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Abducted by a Sasquatch Abducted by a Sasquatch never heard of before his experience. Anticipating that his story of the bizarre episode THE might be greeted with derision, Ostman kept it Ostman saw his captors...They were to himself for 33 years. Then in 1957, he told it `X` ZONE APP four large, hairy creatures who to Swiss-Canadian Bigfoot investigator, Rene looked at him with intense curiosity. Dahinden. [] IS NOW AVAILABLE Blobs and Globsters FOR While on vacation in 1924 in the mountains APPLE behind Toba Inlet on the coast of British Columbia, Canadian lumberman Albert On beaches in Florida, Bermuda, AND Ostman’s sleep was disturbed. As he lay in his and Australasia great masses of sleeping bag, he suddenly had the sensation that ANDROID he was being picked up. He soon realized that unidentified animal tissue have been DEVICES this was no dream. He found that he had been washed up. Are they the remains of lifted up and carried off while trapped, and near giant sea creatures as yet unknown www.xzoneapps.com suffocation, in his sleeping bag. He could not to science? see his captor nor was he able to free himself. He was manhandled over rough terrain by his On November 30, 1896, two youngsters cycling abductor for what he thought must have been on Anatasia Beach, near St. Augustine, Florida, about three hours. came across an enormous, pale, silvery pink mass of what appeared to be decomposing Terrifying journey animal tissue. They immediately reported their Ostman’s terrifying and uncomfortable, journey find to a local physician and natural historian, came to a sudden halt when he was abruptly Dr. DeWitt Wedd, aho with others, examined dropped on the ground. The night was so dark that he could not see where he had been taken. the carcass. They discovered that it was about 23 feet long, 18 feet across, and 4 feet high, and He heard the clatter of pots and pans as what he weighted about five tons. Along its sides were thought to be his knapsack was tossed on the what appeared to be the stumps of five or six ground. Recovering himself, Ostman managed great arms - one investigator claimed to have to extricate himself from his sleeping bag. He became aware that he was surrounded by some found fragments of arms up to 32 feet long in the surrounding sand. moving shapes that loomed large before him in the dark. He could not make out these creatures Tremendous tentacles clearly but he could hear them chatting The carcass, and alleged arms, were washed out incomprehensively among themselves. to sea by a storm. Although the former was cast- When dawn broke, Ostman saw his captors for the first time. They were four large, back on shore two miles south, the arms were never seen again. Prof. A. E. Verrill, a zoologist hairy creatures who stood on two legs and looked at him with intense curiosity. The group of Yale University, eventually decided the remains were those of a giant octopus was mad up of the following: an adult male, previously unknown to science. He estimated about eight feet tall, that had apparently carried that, when alive, it’s tentacles would have been Ostman away; an adult female, about seven feet 75-100 feet long, an enormous size: The tall; a male that, at just over seven feet. looked full grown; and a young, smaller female. tentacles of the largest scientifically measured octopus were 11.5 feet long. The creatures had hair about six inches long on their heads while on the rest of their bodies the hair was short and thick. The only parts of their bodies that were not covered with hair were the palms of their hands, the soles of their feet, and the upper parts of their noses and eyelids. They had large feet with padded soles. Except for the older female, they were, Ostman claimed, extremely agile. Trapped in a valley Ostman found himself in a small valley that was enclosed by steep cliffs. Even though the creatures made no attempt to harm him, the But upon examination of tissue samples adult male blocked the only exit from the valley taken from the creature, Prof. Verrill changed and prevented Ostman from escaping. He was his mind, concluding that they probably came not harmed, and each day the young male from the head of a sperm whale. However, offered him roots and grasses to eat. After five many years later, in 1963, Dr. Joseph Gennaro, days of captivity, Ostman became desperate. of the University of Florida, reexamined the The young male had sampled some snuff that the lumberman had in his knapsack. On the samples under the microscope and decided that the tough, pale, fibrous tissue was unlike the sixth morning, Ostman offered a tin containing tissue of a whale or squid but did resemble that the snuff to the adult male,which swallowed its of an octopus. In the early 1980’s biochemist whole contents in a single gulp. The creature Dr. Roy P. Mackal analyzed the amino acids immediately became ill and during the ensuing confusion, Ostman finally managed to escape. (the chief component of proteins) in the sample as also concluded that these probably came On Ostman’s return to civilization, a from a giant octopus of an unknown species. local Indian told him that he had been abducted by a Sasquatch, a creature that Ostman had Continued on Page 31