Макс Брукс: Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

Contraflow lane reversal: A term commonly used in natural disasters by which all lanes of a road are used to channel vehicles in one direction.

Mammoth Lakes, California: On May 27, 1982, a false-eruption warning damaged both the town’s economy and confidence in the United States Geological Survey.

“Adversity introduces us to ourselves” was originally attributed to Albert Einstein, but spoken in this particular version by President George W. Bush on September 14, 2001, at the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance Service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

Lutko moja: Little doll.

Josephine Schell (maiden name Begay) is a member of the Navajo Nation.

Only after finishing my interviews for this book, did I discover that the film in question, 1977’s Snowbeast, did, in fact, produce an entire creature costume.

Interview from the History Channel’s In Search of History, 1997.

Bluff Creek is also known as the site of the 1967 “Patterson film” of Bigfoot.

In June of 2019, under the Freedom of Information Act, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a twenty-two-page file detailing its laboratory analyses of hair “attached to a tiny piece of skin.” The sample, brought to them in 1976 by the Bigfoot Research Center, was determined to be “of the deer family in origin.”

A 2007 study done by David Raichlen of the University of Arizona, Michael Sockol at the University of California, and Herman Pontzer from Washington University in St. Louis “indicate[s] that bipedalism in early, ape-like hominins could indeed have been less costly than quadrupedal knucklewalking.”

In 2001, reports of a “kala bandar” (Hindi) or “monkey man” began to terrorize residents of East Delhi, India. These reports were later debunked as a case of “mass hysteria.”

In 2009, “Santino,” an adult male chimpanzee, shocked visitors at Sweden’s Furuvik Zoo by pelting them with prepositioned rocks.

The Muppet Show, Episode 211, “With our very special guest star, Mr. Dom DeLuise.”

Gonite se u pičku materinu! : Get back into your mother’s cunt!

Mrš! Mrš! : “Git! Git!” in American folk language or the traditional “March! March!”

Pičko jedna! : You cunt!

Jebem li ti krv : I fuck your blood.

At the time of this writing, ten humans have been killed in North America by cougars since the death of Scott Lancaster.

Majmune jedan : You ape.

NOAA: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

POES: Polar Operational Environmental Satellite.