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Jaymi Trimble's fascination with Bigfoot began when she watched the famous Patterson-Gimlin film at the Princess Theatre in downtown Prosser.
She was 11, and became "totally intrigued," she said.
She still is. Trimble, now 49, is starting a group in the Tri-Cities for people who want to read about, research and track the mysterious creature, also called sasquatch.
The first meeting of her Northwest Bigfoot group is 1 p.m. Sunday at the Mid-Columbia Libraries' branch at 1620 Union St., Kennewick. Bill Laughery, a former game warden and Bigfoot tracker whom Trimble calls a mentor, is scheduled to appear.
"I know that there's interest in our community. I thought this would be a great way for people to get together, share ideas and go out (on treks)," Trimble said.
She has read dozens of books on Bigfoot and spent hundreds of hours researching in the field. She said she's found tracks in the Blue Mountains, making casts of two of them, each 16 to 18 inches long. She said she alsohas heard vocalizations -- "a very unusual, distinctive sound" she describes as a combination of a horse cough and braying.
But if the species really exists, roaming the wilderness, how has it stayed hidden so long? Trimble has heard that question before. Think about the panda, she said; so familiar now, the black-and-white bear wasn't widely known until the last century.
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/04/12/2555140/tri-city-woman-starts-bigfoot.html#storylink=cpy
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
