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'Bigfoot' on the prowl in Canada?
27/06/2001 13:03 - (SA)
Toronto - First there were reports of a
steel-clawed "monkey-man" in India, then a 10-year-old "dog
boy" in Chile, and now residents of Canada's wilderness are
reporting that "Bigfoot," a hairy ape-man, might be on the
prowl in northern Ontario, the National Post reported. Residents of a native Indian reserve 1 000 miles north of
Toronto have discovered 14-inch-long footprints, the newspaper
said. "It's definitely not a bear," Abraham Hunter, chief of the
260-member band, told the Post in Monday's editions. This is not the first Bigfoot report at the reserve. Two
elders claim to have spotted the creature 20 years ago, Hunter
said, and stories about it have been told for hundreds of
years. "These things happen all the time, but we're surprised
because we underestimate the power of imagination and the power
of belief," Laurence Kirmayer, director of McGill University's
division of social and transcultural psychiatry, told the
paper. Such sightings are typically cultural-specific, he said. On June 14, a government officer with 31 years of
experience also came across an odd-looking track 95 miles east
of the reserve, the newspaper said. "I couldn't explain what it was. I naturally thought it
might be Bigfoot because of the shape of it," he told the Post. Tales of a huge apelike creature are not unusual in Canada.
In the western Rocky Mountain regions of British Columbia
reports of a mysterious ape-man called Sasquatch - similar to
the Yeti of the Himalayas - have existed for generations.
- Reuters
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