Bigfoot ‘sitings’ spur search in South Dakota
Area residents claim they’ve spotted
footprints too big for any other critter
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LITTLE EAGLE, S.D. (AP) —
Residents of north-central South
Dakota are searching for a crea
ture resembling Big Foot, the elu
sive monster said to inhabit the
forests of the northwestern United
States.
In a copyrighted story published
Thursday, the Sioux Falls Argus
Leader reported numerous sight
ings of the creature have been re
ported in the Little Eagle and
McLaughlin areas.
The most recent sighting was
made Wednesday night near Little
Eagle, a village about 25 miles
northwest of Mqbridge.
"Some people drove into a yard
and saw him with their head
lights,” said Ralph Taken Alive of
Little Eagle.
“He was standing near some
pigs and chickens they had pen
ned up. They almost ran into him.”
Area residents say footprints
from 16 to 18 inches long and
eight inches wide have been
found, and from their spacing, it
appears the creature has a stride
of six to eight feet.
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Art Eifenbraun, office manager
of the McLaughlin Messenger
newspaper, said most of the half
dozen sightings that have been
reported in the area have been at
night.
Details of the sightings match
the descriptions often given for
Big Foot—seven to eight feet tall,
very hairy, long arms and an of
fensive odor.
Gary Alexander, owner of the
Little Eagle Trading Post, is one of
the area men who has hunted the
creature on horseback.
“Just so nobody thinks it's a
hoax, we found tracks five and a
half miles east of Little Eagle in
such a remote area no one would
ever go there,” he said. “There
wasn't a human footprint around.
"One of the guys wears a size
13 boot. He stepped beside the
footprint and hardly made an im
print at all. I guess he (the man)
weighs about 240 pounds.”
The creature left footprints
about two and a half inches deep,
according to the men's descrip
tion.
A spokesman for the Corson
County sheriff’s office in McIntosh
says no official investigation is
being made by that office into the
reported sightings, but there have
been reports to the sheriff's office
that the creature has been seen
killing cattle and roaming in the
Little Eagle area.
So far no one has been hurt —
either by the creature or in the
hunt for him — said Eifenbraun. A
report that a man had a heart at
tack after being surprised by the
animal is not true, he said
“There have also been stories
going around of people finding
animals which have been killed,
but we don't have any proof of any
of them."
The Bureau of Indian Affairs in
Fort Yates, N.D., is investigating
reported Big Foot sightings in that
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give up her land, says Emily
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in property taxes to Polk County.
Cooper, 50, says it’ll feke force
to drive her from her three bed
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"I bought and paid for this land
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“They could take away my
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"What I’m interested in keeping is
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i ne propeny tax system is op
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‘This property tax started with
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Polk County treasurer, Joe Coc
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“We aren't trying to be hard
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out," Cochrane said. “I don't like
to pay my taxes either.”
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