The Search for Sasquatch (A Wild Thing Book), page 10
Krantz, Grover. “Big Footprints.” Interview by reporter John Yager. KXLY-TV, Spokane, WA, 1992. The video was never broadcast but circulated within the Bigfoot community. I found segments of it online here: The video is no longer available.
Krantz, Grover. “Big Footprints: A Scientific Inquiry.” Interview by Bob Hieronimus, Hieronimus & Co. 21st Century Radio, January 17, 1993.
WEBSITES
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Baab, Karen L. “Homo Floresiensis: Making Sense of the Small-Bodied Hominin Fossils from Flores.” Nature Education: Knowledge Project, 2012. See www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/homo-floresiensis-making-sense-of-the-small-91387735.
Bigfoot. See en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bigfoot&oldid=1032486168.
“Denisovans: The Ancient Humans Who Share Our Ancestry.” New Scientist. See www.newscientist.com/definition/denisovans.
“DNA.” Britannica Kids. See kids.britannica.com/kids/article/DNA/390730.
“Evolution.” Britannica Kids. See kids.britannica.com/students/article/evolution/274236.
Gigantopithecus. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus#Size.
Gorilla. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla.
Hendry, Lisa. “Australopithecus Afarensis, Lucy’s Species.” Natural History Museum. See www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/australopithecus-afarensis-lucy-species.html.
“Homo Neanderthalensis.” Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. See humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species /homo-neanderthalensis.
Iwamura, Edna Sadayo Miazato, José Arnaldo Soares-Vieira, and Daniel Romero Muñoz. “Human Identification and Analysis of DNA in Bones.” SciELO, 2004. See www.scielo.br/j/rhc/a/g4jn3MBK8hxYSpYGP5vJGw/?lang=en.
Keep, Lennlee. “A Flood of Myths and Stories.” Independent Lens for PBS, February 14, 2020. See www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/a-flood-of-myths-and-stories.
Kennedy, Dorothy, and Randy Bouchard. “Coast Salish.” Canadian Encyclopedia, February 7, 2006 (updated July 25, 2019). See www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/coastal-salish.
“Loch Ness Monsters May Be a Giant Eel, Say Scientists.” BBC, September 5, 2019. See www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49495145.
Moye, David. “Sasquatch’s Favorite Foods Revealed by ‘Finding Bigfoot’ Star Bobo Fay.” HuffPost, November 7, 2013. See www.huffpost.com/entry/bigfoot-bobo-fay_n_4234898.
Norris, Maggie A., and Donna Rae Siegfried. “Taxonomy of Homo Sapiens.” Dummies. See www.dummies.com/education/science/anatomy/taxonomy-homo-sapiens.
“Orang Pendek: A Cryptozoological Animal in the Sumatran Wilderness.” Wild Sumatra. See www.wildsumatra.com/orang-pendek.
Patterson-Gimlin film. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson%E2%80%93Gimlin_film.
Sessions, Larry. “Seeing Things That Aren’t There? It’s Called Pareidolia.” EarthSky. November 25, 2020. See earthsky.org/human-world/seeing-things-that-arent-there.
Smola, Travis. “5 Bigfoot Legends from Around the World That May Actually Be Real.” Wide Open Spaces. December 23, 2020. See www.wideopenspaces.com/5-bigfoot-legends-from-around-the-world-that-may-actually-be-real.
“Sources of DNA.” Biology Project: Human Biology. See www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/dna_forensics_2/06t.html.
“Steps of the Scientific Method.” Science Buddies. See www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/science-fair/steps-of-the-scientific-method.
Wayman, Erin. “What’s in a Name? Hominid Versus Hominin.” Smithsonian, November 16, 2011. See www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/whats-in-a-name-hominid-versus-hominin-216054.
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Yowie. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I want to thank the members of the Bigfoot community who shared their stories, answered my questions, and didn’t leave me in the woods. Thank you to the scientists who gave me their time and willingly clarified their work, especially Dr. Ian Tattersall, Dr. Todd Disotell, and Dr. Jeff Meldrum. I’m so appreciative of Jen Weddle and Cari Haug, whose expertise in science education proved invaluable in making sure I had my facts straight. I also want to thank my lovely and ever optimistic agent, Laura Nolan, who embraced this idea wholeheartedly. Three cheers to the creative and fun team at ABRAMS Kids—publisher Andrew Smith, managing editor Amy Vreeland, production manager Kathy Lovisolo, design manager Chelsea Hunter, and especially, assistant editor Sara Sproull and editor Howard Reeves, who understood the magic of Bigfoot. Rafael Nobre made this story shine with his illustrations and design. Additional thanks to copyeditor Richard Slovak, who supported my em-dash habit. Much gratitude to Alicia Lincoln, for her eagle-sharp eyes, and special thanks to Kelsey Ray, for her infectious spirit of adventure. Enormous, Sasquatch-sized hugs go to Alison Schiffern, Beth Agnew, and Kira Appelhans for their long-distance love, advice, and sanity checks. I’m grateful to my sister, Ashley Krantz, for her support and to my parents, Chip and Louise—they encouraged me to read voraciously and to spend lots of time outside, both of which made it possible to tell this story. And finally, to my husband, Scott Carney, the driving force behind this book and a constant source of encouragement. He has enthusiastically accepted Bigfoot into our lives, embracing all the weirdness that comes with it.
Index of Searchable Terms
aliens, search for
anatomy
ancestor, common, of humans and Bigfoot
Anglicize
Animalia kingdom, humans in
anthropology
cultural contrasted with physical
archaeologists
archaeology
Australopithecus
bacon grease stain, Bigfoot attracted to
bases
bear
belief
Bigfoot. See also specific topics as supernatural
Bigfoot Expeditions, Packing List
bipedal
blobsquatches
body, of Bigfoot
book, DNA as
bookstore, story of classification
Byrne, Peter
Caddell, Cindy
California, mountains of
cameras
FLIR
casting, of Bigfoot footprints
Chordata phylum, humans in
circumstantial evidence
classification
Coast Salish
Quinault Indian Nation
conservation
contaminate
Corson, Shane
Bigfoot story of
on nests
cousins, of Bigfoot
cryptozoology
cultural anthropology
Darwin, Charles
Denisovans
depictions, of Bigfoot
dinosaurs
direct evidence
discovery, of Bigfoot
Disotell, Todd
primatologist
DNA
of Bigfoot
eDNA
from nest
sample of
sequence of
double helix
dragons
Du Chaillu, Paul
“duck call,” for Bigfoot
Dzunuќwa (Bigfoot)
eDNA
environmental DNA
evidence, of Bigfoot
circumstantial
evolution
evolved
female, Bigfoot as
finger bone, from Siberia
First Nations
Sewid member of
FLIR. See Forward Looking InfraRed camera floods, stories of
footprints, Bigfoot
fake
real
Forward-Looking Infrared camera (FLIR)
fossil
fossilized
Frame 352
gene
bases of
Genzoli, Andrew
geology Giants, Cannibals, and Monsters (Strain)
Gigantopithecus
Gimlin, Bob
gorillas
guide
Caddell as
Corson as
Halderman, Hal
hands
Harry and the Hendersons (film)
Harvest Moon
headlamp
hominid
Hominidae family, humans in
hominin
Homo genus, humans in
Homo sapiens species, humans as
Horton, Diane
huckleberry branches
humans
DNA of
hypothesis
Indigenous
First Nations
Native Americans
iteration
joke, Sasquatch as
Kirk, John
Kirk, Winona
Krantz, Grover
fake Bigfoot footprints and
as legend
on Patterson-Gimlin film
on shooting Bigfoot
Washington Post on
on the Woo
in Written in Bone exhibit
last universal common ancestor (LUCA)
lepidopterist
Loch Ness Monster
Lucy
Mammalia class, humans in
Mapinguary (Brazil), as Bigfoot cousin
Meldrum, Jeff
Meyers, Jim
Mionczynski, John
mnemonic
Monson, Gunnar
mutation
mystery, of Sasquatch
myth
gorillas as
Sasquatch as
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Native Americans
Neanderthals
nest
DNA from
of gorillas
samples of
site of
objective
Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Olympic Project
Orang Pendek (Indonesia), as Bigfoot cousin
orangutans
Oregon, Bigfoot Highway
Packing List, Bigfoot Expeditions
paleontology
pareidolia
Patterson, Roger
Patterson-Gimlin film
Patty
photos and film, of Bigfoot
Frame 352
Patterson-Gimlin film
physical anthropology
picture, of Bigfoot
pine cones, Bigfoot throwing
plaque, on teeth
plaster casts, of footprints
poop, DNA from
primate
Primates order, humans in
proof, of Bigfoot
Pyle, Robert
red light
rhododendron bushes
samples, from nests
Sasquatch. See specific topics
Sasquatch Outpost and Encounter Discovery Museum
Sasquatch searchers (squatchers)
scavengers
scientific method
belief as opposite to
sequence, of DNA
Sewid, Tom
shooting, of Bigfoot
sightings, of Bigfoot
skeleton models, of Bigfoot
skulls
smell, of Bigfoot
Smokey Bear
sounds, of Bigfoot
species
specimen
squatchers
squirrels
statue, of Bigfoot
stories, of Bigfoot
Strain, Kathy
stride, of Bigfoot
Tattersall, Ian
tent
trail
trait
Wallace, Ray
Washington, DC
Washington Post
Washington state, Olympic Peninsula
the Woo
Written in Bone (exhibit), National
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Yěrén (China), as Bigfoot cousin
Yeti (Nepal and Bhutan), as Bigfoot cousin
Yowie (Australia), as Bigfoot cousin
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