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|Title=Bigfoot
|image= 
|1st= [[Fantomen 20/2012|''Fantomen'' 20/2012]]
|Pages= 32
|Writer= [[Falco Pellerin]]
|Artist= [[Joan Boix]]
|Producer=[[Egmont Kärnan]]
|}}

'''"Bigfoot"''' is a 2012 [[Team Fantomen]] story, written by [[Falco Pellerin]], with art by [[Joan Boix]].

==Plot summary==
[[The 21st Phantom|The Phantom]], keeping up with times, is in his [[The Radio Control Room|radio room]], receiving an e-mail from [[Diana Palmer-Walker|Diana]]. While the UN office in Morristown is rebuilt, she has been sent on assignment to Oregon, USA, to head a survey investigating the status of the redwood forests there. They have accomodation at the ''Bigfoot Inn'', located in a redwood forest. Near the inn lives Bob Peterson who manufactures paper in the traditional way. Peterson is visited by two men from the Norsewood paper company who strongly insists that he sells his company and his plot of redwood forest to the company.

The Phantom and Diana take a walk in the redwood forest. They meet two men who has built a trap to capture a mysterious creature that is claimed to live in the forest, Bigfoot or Sasquatch. They continue into the forest and find a house. When the Phantom knocks on the door it is opened by an elderly man with a shotgun, McGrinchy. He claims that they have come to steal his research on the mysterious Bigfoot. Bob Peterson later tells them that McGrinchy once was a respected scientist that went crazy but is mostly harmless.

That night the Phantom wakes up at the inn smelling smoke. Somebody has set fire to Bob Peterson's studio. The Phantom, Diana and others help to extinguish the fire. When they are done the Phantom find a very large footprint in the rubble. The next day they return to McGrinchy's cabin. He tells them that he saw a bigfoot setting fire to Peterson's studio. He also declares that both Peterson's house and the inn should disappear since the forest only belong to the Bigfoot.

The next night the Phantom to investigate McGrinchy. At Peterson's house he finds what appears to be a man dressed in an ape suit trying to set fire to the building. When Diana shows up the ape tries to carry her off. She is thrown off but not before finding out that that it is somebody wearing an ape costume. The Phantom go after the "ape" and find it in the forest. But this time the "ape" is much stronger and the costume appear to be genuine. The "ape" knock him down, then disappear.

Next morning, one man from the Norsewood company comes running to Peterson's house, still dressed in the ape costume, shouting that he has indeed seen the Bigfoot. He is arrested by the sheriff on suspicion of having started the fire. McGrinty explains that Norsewood is not interested in the trees but the minerals beneath the ground. Meanwhile the genuine Bigfoot is looking at the group of people outside Peterson's.

After breakfast, the Phantom and Diana return to McGrinchy, asking to have a look at his research on Bigfoot. He declares that he has finished his research on that subject but instead will focus on another mysterious creature that he spotted the previous night, a man dressed in a blue costume that goes by the name of The Ghost Who Walks. As the Phantom and Diana walk back to the hotel, the Bigfoot is sitting in a tree looking at them.

=== Appearances ===
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'''Recurring Characters'''
*[[The 21st Phantom]]
*[[Diana Palmer-Walker]]
*[[Guran]]

'''One-time Characters'''
*Mrs Woods, owner of the Bigfoot Inn.
*Bob Peterson
*McGrinchy
*Mr Cox, Norsewood
*Mr Stark, Norsewood

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'''Locations'''
*[[Bengali]]
**[[The Skull Cave]]
***[[The Radio Control Room]]
*USA
**Oregon

'''Organizations'''
*Norsewood

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== Behind the senes== 
The Phantom and Diana drive through Grants Pass, Oregon, past a letterbox with the name "Barks". This is a reference to Donald Duck animator and comic book artist Carl Barks who lived in Grants Pass until his death in 2000. The name is incorrectly spelled "Grant's Pass".

== Related stories==
===References===
*"[[The Death of Diana Palmer Walker]]" by [[Tony DePaul]] and [[Paul Ryan]]

== Reprints ==
This story has been published in the following publications:

=== [[Image:mini_australia.gif]] Australia ===
*"Bigfoot", [[The Phantom 1643 (Frew)|''The Phantom'' #1643]]

=== [[Image:mini_norway.gif]] Norway ===
*"Bigfoot", [[Fantomet 20/2012|''Fantomet'' 20/2012]]

=== [[Image:mini_sweden.gif]] Sweden ===
*"Bigfoot", "[[Fantomen 20/2012|''Fantomen'' 20/2012]]

[[Category:Team Fantomen stories]]