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A review of "True Bigfoot Horror: The Apex Predator - Monster in the Woods"
This is a collection of very short stories about
violent or scary Bigfoot encounters. Like another reviewer, I have a faint
memory that I've heard some of them before! But then, many Bigfoot tales are
similar, so it's difficult to say without double-checking (I haven't).
The author writes under a pseudonym and tells us nothing about his own spooky Bigfoot encounter, but promises to do so in a future “second edition”. The stories he did include are from very different times and places, the oldest being a gory 19th century tale about a “war” between Choctaws and hungry Bigfoots in Arkansas. It's the only story I've seen which claims that Bigfoot abducts and eats children! The more recent tales were presumably related to the author by the eye witnesses themselves. However, since both Jeremy Kelly's true identity and those of his sources are unknown, the accounts are impossible to check. For all we know, they could be tall tales or pure fiction invented by Kelly himself.
If the stories have anything in common, it's the conviction that Bigfoot is dangerous and that we shouldn't enter the woods without a gun or enormous quantities of pepper spray. I admit that I didn't find them *that* interesting (except for the older tales, which are probably excerpted from other books), but if things squatchy is your thing, you might perhaps find them to be at least mildly entertaining. Another entertaining fact is that Kelly's book is currently the number one Kindle best seller in the “Primatology” category, something I'm sure will rub skeptics the wrong way…
Three stars.
The author writes under a pseudonym and tells us nothing about his own spooky Bigfoot encounter, but promises to do so in a future “second edition”. The stories he did include are from very different times and places, the oldest being a gory 19th century tale about a “war” between Choctaws and hungry Bigfoots in Arkansas. It's the only story I've seen which claims that Bigfoot abducts and eats children! The more recent tales were presumably related to the author by the eye witnesses themselves. However, since both Jeremy Kelly's true identity and those of his sources are unknown, the accounts are impossible to check. For all we know, they could be tall tales or pure fiction invented by Kelly himself.
If the stories have anything in common, it's the conviction that Bigfoot is dangerous and that we shouldn't enter the woods without a gun or enormous quantities of pepper spray. I admit that I didn't find them *that* interesting (except for the older tales, which are probably excerpted from other books), but if things squatchy is your thing, you might perhaps find them to be at least mildly entertaining. Another entertaining fact is that Kelly's book is currently the number one Kindle best seller in the “Primatology” category, something I'm sure will rub skeptics the wrong way…
Three stars.
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