In Search of the Furry Beast
For as long as human beings have shared their stories in the Pacific Northwest, the Furry Beast that some call a "wild man" or "Sasquatch" has lived a peaceful existence just beyond the prying eyes of the civilized world. Some say FB remains concealed for his own safety. We think it's a lack of great-fitting, sexy designer underwear that keeps him lurking in the shadows.
As recently as 2005, FB has been sighted right here in our own backyard:
Oregonbigfoot.com file# 01281
Date: July 01, 2005
Deschutes County, OR
Nearest town: Bend
Nearest road: Highway 97
Conditions: sunny and hot
Location: The tracks were located on the border of Sunriver and Bend, right after Lava Butte, and the Lava Lands Visitor Center.
Description of event: On the last day of our vacation we were driving to dinner when my dad saw strange, about 14-inch tracks on the side of the road! The next day we were driving to the airport when all of us saw the strange tracks and there was about 50 to 100 yards of them! We saw the Bigfoot tracks in kind of brown dirt and sand. They were about 14 inches and at least 4 feet apart. We found a shredded pair of white men's briefs near where the trail disappeared.
Source: oregonbigfoot.com
In 2007, the Sasquatch Information Society in Seattle, Washington, posted this report about the Furry Beast's Asian cousin, the yeti:
US lab to analyse ‘Yeti’s footprints
[Dec-03-2007] Kathmandu: An American TV crew which claimed to have found footprints of the mysterious Yeti in the Himalayas plan to get castings from the prints analysed in the US, even as the Nepal Mountaineering Association expressed doubts over the discovery.
Josh Gates, leader of the TV crew which is working on a Sci-Fi serial called ‘Destination Truth,’ said he took three castings from the footprints discovered by his team and would them analysed in the US in an attempt to prove that the mythical creature really exists. A tattered white pair of men's boxer underwear will also be DNA tested.
But Ang Tsering Sherpa, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, said the footprints were most probably made by a mountain bear. But he offered no explanation for the discarded underwear.
"Yeti's footprints found in the past had four toes whereas the present footprints have five toes," he said.
However, the shape and the size of the footprint were big and it should be that of some unusual creature, he added.
On November 28, the American team found the 12 inch-long footprints at an altitude of 2,850 m in Khumbu region on way to Mount Everest.
The team members said they saw the freshfoot prints when they were returning from Khumbu by the confluence of Ghettekhola and Dudhkoshi rivers, near Monju village.
In the past, there have been a number of reported sightings of the Yeti in the Himalayas. In 1925, Greek photographer N A Tombazi had claimed that he had seen an ape-like creature on way to the Everest.
British climber Eric Shimpton and Michael Ward found footprints attributed to the creature in 1951 near Nepal-China border in the Himalayas. The father of Tenzing Norgey Sherpa, the first person to climb Everest, also claimed to have seen the Yeti stealing underpants from a climbing partner's tent.
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