CRYPTOLINK: Alberta a hotbed in the hunt for Bigfoot

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Calgarian Tyler Huggins holds plaster casts from what are believed by some to be “bigfoot” prints. Huggins believes he and his friends saw one of the mysterious creatures while hiking in the Rockies in the 1990s.

Photograph by: Gavin Young , Calgary Herald

A Calgary man on an unwavering quest to uncover the existence of an elusive, legendary creature has endured “heaps of mockery” and dug into his own pockets to pay for his pursuit.

But Tyler Huggins remains on the hunt for Bigfoot, parsing through potential evidence after encountering what he believes was the ape-like beast, widely believed to be something out of mythology.

Theories about these mysterious, walking primates were thrust back into the public spotlight this week after Oxford University researcher Bryan Sykes released research findings that suggest the yeti — an ape-like creature of the Himalayas — could be a polar bear hybrid still roaming mountain terrain.

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