CNN iReport: Bigfoot Print at Apache Tribe Reservation?

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Below is a possible footprint found on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. The Fort Apache Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in Arizona, United States, encompassing parts of Navajo, Gila, and Apache counties. It is home to the White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, a Western Apache tribe.

There have been Bigfoot sightings there for years. Last night (Feb 3rd, 2010), the whole town was excited to find these prints.

Despite the kids on the video claiming it is small, it is clearly larger than the adult males foot in a shoe right beside it.


EXTERNAL LINKS
Original CNN iReport
Fort Apache Indian Reservation Wikipedia Page

NZ's "Mysterious Planet" Mockumentary Searches for Bigfoot

In our post "Hart-less" written by Hermon Joyner, Leigh Hart is exposed as a prankster at a Bigfoot Conference in Ohio.

Leigh Hart (pictured left), aka “That Guy”—a humor columnist/comedian for the New Zealand Herald that seems to be a cross between Dave Barry and Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat), recently tweaked the noses and bruised the egos of the dedicated Bigfooters attending a Bigfoot conference in Ohio. Like “Borat,” Hart travels around misrepresenting himself while depending on the kindness and naiveté of strangers. He then writes or films humorous accounts of his exploits, mostly at the expense of the people he meets. Hart’s latest victims/subjects were the attendees at the 21st Annual Bigfoot Conference / EXPO at the Salt Fork State Park Lodge in Ohio at the beginning of this month...

...Hart even claimed to own the world’s largest feces analyzing machine, which might explain the distinct odor of BS that surrounded his appearance at the conference.

Hart is in the news again as he plans on hosting a travel show titled Mysterious Planet. The first episode is to focus on Bigfoot, as we know though, we will not take his show too seriously. It is being promoted as a mockumentary.

Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet: The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries is not your average travel show, in fact the "mockumentary series", which starts this week, is more about mysteries, something that Hart has been fond of since he was young.

"I have more of a background knowledge than most people would have on the subject," Hart said.

The interest was reignited when he was going through his garage a year ago and came across a book his grandfather had given him when he was a child called – you guessed it – Mysterious Planet.

Hart got out a thick white pen, wrote his name on the top of the book, stepped back to have a look at his handiwork, and realised "that would make a good TV programme".

"I used the first six chapters of the book as the basis for the first six shows in the series."

The mysteries he chose are well-known: Bigfoot, the lost Inca, Loch Ness, UFOs in Roswell, the Bermuda Triangle and Egyptian mummies. Hart said the study of Big Foot, the first show in the six-part series, almost turned into a study of the strange habits of fanatics at a Big Foot conference in Ohio.

He says the Bigfoot fanatics spend most of their time blogging about the hairy creature, and "unless Bigfoot goes online, I don't think they are going to catch him".

With that last line, I think we know what to expect, even in the embedded video below, we can get a taste of what is to come from Mysterious Planet.



EXTERNAL LINKS
Hart's antics at the 21st Ohio Bigfoot Conference
NZ's Sunday Star Times "that Guy Goes in Search for Bigfoot"
Hart's "That Guy" Column at the NZ Herald

Orick: Bigfoot Burl Art Capitol of The World

We are not talking about a place of myth and legend like El Dorado, Brigadoon, or Shangri-La. Orick is a real place and it is officially the self-proclaimed burl art capitol of the world--and bigfoot is a big inspiration.


Wait, wait! Theres more! Apparently if you travel south from Orick, on HWY 101, all the way down to Eureka (about 50 miles.) you will see gallery of wooden Bigfoot carvings.

We would like to say we took pictures of each carving and documented where each one was, but we didn't. Fortunately, someone has. At the ohmah2001.com, they have photos and exact descriptions of the location of each Bigfoot. We will showcase a few favorites.

Blue Buddha


Squatsquatch

We highly recommend visiting the site below. Its amazing how different artist can interpret Bigfoot in so many different ways.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Ohmah2001.com's Bigfoot Carvings along HWY 101