Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

by Max Brooks

“Of course, I believe you, but they wouldn’t. Too many mental hurdles. Believing the unbelievable.” She shook her head. “Like being warned that the country you’ve grown up in is about to collapse, that the friends and neighbors you’ve known your whole life are going to try to kill you…”

At midnight, Bauman was awakened by some noise, and sat up in his blankets. As he did so his nostrils were struck by a strong, wild-beast odor, and he caught the loom of a great body in the darkness at the mouth of the lean-to. Grasping his rifle, he fired at the vague, threatening shadow, but must have missed, for immediately afterwards he heard the smashing of the underwood as the thing, whatever it was, rushed off into the impenetrable blackness of the forest and the night. —PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT, The Wilderness Hunter

how it works. Try, fail, learn, then pass on eventual success for improvement.”

It is from the farming class that the bravest men and the sturdiest soldiers come…. —MARCUS PORCIUS CATO

If this had been a bluff charge, they would have been screaming to intimidate us. These guys were quiet. And they were huge. They were coming in for the kill. —Primatologist SHELLY WILLIAMS, BBC News, on the “Mystery Ape” of DR Congo