MOSES LAKE They’re all real.
That’s the premise of a series of novels by Moses Lake writer Tony Dean Yetter, whose works serve a dual purpose: to tell a good story and to promote discussion of Sasquatch.
“I listened to 400 hours of testimonies from police officers to game wardens to this and that,” Yetter said of his research into the subject. “A lot of you take it with a grain of salt, you know, but when there's someone that is a 25-year veteran of the state police, you listen to him.”
Yetter’s first book, “The Apeling,” tells the story of a 5-year-old boy who survives a plane crash in a remote part of the Rocky Mountains and is taken in and raised by a clan of Sasquatch. The subsequent books recount the boy’s assimilation with his adopted species. Yetter, a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s world building, has constructed a Sasquatch culture and language that he believes might not be far from the reality.
By Hugh Iglarsh The Prairie State doesn’t get much flatter or emptier than the narrow northern panhandle of Ford County, Illinois, about eighty miles south-southwest of Chicago. Stretching on the map like an upraised middle finger far north of the county seat at Paxton, the area consists of once-swampy ground that surrounding counties didn’t claim. Drained