The Clanton Booger is a 44 year old Chilton County, Alabama fable recently stated inaccurately by a cryptozoologist who penned then published this claim: "There's a Southern version of bigfoot that is much like a chimpanzee," said Bigfoot researcher and (former) professor at the University of Southern Maine, Loren Coleman... it runs around in the bottom lands and is much more connected to the creeks and swampy areas."

There is no evidence to support such a wild statement. Bigfoot is a biped, chimpanzees are quadrupeds. There is no fossil evidence of indigenous chimpanzees or bonobos or any of the other great apes in North America.

There may be those apes held in captivity that may have escaped their enclosures from zoos, circuses, sideshows or primate sanctuaries, but those are not cryptids; there is no mystery there...

There is no known link associated between chimpanzees and sasquatches. None. Coleman is quoted as saying, “the prints left behind at the Clanton scene proved the creature was more ape than man,” but Coleman is not a track expert.

According to forensic primate print expert J. Chilcutt in Conroe, Texas, the dermal ridges and other specific barefoot definitions consistent with sasquatch tracks are neither man nor ape.

See: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/field.htm and other statements by Chilcutt available through a Bigfoot Encounters website search.

Whatever Chilton County, Alabama informants were seeing way back in 1960, (45 years ago at this writing) -- it is not, in my research, sasquatch related; perhaps a feral or loosed domesticated chimp; perhaps an overloaded imagination or several rounds of Jack Daniels.

In another piece of writing, Coleman also refers to the Clanton Booger as “giant monkey men of Chilton County. Simple misinformation, there is no evidence such things as giant monkey men exist in the USA. This is another of his contradictions, in my estimation because chimps are not giants or monkey men.

[The quotations are from the Clanton, Alabama Advertiser: July 7 & 11, 2004 and according to the newspaper article, recounted again in Coleman’s Ape book.]

There may very well be sasquatch-like creatures in Alabama, but there are no giant monkey-men with footprints unknown to primate print experts James Chilcutt or Dr. Jeff Meldrum. (at least 'not yet')

From the files of Bobbie Short

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