Is Bigfoot Really a Bizarre Idea?

My name is Monte Reel and I’m the author of Between Man and Beast. It’s a book about the discovery of the gorilla in the 1850s and 60s. Today, we know, for example, a chimpanzee genetically shares more in common with humans than a gorilla, but at that time based on studies of the bone structure, generally scientists agreed that the gorilla was the closest relative, and it was a new animal. It had been just very recently discovered. In 1847, the first gorilla skull had been collected and identified. Paul Du Chaillu, the explorer who was the first one to really describe gorillas in the wild, he encountered them during expeditions that he undertook first in the late 1850s. He described them as almost like monsters.