It began, as it so often does, with a glimpse. Something tall. Something hairy. Something that left footprints too big to be human.
Whatever it was, the spotting was more than enough to get Peter Byrne on the scene. It was the mid-1970s and Byrne had already made a name for himself as one of the world's most prominent researchers of Bigfoot. His passion exposed him to a few kooks and a lot of fakery, he said in an interview with The Washington Post. But on that day, he found neither.
Two men, both biologists and both employees of the U.