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Tales of creatures that disturb our mundane and everyday lives are not uncommon. To claim, however, that you’ve seen such a creature is to hear snickers or out-loud laughing. Yet, when I heard what happened on the Fort Berthold reservation near New Town, N.D., I wondered. It was a sighting of one of most common of these creatures – Sasquatch or Big Foot.
The man who used 16-inch feet-shaped carvings to create tracks that ignited the “Bigfoot” legend has died. He was 84.
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A prankster’s posthumous confession appeared to doom the legend. But Sasquatch still looms large, and scientists are intrigued.