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Is Bigfoot real?
This is the question that The Wildman of Kentucky asks, featuring on-site interviews and an investigative team’s daring romp into the night woods in search of the unknown.
Some may think that Bigfoot (aka Sasquatch) is just a North American myth, but this isn’t so.
Cultures the world over have reported sightings, recorded hairy giants in folklore and even talked about attacks on remote camps and forceful abductions. Some paranormal investigators even link the Bigfoot phenomenon with UFOs.
So where does this leave us?
It’s easy to dismiss Bigfoot as the product of wishful thinking or an overactive imagination. This author might have done so a few decades ago.
But let me tell my own true story.
While driving from Toronto to Ottawa I picked up a hitchhiker, something I rarely if ever do. This man seemed different and I just had to stop.
The hitchhiker and I began talking. I was a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies and he, for all intents and purposes, was a drifter, a street person, a traveler–call it what you will.
I noticed, however, that he was an intelligent, God-fearing man.
When I asked him what made him leave society for the life of a traveling man, he told me he’d seen Bigfoot in a forest. What really “did it” for him, he said, was seeing a huge beast running straight through the trees-i.e. not around but through them.
This resonates with the sightings reported in The Wildman of Kentucky, where a mysterious creature is said to move through dense woods at an almost incredible speed.
Critics of Bigfoot note that no live specimen has ever been produced, despite a $100,000 reward offered by a Canadian publishing house in 1973.
John and Anne Spencer concede that some reported cases may be true but believe most are probably an “American myth” (The Encyclopedia of the World’s Greatest Unsolved Mysteries, Headline, 1995: 55).
The Spencers maintain that if Bigfoot were as widespread as many people say, we would no longer have a mystery but a documented phenomenon proved with hard evidence.
However, if my hitchhiker’s account was as true as it seemed, might Bigfoot exist somewhere between this and another world? Possibly a parallel reality?
This may sound strange. But considering we’re smack dab in the middle of a great mystery called life, it seems a bit arrogant to debunk all Bigfoot accounts without first considering alternatives.
And considering alternatives is exactly what The Wildman does.
–MC
