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Yeti, Sasquatch & Hairy Giants
Author and adventurer David Hatcher Childress takes the reader on a fantastic journey across the Himalayas to Europe and North America in his quest for Yeti, Sasquatch and Hairy Giants. Childress begins with a discussion of giants and then tells of his own decades-long quest for the Yeti in Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and other areas of the Himalayas, and then proceeds to his research into Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Skunk Apes in North America. Chapters The Giants of Yore; Giants Among Us; Wildmen and Hairy Giants; The Call of the Yeti; Kanchenjunga Demons; The Yeti of Tibet, Mongolia & Russia; Bigfoot & the Grassman; Sasquatch Rules the Forest; Modern Sasquatch Accounts; more. Includes a 16-page color photo section.
384 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 15, 2009
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David Hatcher Childress
85 books207 followersDavid Hatcher Childress (born 1957) is an American author and publisher of books on topics in alternative history and historical revisionism. His works often cover such subjects as pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, the Knights Templar, lost cities and vimana aircraft. Despite his public involvement in the general field of study, Childress claims to have no academic credentials as a professional archaeologist.
Born in France, and raised in Colorado, Childress began his world travels at age nineteen in pursuit of his archaeological interests. In 1983 Childress relocated to Stelle, Illinois, a community founded by New Age writer Richard Kieninger, after Childress was given a book authored by Kieninger while touring Africa. Childress chronicled his explorations in his Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries series of books, whose core concepts were influenced by the ideas of Kieninger.
While residing in Stelle, Childress began self publishing his own works and later other authors, which focus on presenting fringe scientific theories regarding ancient civilizations and little-known technologies, as well as establishing a travel business in partnership with Kieninger. In 1991, in the nearby town of Kempton, Illinois, Childress, along with historian and linguist Carl W. Hart, founded the World Explorers Club, a group that often travels to the places he writes about, and an affiliated magazine, World Explorer.
David Hatcher Childress has appeared on several television programs on NBC ("The Mysterious Origins of Man"), Fox Network (Sightings and Encounters), Discovery Channel, A&E, The History Channel, as a commentator on subjects such as the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, and UFOs.
Childress has been involved in two lawsuits regarding his publishing activities, one of which failed due to the expiry of a statute of limitations and the other, involving his company's publication of a master's thesis without permission, which was settled out of court.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ha...
Born in France, and raised in Colorado, Childress began his world travels at age nineteen in pursuit of his archaeological interests. In 1983 Childress relocated to Stelle, Illinois, a community founded by New Age writer Richard Kieninger, after Childress was given a book authored by Kieninger while touring Africa. Childress chronicled his explorations in his Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries series of books, whose core concepts were influenced by the ideas of Kieninger.
While residing in Stelle, Childress began self publishing his own works and later other authors, which focus on presenting fringe scientific theories regarding ancient civilizations and little-known technologies, as well as establishing a travel business in partnership with Kieninger. In 1991, in the nearby town of Kempton, Illinois, Childress, along with historian and linguist Carl W. Hart, founded the World Explorers Club, a group that often travels to the places he writes about, and an affiliated magazine, World Explorer.
David Hatcher Childress has appeared on several television programs on NBC ("The Mysterious Origins of Man"), Fox Network (Sightings and Encounters), Discovery Channel, A&E, The History Channel, as a commentator on subjects such as the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, and UFOs.
Childress has been involved in two lawsuits regarding his publishing activities, one of which failed due to the expiry of a statute of limitations and the other, involving his company's publication of a master's thesis without permission, which was settled out of court.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ha...
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September 7, 2016
Starting out, I realized that this a book with seven spelling errors on the “Other Books by [the author]” page. Let that set the tone for this review.
Adventures Unlimited Press had impressed me with its wild selection of bizarre books; I ordered the free catalog, and you should too. It’s a hoot. Knowing that author David Hatcher Childress has been on Ancient Aliens, I decided to get his Sasquatch book. I might as well begin with the closest subject to my heart.
Let me spell out my partisanship here. I’m a skeptic personally, but a huge fan of the material; I wrote Murder With Monsters with a sasquatch leading man, for Patterson’s sake. In my opinion, one must be a wise enough person not to give a book a bad review or avoid it because you disagree with the conclusion.
I truly love cryptozoology books as a mix of folk tales, anthropology, and monster stories. When I pick up a good cryptid book, I am willing to suspend my disbelief. For example, I don’t believe in the Fouke Monster, but I am chomping at the bit to read Lyle Backburn’s The Beast of Boggy Creek The True Story of the Fouke Monster. From everything I’ve heard, it’s a well-written book by a careful and entertaining researcher. Who knows, he may change my mind with his case and evidence; that’s what being skeptical is about! If he doesn’t, I’m sure Blackburn’s book will still have earned my twenty dollars.
This book… didn’t.
By page twelve, I came across the most mind-boggling statement I’ve ever read on the topic of writing, and I teach seventh grade. I see “The online encyclopedia Wikipedia mentions that…” Spellbound, I keep reading, seeing two more mentions of Wikipedia in seven pages.
“Wikipedia gives us this list of the tallest men and women known to history:”
And my brain just revolts, shutting down, nearly refusing to deal with what I have in front of me. Firstly, we have someone who believes copying and pasting a list from Wikipedia is legitimate research. Secondly, if only I had edited that article the day Childress copied the list, possibly listing myself at a respectable seven-foot-eight, my name would be in a Bigfoot book for the next eleven editions. Ah, the opportunities wasted.
Fearfully, I start to wonder how much else of this book might be similar to Wikipedia articles. It’s not the only hurdle; there’s the tall people. The first sixty-eight pages are focused on tall people. Reported finds of tall skeletons, the tallest man in the world, and some guy from Britain all share space in a book titled “Yetis, Sasquatch, and Hairy Giants.”
I flip back to the first page, wondering if I misread the title. All I notice is the paranormal power of a woman’s rear end. The two explorers pictured are shrouded in darkness that conceals every detail on them except for every curve on the lady in question’s posterior, the line between her buttocks clearly visible in her winter survival spandex. Her butt must have a reflectiveness albedo possibly approaching some of Saturn’s moons.
Regretfully, I return to the tall people.
There’s a movie featured in the late, lamented show Mystery Science Theater 3000 called “Lost Continent.” The movie is padded my minute upon minute of silent rock climbing scenes. Those 68 pages feel like part. I can hear in my head the voice of Tom Servo saying, “Tall people, Joel. Tall people.”
Well, I get one bit on amusement from the tall people chapter. It give me my first hint, collaborated constantly later, that Childress gets his graphics from Google Image Search. He doesn’t even use it well. The Myakka Ape photo from my native Florida, whether staged or real, is just creepy. I mean, look at this.
That’s awesome, whether I believe in skunk ape or not. He reprints it, but doesn’t describe it. What a wasted opportunity. I’m much happier to have a picture of a tall gentlemen leaning on a phone booth in my Bigfoot book, I guess.
I realize soon enough that anything interesting in the book is, mostly, copied from other sources. I’m not talking about snippets or paraphrasing; literally whole sources are agonizingly copied and pasted into the text. One of my favorite parts of the book is a ten page blog article still available online that is copied in its entirety. As the pasting continues, interesting things are rarely dropped in front of the reader and just ignored. On page 4, Childress mentions the theory that warfare is causing humans to be shorter. That is a tangent I dearly would have loved him to further pontificate on, but it stays a missed opportunity
Seventy pages in gets us to the medieval Wild Men. Childress attempts to tie them to Bigfoot legends, and it actually gets interesting. This is neat stuff, solely responsible for one of the stars in the rating. Of course, the corollary to that is that all this repackaged Wikipedia research is fascinating mainly because it’s a little reviewed subject. If I had other books at hand, the novelty might not score so well. It’s over too soon, and we go to odd apes and synopses of sightings from Wikipedia.
We get one page elsewhere speculating on Area 51 cloning sasquatches with Bigfoot DNA from the Minnesota Iceman. Come on, Childress; that’s enough to write a book about, let alone a chapter! My position on paranormal books is simple: if you don’t have research, give me heaps of amusing, crazy nonsense. No, unfortunately for us (or hopefully just me, because you, dear reader, have been warned), that’s just an interesting money shot at the end of a chapter.
When Childress has an interesting topic, he doesn't seem to know what to do with it. He offhandedly mentions yetis committing sexual assault and moves on. Talk about burying the lede! He teases us with historical yeti military battalions later. “It’s an interesting thought!” Yes, David, it is. I wish I could read about it.
And the sasquatch part is the same turgid wasteland as before, with Weekly World News covers (used in the text as a respected national newspaper) are thrown in randomly as padding.
Let’s be clear. If you buy this book, you will be paying for content directly copied off of other websites. You will be throwing money to buy things you can find online. Someday, somewhere, you will sudden recall a day where you paid legal tender currency for pages that reprinted an internet message board post, and nothing will ever wash that away.
When Childress recounts actually investigating things, like the Lovelock cave giants, it briefly gets interesting. I’d rather read a whole book of his travels, like a sasquatching Jadooala John Keel, than the lazy last-minute college essay I got. He mentions searching for the yeti various times. I’d love to hear about it! If I ever do, I shudder to think about how many pages of tall, dead people I’d have to skim through.
Aside from all of these complaints, the citations are awful. I love finding useful, organized lists of new books in my reading material, and I found none of that here. I thought I must have missed quite a bit of material when I say a citation listed as number twenty-five just three pages into the text. Page 301, on the other hand, cites reference 16. Neither are listed in alphabetical order or by chapter. Look upon this bibliography, ye mighty, and despair.
People, let’s remember my viewpoint as to cryptozoology and other topics. If your books is the skeptical viewpoint, I want engaging writing and well-documented resources, like Loxton/Donald Prothero’s awesome Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. If you write as a believer, you can either follow the exact same criteria or just give me enough cool and ridiculous stories and imaginative flights of fancy. If I am amused by crazy ideas, my money’s been well spent.
This book does neither well, feeling like a cheaply produced cash grab,
I won’t write Adventures Unlimited Press off my list yet. I have Atlantis in America and the Orion Conspiracy, having snagged them at a library sale. The distinctive size and font makes Adventure Unlimited Press books easy to find! I’m not giving up on Bigfoot books, either. My current hopes are to snag a personal copy of Dan Daegling’s Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend and finally get my hands of Lyle Blackburn’s Fouke Monster book. Despite being on opposite ends of the skeptic/believer divide, both books are probably still better than this one.
Even as an introductory Bigfoot book, this fails. It's not well organized and nowhere near as well-written as other competitors in the field, whether from the skeptical or believing camp.
Childress ends our book reminding us that it is “hard to deny” that Bigfoot lurk on the fringes, “ready to steal our women at any chance.” No matter how ridiculous that sounds, I would have much rather have read the book he’s describing than the one he actually wrote.
Adventures Unlimited Press had impressed me with its wild selection of bizarre books; I ordered the free catalog, and you should too. It’s a hoot. Knowing that author David Hatcher Childress has been on Ancient Aliens, I decided to get his Sasquatch book. I might as well begin with the closest subject to my heart.
Let me spell out my partisanship here. I’m a skeptic personally, but a huge fan of the material; I wrote Murder With Monsters with a sasquatch leading man, for Patterson’s sake. In my opinion, one must be a wise enough person not to give a book a bad review or avoid it because you disagree with the conclusion.
I truly love cryptozoology books as a mix of folk tales, anthropology, and monster stories. When I pick up a good cryptid book, I am willing to suspend my disbelief. For example, I don’t believe in the Fouke Monster, but I am chomping at the bit to read Lyle Backburn’s The Beast of Boggy Creek The True Story of the Fouke Monster. From everything I’ve heard, it’s a well-written book by a careful and entertaining researcher. Who knows, he may change my mind with his case and evidence; that’s what being skeptical is about! If he doesn’t, I’m sure Blackburn’s book will still have earned my twenty dollars.
This book… didn’t.
By page twelve, I came across the most mind-boggling statement I’ve ever read on the topic of writing, and I teach seventh grade. I see “The online encyclopedia Wikipedia mentions that…” Spellbound, I keep reading, seeing two more mentions of Wikipedia in seven pages.
“Wikipedia gives us this list of the tallest men and women known to history:”
And my brain just revolts, shutting down, nearly refusing to deal with what I have in front of me. Firstly, we have someone who believes copying and pasting a list from Wikipedia is legitimate research. Secondly, if only I had edited that article the day Childress copied the list, possibly listing myself at a respectable seven-foot-eight, my name would be in a Bigfoot book for the next eleven editions. Ah, the opportunities wasted.
Fearfully, I start to wonder how much else of this book might be similar to Wikipedia articles. It’s not the only hurdle; there’s the tall people. The first sixty-eight pages are focused on tall people. Reported finds of tall skeletons, the tallest man in the world, and some guy from Britain all share space in a book titled “Yetis, Sasquatch, and Hairy Giants.”
I flip back to the first page, wondering if I misread the title. All I notice is the paranormal power of a woman’s rear end. The two explorers pictured are shrouded in darkness that conceals every detail on them except for every curve on the lady in question’s posterior, the line between her buttocks clearly visible in her winter survival spandex. Her butt must have a reflectiveness albedo possibly approaching some of Saturn’s moons.
Regretfully, I return to the tall people.
There’s a movie featured in the late, lamented show Mystery Science Theater 3000 called “Lost Continent.” The movie is padded my minute upon minute of silent rock climbing scenes. Those 68 pages feel like part. I can hear in my head the voice of Tom Servo saying, “Tall people, Joel. Tall people.”
Well, I get one bit on amusement from the tall people chapter. It give me my first hint, collaborated constantly later, that Childress gets his graphics from Google Image Search. He doesn’t even use it well. The Myakka Ape photo from my native Florida, whether staged or real, is just creepy. I mean, look at this.
That’s awesome, whether I believe in skunk ape or not. He reprints it, but doesn’t describe it. What a wasted opportunity. I’m much happier to have a picture of a tall gentlemen leaning on a phone booth in my Bigfoot book, I guess.
I realize soon enough that anything interesting in the book is, mostly, copied from other sources. I’m not talking about snippets or paraphrasing; literally whole sources are agonizingly copied and pasted into the text. One of my favorite parts of the book is a ten page blog article still available online that is copied in its entirety. As the pasting continues, interesting things are rarely dropped in front of the reader and just ignored. On page 4, Childress mentions the theory that warfare is causing humans to be shorter. That is a tangent I dearly would have loved him to further pontificate on, but it stays a missed opportunity
Seventy pages in gets us to the medieval Wild Men. Childress attempts to tie them to Bigfoot legends, and it actually gets interesting. This is neat stuff, solely responsible for one of the stars in the rating. Of course, the corollary to that is that all this repackaged Wikipedia research is fascinating mainly because it’s a little reviewed subject. If I had other books at hand, the novelty might not score so well. It’s over too soon, and we go to odd apes and synopses of sightings from Wikipedia.
We get one page elsewhere speculating on Area 51 cloning sasquatches with Bigfoot DNA from the Minnesota Iceman. Come on, Childress; that’s enough to write a book about, let alone a chapter! My position on paranormal books is simple: if you don’t have research, give me heaps of amusing, crazy nonsense. No, unfortunately for us (or hopefully just me, because you, dear reader, have been warned), that’s just an interesting money shot at the end of a chapter.
When Childress has an interesting topic, he doesn't seem to know what to do with it. He offhandedly mentions yetis committing sexual assault and moves on. Talk about burying the lede! He teases us with historical yeti military battalions later. “It’s an interesting thought!” Yes, David, it is. I wish I could read about it.
And the sasquatch part is the same turgid wasteland as before, with Weekly World News covers (used in the text as a respected national newspaper) are thrown in randomly as padding.
Let’s be clear. If you buy this book, you will be paying for content directly copied off of other websites. You will be throwing money to buy things you can find online. Someday, somewhere, you will sudden recall a day where you paid legal tender currency for pages that reprinted an internet message board post, and nothing will ever wash that away.
When Childress recounts actually investigating things, like the Lovelock cave giants, it briefly gets interesting. I’d rather read a whole book of his travels, like a sasquatching Jadooala John Keel, than the lazy last-minute college essay I got. He mentions searching for the yeti various times. I’d love to hear about it! If I ever do, I shudder to think about how many pages of tall, dead people I’d have to skim through.
Aside from all of these complaints, the citations are awful. I love finding useful, organized lists of new books in my reading material, and I found none of that here. I thought I must have missed quite a bit of material when I say a citation listed as number twenty-five just three pages into the text. Page 301, on the other hand, cites reference 16. Neither are listed in alphabetical order or by chapter. Look upon this bibliography, ye mighty, and despair.
People, let’s remember my viewpoint as to cryptozoology and other topics. If your books is the skeptical viewpoint, I want engaging writing and well-documented resources, like Loxton/Donald Prothero’s awesome Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. If you write as a believer, you can either follow the exact same criteria or just give me enough cool and ridiculous stories and imaginative flights of fancy. If I am amused by crazy ideas, my money’s been well spent.
This book does neither well, feeling like a cheaply produced cash grab,
I won’t write Adventures Unlimited Press off my list yet. I have Atlantis in America and the Orion Conspiracy, having snagged them at a library sale. The distinctive size and font makes Adventure Unlimited Press books easy to find! I’m not giving up on Bigfoot books, either. My current hopes are to snag a personal copy of Dan Daegling’s Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend and finally get my hands of Lyle Blackburn’s Fouke Monster book. Despite being on opposite ends of the skeptic/believer divide, both books are probably still better than this one.
Even as an introductory Bigfoot book, this fails. It's not well organized and nowhere near as well-written as other competitors in the field, whether from the skeptical or believing camp.
Childress ends our book reminding us that it is “hard to deny” that Bigfoot lurk on the fringes, “ready to steal our women at any chance.” No matter how ridiculous that sounds, I would have much rather have read the book he’s describing than the one he actually wrote.
October 26, 2012
This was an interesting book. Basically, it's one big story about sightings from all over the world. Mr. Childress goes into the history, lore, mythology, science of these creatures and ties it all nicely together. I picked up this book in the first place because, as a Portland, OR native, I believe in Bigfoot and their existence. This book has further convinced me that all of the people from around the world that have claimed to have seen this creature - China, Nepal, India, Russia, United States (Southeast, AZ, OR, etc), Vietnam, etc - cannot all be lying for two simple but related facts…that none of the people are related and they basically describe the same creature (smell, sound, size, shape, color, behavior, gait, etc). Mr. Childress also spends time at the beginning talking about the biblical origins of the lore/mythology behind these creatures - I wasn't aware of the depth of the history to these creatures. BOTTOM LINE: it's a good book with interesting stories/facts and it gives the reader some food for thought…something to think about. ENJOY!!
May 3, 2023
Ok for the first half but got a little monotonous the last. It really got repetitive in regards to the American stories. It felt like the accounts where really fake. I still enjoyed the book but tended to speed read through some of the boring bits.
June 18, 2018
I was looking more for stories/folklore. I found it interest, but often redundant.
September 27, 2010
It's a typical DHC (David Hatcher Childress) book in that it has the tone and feel of someone recounting stories. This style is both good and bad in that Childress covers a great deal of ground on the topic...but the tales are presented uncritically. But don't let that scare you away unless you are looking for "investigation".
The book flows well, is a quick read and remains casual in tone. Well worth a read by anyone interested in an overview of Yeti/Bigfoot history and sightings.
HHH
The book flows well, is a quick read and remains casual in tone. Well worth a read by anyone interested in an overview of Yeti/Bigfoot history and sightings.
HHH
March 7, 2016
Really fascinating, interesting, and excellent. My only issue it's the typos on every goddamn page.
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