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YAKIMA, Wash. — Jim Hebert, a longtime insurance agent in Wenatchee who grew up in Yakima, waited three or four years before he told anyone about his bigfoot sighting while on vacation in Yellowstone National Park in 1994.

Wednesday, though, the 59-year-old Hebert shared his tale on the History Channel show “MonsterQuest.”

The program, which has featured episodes on the chupacabra, Loch Ness monster and giant squids, aims to “examine all the evidence available, from pictures and video to hair and bones, as well as the eyewitness accounts themselves,” according to the show’s Web site.

Hebert said while he was driving through Yellowstone, he looked over into a clearing below a wooded hillside and saw a “black hairy thing about 8 feet tall,” he recalled during a phone call Wednesday evening.

Earlier this year, a crew from “MonsterQuest” flew to Wenatchee and had Hebert reenact his experience in a similar-looking area up Chumstick Canyon in Leavenworth.

“There’s no question I saw it,” he said about what happened 15 years ago, emphasizing the image was blazed into his brain.

“Nobody can shake me,” said Hebert.

Source: yakimaherald

Tonight is the Monster Quest special investigations episode on Bigfoot !  The show tonight will look directly at sasquatch evidence such as the Freeman footage, Patterson-Gimlin Film, sighting patterns, and foot cast. The will go indepth on all these area’s so should be a great episode for anyone interested in Bigfoot.

CRITICAL EVIDENCE:

“Frightening encounters with the legendary monster known as Sasquatch are reported in almost every state of America. These run-ins with terrifying upright hairy beasts date back centuries and sightings number in the thousands. Despite the many Sasquatch reports, skeptics point to the lack of evidence as compelling reason for the creature being merely a myth. Now, however, new analysis of the best existing evidence could finally uncover proof of this elusive beast. A special MonsterQuest investigation gathers together the critical evidence – from startling videos to tracks, prints and sighting maps. State of the art analysis may finally give definitive proof that Sasquatch is among us.”

Monster Quest airs tonight at 9:00 pm Eastern Time on History Channel.

Did Sasquatch once roam the forest near Bonney Lake, Lake Tapps and Sumner?

According to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the answer is “yes.”

The organization reported on its Web site that sightings of Sasquatch – commonly known as “Bigfoot” – have been documented since 1967 in Pierce County.

BFRO, based in Southern California, was founded in 1995 and is the oldest and largest organization of its kind – a virtual community of scientists, journalists and specialists from diverse backgrounds.

BFRO is widely considered as the most credible and respected investigative network involved in the study of Bigfoot.

According to BFRO, members seek to resolve the mystery surrounding the “Bigfoot phenomenon.” BFRO said the large ape-like creatures are most often spotted in forested regions with abundant protein sources like deer and fish.

Bonney Lake Councilman David Bowen said he recalled many people discussing “Bigfoot” and some claimed to have heard something or perhaps caught a glimpse.

“I owned an auto-wrecking yard and I remember hearing several people discuss or expound on the subject of Bigfoot,” he said.

Bowen said his sister, Wilma Bennett, remembered a girl claiming she had seen the creature.

Bowen said his older brother lived in Kapowsin at the time and borrowed a rifle to protect him and his wife if attacked by Bigfoot.

There have been several documents sightings and reports, including Bonney Lake and Sumner, according to BFRO.

In October 1975, two boys reported they saw two white creatures that smelled like skunks standing at the edge of the woods near Lakeridge Drive near Sumner. They estimated the creatures were 7-feet tall.

A couple reported to Bonney Lake police that someone was sneaking around close to their home in the south end of Lake Tapps. The officer reported he found a 14-inch human-like track (left foot) close to the front porch.

Richard Noll, a BFRO investigator, contacted the couple and they told Noll strange activity began in the summer of 1975.

The couple told Noll they their daughter was driving home from work about 11 p.m. when she saw a pair of reddish-looking eyes – 7 or 8 feet high – in the middle of the road. When she got closer, the daughter reported a shadow going in front of her headlights.

She stated it went into the woods opposite her home and drove into her parent’s driveway honking her horn and ran to the front door yelling in a frightened voice.

Late that night, the couple was awakened by a loud noise and large footprints were found at the north end of the couple’s property. The daughter moved out a few days later.

A few days later, the couples’ sons were sleeping in their backyard in a tent when they heard their dog barking frantically.

Days later, the dog was found beaten to death in the driveway and was bloodied across the nose and chest.

On Oct. 12, 1975, a woman reported she heard something heavy running across the roof where she was babysitting.

The next day, the couple found two ducks dead.

Two days later, another of the couples’ daughters heard footsteps and animals screams. Police found a footprint that was 16 inches long and 7 inches wide with five toes 2 inches long.

The BFRO Web site shows Washington with the most sightings at 465, followed by California (411) and Oregon (211), along with British Columbia with 112 reported. The most recent report in the state was March on Camano Island.

One of the earliest reported encounters reported in the state with Bigfoot was in 1924, when a five miners reported they were attacked by several “apemen” near Mount St. Helens.

The most famous evidence of Bigfoot is a 58-second film by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in 1967 in Bluff Creek, Calif.

Since the first visual evidence of Bigfoot, there have been books, movies, comic books and documentaries produced.

Source: pnwlocalnews

Sasquatch, the mythical “Bigfoot” of western North America, makes its home deep within the fertile imaginations of gullible people. If you insist on looking for one in the real world, though, you should search in the home of the black bear – at least according to a tongue-in-cheek study of the ape-like creature’s habitat preferences.

The study has a more serious message too: it’s easy to be fooled into believing a plausible-looking habitat analysis, even when the data is totally erroneous.

Conservation biologists often need to predict where rare species are capable of living – for selecting the best site for a national park, for example, or forecasting how badly a species’ range will suffer as the climate changes in the future.

The latest technique for making these predictions is so-called ecological niche modelling, in which researchers log the locations of known species sightings, then gather environmental data for those places to define the ecological limits of the species’ range.

Jeff Lozier, an entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was worried that some people may have been too uncritical in applying the technique. “Whenever you have these new, shiny, easy-to-use approaches, there’s a temptation to use them even before you know what the kinks are,” he says.

So Lozier and his colleagues decided to apply ecological niche modelling to an obviously false data set – Sasquatch sightings. They gathered all reported sightings in the US states of Washington, Oregon and California and used the environmental data to predict Sasquatch distribution.

They found that the model yielded a perfectly plausible prediction about Bigfoot habitats – a warning to modellers that spurious results will not necessarily announce themselves through obvious warning signs.

“The point of the paper is really well taken,” says Dan Warren, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California at Davis who is an expert in ecological niche models. “I think the literature is rife with people who are over-interpreting what comes out of these models.”

The researchers also compared the niche model for Sasquatch to one they developed for black bear. The two were statistically indistinguishable, they found. This suggests that many supposed Sasquatch sightings may simply be misidentified bears – a mistake that has been made on at least one occasion, Lozier notes.

Source: newscientist

FAIRFIELD — It goes by many names: Bigfoot, Sasquatch — the legendary half-human, half-ape creature that, according to legend, prowls the great northern woods of the U.S. and Canada.

Some insist, however, that the hairy beast is real. Sasquatch “sightings” have primarily been reported in the Northwest.

Until now, that is.

A woman driving on Unquowa Road about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday called police to report that she “almost hit Sasquatch,” which was standing in the middle of the road. She said it was 8 feet tall and very hairy, with a large body and “legs like tree trunks.” When she switched her headlights to highbeams, she said, the creature covered its face and ran into the woods.

The driver told police it was “human like,” but more “like an animal.”

Unlike other Sasquatch sightings, where the elusive beast melts back into the deep woods, this one was located in Fairfield.

Bigfoot turned out to be a big joke — a 16-year-old dressed in a gorillalike costume, police said. The teen told officers he was standing at the intersection of Unquowa and Sturges roads, waving at passing cars while friends watched.

A police officer escorted the sham Sasquatch back home and turned him over to his parents, who, the police report states, agreed he should have shown better judgment.

Source: connpost