Your Best Cryptozoological Lede Of The Year Is…
Posted by Justin on September 14th, 2010
William Allen Barnes is a man on a mission. His journey to find and track the creature known as Bigfoot (although he is loathe to use that particular term) began on a fateful night camping in California.
But his story, begins with the best lede we’ve ever read while editing this site:
On a warm summer night in 1997, local Bigfoot researcher and part-time gold-mining enthusiast William Allen Barnes was plunged headlong into the world of cryptozoology.
His story is well worth reading. Including this incredible line:
“After it left, the adrenaline hit me and I just sat there and shook,” Barnes said. “I got up the next morning and left. It took me four years to go back out there into the canyon by myself, and my gun got bigger every year.”
A part-time gold-mining enthusiast rolling through the Cali campgrounds strapped like Duke Nukem? Hail to the king.
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September 18th, 2010 at 12:44 am
When he gets done bigfoot will just be a pile of bloody hair