Bigfoot Footprint

[Kat]

To make a short story long, my Agatha Christie huge autobiography was due at the Library on Monday. I had arranged, I thought, to bring it back Sunday before it was due, in order to re-check it out. I did attempt to do that, going out of my way, and found there was a "Hold" placed on it by a staff member.
NowComeOn! This is a 1977 book! How can it be reserved? So I thought the person who helped me on the phone might have been the one to put the hold on. But they weren't there Sunday. So I called yesterday, Monday, and spoke to the lady and she said she "no longer needed it." So I did not find out if it was for her or another patron- that's not something they can answer- but it wasn't on hold for me. And of all the old books in the Library, that was reserved! A 31 year old book! Just weird.

Anyway, that's why my story is so long... because this may be the reason I had to go to that Library today- to get back the Christie: As I entered the Library foyer there was a brand new display that caught my eye. I stopped when I saw the word "Cryptozoology" and there was a cast of a Bigfoot monster in the glass case! It was the cast of a Utah Bigfoot. Below on a lower shelf was a "Skunk" or Swamp" monster footprint cast- that is a Florida version. That one was 16" I think. The Utah one was over 18".

Now, I don't know about you guys, but I've never been that close to a *real* Bigfoot cast. I noticed the case was not locked. I went inside and saw an employee and asked her about the display, and she came over to the case with me. I asked if I could touch it! She said she'd get the key. I told her it didn't look locked- she said then she'd get the key and lock it. Meanwhile I could touch the imprint!

I was alone with it in the foyer. I rubbed my hands together many times- feeling like I wanted to shed first the residue of all the public doors I had opened today. This was all just instinct. I did want to see if I *experienced* anything by touching the cast.

I rubbed my hands together until they were hot. Then breathed deeply a few times, then held the palm of my hand over the cast- running up and down it without touching it- at first.
I concentrated, but my right hand did not feel like it was expressing anything; like it was dormant. So I tried my left and then time running out, I touched the cast. Then I touched the swamp ape cast. Nothing. I got nothing.

When I had first looked in the case I got goosebumps all over my body. That's why I impulsively asked to touch the exhibits. Nothing. Oh well. That's the way it is sometimes. I have not been feeling particularly sensitive lately anyway.

I checked out my Christie, got in the car and started driving. I got through 2 lights and then was almost overcome with feeling sick. A general sickness all over with nausea. But that cleared in about 3 blocks. I don't know what that was. The whole thing was just really interesting, I thought.

[kssunflower]

I wonder if the footprint was found in the Everglades. That's where most of the sightings tend to be.

[Kat]

Has anyone ever seen something like a cryptozoological specimen? A possible lake monster? Something out of the ordinary?
I've often thought if I did it would make me sick, now that I think about it...vomitting sick- something never seen before- the mind can't register it...even tho these things fascinate me.

There was an eyewitness to a Nessie sighting many years ago, who was a veterinary assistant/student and he claimed to have seen Nessie out of the Loch- lumbering. It's almost obscene to imagine that, I think. A Nessie in the Loch is one thing- a Nessie on dry land in its huge amorphous gray bulkiness, slithering or whatever- just awful. Yikes!