"Neither beast nor man."  From Wid's Daily, 1920.

"Bigfoot discovered out picking violets."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.

Kneejerk stereotyping is just as ugly when it is applied to our large-footed, hirsute brethren.  The headline reads, "Ranger: 'Bigfoots' all like."  Plus, not to sound pedantic, but the plural of Bigfoot is Bigfeet.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1981.

We initially mistook this headline to mean that the couple were seaching the lyrics of Blues songs for appearances of Bigfoot.  Cue Harry James' "Feet Draggin' Blues," but not Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Stocking Feet Blues" (because Bigfoot goes barefoot).  Bob Marley sang, "Your feet is just too big for your shoes."  The old folk song "Ol' Virginny Never Tire" mentions how "the hollow of her foot makes a hole in the groun'."  There's an old folk rhyme about "Johnny Bigfoot" who would have to kick two cows out of their skins to have shoes that fit.  The Ink Spots sang how "there were four of us: me, your big feet, and you."  Then there's the Moody Blues, who sing of how "the earth shook under my feet."  Johnny Cash's "Big Foot" is about a different Bigfoot—the Miniconjou chief.  We're little acquainted with the Blues genre, so no dount many more Sasquatches are lurking in those sonic realms.  Someone should write a book about how Bigfoot hides in music.

Interesting to see how the topics of UFOs and Bigfoot/Yeti/Abominable Snowman sometimes merge in news articles.  In these three random examples, we find references to "UFO 'Snowmen'" and UFOs that "left nothing but their 'footprints.'"

From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971, 1974, and 1984.

Two years before Star Wars, here's a wanted poster for a Wookie-like monster.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1975.

"Mystery apparently unraveled.  Bigfoot's named Butch."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.

Here's a precursor to the Addams Family's Cousin Itt.  From Le Charivari, 1891.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.

These Cousins Itt appear in Bethany's 1982 yearbook.

From the Davidson yearbook of 1978.

Here's a precursor to the Addams Family's cousin Itt.  From Le Courrier Français, 1886.

From Die Muskete, 1934.

From Die Muskete, 1916.

"The newest thing in winter auto headgear."  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.