It starts as a shadow. But Marc A. Dewerth sees a legend. On that day in 1997 near Coshocton County's Wills Creek, Dewerth knows he saw the elusive Bigfoot. He looks at the shaky videotape he shot that day and eagerly points out the shadow in the middle of the screen. It sits between two trees. If you're not looking for it, you'd miss it. Then, just as you're ready to dismiss it and laugh it off, the shadow disappears behind one of the trees, leaving brush where it had been. The shape appears again. This time, you'd swear there was a black, pointy head, sunken eyes, brown, tough skin outlined with tufts of hair. You'd swear it's Bigfoot. But it's the end of the tape that really gets him excited -- the part he didn't even notice until primate experts at the Cleveland Zoo pointed it out to him: Two very apelike creatures sitting among the brush in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. While it's easy to jump to conclusions, even Dewerth remains skeptical of what he saw."It may or may not be a Bigfoot,'' he said. "But it's something.'' That's the attitude of the 40 or so people who attended Saturday night's meeting of the Multi-State Bigfoot Research Roundtable -- a group that meets monthly and is dedicated to tracking down every viable reported Bigfoot sighting, hoping to find the one that finally produces conclusive evidence the giant bipedal mammal exists.
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