Identity theft

Can’t tell whether that hairy creature stomping around outside your tent is Bigfoot? Before you bolt to call a tabloid, check the chart created by self-styled cryptozoologist and Bigfoot entrepreneur Michael Rugg. The Felton, Calif., resident says an actual sasquatch -- if you believe in such things -- has a bigger rear end than most woodland creatures, one that provides lower-body stability so it can lumber on two legs. Rugg, 58, who recently remodeled his art studio and adjacent barn into a free Bigfoot museum with a store, whose visitors claim to have recorded a dozen bushy beast sightings in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains. The drawings -- in spite of various misspellings -- explain how to identify a hairy biped’s ankles (thick), gluteus (very maximus) and body odor (yuck).

-- Ashley Powers