Repost: Searching for Bigfoot in Washington State
Does Bigfoot really exist? Mike Barish travels to Washington State and links up with a real life Sasquatch expert to try to coax him out of his forest hideaway. Mike Baris writes on his blog: Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti. Whatever you call it, you’ve most certainly heard tales of an ape-like creature that lives in the woods. Is it the missing link? Is it a prehistoric beast that defied extinction? Or, is it simply a myth with a few ardent believers? I ventured to the woods of Whidbey Island in Washington State to attempt to find out for myself. I met up with Paul Graves, a Sasquatch expert, part of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization and a man who has dedicated his life to studying and searching for this seemingly mythical animal. I, of course, am already the father of a yeti. Granted, he’s a SkyMall product who I’ve forced to bake brownies, but he’s mine and I love him. That said, I wanted to find the real thing. At his cabin in the woods, Paul showed me the tools of the t