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BIGFOOT CONFERENCE IN TEXAS DRAWS HUNDREDS
By Angela K. Brown
Associated Press Writer
October 18, 2005

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1220024&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

JEFFERSON, Texas - Next to a lifelike replica of a giant ape head, the
believers milled around tables Saturday covered with casts of large
footprints, books about nature's mysteries and T-shirts proclaiming
"Bigfoot: Often Imitated, Never Invalidated."

While they can have a sense of humor about it, the search for the legendary
Sasquatch is no joke for many of the nearly 400 people who came here to
discuss the latest sightings and tracking techniques at the Texas Bigfoot
Conference.

"It's not a matter of believing, like faith, when you believe in something
you can't see," said Daryl G. Colyer, a Lorena businessman who has
investigated hundreds of reported Bigfoot sightings in Texas, Oklahoma,
Arkansas and Louisiana.

"It's a flesh-and-blood animal that just has not been discovered yet. And I
think we're getting closer and closer and closer," Colyer said.

Outlandish theories about the origin of Bigfoot abound, including that it
might be an extraterrestrial. Many believe that a towering, ape-like
creature descended from a prehistoric 9- to 10-foot-tall gorilla called a
Gigantopithecus, and that it now inhabits North American forests.

Hoaxes have been a large part of the making of the Bigfoot legend.
California construction company owner Ray L. Wallace donned 16-inch wooden
feet to create tracks in mud in 1958, and it led to a front-page story in a
local paper that coined the term "Bigfoot."

But there have been more than 2,550 seemingly credible Bigfoot sightings
reported in North America the past century, according to Christopher L.
Murphy's 2004 book "Meet the Sasquatch."

Murphy believes thousands more witnesses are too afraid of ridicule to come
forward.

"You see one of these things and it changes your whole perception of
reality," said Craig Woolheater, the office manager of a Dallas company who
co-founded the Texas Bigfoot Research Center in 1999, five years after he
said he saw a hairy creature walking along a remote Louisiana road.

Colyer and others estimate that about 2,000 are in North America today,
reclusive nocturnal animals living in thickly wooded areas with waterways,
eating meat and plants and making nests out of trees and brush.

Pictures and film footage are often disputed, such as the 1967 footage of a
creature walking near a California creek. Most evidence centers on hundreds
of casts of footprints collected since the 1950s.

Jimmy Chilcutt, a retired fingerprint analysis expert for the Conroe Police
Department, said many of the hundreds of prints he examined belonged to a
primate, but not a human, ape, gorilla or chimpanzee.

Like Chilcutt, other well-respected professionals have come forward to say
such evidence should not be dismissed.

"To me it's still an open question, but here's some evidence that warrants
some serious consideration, so give it a chance," said Jeff Meldrum,
associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University
who has studied more than 150 casts of footprints. "This is not a paranormal
question; it's a biological question."

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