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Sasquatch
Bigfoot's
Canadian
counterpart,
known by its Salish Indian name meaning "hairy man."
Sightings of monstrous apelike creatures lurking in
the darkness of forests and mountainous regions of North America have been
reported for centuries.
Descriptions vary from a creature
being at least eight feet tall with long powerful arms, thick hair and a foul
smell, to a semi-clothed, tool carrying
hominid, allegedly of
"man" height.
Some question the existence of these apelike
creatures because there is so little physical evidence, besides some
questionable casts of huge humanlike footprints and inconclusive hair samples.
Others respond by pointing out that 'Mother Nature' keeps a clean house.
Scavengers soon consume the carcasses of even the largest forest creatures, and
remaining bones are quickly scattered.
Another names by which the creature is known, depending on the North
American region, are Arulataq (Alaska),
Grassman (Ohio), Momo (Missouri), Oh-mah
(California), Old Yellow Top (Ontario), Skunk Ape
(Florida),
Windigo (Quebec), Woods Devil (New
Hampshire),
Wookie (Louisiana), Nuk-luk, Nakani (North West Territories)
or simply Bushman.
See Teh-lma, Agogwe,
Abominable
Snowman, Almas,
Yowie, Chemosit,
Chuchunaa,
Curupira, Higabon,
Kaki Besar, Maricoxi,
Bigfoot,
Mapinguary, Yeti,
Meh-teh, Nguoi Rung, 'X', Windigo,
Orang Pendek and Wildman of China.
Sources: (1)
Anderson, Ivan T.,
Abominable Snowmen: Legend
Come to Life,
Adventures Unlimited Press;
(2)
Wilson, Colin and Damon,
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved,
Carroll & Graf;
(3) Heuvelmans, Bernard,
On the Track of Unknown Animals,
Columbia
University Press;
(4) Wilson, Damon,
The Unexplained,
Scarlet Books; (5) Clark, Jerome,
Unexplained!,
Visible Ink Press.
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