The Creature: Personal Experiences With Bigfoot [Paperback]

Jan Klement (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0910042276 | ISBN-13: 978-0910042277 | Publication Date: March 15, 2006

This is a 30th anniversary reprint of the 1976 edition. Notes and sketches previously eliminated from the first addition have been added. The story line involves contact with a bigfoot type creture in southwestern Pennsylvania. The story is corrobarated with newspaper accounts.

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About the Author

Jan Klement was a teacher in southwestern Pennsylvania at the time of this experience.

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Allegheny Press (March 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0910042276
• ISBN-13: 978-0910042277
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,178,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A clever farce, November 24, 2000

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Reid Nelson (New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Creature: Personal Experiences With Bigfoot (Paperback)

This is a well written farce, plain and simple. While we all wish something so spectacular would happen to us, we should not let our fascination with such a possibility blind us from objectivity. The author writes well and, in some moments, seems to be describing a real experience. However, the facts just don't add up. It is simply too convenient for the author that: 1) he never told anyone about the bigfoot he lived with, 2) he never photographed it, 3) it died, 4) he had to chop the body to pieces, and 5) he doesn't remember where he buried it. All together, these excuses provide too convenient a way for him to not provide any real evidence that any of this ever happened. A silly book, all told.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Uh yeah, sure....., March 30, 2006

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T.G. (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Creature: Personal Experiences With Bigfoot (Paperback)

I suppose if a person were totally unfamiliar with the outdoors and was not a critical thinker they might accept this as a true story. I don't find fault with this tale because it involves a Bigfoot; it's the other obvious untruths in the story that annoy me. A supposed Wildlife professor in PN just happens to be into Bigfoot research and even has track casts in his office, but later he blows away a raccoon for no reason. O.K. The bigfoot has sex with a cow. Humans aside, is there any mammal which becomes sexually aroused by a mammal of another taxonomic order? When the Bigfoot dies our hero drives the body to another state (exactly why is unclear), cuts it up and buries it. He even lops its head off with one chop of an axe. The decapitation with an axe (medieval executioners axes excepted) thing only works in grade B slasher movies. Try it sometime with a road kill deer. Did I mention he puts the Bigfoot in a car and drives it 200 miles, but he can't manage to get a picture of it? Call a work of fiction what it is, to call it a true story is insulting.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's phoney - don't bother., November 22, 2000

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Curt Nelson (Minneapolis, Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Creature: Personal Experiences With Bigfoot (Paperback)

I believe in bigfoot but if the author of this book really had a relationship with bigfoot he lied about it extensively. That's the generous view. More probably, the whole story is a fabrication. It doesn't make sense to embelish a story that's so inherently fantastic. The writing is bad too.