Does the Pentagon have the body of Bigfoot on ice? What is the U.S. military hiding from us about lake monsters? What is the link between the CIA and the abominable snowman? Why is there a British government file on sea serpents? What do the Russians know about animal ESP? For decades there have been persistent rumors, tales, and legends that government agencies all around the world have been secretly collecting and studying data on bizarre beasts, amazing animals, and strange creatures. Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, sea serpents, psychic pets, the chupacabras, and the abominable snowman have all attracted official, classified interest. Now, for the first time, the full, fearsome facts are finally revealed in Nick Redfern's Monster Files . You'll discover all the amazing cryptozoological truths, conspiracies, and cover-ups behind the secret studies by the Pentagon, the Kremlin, and the British military, among many others. Despite what your parents might have told you when you were a child, monsters, creepy creatures, and terrifying beasts really do exist. And our governments know all about them. Nick Redfern is the author of more than thirty books on UFOs, Bigfoot, and cryptozoology, including Monster Files, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter , and The Real Men in Black . He has appeared on more than seventy television shows, including the SyFy Channel's Proof Positive , the History Channel's Ancient Aliens , and MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann . Monster Files A Look Inside Government Secrets and Classified Documents on Bizarre Creatures and Extraordinary Animals By Nick Redfern, Kirsten Dalley Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC Copyright © 2013 Nick Redfern All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-60163-263-0 Contents Introduction, Chapter 1 The President's Bigfoot, Chapter 2 Serpents of the High Seas, Chapter 3 An Army of Manimals, Chapter 4 A Wartime Wolfman, Chapter 5 Weird and Wacky Winged Wonders of War, Chapter 6 How the Pentagon Made a Monster, Chapter 7 Welcome to the Jungle, Chapter 8 Animal ESP and the U.S. Army, Chapter 9 A Yeti-Hunting 007, Chapter 10 Secret Agents and a Supersized Snake, Chapter 11 Autopsying a Monster, Chapter 12 The Strange Saga of Acoustic Kitty, Chapter 13 The Minnesota Iceman, the FBI, and the Vietnam War, Chapter 14 From Lake Monsters to Secret Experiments, Chapter 15 Sasquatch, UFOs, and the U.S. Air Force, Chapter 16 Back in the U.S.S.R., Chapter 17 Are We Ready for Bigfoot?, Chapter 18 A Mountain of Secrets, Chapter 19 The Nessie Files, Chapter 20 A Nightmare From the Skies, Chapter 21 Specters and Phantimals, Chapter 22 The ABCs of a Royal Conspiracy, Chapter 23 The Biggest Blooper of Them All, Chapter 24 In Search of the Government's Mermaids, Chapter 25 The Cat Is Out of the Bag, Chapter 26 Werewolves and the Military, Chapter 27 Something Dwells Down Under, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index, Acknowledgments, About the Author, CHAPTER 1 THE PRESIDENT'S BIGFOOT Given that we have to start somewhere on our search for the truth about monsters and officialdom, we might as well show a fair degree of ambition and aim just about as high as we can. And it doesn't get much higher than the office of the President of the United States of America. Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt served as the Commander in Chief from 1901 to 1909 and is, to date, the youngest person to have ever held the position of presidential office: He was only 42 when he came to power. But, it's not the man's politics or youth that we're focusing on here. Rather, it's something monstrous, something malignant, something — or some thing — in the woods. Indeed, an inquiry into the controversial affair in question strongly suggests that the president became the recipient of nothing less than an early and quite graphic account of a violent encounter with a marauding, bloodthirsty Bigfoot. As Roosevelt noted, frontiersmen are hardly the sort of people to be influenced by tales of paranormal or unexplained events. They are, after all, much too busy focusing on the practicalities and the day-to-day activities that go along with working, living, and hopefully surviving in the wild. But, there are occasional exceptions to that rule. And it was one of these exceptions that was actually made known to a U.S. president. The strange and sinister tale in question came to Roosevelt from a hunter by the name of Bauman. He had spent his entire life living and hunting in the American wilderness, and he was said to possess a profound knowledge of all sorts of tales of spectral entities and beasts of a most evil nature that haunted the forests, and that taunted and terrorized those people who dared intrude upon their dark domain. Not surprisingly, given the impressive amount of time he spent in the forests of the United States, as well as his deep knowledge of supernatural lore, when Bauman spoke, the president listened. And he listened very carefully and closely, too. Th