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Subject: Weird situation on the 12' Bigfoot story
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:58:49 -0500
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- I found this weird and thought you would be interested.
I read the story about the sighting of the 12' foot bigfoot you have at...
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- http://www.sightings.com/general3/12.htm
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- In the article you listed 2 sources for this story....
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- 'Mysterious Creature Spotted In Maryland
From WMAR Channel 2. Baltimore Maryland newscast http://www.insidebaltimore.com/news/maryland/index.shtml
- 8-2-00
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- Tales Of Creature Tall On Interest, Short On Details
Animal sighting lures media to Arundel Mills By Laura Barnhardt - Sun Staff
SunSpot Online Archives http://www.sunspot.net/news/maryland/
- 8-2-00
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- I went to the WMAR Channel 2 site and they only list
news for that day and have no link to older news. I used their search
function but it just goes to a blank screen. I chalked this up to bad
website design after several tries and moved on to the other story source.
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- I went to the SunSpot site and searched their headlines
but found nothing. I pulled up their search and began searching for the
keywords of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Creature, but it found nothing. I
decided to search for articles by the writer ( Laura Barnhardt ) but found
nothing as well. I decided to specify the date of 8-2-00 ( date of the
story ) and this is what I saw...
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- <<sunspot.jpg>> The date for 8-2-00 is missing
in the search menu. If I were even slightly leaning towards being a conspiracy
theorist, I would jump all over this. I do find it very odd that the two
supposedly legitimate news sources ( one being an ABC affiliate ) suddenly
do not have one of their news stories up and their websites are disabled
in a way to make searches for these stories impossible. Hmmm.....Makes
me want to go rent an Oliver Stone film.
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- HANOVER -- Move over, Pacific
Northwest. Maryland now has its own version of the legendary Bigfoot.
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- Construction workers fled the Arundel Mills mall construction
site early Tuesday morning after they reportedly spotted a 12-foot-tall
creature that left abnormally large footprints.
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- The sighting has peaked the interest of state officials,
residents and even the television show ``Unsolved Mysteries.''
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- Three workers say they were sleeping in their van when
they were awakened by a towering animal running on two legs, Anne Arundel
Police Sgt. Joseph E. Jordan said.
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- They retreated to a nearby restaurant and called police,
who sent an off-duty officer to investigate. Officer Nicholas DiPietro
persuaded the workers to return to the site, where they discovered a 15-
to 20-inch-long footprint, Jordan said.
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- But when they caught another glimpse of the creature,
the workers again ran away.
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- DiPietro said he later spotted a large animal on a hill.
The officer said he blew an air horn, but the creature sat motionless and
silent, glaring at the officer for nearly a minute. It then ambled down
the hill and disappeared.
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- Department of Natural Resources searches have turned
up no sign of the creature.
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- DNR spokeswoman Susan O'Brien said it may have been a
bear, which would have been about 5 feet tall and 300 pounds. She said
poor lighting and the workers' fear may have made the animal seem larger
to them.
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- The unusually large footprint could have been made by
an animal that slipped in the mud, O'Brien said. County Executive Janet
S. Owens expressed concern that the sighting may slow the mall's construction.
It is scheduled to open November 16.
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- Copyright 2000 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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- Tales Of Creature Tall On Interest, Short On Details
Animal sighting lures media to Arundel Mills
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- By Laura Barnhardt - Sun Staff SunSpot Online Archives
http://www.sunspot.net/news/maryland/ 8-2-00
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- The sighting of a 12-foot-tall, black, mystery creature
seen lurking in the dark of night near the Arundel Mills construction site
sparked a media frenzy yesterday in the light of day.
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- The report of the "strange sighting" was checked
by police early Monday morning and quickly became a joke about the sighting
of an imaginary Loch Ness Monster from the Severn River.
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- State wildlife officials were called in to search the
area yesterday, where the large, unidentified beast that walked upright
had scared several construction workers.
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- The workers said they were awakened just past midnight
Monday while napping in a van at the mall site in Hanover.
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- Yesterday, reporters from television shows questioned
police and Department of Natural Resources officials as they gathered in
the area.
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- County workers laughed about the tourism possibilities
for the county's sasquatch.
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- But County Executive Janet S. Owens' spokesman remained
serious, expressing Owens' concern that Arundel Mills mall open Nov. 16.
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- The frightened workers said the "thing" ran
past them so fast they weren't sure what it was.
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- After fleeing to a nearby fast-food restaurant, they
called police, who dispatched an off-duty officer working security at the
site.
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- He had trouble persuading the men to return to where
they say they first spotted the animal.
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- Later, when the officer and the workers caught another
glimpse of the creature, the workers ran away again.
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- Hours later, the officer spotted a large animal in the
dark with his floodlight , but it was unclear whether it was the same beast
spotted earlier by the workers.
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- DNR sent a regional wildlife biologist to the construction
site, but the search for the animal or its prints came up empty, said Susan
O'Brien, a department spokeswoman.
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- "It was most likely the bear spotted on [Route]
295 not two or three miles from that site," O'Brien said.
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- The female bear, which had been with a small cub killed
by a car on the road, would have weighed at most about 300 pounds and would
be about 5 feet tall if it stood upright, she said.
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- She said the animal might have looked much larger - distorted
by the witnesses' fear and horror and by poor lighting. That is, if the
bear was the same animal that terrified the construction workers.
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- The officer reported finding a 15- to 20-inch-long print
and seeing a large animal near a pond on the construction site about 3
a.m.
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- Although the print would have been too large to be from
a bear - even a large one - O'Brien said it was possible that the animal
had slid in the dirt, creating an elongated print. Bears have been sighted
by residents in the Baltimore area recently, she said.
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- If confronted by a bear, residents should make their
presence known by standing straight, talking and then backing away slowly
in a nonconfrontational manner, said O'Brien.
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