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PHOENIX (AP) - 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.
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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.
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