1993 Far Out Article Explores Bigfoot Coverup Claims Near Idaho

So I just stumbled across this fascinating video over on the Gary Mangiacopra Archive YouTube channel, and honestly, it's one of those hidden gems that every Sasquatch researcher needs to see. The host is going through old archived materials from a publication called Far Out magazine, specifically digging into issues from 1993. What he pulls out is an article titled "On the Trail of a Bigfoot Coverup" from the summer 1993 issue, and it's a wild ride from start to finish. The piece reads like a gonzo journalism expedition into the heart of Sasquatch country along the Idaho-Washington border. The author and his buddy Doug, described as a "hired gun and Bigfoot skeptic," set out to investigate a spike in sightings near the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. The area is stunning - the Clearwater River Valley, the Bitterroot Wilderness in the distance, and the Rocky Mountains dominating the horizon. It's exactly the kind of remote, rugged terrain where you'd expect Sasquatch encounters to happen. Here's where things get really interesting. Just before the trip, the journalist spoke with a park curator who agreed to go on the record about a sighting. Apparently, last August, multiple park service employees spotted a Sasquatch on a ridge line south of the visitor center, above a sloping plowed field. But once the journalist actually got to Idaho, the curator completely reversed her position. She decided "too much was being made up of a Sasquatch thing." The article suggests she either got embarrassed by the attention or was pressured by higher-ups in the "Smokey the Bear hat and khakis" to keep quiet about the encounter. This is the kind of suppression that fuels the cover-up theories, and the journalist clearly smelled something fishy. He moved on to find other witnesses, and he found plenty. Just up the road in Lapwai, there were tribal historians and native police officers willing to talk about their encounters - hearing, seeing, or even smelling Sasquatch during the same timeframe as the curator's sighting. One of the most compelling witnesses mentioned is Tess Green, a young woman who, along with her mother, adult cousin, and four children, was having a late afternoon picnic in the hilly fields above Lapwai when they had their encounter. A week before that, eight people - nearly all Native Americans from Lapwai and nearby Spalding - had glimpsed a six to seven foot upright figure displaying a "humanesque gait." What made their sighting stand out was that this creature was out in the open, in a draw with little ground cover, thorn bush, and a plowed wheat field. Vulnerable. Exposed. And the deep, piercing vocalizations could be heard at Tess's home when the front door was left open to catch a cross breeze on a hot summer night. The article also references anthropologist Grover S. Krantz, who was one of the most prominent scientific voices advocating for Sasquatch research. His book "Big Footprints" is mentioned, and he was clearly involved in analyzing the witness testimony. Krantz was a physical anthropologist at Washington State University who dedicated much of his later career to studying Sasquatch evidence, including footprint casts and hair samples. His work was groundbreaking because he brought legitimate scientific methodology to a field often dismissed by mainstream academia. There's also a brief excerpt from what appears to be another article in the same magazine issue, where someone is debating whether Sasquatch should be classified as human or animal. The speaker argues, "This is not a link between man and the animal world. This is an animal. Equal rights. I don't see it. Human, semi-human. It doesn't have human rights. It has animal rights. I'm more concerned with the species." It's a fascinating philosophical tangent that touches on the legal and ethical dimensions of how we view these beings. The journalist's writing style is incredibly colorful, too. He describes his journey through Lewiston, Idaho, where he encountered what he calls "Heihawa on Crystal Meth, a veritable Hooterville in hell" - a honky tonk disco full of Travis Tritt wannabes doing the "Eggy Breaky" and Texas Two-Step. He stood out, he says, "like Vinnie Terteranova in a cornfield of unshaven mutant hay seeds in tight jeans, cut off sweatshirts, and alligator skin shitkickers." It's the kind of gonzo flair that makes the whole piece feel like a real adventure rather than just a dry investigation report. What makes this video particularly worth watching is the raw, unfiltered look at how Sasquatch investigations were conducted in the early 1990s. The cover-up angle, the reluctant witnesses, the bureaucratic suppression - it's all there. And the fact that this material has been sitting in an archive, being digitized and shared for the first time, is exactly the kind of historical preservation that matters for the Sasquatch research community. The host of the channel does a great job walking through the documents, showing the actual magazine pages, and providing context. He admits when he can't identify people in photos or when the articles are scrambled and incomplete. It's authentic, unpolished, and genuinely interesting. If you're into the history of Sasquatch research, the cover-up theories, or just love seeing old documents brought back to life, this is definitely worth your time. Check it out and see what you think - the comments section might have some insights from other researchers who've dug into this material.