Rainier?”. I have no interest in Bigfoot, but an episode of How I Met Your Mother was on television and a character on the show described why he believed in Bigfoot as I scrolled through the headlines and saw this article. It was written by Joe Nickell in the September/October 2014 issue of Skeptical Inquirer. The purpose of his article was to analyze past reports of a bigfoot sighting in the area surrounding Mount Rainier, Washington state. Nickell also traveled to the area to see if he could record a sighting as well. When recounting past Bigfoot sightings, look at the sightings objectively and recount them without bias. He then proceeds to tell us a brief account of his trip, attempting to see Bigfoot. He was led by guide Diann Sheldon on his trip to the Mount Reiner area, and she took him to the reported sites with the highest number of Bigfoot sightings. Nickell interviewed several park rangers and volunteers and chose to tell us what a volunteer named Hollinger had seen. Hollinger said that during the previous summer he had seen a bear standing on its hind legs, and he understood how some people might mistake a bear for Bigfoot. In the next section of the article Nickell recounted Bigfoot's most "infamous" evidence, the Wild Creek Photos. The photos were taken by unidentified park rangers and are alleged to have been doctored with a
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