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1. Regal, Brian. Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p. 59.
2. Bindernagel, John. North America’s Great Ape: The Sasquatch. Courtenay, BC: Beachcomber Books, 1998, p. 4.
3. Bindernagel, John. The Discovery of the Sasquatch: Reconciling Culture, History, and Science in the Discovery Process. Courtenay, BC: Beachcomber Books, 2010, p. 129.
4. Davis, Wade. The Clouded Leopard: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1999, p. 209.
5. Ostman’s full-length, verbatim account of his kidnapping can be found online at Bigfoot Encounters (website). http://www.bigfootencounters.com/classics/ostman.htm.
6. Marc Myrsell, Sasquatch Chronicles Podcast, Episode 357: 1924 Ape Canyon, September 3, 2017.
7. Nickell, Joe. “Bigfoot Lookalikes: Tracking Hairy Man-Beasts.” Skeptical Inquirer 37.5, September–October 2013.
8. Messner, Reinhold. My Quest for the Yeti. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000, p 5.
9. Ibid. pp. 7-8.
10. Ibid, p. 156.
11. See Daniel C. Taylor’s excellent book, Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
12. Chamberlain, Ted. “Reinhold Messner: Climbing Legend, Yeti Hunter.” National Geographic Adventure, May–June 2000.
13. Ornstein, Robert. The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991, p. 150.
14. Shah, Idries. Seeker After Truth, London: Octagon Press, 1991, p. 116.
15. Wexler, Bruce. Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006, p. 5.
16. Ramachandran, V. S., and Sandra Blakeslee. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998, p. 134.
17. Storr, Will. The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science. London: Picador, 2014, pp. 94–95.
18. Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York: Vintage, 2012, p. 104.
19. Deikman, Arthur. Meditations on a Blue Vase. CA: Fearless Books, 2014, p. 246.
20. Dubos, René. So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events. New York: Scribner’s, 1968, p. 158.
21. Shah, Idries. The Sufis, New York: Doubleday, 1964, p. 23.
22. Storr, The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science, pp. 369, 375. Index
INDEX
Abominable Snowmen, 19
“action mode” as default state of human mind, 200, 202
Agass
iz-Harrison Advance, 80
The Aleph (Borges), 185
Algonquian-speaking peoples, 88
“Ape Canyon incident,” 80–81
Asian gorilla, prehistoric as ancestor, 24
Asian humanoids, 19
assumptions, role of, 159–160
Barackman, Cliff, 101
Barta, Tred, 231–232, 235–236
bears
attacks on humans, 164–166
confrontation with, 266–269
effectiveness of bear spray, 253–254
grizzly, 153–154, 164–166
habituation to humans, 254
resorts for viewing, 190–191
salmon and, 153
Sasquatches as misidentified, 82–86
studies of, 134
Tibetan blue, 84–85
as tourist attraction, 226–228
trophy hunting of, 142–143, 180, 232–235, 280
Wuikinuxv and, 153–154
Beck, Frank, 81, 82
Becker, Darell “Darellbear,” 202–204, 216–220
Bella Bella, 10
community described, 60, 92–95, 102–103
fire in, 61–62, 67
history, 63
precincts, 62
rhythms of life in, 74
sighting at reservoir behind, 127
Bella Coola, 6, 229–230, 237
Bella Coola Man (Mack), 237
Bella Coola River, drainage, 6
Bering, Vitus, 130
Berry, John, 39
Bigfoots. See Sasquatch
Bigfoot sneakers, 27
Bindernagel, Joan, 37, 38, 40, 42, 43–44
Bindernagel, John
books by, 36, 44–45
certainty of Sasquatch’s existence, 40, 44–45, 49, 50–51
characteristics, 37
death of, 182
firsthand reports collected by, 42–43
first knowledge of Sasquatch, 35–36
on hoaxing, 47–48
Internet and, 45–46
McLoughlin Lake tracks and, 101
professional background, 36, 42
reputation, 43
research by, 41
tracks found by, 38–39, 43–44
Bluff Creek sighting, 23
Boas, Franz, 156
Boqs, 8, 239
Borges, Jorge Luis, 185
Brain and Culture (Wexler), 169
British Columbia, lumber industry, 15
Brown, Mary, 66–71, 118, 177, 283–285
Brown, Norman “Nearly Normal,” 207
Bukwus, 136
Burns, John, 20–21
Campbell Island, 10
Carlson, Carl, 286–287
Chartrand, Alex, Jr., 167–168, 172, 173–175, 179–187, 275
chemo, 84
Clayoquot Sound, 77
The Clouded Leopard (Davis), 58
Coast Mountains (Canada), 32, 33
cognitive dissonance, 170
Collins, Lena, 150–151, 153, 177
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, 82–83
confirmation bias, 170
consciousness
ability to see Sasquatch and, 218, 219
advanced states of, 199–202
cultural responses to mysteries and, 240–241
desire to believe and, 243
effect of river on, 249
perception and, 159–160
personal mythmaking and, 259–261
Crew, Jerry, 21–22
Crown Zellerbach, 193, 194
Crusoe of Lonesome Lake (Stowe), 244
Darke, Corrina, 196–198, 214–216
Darke, Rob, 196–198, 206–208, 214–215
Davis, Wade, 58
Deer Pass Cabin incident, 283–285
Deikman, Arthur J., 199–200, 202
diet of Sasquatches, 24, 38, 55
The Discovery of the Sasquatch (Bindernagel), 45
Dubos, René, 201
Duncan, Alvina, 64–66, 72, 92–93, 102, 112–114
Duncan, Don, 65
Duncan, Rob, 112
Dzonoqua, 156–157. See also Sasquatch
ecotourism, 190–191, 226–228, 266
Ecotrust, 112
Edwards, Ralph, 244
Edwards, Stanley, 244, 264
Ellis, Daniel, 251, 253, 255, 256–259, 261–263, 266–269
Ellis, Leonard, 181, 219
bear hunting and, 142–143, 228–229, 231–235
characteristics of, 189–190
condition of cabin, 263
confrontation with bear, 266–269
similarities to Ian McAllister, 265–266
trip to cabin of, 243–245, 251–259, 261–263
emotions, arousal of, and susceptibility to ideas, 28, 81, 119
evidence of Sasquatches. See also sightings and incidents; sounds; tracks
alder tops snapped off at nine-foot level, 7
behavior of dogs, 113
factors leading to credence of, 23
handprints, 284–285
ignoring, 40
indigenous reports pre-European arrival, 48
lack of photos, 79
noises made, 11
reasons for poor quality of, 22–23
The Evolution of Consciousness (Ornstein), 159
extraterrestrials, 25
eyewitness testimony reliability, 160
Falconer, Brian, 118, 121–123, 128–132, 140, 141, 142–143, 181, 234
Finding Bigfoot (television program), 33
footprints. See tracks
Forbidden Plateau, 46
fossil-fuel industry, 16
Four Mile reserve, 236, 237
fracking, 16
Gagiit, 88
Gale Passage, oil spill in, 279–280
gift exchanges, 25
Gigantopithecus blacki, 24
Gimlin, Bob, 23
grease trails, 230
great apes, Sasquatch as surviving species of, 24
Great Bear Rainforest
birds, 12
creation of, 76, 77–78
described, 6, 57–60, 229, 230
original name, 15
protection of, 15–16, 280
size, 14
as travel destination, 9–10
Green, John, 41, 46, 80, 237
Griffin, Joe, 161
Grizzlies and White Guys (Mack), 237
grizzly bears, 153–154, 164–166
Guardian Watchmen, 168, 173, 179, 181–182
habitat, 115–116
Haida people, 88
Haidt, Jonathan, 170
Hakim Sanai of Ghazni, 149
hallucinations, 176–177
Halpin, Marjorie M., 188
Hans, Clark, 3–6, 7–8, 119, 212, 245
Hans, James, 245–250
Hanuse, Dennis, 157–158, 177
Hanuse, Frank, 177–179
Heffernan, Margaret, 171
Heiltsuk First Nation, 10, 17. See also Bella Bella; Koeye valley entries
characteristics, 74–75
government policy toward, 63
meaning of name, 114
meeting with leaders, 102–105
oil spill at Q’vúqva (Gale Passage), 279–280
opposition to Big Oil megaprojects, 74, 75, 89–91
potlatches, 92–95
salmon and, 113, 120–121
Sasquatch and, 66, 68, 87, 126–127, 135–136
social cohesion, 63–64
territory, 63, 64
Wuikinuxv and, 109, 151, 157
The Heretics (Storr), 170
“Hero-Maker,” human mind as, 260–261
Himalayas, “men of snow,” 32
hoaxes
indigenous reports pre-European arrival and, 48
in Montana, 47
tracks as, 38–39
Homo sapiens, coexistence with other hominin
s by, 114–115
Hoodoo Valley incident, 157–158, 166–167, 179–180, 286–288
Housty, Jess, 122, 123, 125–128
Housty, Marge, 111, 122
Housty, William “House,” 120, 133–138, 202
Human Givens (Griffin and Tyrrell), 161
human mind. See also perception
default state of, 200, 202
effect of biases on beliefs, 144–145, 170
effect of total lack of sound on, 175–176
limitations of binary thinking of existence and nonexistence, 273–274
mental models and habits, 159–160
reality and, 200, 274
search for connection to way we were, 272
search for meaning in life and Sasquatch, 271
world as reordered by, 260–261
humanoids. See also Sasquatch
humpback whales, 124–125, 130, 131–133
hunter-investigator paparazzi, 21–22
ideas, susceptibility to and emotional arousal, 28, 81, 119
Ikt Lake, 222
incorporeal entities, 199–202
indigenous peoples. See also specific Nations
characteristics of Sasquatch in accounts by, 86–87, 88, 241–242
depictions of Sasquatches in carvings, 87
government policy toward, 63
opposition to Big Oil megaprojects, 74, 75
pre-European arrival reports of Sasquatches, 20, 48
relationship to Sasquatches, 224
“I Was Kidnapped by a Sasquatch” (Green), 80
Johnson, Johnny, 163–168
Jorgensen, Larry, 111, 121–122, 132, 133
Kashmiri Himalayas, 32
kipunji monkey, 115
Kitasoo Lake, 190
Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation, 11, 189, 190–191
Klemtu community, 11, 189, 190–191
Koeye valley
described, 139–141
fishing lodge, 112
importance of, 109
power of nature in, 144
Koeye valley, Heiltsuk First Nation youth camp, 118, 119–120, 121–125, 128
described, 111
sightings, 10, 109–110, 113–114, 136–137
Kokanee Glacier (Canada), 31
K’ómoks First Nation incident, 46
Kooshdaa Khaa, 88
Krantz, Grover S., 39
Lehane, Marg, 285–286
Little People, 174
lumber industry
Great Bear Rainforest and, 15–16, 76
Hoodoo Valley incident, 157–158, 166–167, 179–180, 286–288
Ocean Falls and, 192–194
Mack, Clayton, 237
Mack, Loren, 238–239
Mackenzie, Alexander, 230
Maclean’s, 20, 21
Mason, Charlie, 191