Sasquatch (Bigfoot) or D. B. Cooper Mystery Solved?
The photo below was taken New Years Eve day 2007 at a local shopping mall using the 70mm setting of a 70-300mm zoom lens mounted on a Canon 40D DSLR camera. If you look close you can see the top of a parking light from the mall parking lot near the bottom center of the photo. For all practical purposes, the photo appears to only show a snow-covered mountain. The mountain is in fact Mount Si which some may recognize as the background mountain in the disappearance scene from the 1993 remake of the movie The Vanishing with Kiefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock. It also was the theme mountain for the TV cult series "Twin Peaks". But do you see anything else? Here in the Pacific Northwest we have two notable mysteries of international interest - Bigfoot (referred to as Sasquatch by the local Indians) whose legendary sightings have been widely reported and D. B. Cooper who hijacked a Northwest flight from Seattle in 1971 and demanded and received a large ransom payment before taking off and later parachuting from the plane over a mountainous region of Washington State never to be found or at least not until now. See note below photo for next clue.
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If you are old enough to recall the 1966 movie Blow-Up with Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings, you will likely remember Vanessa Redgrave but you may also recall that the plot hinged on the ability of the photographer who was unwittingly taking photos in a park to later blow up (zoom in on) the photos to search for clues to a possible murder that occurred in the park on the day and near the time he was taking pictures. In a similar fashion, I took the photo above and follow-up photos using the 300mm full-zoom lens setting. Click here to see the full-zoom photo of the top of Mount Si and see if you can find the clue as to the whereabouts of Sasquatch (Bigfoot) or D B Cooper.
Explanatory Note: OK, Sasquatch is also the mascot for the Seattle Seahawks but everyone knows he's not real - right?