Bigfoot

by B. Ann Slate, Alan Berry

Vintage paperback

Genres: Bigfoot, Nonfiction

171 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1976

Reviews

[Kryptonian Fletch · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been reading a number of these 70's "unexplained" phenomenon books recently, mostly for the shear nostalgia factor.

This is defiantly the best so far.

(A) The writers really tell a good story rather than just relating facts, a great writing style. The accounts of Bigfoot encounters are very cinematically told and quite honestly creepy (B) a lot of the book is based on one of the writer's personal experiences or his/her direct interviews with other people; unlike many books in this genre where the writer just regurgitates 3rd hand accounts.

Not a comment of this book, more a comment on the Bigfoot (and the whole UFO, Loch Ness Monster, etc.) phenomenon of the 1970's ... why was everyone and his uncle seeing these things back then?... BUT... now that we all have a phone with a camera in our pockets everywhere we go... no one ever see all this stuff anymore? ... If the frequency of encounters/sightings was the same nowadays as it was back then, there would be a plethora of photos and video proof :)

[Dat-Dangk Vemucci · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easygoing book with a focus on the paranormal dimensions of bigfootlore. Some really interesting accounts of ghostly invisibility, subterranean machinery sounds, men in black, telepathy and more. Includes some bizarre theories such as bigfoot sightings being visions of a distant posthuman future following nuclear fallout, where the hairy giants have inherited the earth.

[Your Common House Bat · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been on a cryptid kick lately so when I saw this on my grandma's shelf I was excited! It's always really neat to read a book from the 70's or any earlier era really; especially non-fiction/research stuff. I really enjoyed hearing about these eye witness tales to such a well known legend. I like how the story was told too; its a non-fiction story but the telling of it was rather lush with imagery for an non-fiction book. And it was intersting to read about UFO's in relation to Bigfoot. I knew that people linked them with the Mothman but I didn't realize that people connected them with Bigfoot too.

[Sheila Myers · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first book I read about Bigfoot. I've read others since 1982, but I still think this is the best all-around coverage of the topic.

[richard a. romero · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in this subject. The notes and appendicitis’s were very helpful. I personally found this to be useful and informative.

[Billy Ramone · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you take this book seriously as a piece of scientific research, it stinks. It presents a number of encounter stories tied together with broad hints and theoretical speculation about linkage between bigfoot and ESP, psychic phenomena, and UFOs. There is nothing conclusive here, of course, that justifies the crowing about "the truth" on the cover. It's not surprising that there isn't any solid evidence that shows how all this fits together; what is more disappointing is that the authors haven't even bothered to try to articulate a clear hypothesis.

Looked at as a sample of on-the-cover marketing, the book is a hilarious, over-the-top riot. We are told on the back that it offers “face-to-face encounters with this massive, hairy creature, fully documented with actual 35 MM black and white photographs.” Indeed, the impressive photos included prove conclusively that there are people who go out searching for bigfoot, that they sometimes make plaster casts of the prints they find, that once some guys made a cardboard cutout of the creature they had seen, and that a theatrical gorilla costume does not look much like a bigfoot. So much for the amazing photographs.

As a group of stories, it's modestly entertaining and reasonably well-written. But you can find much better.