The hominid giants known variously as Sasquatch, Yeti, and Mono Grande have been seen in the wilderness by travelers and explorers for centuries. These giants reportedly exist on at least three continents, namely Asia, South America, and North America. They seem to prefer mountain abodes. Their continuing presence lends credence to legendary accounts of giants in the Bible, in Norse sagas, in the tales of King Arthur and Charlemagne, and elsewhere. The most famous Biblical reference to giants may be the one in Genesis: “There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”

In There Are Giants In The Earth (1974) we read of Major L.A. Waddell, an English author who tells of his encounter with a creature he calls “gigantopithecus” during his travels in the Himalayas of Asia. Major Waddell discovered “a number of large footprints in the snow of northeast Sikkim. He writes, ‘These were alleged to be the trail of the hairy wild men who are believed to live amongst the eternal snows.’ Woven through the folklore fabric of the entire Himalayan range, from the Karakoran to northern Burma, in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, and Assam and in the tiny but glittering kingdom of Sikkim, there had always been stories of and legends that concerned enormous creatures, half man and half beast.” When Colonel Howard-Bury made his 1921 attempt to ascend Mount Everest’s northern face, the first time such a climb was attempted, he and his companions “were fortunate enough to see great dark spots moving across the snow valleys of the Lhapta-la Pass. The Tibetan porters were in no doubt as to the nature of the distant beasts; they were unquestionably members of the raced they called metoh-kangmi.” This phrase, when translated into English, renders the term “abominable snowman.” As the author of There Are Giants In The Earth (1974) continues to relate, “Such sightings were not new to the natives, and, when later in its ascent, at an elevation of 23,000 feet, the party overtook a path of enormous footprints, the bearers were not in the least surprised by either their size or their configuration.” Apparently, only the Western mind has difficulty accepting the existence of giants in the inaccessible, mountainous regions of the world. Natives of the areas in question got used to the idea long ago.

Bernard Heuvelman coined the zoological term “Dinanthropoides nivalis” to scientifically categorize the Himalayan giant commonly known as the “Yeti.” Heuvelman wrote a book about his Yeti theory, entitled On The Track Of Unknown Animals, which contains a detailed description of the hominid giants. This description, which could reasonably be applied to the Sasquatch and Mono Grande as well, can be found in There Are Giants In The Earth (1974). According to Heuvelman, the Yeti is “a large anthropoid ape, from five to eight feet tall, according to its age, sex, or geographic race, which lives in the rocky area at the limits of the plant line on the slopes of the whole Himalayan Range. It has plantigrade feet, and the very conspicuous big toe, unlike that of most monkeys, is not opposite to the other toes. It walks with its body leaning slightly forward; its arms are fairly long and reach down to its knees. It has a flat face, a high forehead, and the top of its skull is shaped like the nose of a shell; its prognathism is slight, but its thick jaws have developed considerably in height, hence the disproportionate size of its molars... It is covered with thick fur... It appears to be omnivorous; roots, bamboo shoots, fruit, lizards, birds, small rodents, and occasionally larger prey like yaks are all grist to its mill in such barren country. Its cerebral capacity should be about equal to, or even greater than, man’s.” The Sasquatch of North America and Mono Grande of South America probably occupy the same sort of barren slopes in their respective mountain ranges, and subsist on a similarly rough diet.

Accounts of Spanish explorers who encountered ape-men in the wilds of South America can be found dating back to at least the 17th century. One story, related in There Are Giants In The Earth (1974), tells of a Spanish gold hunter in the late 1600’s who wrote that “his group had fought with and killed fourteen giant beasts, in a section of jungle near the Colombia-Panama border.” Such stories abounded in the Andes and continued even until the 20th century. In There Are Giants In The Earth (1974) we read of another encounter in the Andes that occurred in 1920 with a beast “six feet tall, which walked erect, weighed possibly three hundred pounds, and was covered with long black hair.” In Venezuela, also in 1920, a five-foot tall monkey with 32 teeth was killed and its body examined. There are no known New World monkeys with 32 teeth, and none of them reach a height of five feet, even in exceptional cases. Once again, the arbitrary rules of biology have been broken by individual encounters with reality.

Bigfoot became a film star in October of 1967, when the late Roger Patterson managed to capture the hairy beast on the film in his hand-held movie camera. The creature Patterson filmed stood nearly eight-feet-tall, weighed as much as 1,000 lb., and left 14 1/2 inch-long tracks. The filming took place near Bluff Creek in Northern California, an area which has since become the “hot center” of Sasquatch sightings in North America. According to Bigfoot hunter John Green, sixty different people have reported Sasquatch findings in the Bluff Creek area, including seventy sets of footprints and eight actual sightings. Green’s book, The Apes Among Us (1978), might be a good place to find more information about this furry phenomenon.

With so much Sasquatch data available, including film footage, footprints, and as many as 750 sightings on record, it seems as though it would be difficult for scientists to deny the existence of this giant hominid. Why, then, is Bigfoot still considered a mystery at all? The reasons might be more philosophical than scientific. The existence of giants calls the very popular philosophy of Darwinism, which holds that “natural selection” leads to the “survival of the fittest,” into serious question. After all, if the Sasquatch is larger, stronger, and potentially even brainier than the ordinary human, why didn’t the giant variety of hominids take over? The disappearance of these giants would suggest that the strongest don’t always win in their struggle against the weak, and that high intelligence might not always lead to victory in the survival game. Even more threatening to Darwinist dogma is the idea that the Sasquatch might be the same species of giant mentioned in Genesis, suggesting that the Creationists might have been right all along.

If you start to believe in Bigfoot, it doesn’t take much imagination to begin believing in the giants of ancient times as well. Since Genesis tells us that these giants mated with human women, producing offspring of heroic proportions, it might prove fruitful to look for evidence of giants in tales of heroes like King Arthur. Arthur’s bones, if they were found, might give us some important clues about this man of renown and his legendary strength. Is King Arthur’s body buried at Glastonbury Abbey? This mystery has never been laid to rest, but a Welsh bard is said to have revealed the secret location of Arthur’s grave, beneath Glastonbury Abbey, to King Henry II. A fire in 1184 A.D. gave monks an opportunity to search for the grave while the abbey was being rebuilt. According to The Atlas of Mysterious Places (1987), when the monks began to dig, “About 2m (aft) down they found a stone slab and lead cross inscribed hic iacet sepultus inclitus rex arturius in insula avalonia, ‘Here lies buried the renowned King Arthur in the Isle of Avalon.’ About 2.7m (aft) below the slab was a coffin cut from a hollow log containing the bones of a 2.4m (8 ft) man with a damaged skull, as well as smaller bones identified as Guinevere’s...” In order to win so many battles, Arthur would have had to be an exceptionally large, strong man. But what kind of man stands eight feet tall today? The answer comes to mind quickly enough if we let it: Bigfoot! So, maybe King Arthur was one of those half-man, half-giants mentioned in the Bible, and maybe evolution really is just a half-baked theory...

Before leaving this hairy subject behind, let’s open up an even more mysterious can of worms and see if we don’t blow materialist biology’s proverbial lid right off into outer space. The mysterious question of the millennium is: does Bigfoot have anything to do with cattle mutilations? If so, he’s gotten himself mixed up with some even more malevolent miscreants than anyone might have imagined. Let’s examine the evidence, shall we? In Mysteries Of The World (1979), author Daniel Cohen tells us that “mysterious cattle mutilations” caused widespread panic in South Dakota and Nebraska during the summer and fall of 1974. Cohen writes that “cattle would be found dead for no obvious reason. Parts of their anatomy were missing.” The odd butcherings were at first blamed on a “Satanist cult” supposedly active in the area. Then came eyewitness reports of “the Thing,” a hairy ape-man wandering about in the region. According to Cohen, “Though no one actually said that he saw ‘the Thing’ killing cattle, the connection seemed obvious enough: Bigfoot was roaming the range, killing cattle.” We all gotta eat, right? However likely this explanation may seem on the surface, it leads to some rather chilling questions, because Bigfoot is not the only monster associated with cattle mutilations. The other beastly beef butchers, far from being mundane and acceptable to scientists as Sasquatches are, might not even belong in the realm of possibility as far as the Darwinists are concerned.