THE SEARCH FOR BIGFOOT '... has a 150-year-old legend come to
life on this film? By Dick Kirkpatrick, Executive Editor ©
National Wildlife April-May 1968 THERE IT IS, looking out at you
from the pages of National Wildlife. Bigfoot - - the so-called
California abominable snowman. As you can see, the photograph
shows a large, hairy creature, not quite human but more human
than apelike. It is a female, suggested by its pendulous
breasts, and it is walking away from the camera and looking back
not frightened, but moving steadily away. In the film, which
will also be shown soon on television, it walks with a very
human stride, swinging its long arms. The creature is enormous.
Calculations based on the length of its footprints- 17 inches-
and the length of its stride - 41 inches - show it to be over
seven feet tall, and experts have estimated its weight at 350 to
400 pounds. Compared to some other sightings, this female is not
regarded as a particularly large specimen. What is it? It seems
to be the creature known