Portland Expert: Bigfoot Researcher Bickering Has Delayed Finding Bigfoot

Bigfoot memorial statue at North Fork Survivors Gift Shop
By AARON MESH

Here's some weekend reading for those of you without romantic ambitions: Outside magazine has found Portland's top Bigfoot hunters.

Robert Sullivan, the expatriate Portland writer who has chronicled rats, Thoreau and whale hunts, debuted the long article this week, spending time in the company of Sasquatch searchers across the Northwest—including the Western Bigfoot Society in St. Johns.

One big takeaway: Bigfoot researchers are a highly balkanized community, which has slowed their search.

Western Bigfoot Society founder Peter Byrne tells Outside that the squabbling is why believers haven't found the Big Guy yet.

For more of Sullivan's highly involving piece—including how the St. Johns society greeted the theory that Bigfoot came from outer space—go here.

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