Bigfoot is one big deal
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The Daily Press
Bigfoot is one big deal
By Robb Lucas - rlucas@dailypress.net

MANISTIQUE: The planned "expedition" planned for Thursday through
Sunday in Marquette County by the Bigfoot Field Research Organization
(BFRO) has been expanded to include a public interview session,
according to BRFO investigator Matthew Moneymaker.
The project is intended to collect evidence supporting the existence of
the creature known as "bigfoot" or "sasquatch."

The organization will meet the public and take questions from the media
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot across from the entrance
to Gitche Gumee RV Park & Campground on M-28 near Marquette.
Exact locations were the 50 BFRO investigators will be working remains
confidential, Moneymaker said, and after the research begins media
access will be limited to a few news organizations.

"After the newspaper article (in the Daily Press) appeared we received a
number of calls from sincere witnesses in the Upper Peninsula who might
not otherwise have come forward," Moneymaker said. "So we decided to
invite additional witnesses to meet with us. It will be very informal,
and we'd like to hear from anyone who knows of a sighting, or sounds, or
saw tracks. What we learn may be very helpful to the expedition."

News of the Marquette expedition, picked up by CNN, the Associated Press
and other national news media, sparked interest not only across the
United States but also in other parts of the world, Moneymaker said.
"We even had a call from Russia. We've had so many requests for radio
interviews we couldn't handle them all."

The BFRO, founded in 1995, consists of more than 200 active
investigator-members, Moneymaker said. BFRO expedition locations are
selected based on frequency of encounters. In the U.P., Marquette County
has had the most reported sightings with four, Moneymaker said. Bigfoot
reports have been also been filed in Schoolcraft, Luce, Dickinson,
Baraga and Ontonagon counties.

In the U.S. and Canada, BFRO expeditions have taken place in Northern
Ontario, Vancouver Island, Northern Utah, New Mexico, South Carolina,
and recently near Bend, Ore.
"From more than 30 expeditions, we know that sasquatches are primates
with certain predictable behavior patterns," Moneymaker said. "The name
'bigfoot' has caught on with the public, but most investigators refer to
them as 'squatches.'

"They are omnivores. They eat vegetation such as berries and wild
mushrooms, but they are also predators who eat meat. We look for habitat
zones with healthy deer populations, like the Upper Pennisula."