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What is believed to be the only sculpture in the world created to scale in meticulous detail of an adult specimen of the legendary “Bigfoot” resides in this Ozark town.

“It took three months to get it from my head to his (the sculptor’s) head,” said Clifford LaBrecque, 73, of the fiberglass-and-fur model of Bigfoot he commissioned in 1976 at a cost then of $9,000.

“It’s accurate to the inch,” LaBrecque says.

The striking model of Bigfoot stands 8 feet tall in the dining room of LaBrecque’s home. He says it depicts accurately what LaBrecque remembers from sightings and a physical encounter with a Bigfoot specimen on June 18, 1977, and from many descriptions of the creature prior to his experience.

The encounter happened, according to LaBrecque, between 9-10 p.m. near a woodpile behind LaBrecque’s home in the Windsor Heights suburb of Des Moines, Iowa. Prior to the altercation, LaBrecque says he observed almost nightly a Bigfoot specimen — about 8 feet tall — that sometimes appeared with two apparently juvenile Bigfoot creatures.

He says he called a Des Moines newspaper to tell of the sightings and had argued with the newspaper over copyrights to Bigfoot photographs should the newspaper act on his tip and obtain photographs.

On June 18 he had decided to shoot to kill the larger Bigfoot and had positioned his car for the shot that he believed would furnish incontrovertible evidence of the reality of the Bigfoot creature.

LaBrecque says he had been open-minded from an early age to the possibility that such a creature as Bigfoot existed.

“When I was a little kid, I heard stories about the wild man of the west, and I began watching out for one,” he said. The busy youth found countless stories about American Indian legends of the wild man, and stories of similar creatures all over the world. As an adult he interviewed many people who claimed to have sighted a Bigfoot specimen.

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First encounter

But it was not until 1977 that his eyes gave him all the evidence he needed to believe in Bigfoot.

“Our neighbors had a big black lab. One night I heard the dog barking around the woodpile. I looked out and saw what I thought was the dog on the wood pile. I remember thinking: ‘That (dog) is going to knock my woodpile over.’

“Then it dawned on me that my woodpile is this high and what we were seeing is much, much taller than the woodpile. I got my wife to look and she saw it.

“We couldn’t believe it.”

An inspection of the woodpile the next day and after subsequent sightings found bark pulled from the split wood and the inner surface of the tree bark gnawed away.

That first sighting set in motion a series of sightings that would lead LaBrecque to spend night after night in the woods hoping to see the Bigfoot party traveling to the woodpile. He even conducted surveillance from settings in trees, but did not see the migration.

Skepticism

LaBrecque understands the skepticism some people may bring to his story. At 73 he can do without it, along with the skepticism the public would bring to a videotape of what he says shows a Bigfoot in its natural habitat.

He has shown the video privately but declines to show it publicly because of the ridicule that some people have for those who claim to have had unusual or paranormal experiences.

“I’m not going to listen to anyone who doesn’t know crap telling me I don’t know crap,” LaBrecque said. “Right now if one of these creatures walked across the back yard and I called and tried to tell about it, people would say, ‘Oh. That’s the guy with the Bigfoot model in his house.’

“You are done before you start. You’re not going to win that one.”

A showing of LaBrecque’s Bigfoot model at the 1977 Iowa State Fair attracted many spectators, LaBrec-que said, and several with stories of Bigfoot sightings.

After talking publicly about his Windsor Heights experience, LaBrecque says a farmer came forward to share a story of a Bigfoot sighting and to warn LaBrecque about continuing to talk about the incident.

A second witness to the Windsor Heights incident has long stopped talking about it because of the skepticism, ridicule and laughter the story evokes from listeners, he says.

“You have to understand just how hurtful this can be to the people who have seen Bigfoot,” LaBrecque said. He says he has been the subject of extraordinary skepticism for his creation of the Bigfoot model before he actually saw Bigfoot. To LaBrecque it is simply good fortune that the sighting confirmed for him all that he had heard about the creature. It enabled him to better endure the scorn people bring to his story, he says.

LaBrecque said he is resurfacing now in the Bigfoot culture only because of a news reporter’s call and renewed interest in the creature that he says was sighted four years ago in a rural area near West Plains, Mo.

“They’re here in Norfork,” LaBrecque said. “I have talked to people who have seen them.”

“This is what they say it looks like,” LaBrecque says, pointing to his model.

Source : http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20111213/NEWS01/112130333/Norfork-man-recounts-Bigfoot-encounter

The crew of Finding Bigfoot went down to Utah to investigate the 2008 video footing known as the “Sobe Bomb Bigfoot“. Back in 2008 a group of teenagers in Logan , Utah were making a sobe bomb down in a canyon and inadvertently caught a Bigfoot on camera while they were attempting to record the bomb exploding in a camp fire. FB/FB broke down the Bigfoot footage attempting to confirm the bigfoot on several points. Matt Moneymaker of Finding Bigfoot via Twitter confirmed that in his opinion the creature caught on film was definitely a Sasquatch. Here is the video breakdown done by FB/FB so you can determine for yourself if the available evidence is enough to prove that this is indeed Bigfoot or Sasquatch.

Law enforcement officer and BFRO investigator Jason Vogan recounts his encounter with a Bigfoot during a 2011 BFRO Expedition in Georgia. After being hit by a rock thrown through the woods Vogan claims to have seen the creature using night vision equipment as it stood behind a tree. They return to the location of the Bigfoot sighting to describe the sighting and retrace the steps of the expedition.

The video of a possible Ogopogo sighting in Okanagan Lake has caught the eye of international media.

Two weeks ago, West Kelowna resident Richard Huls said he captured video of the mythical creature in the lake.

“It proves something is down there. Whether it’s Ogopogo or not, it is a different story but there is something at least down there,” Huls said.

“It was not a wave, just a darker colour. The size and the fact that they were not parallel with the waves made me think it had to be something else,” he said.

And many other people seemed to think the same thing.

Here is a video recap of the 2011 Orang Pendek expedition by Adam Davies. This video gives a look into the evidence and findings produced by the latest expedition to Sumatra in search of Orang Pendek. The analysis of the latest evidence recovered it ongoing.

Yeti Illustration

Watch out the Abominable Snowman, scientists are out to get you. An international team of scientists including Russian and the U.S. researchers will hunt down the mythical Yeti after a spurt of sightings in Kemerova region of Siberia.

Scientists from the U.S., Russia, Canada, Sweden, Estonia, and Mongolia were invited to discover signs of the Yeti in a region that many experts claim are home to at least 30 of the creatures. The expedition and conference later this week is the largest of its kind since 1958 when scientists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences led an expedition into Siberia to locate the Yeti. And in an astonishing display of international cooperation, U.S. and Russian scientists have even agreed to share secret Cold War evidence on the legendary creatures.

The expedition and conference were prompted by a spike in recent sightings of the Yeti in the Kemerovo region about 3,000 miles east of Moscow and in the neighboring Altai region. Other evidence such as basic twig huts; twisted branches and footprints have also been found in the area. Scientists even estimate that there are several dozen Yeti in the region.

A recent report form a Russian witness who claims to have seen the Yeti and that it walked like a human being.

“It was still a tall creature, but not giant. It was covered with long brown-grey hair, like a bear. It wasn’t a bear – I have lived all my life in Siberia and wouldn’t make that mistake. This creature walked like a human, or almost like a human,” Raisa Sudochakova said.

This week’s expedition will begin at the International Centre of Hominology in Tashtagol. The scientists will then head in the region’s mountains to scour for signs of the Yeti.

Igor Burtsey, head of the International Centre of Hominology believes the Yeti is surviving Neanderthals who live in the Kuzbass mining areas.

“When Homo sapiens started populating the world, it viciously exterminated its closest relative in the hominid family, Homo neanderthalensis. Some of the Neanderthals, however, may have survived to this day in some mountainous wooded habitats that are more or less off limits to their arch foes,” Burtsey said.

Source : ibtimes

William Jevning Bigfoot author and researcher has made some claims of a possible coverup by the US Forest Service over the existance of Bigfoot or Sasquatch. Jevning says he does not specifically mean that there is some kind of government coverup but possibly one on a lower level and explains cases of which forest service personnel were involved. If these claims are true or can be substantiated about the USFS officials in Washington St and a Bigfoot coverup it could prove to be very interesting.

Here is the direct information that Jevning posted on the Bigfoot coverup subject :

For those who may be interested in the subject of the Sasquatch (Bigfoot), I wanted to bring something up I was recently talking about.

I was chatting with someone about the possibility of a cover up in regard to this subject, I don’t specifically mean a government one

However, I know of two cases in which forest service personnel were involved.

with limited space here, this may take a bit to explain, so for those reading this, please be patient with me.

If the worlds largest living hominid were to be proven to exist on the north american continent, ALL logging would stop overnight..literally

The industry and all associated businesses would cease to function for years…I believe this could provide a very credible reason

If such a cover up were being perpetrated…..food for thought

Cryptozoologist Adam Davies has returned from his 2011 Orang Pendek Expedition. Early reports from Davies on the latest Orang Pendek search is that things went very well and all members of the expedition team returned safely. Davies says that everything collected from the expedition has to be scientifically analyzed by credible experts in their fields and its already being scheduled. Davies has confirmed that they may have recovered a possible handprint , footcast, and even some new hair samples which may provide evidence of the existence of Orang Pendek.

Davies say they also have thousands of images taken via camera traps but it will take weeks to go through all of them. We will keep a close eye on the latest evidence found by Davies as it is examined and maybe this will be the expedition that finally proves that Organ Pendek is real and exist.

“Possible Orang Pendek hand print”

Here is an excellent video sent in by CryptoReports reader Mike Eriksson with some facts and information about The Great Lake Monster of Sweden. The lake monster also known as “Storsjöodjuret” is said to live in Lake Storsjon in Jamtland located in the middle of Sweden. Storsjöodjuret is described by many to be an aquatic or serpentine reptile having fins across its back and a dog like head. Some accounts have the creature as having several humps and measuring approximately six meters long.

The video contains some very interesting facts and information about the creatures origins along with Storsjöodjuret sightings and reports up to the present day. Some great local sceneries are showcased in the video along with some historical features related to the monster. CryptoReports would like to thank Mr. Eriksson for sending along his video for all our readers to enjoy and we encourage everyone who has a Cryptid story , sighting , pictures , or videos that would like to share to send them in and we will be happy to post them here at the site. You can submit your information by clicking “Submit News or Reports” on the left hand sidebar.

This is a news segment called “Sasquatch : Oklahoma’s Bigfoot” which takes us into the small town of Honobia, Oklahoma. Honobia has a long history of Bigfoot also known as Sasquatch sightings over the past several years. Many cryptozoologist and amateur Bigfoot researchers have and still visit Honobia in search of the mysterious creature or evidence of its existence. Honobia is such a hot bed for Sasquatch activity that a Bigfoot conference and festival is held there every September.

The segment (part 2) even includes a retired Forestry Service Ranger who claims that Sasquatch does exist and that there is more going on then what we know. He claims that the existence of the creature is common knowledge and not only has the creature been sighted but it has been studied for years and many of their habits are now known.