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Bristol Post
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Tristan Cork

You can buy a 7ft tall Bigfoot on Bristol Facebook - but you might be shocked at the price tag

The buy and sell pages of Facebook sometimes see some weird and wonderful stuff in among the sofas, food processors, cars and children's toys.

But it's unlikely the biggest of Mark Zuckerberg's social media salesrooms, Bristol Marketplace, has ever seen anyone trying to sell a 7ft statue of a cryptozoological creature.

For that is what the avid bargain-hunters of Bristol's Facebook found this morning when they began scouring the Bristol Marketplace - and it is up for grabs for a pretty penny too.

READ MORE: Bigfoot spotted 10 miles from Bristol by '100% sure' train passenger

The huge sculpture is life-size, although the thousands of reports from North America of sightings of the as-yet unconfirmed species of great ape have put Sasquatch at up to 10ft tall, and was imported in to the West Country by Mark Hinchcliffe, who posted it on Facebook this morning.

It's up for sale for £1,150, and is advertised as being 'ideal for businesses or garden'.

But don't worry if you miss out on this one, Mark said he's imported three through his business, called Furniture and More, based in Ivybridge, Devon, from America.

"We have three of these and it looks like we will not have them very long," he said.

"I know it's random, but they are amazing pieces. We have some R2D2s too. I think with lockdown and Covid, people like the unusual.

"We've sold life-sized Batmans, Spidermans and so on. The guys who work for me think I am mad, but we always seem to sell them."

A 7ft Bigfoot sculpture up for sale on Bristol Marketplace on Facebook (Mark Hinchcliffe)

There are quite a few life-size Bigfoot sculptures in the US and Canada - many places with a proliferation of sightings will try to boost tourist trade by creating a Sasquatch museum or Sasquatch-themed visitor attraction.

And that might be an idea to revive the ailing ambitions Bristol and North Somerset have long-harboured of attracting the cryptozoology tourism market - for the most recently reported Bigfoot sighting in Britain was right here just ten miles from Bristol.

Back in 2018, Bristol Live reported that a passenger on a train from Devon into Bristol saw a creature they were '100 per cent sure' was Bigfoot, ambling across a field near Nailsea.

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