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Bigfoot hunters find print
Researchers are still combing through evidence they collected.

Researchers with Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center took this cast of what they claim might be a footprint of the elusive Bigfoot in the Kiamichi Mountains in southeastern Oklahoma. A group of about 30 researchers spent Memorial Day weekend looking for evidence of the creature. Courtesy

By SUSAN HYLTON World Staff Writer
Published: 5/28/2009 2:28 AM
Last Modified: 5/28/2009 3:39 AM

HONOBIA — Researchers believe that a footprint they discovered over the weekend in the Kiamichi Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma is that of the elusive creature Bigfoot.

D.W. Lee, global director of the Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center, said the print was discovered about five miles into the woods. They were able to make a cast of the print, which measured 15 3/4 inches long and 5 inches wide.

"The toes were clearly visible on the cast after it was lifted up," Lee said.

In addition, Lee said they heard "vocalizations" in the woods that they recognize as the tell-tale mocking calls of Bigfoot. Whoop sounds, "attempted imitations" of whippoorwills and mimicking of dove and owl calls were heard, he said.

One crew member was hit by a rock during a night hike just moments after two large animals were spied through a night scope walking on two feet across a logging road.

"A lot of people, it doesn't really dawn on them when rocks land near them" that Bigfoot could be responsible, Lee said.

Lee and his crew are evaluating hundreds of photographs and hours of video recordings taken over the weekend by about 30 researchers.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Scott Simmons said he has not been involved in any Bigfoot-seeking expeditions but that people are capable of collecting and analyzing data and have been doing so for years in fascination of the possibility of an unknown apelike species.

"I'm not going to tell someone they did not see

or did see something," he said.

Susan Hylton 581-8381
susan.hylton@tulsaworld.com By SUSAN HYLTON World Staff Writer

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	Report Comment Nim, Tulsa (5/27/2009 7:17:54 PM) H-O-A-X
	Report Comment tfromtulsa, Tulsa (5/27/2009 7:27:49 PM) That looks like a 15¾ inches long and 5 inches wide dropping to me.
	Report Comment Just a country boy, North Okmulgee County (5/27/2009 7:42:58 PM) If rocks land near me I start lookin for some sucker to throw them back at.
	Report Comment SteveH, McAlester (5/27/2009 7:44:03 PM) One ridiculous article on this subject was bad enough but two??? Is the World intent on joining the supermarket tabloids? Since when is guys going camping and drinking newsworthy? The next follow up will likely include alien abductions. I think the body part that's really involved here is not the foot but the leg. The so-called global director and his pals are strongly pulling the leg of this reporter (and her editor who allows it to be printed). If you insist on printing this stuff, please put it in the comics where it belongs.
	Report Comment NOT JADED, Tulsa (5/27/2009 7:47:12 PM) Big foot1, Of course you are liberal. You have a sense of humor.
	Report Comment Just a country boy, North Okmulgee County (5/27/2009 7:51:49 PM) I saw bigfoot he was a few post up.
	Report Comment banjojammin, Rogers (5/27/2009 7:56:21 PM) The story that keeps on giving! Big foot1, I am happy to see you made it through the weekend. I was worried about you. Sleep w/one eye open and one foot on the floor good budddy!
	Report Comment NOT JADED, Tulsa (5/27/2009 8:01:03 PM) Big foot1, And you keep your jokes clean too. You are just to good to be true. Not that I'm doubting you!
	Report Comment 2curious, Tulsa, OK 74104 (5/27/2009 8:09:22 PM) Now this is really going to screw up the ganja harvest in them thar woods...
	Report Comment thehero, (5/27/2009 8:09:47 PM) Steve H: It's in the Daily Oklahoma too. A slow news day.
	Report Comment oldrustytulsa, Tulsa (5/27/2009 8:16:31 PM) As I understand it most Bigfoot hunters are OSU grads?So that would explain,.
	Report Comment zzx375, BA (5/27/2009 8:21:16 PM) Looks like a big cast. Well if they're that good throwing perhaps a box of baseballs left in the right spot might yield a great pitcher from Oklahoma.
	Report Comment zzx375, BA (5/27/2009 8:21:48 PM) correction: "that good throwing rocks,"
	Report Comment Bamm-Bamm, Bloomfield (5/27/2009 8:22:04 PM) Yep, and he is dating the Jersey Devil too.
	Report Comment rockfan, broken arrow (5/27/2009 8:24:29 PM) Im sorry guys i hired Shaq to walk barefoot in the woods that night and he started practicing his free throws while he was there and then stepped on a porcupine.
	Report Comment Bullhead, Nicut (5/27/2009 8:26:33 PM) Looks like someone puked there to me. The Government will most likely support this search with a big, fat grant.
	Report Comment Graybeard, Tulsa (5/27/2009 8:28:31 PM) Bigfoot, my foot. The Yeti, Abominable Snowman, Loch Ness Monster. All crackpot folklore. Decades of searching has proved to be fruitless.
	Report Comment Robyne Rohde, Edmond (5/27/2009 8:37:34 PM) That footprint looks like it belongs to Glenn Coffee....I mean...I'm just say'n....
	Report Comment Robyne Rohde, Edmond (5/27/2009 8:40:26 PM) You know that research grant to study Glenn's footprint...maybe someone can get some of our new president's stimulus money to fund it....
	Report Comment Bren, Wagoner (5/27/2009 8:41:31 PM) I lived in Southeast Oklahoma for 7 yrs. In my line of work, I was often in those communities where these things are said to occur. I saw a lot of deer and even the occasional black bear. If I had seen anything resembling bigfoot, I certainly would never have told anyone for fear of being locked up and the key pitched into some deep revine or the bottoms where I feel this story truly belongs.
	Report Comment Robyne Rohde, Edmond (5/27/2009 8:48:19 PM) I know...the money for the Coffee's footprint will be funded by one of the out of state big tech companies..you know..that the new CIO is going to hire...yeah, that's the ticket!
	Report Comment somewear, Yale (5/27/2009 8:48:53 PM) I too have had rocks thrown at me but like Just a country boy said I look around to see who to throw back at!!! LOL These articles are defiantly comic relief!!! Thank you TW for posting them.
	Report Comment akn, (5/27/2009 8:49:10 PM) L M A O- the comments were even better reading than the story...i'm still rolling- especially from T-TownJack's - you guys are all awesome. lol
	Report Comment Robyne Rohde, Edmond (5/27/2009 8:49:52 PM) I meant to say for Coffee/Bigfoot's research grant.....will be funded....oh well...lost in the translation....
	Report Comment Libs-R-Us, (5/27/2009 8:52:06 PM) Those folks down around Honobia (pronounced HO-nubby) were bored when I left there forty years ago, and I can see that things haven't gotten better. I'm sure this will be front-page stuff in the Hugo News.

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