<div dir="ltr"><div>Photographs taken in the early to mid 70's were thought to be conclusive evidence of a bigfoot type creature roaming the woods to the northeast of town. Closer examination and analysis revealed that it was actually Mark Soloman puttering about on his Moscow Mtn. home.</div>
<div><br></div><div>g</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Tom Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div>That's not Big Foot!  It's Wally Steed!</div><div><br></div><div>You make the call, V-Peeps.</div>
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</div><div><div>We're not gonna have to go through this . . . again, are we?</div></div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of today's (July 23, 2014) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------</div>
<div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;line-height:34px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:30px;font-weight:400;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;color:rgb(204,0,0);line-height:38px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Television crew thinks Bigfoot may be on Moscow Mountain</span></h1>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 10px 20px;outline:0px;color:rgb(153,153,153);line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-image:url("http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/dnews.com/content/tncms/live/components/core_base_library/resources/images/dingbat.gif");background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
'Finding Bigfoot' crew asks permission to shoot footage near Troy</p><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Representatives of a production company involved with the TV series "Finding Bigfoot" recently sought approval from Troy officials to shoot footage in the area of Moscow Mountain.</span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The crew is expected to shoot twice overnight and wrap up by the end of the month, said Rhonda Case, Troy city clerk.</span></p>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Finding Bigfoot" is in its fifth season on Animal Planet. Its premise is "investigating compelling evidence that may prove the existence of the elusive creature," according to promotional material created by its producers.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The crew coming to the area is led by Robert "Sean" Mantooth, a 1995 graduate of Washington State University. He is listed as a producer for the cable television program.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Jeff Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University in Pocatello, is an affiliate curator at the Idaho Museum of Natural History and author of "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science." While Meldrum is not involved with the shooting planned at Moscow Mountain, he said it's a viable location because the site has had alleged Bigfoot sightings.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"The challenge with any animal that is rare, solitary, nocturnal and far-ranging in habitat is to find them and observe them in the wild," he said.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Meldrum said reports suggest an animal fitting the description of a Sasquatch would require "a diverse diet" that resembles that of black bears - which are described as omnivorous. Such an animal also would need to live in a large forest that receives a substantial amount of precipitation, Meldrum said.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">A website operated by a group called the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization includes written reports about alleged Bigfoot sightings on Moscow Mountain during summer 1963 and fall 2005.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">According to one report, a man, now around 50 years old, claimed he saw the creature when he was 8 years old on the south side of the mountain while with his father. The report was submitted in 2003 and the parent he was accompanying had died before the claim was made.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">A more recent report stated two people saw two furry figures, one small with light-colored fur and the other larger and darker. The small one was "frolicking" like a "rambunctious child," the report stated.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"There's no evidence to indicate Bigfoot exists that's scientifically credible," said Charlie Powell, a senior public information officer at Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine who writes a weekly column for the Daily News.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Despite rumors to the contrary, Powell is quick to point out WSU has never had samples or other physical evidence linked to Bigfoot or any other creature remotely similar. One reason the rumor persists, Powell said, is because people might be remembering the late WSU associate professor Grover Krantz, who was considered a Bigfoot expert. Powell, though, blames a documentarian for spreading rumors about WSU having - and withholding - evidence of Bigfoot's purported existence.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Powell said he received the latest telephone inquiry on Bigfoot just weeks ago from someone wanting to know about the material. The person "wouldn't believe me when I said the university had no such thing," Powell said.</span></p>
</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important"><p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We respect any production company's right to shoot television," but for one of these animals to actually exist, one would have to be "hanging on someone's wall by now. People shoot at road signs, so if it were out there, they'd have shot it," Powell said.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Cliff Barackman, Matt Moneymaker, Ranae Holland and James “Bobo” Fay are the crew of “Finding Bigfoot,” a series on Animal Planet. They will soon visit Moscow Mountain to search for the elusive creature.</span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;float:none!important;background-image:none"><img width="600" height="450" alt="53cf3a616704f.image.jpg" src="cid:83A757FE-BD71-4B15-BB95-1597D3329A99"></p></div></div>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">  </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div>
</div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">- John Lennon</span></div>
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