Utahns: Have you joined Bigfoot mania?
By Scott
D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune
Last month, a video was posted on YouTube
purporting to show Bigfoot in Provo Canyon.
The video made the rounds, even getting some play on ABC
News. While it seemed to convince some viewers, others thought it looked like a
guy in a gorilla suit .What many people didn’t realize is that the video was
just one of many Bigfoot sightings in Utah. "Dozens and dozens. Probably
hundreds," said Michael Slade, a professional photographer who chronicles
on his website local sightings of what many believe is a giant apelike
creature. "I’m not hunting Bigfoot," Slade said. "I’m hunting
Bigfoot stories."And there seem to be a lot of Bigfoot stories circulating
in pop culture right now.Earlier this year, TV shows from "South
Park" to "The Newsroom" have used the idea of the creature as a
pivotal plot point. In May 2011, Animal Planet began airing a weekly series all
about "Finding Bigfoot."There have been sightings in 49 of the 50
states — all but Hawaii — and around the globe, and similar stories that go
back centuries. "Either there is a Bigfoot, and all these people have seen
it," according to Slade, "or there’s not a Bigfoot, and everybody has
had similar psychosomatic, mentally traumatic experiences throughout eons of
time and across vast continents
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