans, to modern day America. Over the years, the legends have changed, the myths have grown, and hoaxes have spread.

As far as Sasquatch goes, most sighting descriptions are the same, reddish brown hair, long swaying arms, large slopped foreheads, and long shaggy hair. That may be, but many different descriptions come along, such as black, white, gray, and even silver tipped hair (Wood Ape Description), sometimes even bear like qualities in the face (Wood Ape Description). And as far their faces go, they are said to be like a mix between a neanderthal and a gorilla, including chimp like lips and eyes. Their arms are said to go far past their knees, with chimp or gorilla like hands. When walking, their arms sway back back and forth, and they take long strides. Sasquatch eyes are said to glow or be reflective in the dark, going along with the fact that they are often reported to be nocturnal.

Early legends of hairy beast men have come from Canada, Alaska, and The United States. The Skoocooms, are said to live at Mt. Saint Helen's, they are more supernatural and ghostly, even when saying this, they share a lot of similarities, such as large fangs and/or canine teeth, are violent (like many Native American Sasquatch legends), and live in the woods. The Native Americans that live around the area where very afraid of the mountain, and would never venture there.

As for more resent report, the Jacko Hoax was a newspaper report from 1884, which talked about a four foot tall, hairy, Sasquatch like boy captured in British Columbia, and the story has been used by Sasquatch believers as evidence of the Sasquatch (“Jacko Hoax”). The Jacko Hoax is one of many early Sasquatch reports in America, such as the Fred Beck encounter, the Albert Ostman Report, and many more, which we will get to in time.

As mentioned above, the Fred Beck encounter happened 1924. Him and four other miners were attacked by a pack hairy ape men. Beck himself said that the Ape Men were other dimensional and mystical creatures. This is a stranger and more obscure report, which like many from this time, is less believable. Even when saying this, it is a very large mile stone in Sasquatch history (“Bigfoot”). Albert Ostman's report is also very strange and a very early one. Ostman said that he was captured by multiple

Sasquatch that him held captive for a matter of days ( “Bigfoot”). Not a lot of information was found on this said report, but it is still a very an interesting one.

In 1967, one of the biggest milestones was set in Sasquatch history, The Patterson-Gilmore Film was recorded. Many people believe the Patterson film Film to be a real Sasquatch encounter, but according to Patterson and Gilmore themselves, the film reel is a special effects test. The film is maybe the most iconic piece in Sasquatch culture, and the film does look pretty believable. Paterson and Gilmore were probably pretty satisfied with results.

After the Patterson-Gilmore Film, many, many, more Sasquatch reports flooded the United States, some believable, some laughable. To many sightings were reported to talk about all of them, but we have at least one more to talk about.

We will fast forward to 2007, when a man named Rick Jacobs set up motion capture cameras in the woods. One night the cameras took a picture of what is believed to be a juvenile Sasquatch smelling the ground. The photo was given a large amount of controversy, many Sasquatch believers said that it was Sasquatch, while others said it was a bear with a severe case of mange (“Bigfoot”). The mange theory is discarded by most Sasquatch believers, because they say the legs and arms are to long and not as round as a bear's.

Sasquatch reports continue to spread across The United States, most more laughable then believable, which is a shame. Whether you choose to believe or not is your own choice, the sightings could be regarded as fact or fiction, myth or science. You choose to believe, or to reject the legend.