Bigfoot's Reflection



Presidential Bigfoot Fate Magazine
Theodore Roosevelt's 1893 book The Wilderness Hunter: An Account of the Big Game of the United States and Its Chase with Horse, Hound, and Rifle relates a tale told by "a grizzled old mountain man named Bauman" about an encounter he and a partner had trapping in the Bitterroot Mountains sometime between 1810 and 1840. Bauman and his partner experienced attacks on their camp by a creature that smelled bad, was huge and walked on two feet. Did Bauman and his partner encounter a Bigfoot, and did the creature attack and kill Bauman's partner in an area where another trapper had been killed by a wild beast a year earlier? Elsewhere, Andrew Gable goes back to some old tales, too, reporting on two incidents that may have been the same story, just slightly skewed and moved to a new locale, as he talks about Pensacola, Florida's Goon of Guillemard Street and Mobile, Alabama's Frankenstein of Fisher's Alley in The Swamp Monster Hysteria of 1938.