WELLSBURG – A large, inflatable globe marked with sightings around the world hangs over his bed.
A bulletin board holds a New York state map crowded with pins in precise locations.
A thick binder, divided by county, holds detailed reports on individual sightings.
Meet Cal Marks, of Wellsburg, Bigfoot researcher and aspiring cryptozoologist. His mom calls this amiable 11-year-old "Calisquatch," a play off his name and interests.
"Some kids think I am crazy because I believe in Bigfoot. They are trying to tell me that Bigfoot is not real," said the Broadway Elementary School fifth-grader. "I tell them, well, with all the sightings, photographs and videos for evidence, how can they all be hoaxes?"
Just over 20 percent of Americans believe in Bigfoot, the tall, hairy humanoid forest dweller known as Sasquatch and other names throughout the world, according to the October 2014 Chapman University Survey of American Fears.
Count Cal and his mother among them. His father, Bill, and brother
