The Secret Lives of Bigfoot Hunters

A well written article looking at Ranae Holland and Derek Randles with bits about Wally Hersom, Krantz, Meldrum and others and the cultural phenomenon of Bigfoot. The author does mislead when she talks about giant squid and jaguars.


The Secret Lives of Bigfoot Hunters

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Lit only by moonlight in the Tennessee woods, Ranae Holland cups her hands around her mouth and emits a guttural, horrifying shriek, something halfway between the scream of a cougar and the scream of a person being disemboweled by a cougar. Then she falls silent and reclines on a fallen cedar, the tentacles of exposed roots her backrest, her long legs bracing her into total stillness. She knows how not to scare an animal, a skill earned doing veterinary care on snow leopards and counting fish in bear country. She sits still and she waits for sasquatch to answer. More than 2,000 miles away, a week later and in broad daylight, Derek Randles forces open a motion-activated game camera, a paperback-size camo box that hunters use to spot game. He retrieves an SD card encoded with half a year of recordings and descends through the waxy salal ground cover that blankets the Olympic Peninsula...

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