Group goes on 2-day hunt for a sasquatch

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KAMAS, UTAH -- A group of about 45 people spent two days in the Uinta Mountains searching for the legendary Bigfoot.

Members of the Bigfoot Field Research Organization used sophisticated equipment such as parabolic microphones and night-vision goggles to search for the apelike beast.

BFRO Director Matt Moneymaker, a lawyer from Capistrano, Calif., said he founded the organization to be a clearinghouse for sightings nationwide of Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch.

Those who say they have heard or seen a sasquatch say they are never quite the same. Scott Taylor of Tacoma said he saw a Bigfoot in 2005 while deer hunting on the coast of Washington.

"It's not like going out and watching deer and elk," Taylor said.

"These are creatures that don't want to be seen. But when you see one, it changes your life forever."

Moneymaker said he once was as close as 15 feet from a sasquatch in 1994 in Portage County, Ohio.