rchers would either delete the sighting report and forget about it, or shove the sighting into the Weird & Inexplicable folder where it will languish in obscurity.

What should we do with high strangeness sightings? What do these sightings mean for Bigfoot research?

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Location: Southern Ohio Date: December 2003

Angela and a female friend had spent all day at the hospital where Angela's daughter had undergone surgery. When visiting hours ended at 9 PM, the two women set off for home. Little did they know their routine journey would turn into a truly bizarre encounter with a hairy hominid.

Thirteen miles out from the hospital, Angela made a U-turn to catch a turn she'd missed. After rounding the corner, the women noticed a dead cat lying on the shoulder of the road. In the next instant, a "giant, white creature" appeared in front of their car. The car struck the creature, bouncing up and over its body. A terrible smell overwhelmed the women, sickening them so much that they fled the scene. Upon reaching the nearest gas station, the women made an astounding discovery—the journey had taken 90 minutes too long.

Needless to say, Angela and her friend were dumbfounded. What had happened to those missing minutes, over an hour of time they could not account for? The women felt certain the animal they had struck was neither a cow nor a human. Angela later found white hairs on the tailpipe of her car.

Sightings like this pose a serious problem for the researcher too. How do you deal with a witness who claims to have missing time after a Bigfoot encounter? Many researchers would either delete the sighting report and forget about it, or shove the sighting into the Weird & Inexplicable folder where it will languish in obscurity.

What should we do with high strangeness sightings? What do these sightings mean for Bigfoot research?

After running over the creature with their car, the women

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Thirteen miles out from the hospital, Angela made a U-turn to catch a turn she'd missed. After rounding the corner, the women noticed a dead cat lying on the shoulder of the road. In the next instant, a "giant, white creature" appeared in front of their car. The car struck the creature, bouncing up and over its body. A terrible smell overwhelmed the women, sickening them so much that they fled the scene. Upon reaching the nearest gas station, the women made an astounding discovery—the journey had taken 90 minutes too long.

Needless to say, Angela and her friend were dumbfounded. What had happened to those missing minutes, over an hour of time they could not account for? The women felt certain the animal they had struck was neither a cow nor a human. Angela later found white hairs on the tailpipe of her car.

Sightings like this pose a serious problem for the researcher too. How do you deal with a witness who claims to have missing time after a Bigfoot encounter? Many researchers would either delete the sighting report and forget about it, or shove the sighting into the Weird & Inexplicable folder where it will languish in obscurity.

What should we do with high strangeness sightings? What do these sightings mean for Bigfoot research?

After running over the creature with their car, the wome

smell overwhelmed the women, sickening them so much that they fled the scene. Upon reaching the nearest gas station, the women made an astounding discovery—the journey had taken 90 minutes too long.

Needless to say, Angela and her friend were dumbfounded. What had happened to those missing minutes, over an hour of time they could not account for? The women felt certain the animal they had struck was neither a cow nor a human. Angela later found white hairs on the tailpipe of her car.

Sightings like this pose a serious problem for the researcher too. How do you deal with a witness who claims to have missing time after a Bigfoot encounter? Many researchers would either delete the sighting report and forget about it, or shove the sighting into the Weird & Inexplicable folder where it will languish in obscurity.

What should we do with high strangeness sightings? What do these sightings mean for Bigfoot research?

After running over the creature with their car, the wome

uld not account for? The women felt certain the animal they had struck was neither a cow nor a human. Angela later found white hairs on the tailpipe of her car.

Sightings like this pose a serious problem for the researcher too. How do you deal with a witness who claims to have missing time after a Bigfoot encounter? Many researchers would either delete the sighting report and forget about it, or shove the sighting into the Weird & Inexplicable folder where it will languish in obscurity.

What should we do with high strangeness sightings? What do these sightings mean for Bigfoot research?

After running over the creature with their car, the wome

rchers would either delete the sighting report and forget about it, or shove the sighting into the Weird & Inexplicable folder where it will languish in obscurity.

What should we do with high strangeness sightings? What do these sightings mean for Bigfoot research?

After running over the creature with their car, the women experienced missing time, a phenomenon well known to UFO researchers. High strangeness of that sort shouldn't happen with a Bigfoot encounter. After all, Bigfoots represent nothing more than giant apes. Right?

If only the simple explanation fit the facts. Even if you forget that not all hairy hominids are giants, you must dismiss a wealth of strange sightings in order to squash the phenomenon into the giant-ape shoebox. Take the Ohio incident I just mentioned. What should a researcher do with a sighting like that?

First, you must talk to the witness. You could read the raw report submitted by the witness and then delete it because events like that should not happen. A truly objective researcher will do no such thing. You must interview the witness, giving her opportunities to embellish. In this case, the witness failed to take the bait. Her story has remained the same each time she related it to me. Her original report, which she submitted online, made no mention of missing time. Angela initially reported a normal sighting which occurred here in the UP of Michigan; only after speaking with me on the phone did she feel comfortable enough to relate her other experiences.

With a witness like Angela, you have three options to consider:

1. The witness is crazy.
2. The witness is l