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Did fiction give birth to Bigfoot?

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From: Skeptical Inquirer
Date: 19940922
Author:Trotti, Hugh H.

Some literary experts believe that the Bigfoot myth might have been a product of literature, particularly of Jonathan Swift's book 'Gulliver's Travels.' Biographers noted that the book was one of the favorite reading materials of American frontiersman, Daniel Boone. Boone may have conjured up the Bigfoot story, which could be based on Swift's hairy creatures called Yahoo. Other woodsmen of the time could have retold Boone's story to villagers who, in turn, promulgated the story further.

Despite many claimed sightings and various forms of evidence, it seems there is a possibility that ...

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