Texas Bigfoot In My Backyard: Based On Actual Events Paperback – Large Print, September 24, 2013

Texas Bigfoot looks good on the website, and it's a nice story, but it has some blemishes. The author and her family are looking for a new house to rent that is big enough for their family. She is a certified teacher and her husband is a professional who travels for work a great deal. They go house hunting and finally they stumble upon a listing, but the rental price is continually slashed until it seems too good to be true. It is. The last tenants left without giving notice thus forfeiting their deposit et al largely because of a 1,000 pound animal going bump on the roof in the middle fo the night and other incidents. The author and her family jump at the chance to rent this house because it was one they had looked at but at that time it had been way out of their price range. Suddenly, the house is now well within their price range and oddly available on short notice. The hairs should have been standing on the backs of their necks, but they ignored it.Moving day comes and goes and the then they hear the unknown visitor on the roof. It and other unexplainable incidents leads the author to search for answers and finally she comes to the conclusion that it is Bigfoot. The author is initially excited to be living with Bigfoot, but she and her family are terrified though respectfully so, and they do not go out during set hours. They seem to have an unspoken agreement that the Bigfoot family has their way at night but the author's family have the daytime. The printing is in a larger than usual font thus the book in terms of real textual numbers of words is not as long as is described on the website. Towards the end of the book, the author explains that she has taught her daughter to respect life, and that her purpose in writing the book is to expose the myth that Bigfoot is a monster, yet she and her family bunker down at night unless it is really necessary.The author's message is simple and clear. In her experience, Bigfoot is not a monster or killer. Bigfoot is a very intelligent ape-like giant who just wants to live. If you leave Bigfoot alone, it will leave you alone in an interesting quid pro quo of sorts. However, as I mentioned earlier, the author and her family do not go out on the rental property at night because they are afraid of the Bigfoot family.I liked the story. I wish more of the Bigfoot genre were like this. I did not like the editing and the formatting including the size of the font used in printing the book, which makes the book longer in term of pages than it really is. If this book were to be printed with a common size font, it would probably turn out to be not much longer in term of page numbers than Haunted Valley, another Bigfoot book, by William Jevning. This makes me wonder whether the author tried to stretch the story out by using a slightly larger font in order to raise the price because now the book has more pages. Those white pages are expensive, you know.However, with all that said, the author's voice is a pleasant one. She writes like she is a nice person and responsible. She said she was a substitute school teacher at the time of writing, so who can really blame her for trying to make a little money. this book is not going to definitively answer what Bigfoot is or isn't, but it is a pleasant and down to earth read.

I hope, HOPE, that the stories in this book are true. There are so many hoaxers out there that I can easily see one making all this up and trying to make money off a book. Sigh. I also live in central Texas (if the author truly does/did live there) and so, will give her the benefit of a doubt…for now.

this is the same review as the one i did for the companion book.When I opened this book I got the sinking feeling that I had made a big mistake. The print was very large and the text double spaced. That is often what happens when an author does not have enough to say to make a real book. But this author had enough to say, and if you have a genuine interest in Bigfoot, it is something you should read.Many of us saw TV programs of Bigfoot, and of other things mysterious, and got used to nothing ever being settled and no compelling evidence being found when people who are basically actors tromp into the woods with 1000 pounds of electronic gadgets and think no huge hairy man would notice they did that and are waiting to see if they can get ‘proof’ he exists.The real experts on Bigfoot are housewives with kids and dogs and often people who got an amazing bargain buying a house right next to a big forest. I always thought that I don’t make a great neighbor, so I live on 10 acres in the middle of open desert. But Susan Sullivan would have loved to have me as her neighbor when she discovered who was really living next door to her.Later, I thing she may have sort of liked that it was Bigfoot. I just ordered her follow up books.

If you are looking for a fascinating page-turner about a first-hand witness experience with Sasquatch, this book will make your day. The author struck me immediately as humble, accountable, honest, and rational, which made the information and story more accessible. Her tone was consistent throughout, and she was entirely transparent about how the events affected and struck her at the time they happened.If I had one criticism, it's that I wish the book had been edited more carefully. The author's account is exceptional, and her writing "voice" is so consistent and down-to-earth. I've spent far too much of my life with academics; when something many would consider to be "out there" is written about but poorly edited, it's less likely to be taken seriously. It stands to reason that Ms. Sullivan's book SHOULD be taken seriously, which is why I bother to mention it. I spend a large amount of time editing papers for student writers, so if I can be of any future assistance, please reach out. Otherwise, well done and thank you for your honesty and humility.

Great book and an easy read. Wether you’ve been scouring the internet for years in search of any and all Bigfoot information or you are just getting your feet wet, this book is a must read for all!

Actually I had purchased Susan's second book first and at times I knew I was missing the beginning story after the second chapter. Having skipped to the first chapter I knew I then needed to back up and read from the beginning in her second book. Seeing then that Susan encouraged those who hadn't read her first book about her first year and the beginning of it all, it was then I knew I needed to stop and buy that book to read first.Suddenly it all made since and the story kept me hanging on till I finished both of her books.So I encourage anyone to read Susan Sullivan's experience because she tells it as it happens in all her encounters with such a elusive creature that began to become transparent as time went on around her home.

This is the first of several books about Susan's experiences after moving in to an old ranch house. Having read all of her books, and been captivated in the process, my opinion that she writes from her heart and this is the truth as she (and her family) experienced it. Before reading this book you need to be of an open mind. If you believe that we know everything there is to know about the world around us, don't read any further. If you believe that there's much we don't know and don't understand, buy this book. If you think science has all the answers, don't read any further. If you like your beliefs to be challenged and are robust enough as a person to admit your beliefs may have been completely wrong, you must read Susan's work. It all depends how brave you are . . . .

Thank you so much for the book Susan, I try to read everything I can on the subject and this was a great read. Can't wait to read the next addition.

Very Interesting!