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Bigfoot hunter searches Arizona reservation
The Associated Press
Article Last Updated:11/06/2006 06:39:41 AM MST
Posted: 6:30 AM- PHOENIX - Reports of Bigfoot on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in eastern Arizona have drawn a controversial hunter of the legendary creature.
C. Thomas Biscardi of Menlo Park, Calif., visited the reservation over the weekend for the second time this year to interview witnesses and organize a search.
In recent months, police officers have reported being chased by the creature, campers have said they spotted it and locals have said they caught it peeking in their windows.
"We're here for the white Bigfoot, the monkey-type creature with a tail, the one that was throwing rocks at people here," Biscardi said during a broadcast Saturday on the tribe's radio station. "I've got to tell you, people, it's here."
By day's end, at least half a dozen tribal members had told of seeing a strange beast, hearing blood-curdling screams in the night or other experiences. Several offered to join Biscardi's Searching for Bigfoot Inc. team on mini-expeditions.
While most backed out, 18-year-old Laramie Smith came forward to lead the team to a cave he found that he said could be the beast's lair.
The searchers had infrared and thermal-imaging devices, a Taser, a tranquilizer gun and a net-shooting cannon but found no cave or Bigfoot home. One team member picked up a stick and began beating on a log while another whooped to lure the beast.
"If they did not respond to the whooping and tree knocking, and there's no signs, then there's nothing here," Biscardi said.
Biscardi believes there are at least 3,500 Bigfoots nationwide, a number he derived by counting up one year of reported encounters, then subtracting suspected hoaxes and mistakes.
He has been trying to capture a specimen for 33 years, and his team has visited nearly every state in that quest.
Academic researchers are generally skeptical on the subject of Bigfoot. An Associated Press article last week quoted faculty at Idaho State University as they they are embarrassed by Jeffrey Meldrum, a colleague who believes in Bigfoot.
Stan Lindstedt, a regents professor of biology at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, said it is unfathomable that a huge subhuman creature would remain concealed over wide sections of the country.
"I put that in the category of mythology that can certainly make our culture interesting, but has nothing to do with science," he said.
I love to camp. I love to hike. I am tired of working hard for an honest living.
I wanna be a Bigfoot hunter.
I am so there.
In the winter when the weather sucks I can look for Bigfoot in warm climates like Arizona. In the summer, I can hunt for Bigfoot in cool places like Michigan's U.P. and northern Wisconsin!
I would never have to work again. People would give me money to go travel around the country and go camping!
If the money were to get low, I could ask a big man to dress up in an ape costume and take some fuzzy pictures of him. I am good at taking fuzzy pictures.
And how hard can it be to make whooping noises and beat on a log?
Then I could tell people with money "Look! I got close! I got his picture! I didn't get close enough to catch him, but look at these pictures!! Maybe next time if I whoop a little louder and beat on a log a little louder, I will get him!"
And I could get more money for years.
I wanna be a Bigfoot hunter! <i>Edited by: Duchess of Malfi at: 11/6/06 11:00 pm
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