No, it’s not a joke. KTVK-TV reports that a Phoenix resident who’s building a cabin near the Route 66 town of Seligman, Ariz., claims he saw Bigfoot twice in a year there.
“Java” Bob Smallsback of Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. is in Seligman investigating:
Smallsback says he was called in after the most recent sighting and claims he was able to track the creature, finding what he says is a fingernail where the Sasquatch had stubbed his toe on a rock.
Smallsback says a team from Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. will be in Seligman for the next few months in hopes of making contact with the elusive creature.
Believe it or not, this isn’t the first reputed Bigfoot sighting on or near Route 66. There was a sighting in 2006 near Funks Grove, Ill. But, as usual, no one was able to prove the creature exists.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Bigfoot hunters provide more comedy — albeit unintentional — than the fun-loving folks at the Snow-Cap Drive-In in Seligman.
UPDATE: KPHO-TV also has video of its report on Bigfoot, including that ugly toenail that allegedly was found and an interview with Frank Kocevar, owner of Historic Seligman Sundries.
UPDATE2: Kocevar has set up a Route66Bigfoot.com site. Kocevar says on the site: “We are in daily contact with Tom Biscardi and ‘Java’ Bob from Searching For Bigfoot, Inc.”
The evidence of some sort of Sasquatch in the Seligman area appears to be a bit scant so far. But at least the investigators appear to be having fun traipsing around the admittedly lovely high desert.
Ron – check out KPHO.com for another Route 66 Bigfoot Story. KPHO is chanel 5 in Phoenix.
frank Kocevar