Bigfoot History

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People think bigfoot has been around for almost 4000 years. Ancient drawings from what seemed to be from cavemen had drawn or described a large hairy creature lurking around their home.

Sometimes, video evidence has carried all the way back to 1967. (video footage was collected in 1967, Bigfoot Film)

Back in ancient times, people have believed that others were possibly bigfoot-like creatures. A man named Gilgamesh, a large hairy man, had looked just like the creature, he then believed he was the creature. He eventually convinced everybody in town that he was the creature from the woods.

In 1958 one of the first sightings occurred “It wasn’t until 1958 that the Bigfoot legend really started to kick off in

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