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I'm kind of a cottage industry at the Pacific Northwest, entering Bigfoot country, the billboards

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proclaim.

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But recent sightings 1500 miles to the east seem to indicate that Bigfoot's range may

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extend all the way across the Rockies and into the Midwest.

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I would like to report that I believe to be a Bigfoot sighting approximately five miles

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from Lisbon, Ohio.

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The degree of a Bigfoot being sighted in Ohio obviously is lower than in the Northwest,

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but you can never exclude it absolutely because historically there have been a goodly number

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of sightings made in that area of a country.

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Biologist Dr. Henner Farrinbach specializes in primate research at a college near his

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home in Beaverton, Oregon.

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His extensive analysis of Bigfoot evidence grew out of a casual interest in the subject

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during the 1960s.

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The evidence that are ordinarily quite rational refused to even inform themselves of the evidence

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that is available.

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They rejected as if it was a ghost.

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When somebody told me there was Bigfoot in Ohio, I laughed.

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I didn't believe it.

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But compelling physical evidence and eyewitness reports have made George Clapperson and Jody

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Cook believers.

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Together, they have formed the Ohio Bigfoot Research and Study Group in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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A 24-hour Bigfoot hotline has been set up to record area sightings.

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They make a report in 1988.

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You investigate it in 95 and everything is still exactly the same.

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They take you to where they had the sighting and there's fresh evidence where they had

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their sighting years ago.

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That's pretty convincing.

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In February of 1995, Clapperson and Cook discovered an anomalous structure near Akron, Ohio that

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they believe may be a Bigfoot nest.

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It is similar to but larger than nesting sites of other primates.

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It was about four and a half feet high and about five and a half feet long.

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It was completely hollow on the inside.

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It was big enough for three of us to go and sit in comfortably.

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Are these the sounds of Bigfoot?

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Sightings received these sounds recorded in Ohio by Bigfoot researcher Matt Moneymaker.

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The recording is part of an extensive surveillance project that Moneymaker is conducting in

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southern Ohio.

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Sightings will bring you more on the results of this investigation on a future edition

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of our program.

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Peter Byrne of the Bigfoot Research Project is cautiously optimistic about the reported

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sightings in Ohio.

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In an average six-month period, Byrne receives more than 3,000 calls.

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But from those calls, less than five are found to be credible sightings.