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My 9-year-old daughter Sarah has been devouring a library book about Bigfoot and other Sasquatch Lore, so I figured it was a good time to see what the latest news is from the Yeti News Service:

1. United Press International reported earlier this week that a group of Bigfoot hunters in Oklahoma has found footprints and "heard calls" of the elusive beast.

Apparently, the sasquatch investigators went on a Memorial Day weekend Bigfoot hunt in the Kiamichi Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. And, apparently, they have a cast of a footprint five inches wide and 15 inches long.

The hunters described the "Bigfoot sounds" as imitation bird calls, including whippoorwills and owls. It's unclear why a tall, hairy, apelike creature would need to sound like an owl, but, hey, that's what they said they heard. (Also, the bigfoot hunters did not indicate to what extent the Memorial Day bigfoot outing also involved swigging bourbon.)

2. Also, a new book, Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend, written by Joshua Blu Buhs, has been published this month and is now available for purchase on Amazon.com and from other booksellers. Buhs is described in the press notes as an "independent scholar" who surveys the history of bigfoot sightings and lore. Publishers Weekly indicates: "Buhs's rote application of race-class-gender theory -- By imagining themselves into the body of Sasquatch, white working-class men could imagine themselves as black, as women, could come in contact with... repressed and forbidden desires -- yields more academic cant than insight; his oft-invoked white proles feel almost as legendary and stereotyped as the creature itself."

I think Sarah and I will be skipping that one.

OK, so some guys in Georgia found a Bigfoot in the forest. And he was dead. So they took him home and stuck his poor, dead bones in a freezer. And that's where it is right now.

Sure.

The whole story, along with some murky photos, appears on page 6B of Saturday's York Sunday News. Here's the Associated Press version of the story.

Here are some additional layers to the story, as promised in today's Daily Record sports section.

1. The YouTube version of the Patterson-Gimlin film from 1976:

2. For past Bigfoot articles on The Lineup Card, including coverage of the Jacobs photos taken in Pennsylvania last year, click here.

Finally, click here to check out the latest news on Bigfoot, via Google. Many newspapers covered Friday's news conference in California, so you can read all the different perspective on those fellas from Georgia and the hairy beast they supposedly have on ice.

The latest twist in the Sasquatch Saga ...

(for past updates on this story see this and this.)

... is that Field & Stream has come up with the brilliant (marketing-wise) plan of offering $1 million to the first person who takes a verifiable photo of a sasquatch using a trail camera.

Click here for the full details on their contest.

This article on strange phenomena in Derry Township, originally published in Friday's Blairsville Dispatch, is a hoot.

Most of it concerns Stan Gordon, who is "a Greensburg resident who has specialized in researching unexplained happenings in Pennsylvania and beyond since 1959."

Some gems from the article by Jeff Himler:

Hmm, did that juvenile sasquatch from the Pennsylvania woods take a trip down south?

WTVY News 4 in Dothan, Ala., reported this news last week (you'll want to follow the link to see the photo):

A California-based research team has left the Wiregrass without finding conclusive evidence of Bigfoot. Bigfoot expert Tom Biscardi believes several sightings near the Coffee/Geneva County line were credible. Over the years, there have been several encounters with a large, hairy creature that appears to be half man, half beast.

Biscardi believes there was a pod of Bigfoot heading further south for warmer conditions. At this time, the team is en route to western Pennsylvania following a credible sighting there. The researchers are expected to return to Coffee County in the near future for a follow-up visit.

Oh, where to start? There are a lot of developments on Pennsylvania's Sasquatch Mystery (tm). Let's start with the above photos. Indeed, these are the photos at the center of the debate.

The above photos were taken by a camera with an automatic trigger set up by hunter Rick Jacobs in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest on Sept. 16. Jacobs released the images to The Associated Press, which sent them out to its member newspapers with the following caveat: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT AUTHENTICATE THE CONTENT OF THESE IMAGES. Just so we all know, in capital letters, where the Associated Press stands on this issue.

Sasquatch. It's a fun word. Always been one of my favorites. Loved that mysterious and utterly fake-looking photo (above) and film clip from the late 1960s that is imbedded in the pop culture of the 1970s. (Hey, who remembers "In Search Of..." with Leonard Nimoy?)

Loved those campy episodes of "The Six Million Dollar Man" that featured Bigfoot vs. our bionic hero.

And now, in the enlightened year of 2007, Sasquatch won't go away.

Heck, he might be here in Pennsylvania. Or so we're led to believe.