The Coelacanth, an armor-plated fish, was thought to have gone extinct 66 million years ago but was discovered by a museum curator in in South Africa. Someone even found an earlier version of Bigfoot. For centuries, European explorers returning from Africa told stories of massive man-beasts that were covered with hair and had immense strength. One of them then "discovered" the man-beast in the early 20th century. We now know it as the mountain gorilla.
Many monster hunters don't even like that term. Some prefer to call themselves cryptid investigators, a term taken from the fledgling field of cryptozoology, the study of animals thought to be extinct or mythological.
The people who see these monsters cross all demographics, she says. They're police officers, businessmen, housewives, doctors. They often remain silent because they're traumatized or don't want to be ridiculed. You can tell that they're reliving something that's very real to them. John Bolduan, the owner of a light fixture company in Minnesota, is one of those people. He is still bewildered by something he saw on a sunny summer day nine years ago.
He was biking on a deserted road near Webb Lake in north Wisconsin when he spotted an unusual bird in a field. He hopped off his bike and crept into the field to get a closer look. He says he saw something that looked like a prehistoric bird.
It stood about 7 feet tall, had an immense storklike beak and was covered with silver-gray feathers. It took off when it noticed him, he says. Popular culture is filled with accounts from people who claim to have proofs of heaven. Bolduan returned home and went online searching for large birds.
He couldn't find anything that matched what he saw. An evangelical Christian, he says the experience challenged his faith -- was the bird a demon, or a prehistoric animal?
Some conservative Christians don't believe dinosaurs ever existed. He says he had never read much before about Bigfoot or other monster sightings. He was too busy running his business. He tried to forget the experience as the years passed, but he gave Godfrey a call one day after hearing her on the radio.
She later featured his story in "American Monsters. It doesn't make any sense at all. It would have been easier if I had never seen it.
Some people, though, envy Bolduan. They want to see a monster, and they're willing to tramp into the woods at all hours of the night to find one. Monster hunting used to be strictly old school. Some excited hunter snapped shots of mysterious footprints, or squeezed off a blurry photo of an animal moving in the tree line.
Yet Bigfoot always seemed to be one step ahead. Nobody could seem to grab him. Now Bigfoot should be getting nervous. What's Happening Near Herod. Winter Nights Winter Lights 17 Nov. Christkindlmarket Chicago 19 Nov. Hairball at the Effingham Performance Center 19 Nov. Lincoln Park ZooLights 19 Nov.
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