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The Bigfoot Obsession

JOE NICKELL

Monster Trek: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot. By Joe Gisondi. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8032-4994-3. 278 pp. Softcover, $18.95.

With Joe Gisondi’s Monster Trek: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot the subtitle says it all. Gisondi, an outsider, traveled with Bigfooters— those credulous folk motivated to search for the fabled creature despite zero scientific evidence for its existence. At times, he sounds like a skeptic: “How could creatures presumed to be so large remain so elusive?” (77). At other times, he seems a believer: “. . . I felt something watching me” (37). He is, in fact, a journalist trying to be objective and show both sides: “As always I straddle the world of what could be and what is” (42).

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