From the time that the first European settlers arrived in the Pacific Northwest in the late 18th century, there were occasional reports in local newspapers of contact with strange “wild men,” hairy, man-like creatures. Some seemed to be no-nonsense accounts of encounters with real but unknown animals. For example, in the early 1870s, a lone hunter wrote of hearing a loud whistle and then seeing at close range something that looked like a man, but was clearly not human. His description is worth noting because it predated large-scale interest in Bigfoot by more than half a century, yet it was
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