There is a simple explanation as to why this site was created. Some time ago, while doing some research for a book I was writing, I came across an interesting piece in a histoy of Deer Isle. I call the excerpt, 'The Bigfoot Murder'. I have always been intrigued by the possibility of some strange beats roaming the forests of the world, and the possibility of there being a Sasquatch here in Maine is just as probable as anywhere else in the world.

I used to spend a lot of time in the woods back in the days when I could fit into a lot smaller waist size than I do now, and I've seen and heard some strange things over the years. Shdows flickering into the trees, noises that didn't seem quite right for the local, that sort of thing. But this story that I came across is the only one I have ever found that may have been a killing of a Sasquatch, or Squatch, as I like to call them, right here in the good old state of Maine.

I began writing another book about some strange tales I have heard, and included some bits about some of Maine's monster history. As time passes, I plan on incorporating news about some of the cryptids roaming around on this planet. There will be news, articles and video as I come across them, or are contributed to this site.

Please feel free to contribute any sightings, stories, comments or suggestions about Maines monsters and mysteries to sightings@remembermemedia.com.

And now, heres the story of 

The Bigfoot Murder

From: An Historical Sketch of Deer Isle, Maine by George L. Hosmer ©1886 pgs 9-10

When the first settlers came here, the island was an unbroken wilderness. No evidences were found indicating that it had ever been occupied by white men, and probably but few had ever landed upon its shores. The Indians had made some parts of it places of occupancy, at certain seasons of the year, for the purpose of obtaining a supply of food from the clam-flats, and evidences of their occupancy were to be found where those shellfish were in great abundance, and the depth of the shells in the ground shows that they must have been centuries in accumulating, and they also cover, in many places, considerable space.

When the land was plowed, the spots occupied by their wigwams were easily discernible, and it is probable that the times of their visitation were at such times when other food was not so easily obtainable. Occasionally skeletons have been found, and at one time two were discovered under the roots of a large hard-wood tree: it had grown to a large size and was in a state of decay, when it was blown over during a storm.

One was that of a person of ordinary size, the other of one who was at least eight feet in height, and between the ribs of the larger one was found the head of a dart made of copper. They lay nearly side by side, and had been probably engaged in mortal conflict, the larger one .mortally wounded by the smaller, and the smaller probably fell by the hands of the larger. This conflict must have happened a long time before discovery, as they must have lain upon the ground, and the tree which grew over them must have been a long time in attaining its growth.

They were found nearly sixty years ago, and a medical man then residing in the town gathered up the skeleton of the larger one and preserved it; upon putting the bones together, he stated that the height of the man was what is above stated.