Sasquatch

Adapted from an excerpt of the novel Ancient of Genes by Dan Gallagher British explorer, Dr. Bart Lloyd, awoke to his Sherpa guidemaster, Lonzing, telling him they had to go back. Lloyd, an unsponsored paleozoologist, had intended to get results this time and to be taken seriously. …

By Will Dryden — Everyone has their own holiday traditions. Some people get together with their families and eat an entire bird. Some people watch movies that they only watch once a year because otherwise they’ll realize how bad they are. Me? I go squatching. As you may have seen, if you went to the Halloween on the Hill concert, this year I included my cool friends Benjamin Whitted and Gavin Dransfield in my tradition. What you didn’t see was the TRUE story of how our hunt turned out. This season is a time for giving and joy. So, I bribed the Herald to proudly present this lovely gift: Squatch Hunt: The Squatcher’s Cut.

Note: this one is out of order, and should follow the Joe Consonants chapters. I really should get more sleep before attempting a post… The skooks didn’t come back around our house again that summer as far as I know. I watched my son like a hawk, and he took no more unexpected jaunts toward the foothills. After Joe Consonants shrugged off the incident as not worth worrying about, because the skooks had marked my son out for a special relationship dating back…

Been a week since I posted a chapter from this novel. So here goes — the story continues. One of the eerie Gorge’s most colorful characters has warned our protagonist that skooks could well invade his Plateau home to get closer to his young son, having “marked” him when they…

Tuesday morning when Ralph Lincoln called the house, he sounded very happy our son was none the worse for wear. He had a couple more microbe hunters with him, headed for the Gorge, and wanted to know if I would show them where we had been. My wife said go…

Are there any good sasquatch movies out there? I’ve seen Bobcat Goldthwait’s found footage film Willow Creek. That’s probably the best reviewed of the subgenre, though I don’t remember liking it. I’ve seen the amazingly-titled The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot staring Sam Elliott, but I’m sad…