[UA] Pacific NW Clio sites

[Steve Dustin]

I've got a quick question concerning Cliomancy sites: how famous does 
something have to be to give off a charge?  For example, roadside markers.  
You know, you're driving along, got to pee, pull over in a turn-out next a 
big stone marker with an iron plate bolted to it that reads: "On March 12, 
1824, Bubba the Mountain Man was the first to arrive on this spot, and 
decided to name it after his Butt.  Therefore, Harry Point".  It's history, 
but not particularly well known history.  Or how about this marker: "This 
pile of stones is to commemorate Kevin Goofball who was stupid enough to 
walk off this cliff and died on April 7, 1988".  You remember when it was in 
the papers, but then forgot all about it.  The only thing that reminds 
anyone is this stupid little marker.

I was thinking about it in relation to somewhat famous IN SEARCH OF 
incidents. I'm making a list of possible Cliomancy sites in the Pacific NW, 
and came up with places like Mt. Rainier, where Kenneth Arnold saw the first 
'flying saucers' in 1947; Bluff Creek, in Northern Cali, where that Bigfoot 
footage was filmed; or the stretch of Columbia River (I think it was the 
Columbia) where DB Cooper parachuted out.  Sure, Bigfoot's famous, but who 
knows about specific Bigfoot sightings other than Bigfoot fanatics?  And if 
the more famous sightings of Bigfoot give a charge, would little known, yet 
still published somewhere in the literature, give off a charge?  ("It says 
on page 231 of *Get Your Bigfeet Off Me!* that Bubba the Mountain Man and 
Kevin Goofball saw three litte Sasquatch lumbering across Miller's Creek in 
78.  They took a photo but left lenscap on)  Do local urban legends count 
then?  Where does it end?  Or should it?

Steve Dustin
yetiseti at hotmail.com

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