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PETER C BYRNE

The Abominable Snowmen and Bigfoot hunter Peter C Byrne has died at the age of 97. He lived a long and dedicated life in pursuit of cryptozoological subjects and achieved what few could imagine, routinely finding sponsorships for his searches for the Yeti and North American Sasquatch, for almost six decades.

Peter Cyril Byrne was born in Dublin, Ireland, to an Irish father and an English mother. His father owned a 300-acre Irish farm where Peter grew up hunting and fishing. After leaving school in 1943, Byrne served in the Royal Air Force in World War II, piloting rescue boats in the South Asian

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