{"id":234,"date":"2009-06-24T06:02:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigfootmystery.com\/wordpress\/?p=234"},"modified":"2009-06-24T06:45:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:45:21","slug":"bigfoot-news-stories-spanning-170-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Bigfoot News stories spanning 170 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It is a generally thought<\/strong> that the Bigfoot mystery is a recent addition to our mythgology, and that it began with the first showing of the famous Patterson film of a female Bigfoot quickly walking away from the camera. Skeptics are quick to say that the publicity bought about by the film single handedly created the Bigfoot mystery.<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly not the case as i have now amassed a multitude of newspaper reports dating back to 1839. What is interesting however, are the\u00a0descriptions given\u00a0of the various sightings a hundred plus years ago. This was before the notion of a Bigfoot had entered the public conciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8216;Wildman&#8217; is commonly used in these early reports and as one witness comments , &#8216;His body was as hairy as\u00a0that of a bear&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>There is another 19th century newspaper account of an individual convinced that he had seen a Gorilla while out hunting. Someone writes back commenting that he too had seen the &#8216;critter&#8217; but he &#8216;walks like a man&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The various newspaper reports can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/html\/bigfoot_news_stories.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a generally thought that the Bigfoot mystery is a recent addition to our mythgology, and that it began with the first showing of the famous Patterson film of a female Bigfoot quickly walking away from the camera. Skeptics are quick to say that the publicity bought about by the film single handedly created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}