Menlo Park Sasquatch hunter Tom Biscardi has made a legend into an industry

By Stett Holbrook

THERE ARE approximately 3,500 of them living in the remote forests and swamplands of the United States. They’ve been here for millennia and yet scrupulously avoid contact with humankind. They migrate in search of food and habitat, and communicate with each other by knocking on trees and unleashing haunting, baleful cries. They are huge, powerful and intelligent, and as long as they’re left alone, probably don’t wish us any harm. They, of course, are Bigfoot. At least that’s what Menlo Park–based Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi says. Biscardi, an intense, fast–talking, profanity–spewing Brooklyn–raised man with swooped backed hair and a trim goatee, has been chasing Bigfoot for 34 years. And he says he’s closing in the elusive primate.

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