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| BIGFOOT IN SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS! |
| Part 1 |
| The time is near when the world will find out the truth. I recently visited the “Bigfoot Discovery Project" in Felton, CA. It is about thirty miles from Monterey and a must stop for Bigfoot fans. I went there with my brother–in-law and enjoyed a good forty-five minute stay just looking around at clippings, maps, shirts, hats, books and movies available. If you want information, just talk to owner Michael C. Rugg, who can talk all day about Bigfoot and other paranormal activities. While visiting the shop, I ran into the “Bigfoot Hunters” Muskie, Walking Hawk and their dog Lemon. They have been to many of the popular places where Bigfoot has been sited. There are still many places to cover yet and they explained to me that they are surviving on grants to get their projects complete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy the following article By David L. Beck, San Jose Mercury News To a nation fed on checkout-line tabloids, "Bigfoot" and "hoax" go together like chips and dip. Mike Rugg, the proprietor of a Bigfoot museum in Felton, respectfully -- well, somewhat respectfully -- disagrees. "People are sent to death on less evidence than we have for Bigfoot," Rugg says. His Felton museum opened its doors in July and is still in what Rugg calls "the analog version” of what he hopes it will be a genuine old-fashioned roadside attraction. Rugg believes thrived before they were "put down by the Planning Department." It's a little red-painted house and assorted outbuildings on Highway 9, just down the road from the entrance to Henry Cowell Redwood State Park. Although the evidence for Bigfoot's existence is almost exclusively anecdotal, believers and even some who claim to be neutral on the issue, cite the sheer consistency of hundreds of sightings, eerie shrieks in the woods and casts of huge footprints. Even primatologist Jane Goodall has said she wouldn't be surprised if an undiscovered primate like Bigfoot exists. Bigfoot is a Humboldt Times reporter's word, circa 1957, for the big hairy biped whose most frequent California sightings have been in that Northern California county. Sasquatch, the preferred name in some circles, is a North Coast Indian word for the barely glimpsed creature; Rugg says most American Indian languages have a word for such a creature. 8 feet, 800 pounds If it exists, it probably strode across the prehistoric land bridge between Siberia and Alaska about 13,000 years ago, says Arizona zoologist J. Richard Greenwell. An adult male is reckoned to be as tall as 8 feet and as heavy as 800 pounds, measurements deduced from strides and foot-prints, of which even Rugg's little museum has a few casts. Rugg has collected enough facts to confirm his boyhood belief that Bigfoot exists, and roamed – indeed, may still be roaming -- the Santa Cruz Mountains. But he understands the connection to Godzilla in the popular imagination. Almost the first thing you see at Rugg's Museum is a collection of tabloids, many of them from the gifted writers at the Weekly World News: "I WAS BIGFOOT'S LOVE SLAVE," reads one. "Anybody that's working on a documentary about Bigfoot goes out and buys a gorilla suit," says Rugg. "That's what I'd do, too."        |
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