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Lawmaker Files Bill for Bigfoot Hunting Season

Lawmaker Trying to Create
Bigfoot Hunting Season

Jan 22, 2021 3:45 AM CST

Lawmaker Trying to Create Bigfoot Hunting Season

Oklahoma lawmaker suggests $25K bounty

(Newser) - Unusually tall and hirsute people might want to stay out of the woods in Oklahoma in October. A state lawmaker has filed a bill directing the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Division to establish a Bigfoot hunting season, KFOR reports. Republican Rep. Justin Humphrey, who comes from a district in southeast Oklahoma...

Shots Fired at 'Bigfoot'
in National Park

Aug 1, 2019 3:21 AM CDT

Shots Fired at 'Bigfoot' in National Park

'There was absolutely nothing there,' camper says

(Newser) - Kentucky is more famous for bourbon than Bigfoot sightings, which may explain a strange series of events on Saturday. Western Kentucky University students Madelyn Durand and Brad Ginn say they were awoken at a campsite in Mammoth Cave National Park when they heard noises and found a man who claimed...

Team Searches for DNA
of Loch Ness Monster

May 23, 2018 4:53 AM CDT

Team Searches for DNA of Loch Ness Monster

They plan to test hundreds of samples from lake

(Newser) - The stories seem as tall as the lake is deep. For hundreds of years, visitors to Scotland's Loch Ness have described seeing a monster that some believe lurks in the depths. But now the legend of "Nessie" may have no place left to hide. A New Zealand scientist...

DNA Tests
Find No Bigfoot,
Possible Yeti

Jul 2, 2014 1:56 AM CDT

DNA Tests Find No Bigfoot, Possible Yeti

Most hair samples were from bears, cows, raccoons

(Newser) - If there are mysterious, hairy humanoids roaming the wilds of North America, they don't seem to be leaving any DNA behind, according to researchers who have carried out the first-ever comprehensive genetic review of hair samples supposedly from Bigfoot, the Sasquatch, or the Yeti. The alleged Bigfoot samples turned...

Has Nessie Gone Belly-Up?

There haven't been confirmed sightings in 18 months

(Newser) - The last 18 months have been the longest stretch of time since 1925 with no "confirmed" sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, and the Scotsman who keeps a record of sightings is starting to get worried. "It's very upsetting news and we don't know where she'...

NC Man Spots 'Bigfoot'

Jun 16, 2010 4:52 AM CDT

NC Man Spots 'Bigfoot'

'You get out of here,' mountain man told 'beast'

(Newser) - A North Carolina man who chased a hairy, six-fingered creature off his property, says he's sure he was dealing with Bigfoot. Tim Peeler says he saw the 10-foot-tall bearded creature after hearing grunts and screeches outside his mountain home. "I rough-talked him and said, ‘You get away from...

Chinese Yeti
Just a Civet
With Mange?

Apr 7, 2010 10:17 AM CDT

Chinese Yeti Just a Civet With Mange?

(Newser) - It seems that the mysterious yeti found in Sichuan, China, may be just a civet with a bad case of mange. Loren Coleman, an author of many books on mythical creatures, hypothesizes that the "yeti" is either a common civet or a Himalayan palm civet infected with parasitic mites...