Bigfoot in Spain (Girona, 1968)

 

  

John Keel writes as follows in *The Eighth Tower*: "Spain experienced a wave of monster sightings in the months of January and February 1968. A tall, ape-like creature with extremely long arms was spotted in the vicinity of Girona, on the outskirts of Barcelona. It left behind footprints that were neither ape-like nor human. Police and soldiers scoured the area. 'This region is in a state of panic,' declared the Madrid newspaper *Arriba*. Believers in monsters—and the number of those who believe they are real animals is on the rise—attempt to explain the simultaneous UFO sightings as pure coincidence. Believers in UFOs, for their part, prefer to believe that flying saucers have nothing to do with shaggy monsters. Nevertheless, witnesses to both monsters and UFOs often suffer from the same aftereffects: conjunctivitis, thirst, headaches, and muscle aches. It is obvious that a relationship exists between these manifestations and the superspectrum." (*The Eighth Tower*, pp. 104–105, British edition)