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The Creature: Personal Experiences With Bigfoot

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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.

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.

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.

this is the most stupid thing. why would he drive bigfoot 200 miles then chop him up? there's lots of other crazy things in here too. it is unrealistic. while bigfoot is fact, this book is fiction. it's not even good fiction. don't waste your time and money.

This book is awful. it is the craziest thing ever. it says its true but its fictional junk.

It is a cute little book and entertaining. I wanted to believe it but just couldn't. I would think that if someone did have multiple encounters with Big Foot he would have gotten a picture, footprint or something for evidence. I don't know if Big Foot exist, but we can keep on hoping. You won't walk away from this book being convinced that Big Foot is out there.

This this is perhaps the most fascinating Bigfoot book I've ever read--and I've read nearly all of them. Jan Klement (pseud.), a science professor at a college in Pennsylvania at the time this was written (1976) allegedly befriended a Sasquatch that took to visiting his cabin in the Pennsylvania hills. Yes, _befriended_. The author allegedly had literally dozens of encounters with a being he nicknamed "Kong" and which he describes at length. If this story is true it far overshadows other alleged close observations of Bigfoot, from Albert Ostman to William Roe's. Furthermore, the story would have value because the main eyewitness was a university science professor and his observations, while amateur, are intelligent and extremely insightful.

Is the story true? I think so. The story seems hard to believe because quite simply, no one has ever reported such close and consistent contact before. The author does also describe some strange events. However, there is nothing that stands out as being obviously manufactured, nor is there any pattern to the implausibility or any indication of insincerity. The story is told in a straightforward and detailed manner.

If it is a hoax, it is a sophisticated one hatched by an intelligent, learned person and frankly I doubt such a person would invest so much time cooking up such an elaborate hoax. (Bigfooters, who are the exact opposite on the other hand just might but as a rule lack the sophistication and communicative skills.) As for the author, he wrote the book in anonymity and states that if identified, he will deny all knowledge of the events described. He says in the book, "whether you believe these events is of no importance to you or me." Quite frankly, I believe him, and I believe this hidden gem might be the most significant Bigfoot book avaliable on the market today.

I enjoyed this book for the most part. It was entertaining. I have to admit that I found the sexually related parts of this tale to be just plain repulsive and creepy. As a person who has had an encounter with such a creature I am a believer. I do not, however, have a lot of confidence in the truthfulness of this book. The tale told is so bizarre, wierd and unbelievable. I would give greater consideration if the author's identity was revealed as well as the specific geographic location of the proported encounters.

until the part where he got the bigfoot in his car and drove it two hundred miles away and a day and a half later it was back~! He really blew the tale when he claimed to have somehow loaded the dead bigfoot up (hoisting it alone would be difficult enough) into a car, and drove it to where he cut the body into pieces before burying. I mean if you like I almost did, believed the story up to that point how could he just so callously dismember this creature that he apparently loved? I personally couldn't even do that to a dog I loved! It would be too disturbing and also unnecessary. Especially, the part where he whacked off its head with an ax no less? Why?? Had he an ounce of sense he would have photographed the body and then arranged anonomously through the Smithsonian or some reputable scientifc organization to donate the body for every one to share. This story is just that. An entertaining yarn but with parts that are disturbing as if a Stephan King novel.

Anyone who has spent time reading and researching Bigfoot will be very familiar with Jan Klement's case. His experience has been cited in numerous books on the subject, and to this day, its historical merit has been essential in the study of this elusive creature. That being said, this is a wonderful, full case history from Klement. The text is easy to read, yet extremely detailed. I was swept into the story from page one with his honest, matter of fact tone. You get his entire experience from his initial meeting with the creature to their final departure. Before reading this book, I was unaware of some of the spectacular encounters Klement had with the creature, even though I was fairly informed with this case. If you have an interest in the subject, this book is essential for your collection. I couldn't recommend it enough.