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Well here goes…The start of a Bigfoot Researcher…
It all started in the mid seventies when I was a boy when Sasquatch made a guest appearance on the Six Million Dollar Man show. Being a typical boy, mischief was inevitably around the corner. Not soon after early interest in Bigfoot I made a small set of big feet out of plywood and tied to them to my winter boots. We had a lot of fun stomping around the ice skating pond but quite honestly we never fooled anyone. It didn’t help much that I grew up 40 miles north of NYC.
Fast forward 20 years…
Before moving up to the North Country (upstate New York) my wife and I were vacationing on Lake George in the town of Bolton. We did the typical tourist stuff, moving from one small gift shop to next. While she’s looking at arts and crafts types of things I notice this little blue paperback book located on a table with other local area related media. Monster of the Northwood’s stared me right in the face. I thought to myself Bigfoot, up here? I started flipping through the pages and said to my wife; “Where’s this Whitehall place?” Her response was; “Oh its right over that mountain:” pointing east towards Buck Mountain on the east side of Lake George. Needless to say I bought the book and read it cover to cover within the day!
Fast forward again to fall of 2003…
After moving to the North Country and getting our home and employment together I was in the basement going through some of boxes in storage. I found an old book entitled Strange Stories – Amazing Facts and re-read the famous account of “Patty” on the west coast. I thought to myself don’t I have another book on Bigfoot and then I remembered Paul Bartholomew's book. I took it to work one day to read on a late shift break when one of the guys at mentioned that two guys who worked on the second floor were into the Bigfoot thing. We shortly became good friends and did some researching in the Whitehall area. One of the guys actual had numerous experiences in the Whitehall where he happened to grow up.
We did some hikes and expeditions in the same area where many others have investigated so I started searching for a superior group to associate with. What I stumbled across was the early stages of NESRA! I was able to contact one of the founding members and met for a long discussion of the Sasquatch in the Adirondack Park. After some good conversation I knew I had found a first-class investigator on the same level of interest as myself. Being a member of Adirondack Bigfoot Club it was inevitable that NESRA was next. After a year or so of procrastinating I finally joined and I’m glad I did.
It’s good to be here!
ADK Manitou….
