Book excerpt: The book highlights researchers, scientists, and influencers currently performing impactful work on the study related to the subject of Bigfoot. Tim dives into their theories, experiences, and research with the influencers, giving readers a glimpse into their historical impact on the subject and their current projects. His inspiration to write the book began with a personal quest to better understand who is actively studying the Bigfoot Phenomenon and what motivates them to do so. He soon realized the enormous and strategic efforts being put forth by individuals and groups across North America. With this in mind, the book brings all these individuals together for the readers. Whether you are an enthusiast or a researcher, The Bigfoot Influencers shares fascinating experiences and facts about the influencers in North America and the impact they are having. The Bigfoot Influencers Volume 1 is the first in the series of books delving into this fascinating phenomenon. "I'm always struck by an eyewitness who will comment on the fact how amazingly rapidly this creature receded or climbed up a slope. There was one who said, 'it would have taken me forty-five minutes to get up to that ridge top. And this thing did it in ten'" - Dr. Jeff Meldrum "It's a Mystery that hardly no one gives evidence and no one studies it... for the most part. When sightings happen, most people clam up. When evidence is presented, the scientists clam up." - Doug Hajicek "The scientific method is about observation, that's where it begins. One begins with an observation and from that emerges some sort of hypothesis." - Daryl Colyer "I'm more confident now about the Patterson Gimlin Film than when I was a 10 or 11-year-old back in the late 60s. That confidence is based on data and analysis, not just first impressions." - Dr. Jeff Meldrum "The question of Bigfoot is a complicated one. All of science deals with reality, whether it's physics or chemistry, every science deals with it." - Dr. Esteban Sarmiento "These anecdotes Span the entire globe, involving hundreds of different cultures explaining the same phenomenon by different names, so at some point you have to, even as a scientist, say, 'Well, there's got to be something.'" - Les Stroud