Among Tlingit and man-eating moose

A review of "Rusty Wilson´s Alaskan Bigfoot Campfire Stories"

Rusty Wilson is a spinner of ghost stories and other yarns, mostly Bigfoot-related. I've read two of his books. I admit that I found the Alaska book less interesting or entertaining than “Rusty Wilson's Bigfoot Campfire Stories”. Maybe it's because most of the stories are pretty similar, revolving around people getting lost in the Alaskan wilderness, getting stalked by angry “bushmen” in the process. The stories contain a lot of filler, with the action parts being relatively brief.

The best story is probably “Lost on Yakobi Island” (the final chapter), about an archaeologist and a Tlingit Native getting cornered by the Kushtaka on an isolated sacred mountain. The most entertaining yarn (but for the wrong reasons) is “The Muskeg Monster”, which – probably due to a grammatical error – mentions man-eating moose! Well, you have to be real tough to survive the 49th, that's for sure…

Part of me only want to give this book two stars, but since it isn't completely worthless and perhaps could be of interest to “the 12 year boy inside of you”, I will nevertheless give it three. And no, the stories it contains aren't true. Wilson has added a disclaimer, literally at the very end of the book, which states that everything is fiction. But then, that's what they always say, aint it? ;-)