Robert Moore, age 11, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, for his question:

What to the world is Sasguatch?

Some call him Sasquatch, some call him Bigfoot.. Some claim that he is a big ape type creature, living a highly secretive life among the northwestern Cascade Mountains. Soma pooh pooh these notions and refuse to believe he exists. In any case, Bigfoot legends go back 150 years, though few are said to have glimpsed him and early descriptions differ. Nowadays, his believers fire their faith with evidence.

They point to 17 inch footprints, to nests, and to a recent film. This color movie does indeed show a dark and shaggy ape like creature walking toward the forest shrubbery. If all. the evidence is genuine, then Bigfoot must be a 300 to 400 pounder, seven feet tall. Maybe, just maybe such unknown creatures do live in the mountains from northern California to British Columbia. But serious minded scientists need more provable evidence to be convinced. They recall the hopeful evidence of an abominable snowman and a Loch Ness monster    and how searching scientific investigations have failed to produce any proof that either of these fabulous characters exists anywhere else but in the human imagination.