North Carolina hill person sees bigfoot

This hill-person type guy from North Carolina, in an interview with the local FOX TV affiliate, insists that he saw Bigfoot / a sasquatch on his property and "rough talked" the creature away all the while pointing a stick at him and telling big foot / sasquatch to "git away from here, git, git!" (yes, the spelling of 'git' is phonetic based on the man's pronunciation in the video)

Maybe it's the thick accent but I have trouble believing anyone describing a beast whom he is apparently afraid of as having "beautiful hair" and being "8-10 feet tall with six fingers".

We all know that bigfoot has only five fingers!

You can see the future from here

In case you've forgotten, my photo blog/aggregator MinnPics turns a whopping two years old this week -- Thursday to be exact and I still update it most every weekday. For whatever reason, its popularity has slipped recently but it's not about popularity (but that doesn't hurt). Maybe two years is the course of something I had no intention of evolving. Maybe I'll keep it going or maybe I'll hit the delete button and the whole thing will vanish into the great beyond.

But whatever happens with it, I've got a new project. I call it Minnesota River Valley Photos because that's where I live and that's where I take the bulk of my scenic photos. I've got an archive of about 15,000 photos to dig through and I take a lot of photos so I think I can sustain it for a while. Follow it on Tumblr, subscribe to the RSS feed, ignore it completely or poop on your neighbor's front porch -- I really don't care as long as it's not my front porch.

So the cat's officially out of the bag on Minnesota River Valley Photos. If you give a damn, this place will still be the home to whatever random crap I feel like spewing so don't give up on us, baby, we'll make it through.

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Bigfoot alive and well in Minnesota

With that short headline, any credibility I previously had is now null and void. Gone and done with. Kaput.

But this story comes from a semi-serious news source (if you can call the Duluth News-Tribune via here serious).

I am particularly fond of this story because of the quotes. The reporter must have had a hard time not smirking or even downright laughing at some of these people. Especially this one...

“For every sighting we have heard about, there’s probably 10 more that we don’t hear about,” said Olson, who will speak Monday about Northeastern Minnesota Bigfoot sightings at Lady Ocalat’s Emporium in downtown Duluth, a shop that sells “eclectic and magical” items.

The very fact that they couldn't hold the speach at a location a tad more credible already tends to make "skeptics" scoff at those who have witnessed sasquatch or those who believe the "eyewitnesses".

Of course, I am a born skeptic. I have trouble believing anything until I have seen it in person. That's why I think Wyoming's existence is a myth but that's another story for another day.

Sherman believes 300 to 400 — perhaps even 500 — Bigfoot exist in Minnesota.

Of course there would have to be a number that large to sustain a population but if there are that many, they'd be prone to wandering towards civilization which is encroaching on each and every corner of Minnesota. Heck, even bears are seen in some Twin Cities 'burbs and I'm speculating that there must be about 500 bears in Minnesota.

This summer, Hansen said he found a footprint 17 inches long, 5 inches across the heel and 8 inches across the toes in an anthill near Carey Lake east of Hibbing. He said he’s also found piles of branches and stick figures created by Bigfoot for communication. Hansen and Olsen said Bigfoot also communicate by knocking on trees.

The part about stick figures sounds like a plot line from the worst movie ever, "The Blair Witch Project". Again, I suppose if I were wandering through the northern Minnesota wilderness and felt a weird vibe and saw something I couldn't explain, I might begin to think that some creature regularly featured on The Travel Channel and The History Channel had a part in this episode of the unexplained.

Of course I doubted my wife when she said that coyotes lived in the valleys along the Minnesota River southwest of the Twin Cities. My opinion changed one night as I drove down Highway 169 and saw one standing on the shoulder of the road. Sure, this is an actual animal I am talking about but I suppose anything could be possible but I'll hold off my ruling until I am sharing a 2 lb. steak with a Sasquatch.