In yesterday's paper there was a profile on a new cheese shop.
In today's paper |
The t-shirts the proprietors are wearing appear to show Bigfoot.
T-shirt detail |
Bigfoot is having a mini-moment! Earlier this week the Oregonian mentioned Bigfoot.
Oregonian earlier this week |
A century ago might be the very first mention in Salem papers, and it is almost certainly the first extended discussion in popular culture.
The Oregonian in fact had written about the episode in 2018, "How a 1924 Bigfoot battle on Mt. St. Helens helped launch a legend."
The afternoon paper here in 1924 picked up the story and gave it way more attention here than the morning paper.
July 14th, 1924 |
But the afternoon paper was also very skeptical, calling it an instance of "the annual fake."