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camera equipment, since he had just found tracks. This was just after they had passed an empty Jeep parked beside the road, whose inhabitants, René considered, might have been in the process of returning from their track-making. The Jeep was gone when they returned. But, ultimately, he accepted the tracks as authentic.
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paid attention to a couple of children who had been saying that they knew where the film had been shot. When he arrived there, he discovered that the features of the site were inconsistent with what Marx had claimed about the circumstances of the filming and the height of the subject. Subsequent
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was also impressed by the tracks, but was suspicious of certain circumstances. One circumstance was that before he and a passenger had seen the tracks, driver Marx pulled over, got out, and walked off, returning shortly thereafter and explaining that they had to leave immediately to retrieve his
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Joe Metlow then claimed that he had a
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402:, a Canadian Sasquatch researcher, and a journalist and editor in his day job, came and got involved in a way that offended Dahinden. Metlow declined to give anyone a peek for $ 1000. Bids topped out at $ 55,000, which called his bluff, and interest fizzled when he wouldn't bite.
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October 1970 and said, "I've got a film of the cripple." Bigfooters flocked back to Bossburg. After viewing his film, nearly all were convinced of its authenticity and a bidding war for rights ensued. However, Bigfooter
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873:Bigfoot: A Personal Inquiry into a Phenomenon
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309:were published, notably the
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730:Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence
683:. Altamira Press. pp.
675:Daegling, David J. (2004).
603:Hunter and Dahinden, 153–59
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371:John Napier
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1185:Cedarville
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