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Searching for Sasquatch, finding ourselves

From Canadian Geographic, a review of In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond

In 2012, Toronto-based journalist John Zada travelled to British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest to write about the up-and-coming wilderness tourism destination. But while there, he caught wind of a different kind of story: tales of a monstrous apparition on the edge of a youth camp near the town of Bella Bella, rumoured to be the mythical wild ape-man hybrid known in North America as Sasquatch or Bigfoot.

The alleged sighting reawakened Zada’s own childhood fascination with the creature — known elsewhere in the world as the yeti or yowie — and sparked a multi-year quest to understand the allure of the legend. Is the Sasquatch a lost species of hominid, so rare and intelligent that it has so far been able to evade the best efforts of science to identify it? Or is it an archetype, a symbol of humanity’s enduring connection to nature in spite of the distractions of modern civilization?

In the Valleys of the Noble Beyondout now from Greystone Books, chronicles Zada’s attempts to answer these fundamental questions as he travels through the world’s largest coastal temperate rainforest. Zada interviews coastal First Nations, backcountry guides who claim to have encountered the creature, and eminent “sasqualogists,” and delves into scientific research on human perception and imagination. Ultimately, though, in the tradition of the best unsolved mystery stories, the conclusions are left up to the individual reader.

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CANDIDATE DENIES ‘BIGFOOT EROTICA’ FETISH CLAIMS

Just when you think American politics couldn’t possibly get any weirder…

CANDIDATE DENIES ‘BIGFOOT EROTICA’ FETISH CLAIMS

RICHMOND, VA. A Virginia congressional candidate says her opponent is unfit for office because he is a “devotee of Bigfoot erotica.”

Democrat Leslie Cockburn said on Twitter that Republican opponent Denver Riggleman fetishizes the mythical apelike giant. “This is not what we need on Capitol Hill,” Cockburn said in a tweet Sunday. Her posts included pictures from Riggleman’s Instagram account showing nude drawings of Bigfoot with his genitalia covered with a black rectangle.

“These images are very disturbing,” Cockburn said.

But Riggleman said allegations that he’s into Sasquatch’s sex life are big hairy lies from a failing candidate.

“When people are desperate they do desperate things,” he said.

Riggleman, an Air Force veteran, said he and his military friends have been interested in people who believe Bigfoot is real for years.

The drawings on his Instagram account are jokes, he said. One is from a birthday card from a friend, the other is a mock cover art for a satirical book he’s writing called The Mating Habits of Bigfoot and Why Women Want Him.