Question 1 - Why did you decide to write this story?
Answer - I started writing the Coalmont Legend and in it, as I researched this town, I began to find a lot of legend material circling the Sasquatch Phenomena. When I dived into Sasquatch research I was compelled to have my legend series based around this universe with three totally different stories with Sasquatch in them.
Question 2 - Have you ever personally had a Bigfoot encounter?
Answer - I have had moment when I heard something from the forest or seen something that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It always turned out to be just a fallen branch, a bird and once I mistook the fur of a deer's butt to be a Sasquatch arm. I wish at the time that I had taken a picture of it. The sight of it was compelling, then it moved.
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