Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the paranormal someone offers an outstretched hand full of money to tempt you back in. Here for your entertainment is an offer of $1 million, that’s right, one million dollars, smakceroos, clams, or whatever other name money goes by in your neck of the woods for a photograph of one large hairy creature affectionately called Bigfoot. Sasquatch, Yeti, the Abominable Snowman, all these monikers apply to what people claim to be a large, powerful upright walking apelike/manlike creature seen around the world. Ranging from six feet to twelve feet tall many people throughout history have claimed to have encountered these beasts. Stone figurines, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs leave an intriguing testament to the long term fascination with these mysterious creatures. The modern era has uncovered some tantalizing traces such as footprints and video and photographs. Even hair, dung, blood have been recovered to no conclusion however save that formidable response, ” species unknown.”. One would think by now with all the people about the countryside and cameras in every phone that some weary traveller or a family picnicking would have captured one of these monsters and become the cause celeb on the front of tabloid newspapers the world over. No such luck. Now comes this offer from the somewhat resptectable “Field and Stream” and the reliable Bushnell company manufacturer of binoculars of one million dollars to anyone who can “provide an unaltered photograph/video, verfied and substantiated by a panel of scientific experts [including a zoologist and biologist], the evidence required to prove a Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Yeti exists.”.
Immediately one has images of hunched over bespectacled scientists and equally bespectacled post nerd forty somethings to be herded into a room pouring over pictures of hungry park bears and inebriated ‘cousin Wally’ dressed up in a homemade bigfoot costume. I for one won’t hold my breath for any photographs or videos. Bigfoot or whatever it’s called nowadays seems to best serve mankind as a reminder of either what once was or might be if we ever lose what spirit we have left. Perhaps some things need to remain a mystery just so we’ll have something to dream about.
