HAUNTED HOUSES, BIGFOOT AND UFOs: WHO BELIEVES IT?

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY SOCIOLOGISTS STUDY AMERICA'S PROTAGONISTS OF THE PARANORMALBaylor University sociologists Dr. Carson Mencken and Dr. Christopher Bader lay on the ground at 1 a.m., shivering in 19-degree December weather in a Texas forest with a group of hushed men who were hoping to lure Bigfoot.Then one hunter pushed a button, triggering piercing howls — purportedly a recording of Bigfoot sounds — from a huge speaker mounted atop a tree.“Animals were freaked out,” Mencken said. “Things were rustling around in the woods that probably sounded bigger than they are. There were mooing