Table of Contents
Disclaimer: Watch Your Step, Please! 7
Preface 9
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction Loren Coleman 15
Part I Laying the Groundwork
1 The Hypothesis: Criteria for Habitation 23
2 A Note about Native Tribal Traditions 30
3 Historical Encounters through 1950: No Stranger to These Woods 32
Part II Eyewitness Testimony (Chronological)
4 Talking with Eyewitnesses 45
5 Suzy-Hairy Man: A Childhood Encounter 49
6 Tammy Sairio-The Durham Gorilla: A Menagerie of Mystery and the Curse of Infamy 54
7 Mike Ledbury: Neighbors out of National Geographic 70
8 Janelle Graf: A Family History of Encounters 81
9 Lynne Collett: Something Watching in the Woods 94
10 John Hawkins: In the Path of Something Big 99
11 John Doe (Aroostook County): Nighttime Visitor 102
12 John Doe (Penobscot County): A Brief Startling Encounter 106
13 The Dunphys: Across the River and into the Woods 110
14 Hannah Holbrook: Out of the Sudden Silence 114
15 Stephen Lombardo Jr.: A Bad Accident, or Something out of the X-Files 117
16 Matthew Maxcy: Jaywalking Nightmare 123
17 Tyler and Natasha: Late-Night Surprise, a Double Whammy 128
18 Jeff Kaine: How to Stampede a Fisherman 135
19 Jeff Robertson: Disappearing Rocks and Nocturnal Bandits 139
20 Roger Lane: Strange Tracks and Stranger Sounds 144
21 Dan Soucy: Noisy Shadows at Sunset 148
22 Kathy: It Made No Effort to Run or Hide 151
23 Dave: Surprise Family Visit and Other Encounters 155
Part III Additional Context, Curiosities and Conclusions
24 Maine Bigfoot Investigators 163
25 Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot in Maine 168
26 Oddities and Hoaxes: A Mélange of Mysteries, Some Solved 171
27 An Overview and Some Open-Ended Conclusions 178
Notes 181
Bibliography and Additional Reading 187
Index 189
About the Author 191