Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon, Volume II: Evidence

Where the Footprints End #2

by Joshua Cutchin, Timothy Renner

Despite continued attempts to uncover the truth, proof of the bigfoot phenomenon has eluded researchers and cryptozoologists for decades. Witnesses regularly describe seeing and interacting with something like a large, undiscovered hominid... and yet, such sightings regularly produce evidence directly at odds with conventional scientific explanations. It seems impossible to reconcile these peculiarities—among them mystery lights, UFOs, unusual sounds, mindspeak, cryptic stick signs, and anomalous footprints and trackways—with the notion of flesh-and- blood creatures evading detection in the modern frontier.

As remarkable as the discovery of a manlike primate would be, what if bigfoot is something stranger still?

Volume II of Where the Footprints End follows the trail blazed by authors Joshua Cutchin and Timothy Renner, demonstrating how deeply the inexplicable, peripheral oddities of High Strangeness are infused in our contemporary wild man mythology. The journey concludes with a pair of case studies exemplifying how the mysterious mess of the supernatural collides with reality, generating truly baffling encounters.

No one knows exactly where the footprints end... but these mark the final steps of our journey.

Genres: Paranormal, Cryptozoology, Bigfoot

442 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 17, 2020

Reviews

[Glen]

A book that tries to catalogue and review all of the other phenomena that tend to accompany bigfoot activity around the world.

I got a bit bored during the loooonnnngggg section on the differences between three and 5 toed footprints, with some other types of footprints too. I know this is the most prevalent evidence of the thing, but my eyes completely glazed over.

The last section about Keel type high strangeness always gives me a headache, and makes me glad I'm not in that field.

Good for the serious bigfoot fan with an open mind.

[Travis Stacey Watson]

Excellent Work!!

I would love to see every ‘researcher’ in the Bigfoot field read and really digest this book. The authors have moved away from Bigfoot as a relict hominid or undiscovered ape and have looked at all the evidence about this anomaly. I second Tim’s afterword where he encourages people to read Patrick Harper’s Daimonic Reality. Bigfoot is not an either/or proposition but a both/and phenomenon that will continue to defy so-called scientific materialism.

[James]

Good companion to the first volume - carries the theory further and provides lots of good additional evidence.

[Ashley]

This book was another insightful volume into the questions and mysteries surrounding Bigfoot. I'm not sure where I stand on believing in Bigfoot. I believe in ghosts and I think strange things are out there so I guess there is a chance Bigfoot could be real too and I think the authors do a good job in proving that Bigfoot may not be just a flesh and blood undiscovered animal. The only thing keeping this book from five stars for me though is at times it felt too repetitive which made reading feel like pulling teeth.

[Brooke]

An amazing set of books! The amount of research that obviously went into both volumes is staggering and impressive. I learned a lot and have had many great conversations while on this journey. I would highly recommend these two volumes to anyone with even the slightest belief in bigfoot and/or the paranormal in general. Fantastic work!

[Mitch]

Not your mama's Bigfoot book

Another extraordinary book from these guys that approach this topic with eyes wide open and all cylinders clicking. Not for the faint of heart or the stodgy. Open your mind and these guys will take you on a wild ride through the legend of Bigfoot.

[Thomas]

this has similar issues with the first volume in terms of credulity, and there is also a section where they try to apply mythic archetypes to some bigfoot case studies in an extremely superficial way, but mostly this has a lot of really out there bigfoot accounts that don't fit easily into any interpretation. you get to learn about how bigfoot print trails often lead nowhere or just have one print sitting in the middle of a field, bigfoot's ability to imitate sounds of all kinds, bigfoot that move with an unearthly gliding motion, and my personal favourite, a bigfoot that someone described as being 'impossibly black, like it absorbed light'. fun stuff

[Monica]

This was another fun book exploring Bigfoot's relation to the paranormal and folklore. It definitely goes with Volume I, though there is a subtle difference. Volume I focused a little more on folklore and how it is reflected by Bigfoot, while this one was about Bigfoot and how it exemplifies those themes. I was also intrigued by the chapter on how the idea of the Trickster is apparent in the sighting and research into Bigfoot, and how it relates to purported Bigfoot hoaxes.

[George Kanakaris]

Topics in this second volume : multicolored lights seen in conjunction with or near Bigfoot sightings , portals , high strangeness that surrounds Bigfoot , Trickster archetype , spirits and elves , folklore , MIB's and so on.You also get a ton of sightings.The only thing I have a problem with is using David Paulides as a source.Recommended.

[Syn]

An excellent book on the high strangeness that surrounds the Bigfoot phenomenon. There are so many interesting things packed into this book that I had never contemplated before. I loved this book just as much as the first one. If you are interested in Bigfoot, Where the Footprints Ends Vol. 1 & 2 are absolutely fantastic!

[Jim Sturgill]

Great partner to volume one!

Both volumes are a well researched and written journey connecting Sasquatch with other phenomena. The authors are willing to explore these connections while admitting how little we all know about these phenomena. Excellent job!

[Iris Mentus]

An amazing book!!!

This is one of the most interesting and detailed books I have read in awhile on the Bigfoot phenomenon. It covers a lot of ground and leaves no stone unturned in pursuit of the truth. You won't be able to put this book down once you start -trust me!

[Geoffrey S Robinson]

Great Book on High Strangeness

This 2 volume set reminds me a lot of John Keel’s work & I say that with high praise. What Keel did for UFOs, this does for Bigfoot. The phenomenon is weirder that the Bigfoot hunting community would like to consider.

[Michael Ammar]

Took me until the last 2 chapters to star enjoying the read when there was a bit of a storyline to tell. The rest was just repetitive and dull. I give it 3 stars because of my profound love of Bigfoot/sasquatch/yowi/skunk ape or however people from this dimension or the next refer to them as.

[Echo]

I liked it but It was hard to finish it and iam glad iam done lol.. unlike volume 1 where I was flying trough the pages . It still was worth reading but 1 less star than vol1 for that reason.

[Lori L Rogers]

Interesting

The ideas presented by the authors are interesting. They may work for some and definitely won't work for others. An enjoyable read!

[B.]

talking about this book has alienated people from me. that’s fine!

[Peter A. Lio]

very good but very long

I liked it a lot and I love Cutch—I guess I wanted a little less storytelling and a bit more analysis, but this was still a neat journey!

[Mitchell]

Another compelling collection of evidence that Bigfoot is stranger than a big ape.

[Y]

I don’t love how the two volume work was organized: volume one was trying to tie all sorts of different phenomena into his Unified Bigfoot Theory and volume two are cases that highlight different aspects of Bigfoot encounters. There is a lot of referencing the other volume for different cases, which was kind of annoying.

However the cases were interesting the book really tries to convince the reader that Bigfoot is not a flesh and blood animal but an in-between being that is both material and immaterial. Lots of Native American legends about Bigfoot are discussed that also describe it that way.

[Jay Paparella]

Interesting take on paranormal bigfoot

The subjects touched on here are interesting, and likely something cryptozoologists would rather ignore. I've personally felt the spiritual or supernatural side of bigfoot sighting has alway needed to be addressed. Not only because it makes for more interesting stories, but the fact that the stories ape (forgive the pun) UFO stories and ghost stories help underscore the fact that these stories are folklore, and not fact. The authors treat every story as fully credible, and while this increases the fun factor, it also demonstrates that the authors approach this topic from a mystical point of view, and not a scientific one.

[Daniel Mccallister]

Phenomenal book on a strange subject. I started as a flesh and blood advocate, but it doesn't take long to see there is more going on. The authors, like Vallee does with UFOs, show there are many correlations between bigfoot and fairies, ghosts, UFOs, ghost lights, etc. A fascinating look at folklore and the weirdness at the core of this mystery. I highly recommend!

[Paul Rose]

This book may be the definition of exhaustive. Full of detail and examples, if it skipped anything I can’t think of what it could be. Well organized and cross referenced. Yet I found it tedious to read. Maybe just more information than I wanted as a casual reader.