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Michael
Nave and Autumn listening to noises at Area X.
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Editor's Note:
We've
been spending quite a bit of time in the woods lately, in a spot
we'll call "Area X". There have been recent sightings
here... it's on the edge of a remote rural area and the terrain
is perfect habitat for our large barefoot friends.
For
now, research consists of late-night drives around the area. As
the weather improves and my schedule lightens up a little, we'll
be doing some camping/fishing excursions there as well. (That's
the best form of research... a little R&R in the woods! Grab
your pole, head for a hotspot and keep your eyes and ears open.)
There's
lots of great stuff in the newsletter this month. Take extra care
to check out the "In My Mailbox" section... there are
some fascinating emails from readers there!
EXCITING
NEWS! An old favorite, Bigfoot
Casebook Updated: Sightings and Encounters from 1818-2004 by Janet
& Colin Bord has JUST been released by Pine Winds
Press. (This is the same company who will be releasing my mother's
novel, Valley of the Skookum, soon).
This book
is a MUST
HAVE for any serious Bigfoot enthustiast. It was the first
to list sightings in chronological order, and still one of the
best books on the long, documented history of Bigfoot. There are
encounters from almost every US state and Canadian province and
territory.
The documentary's
getting closer. It will be released in a two-part series. If you'd
like to be notified when the first DVD is available, please send
me an email.
Your comments
are always welcome.
The
legend lives.
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Bigfoot
in Texas?
A museum exhibit and lecture series: APRIL 7 - JULY 30
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A joint collaborative effort by the University
of Texas San Antonio's Institute of Texan Cultures
(http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/public/index.htm) and the Texas
Bigfoot
Research Center.
April 7-July
30
Do you believe?
There are many documented sightings of Bigfoot right here in
Texas! You are invited to join us as we explore many theories on
the existence
of Bigfoot. This exhibit will feature unidentifiable hair as well
as foot and body
casts of a being that many believe can only be Bigfoot. Guest speakers
will also
lend their expertise to both sides of the debate.
At the end of
your visit, we'll ask you to vote: do you believe Bigfoot really
exists?
April 8,
2006, (Saturday) lectures from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
* Daryl G. Colyer,
field researcher for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, former
Airborne Cryptologic Russian Linguist for USAF Intelligence.
Daryl G. Colyer will examine the history of Bigfoot research in
Texas. Colyer is
a field researcher for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center. He has
investigated
hundreds of reports and continues to lead field research efforts
in Texas and other
states. It is Colyer's assessment, based on hundreds of interviews,
that Sasquatches
are indeed real and do inhabit parts of Texas.
* Kathy Moskowitz-Strain,
forest archaelogist and Heritage Program manager at
Stanislaus National Forest in Sonora, CA, and presenter of paper
titled: Mayak datat:
An Archaelogical Viewpoint of the Hairy Man Pictograph.
She has worked extensively at Painted Rock on the Tule River Indian
Reservation,
where the only known Bigfoot pictograph in California was discovered.
Her primary
research involves the traditional Native American stories of "Hairy
Man," as well as
the application of archaeological methods to the study of Bigfoot.
Moskowitz has
been researching a project for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center
for the last six
months, compiling the legends, folklore, and traditions of the Native
American tribes
of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Her presentation will
be based on
that research project.
* Peter Byrne,
executive director of the International Wildlife Conservation Society
and author of The Search for Bigfoot : Monster, Myth or Man? (Acropolis
Books,
1975, 1st ed.). Peter led the Tom Slick Expeditions to the Himalayas
in search
of the Yeti. He ran the Bigfoot Research Project in the 1990's.
* Catherine
Cooke, former president and CEO of The Mountain Istitute, former
executive director of The Mind Science Foundation, one of Tom Slick's
foundations,
for a decade. She is Tom Slick's niece and author of Tom Slick Mystery
Hunter
(Paraview Books, 2005).
Book signing by local writer Catherine Nixon Cooke. Cooke, the niece
of Tom
Slick, will be signing copies of her recently released book, Tom
Slick, Mystery
Hunter. Slick, a local visionary, philanthropist, and entrepreneur,
funded expeditions
to the Himalayas in search of the Yeti and to the Pacific Northwest
in search of
Bigfoot in the late 1950s and early 1960s before his untimely death
in a plane
crash in 1962.
May 6, 2006
(Saturday) lectures from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
* Jeff Meldrum,
associate professor of anatomy and adjunct associate professor
of anthropology at Idaho State University, researcher of Sasquatch
in the north
Cascades and southern Colorado.
* Jimmy Chilcutt
, forensic consultant, retired Conroe police officer with nearly
two decades of fingerprint and crime scene investigation experience,
and developer
of unique latent fingerprint procedures requested by federal, state
and county agencies.
* Rick Noll,
long-time research of Bigfoot, principal member of the expedition
group
that found and collected the Skookum Body Cast in 2000, involvement
in about a
dozen documentaries on the subject, including Sasquatch: Legend
Meets Science
and Giganto: The Real King Kong.
June 3, 2006
(Saturday) lectures from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
* Loren Coleman,
World-reknowned cryptozoologist and adjunct associate professor
of "The Documentary: Its Social, Political and Emotional Impact"
at the University of
Southern Maine. Author of Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology
(Linden
Publishing, 2002), Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America (Paraview
Pocket
Books, 2003) and The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates
(Anomalist Books, 2006),
* Benjamin Radford,
managing editor of The Skeptical Inquirer and Spanish-language
Pensar, author of dozens of articles on urban legends, mass hysteria,
mysterious
creatures and media criticism, and director of publications at the
Center for
Inquiry-International in Buffalo, NY.
July 8, 2006
(Saturday) lectures from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
* Daryl Colyer,
field researcher for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, former
Airborne Cryptologic Russian Linguist for USAF Intelligence.
Daryl G. Colyer will examine the history of Bigfoot research in
Texas. Colyer
is a field researcher for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center. He
has investigated
hundreds of reports and continues to lead field research efforts
in Texas and
other states. It is Colyer's assessment, based on hundreds of interviews,
that
Sasquatches are indeed real and do inhabit parts of Texas.
* Alton Higgins,
field biologist for the Texas Bigfoot Research Center, wildlife
biologist and associates art advisor and assistant professor at
Mid-America
Christian University, presenter of several papers on Bigfoot-related
topics.
* John Kirk,
RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), founder of the British
Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, editor and publisher of
the organization's
quarterly journal, and founder of Cryptosafari (a field research
organization involved
in the exploration and search of unknown animals of West Central
Africa)
Craig Woolheater
Texas Bigfoot Research Center
www.texasbigfoot.com
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IN
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Comments from readers
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Hi Autumn,
I was just
wondering if you had seen the Ely
Sasquatch Video and what you thought about it? I'm not
expert but to me the figure in the video looked too
clumsy and awkward making me think it was just a man
in a monkey suit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY0czCO8dL0
Thanks,
Doug
(Editor's
note: This appears to be a person in a suit. Notice the stovepipe
arms and legs... these suits are available for about $100 on eBay...
fortunately, they're VERY cheaply made and aren't terribly convincing.
:))
Yes i do believe
in bigfoot. There has been sightings in and around our village.
We live in a small village located on the northcoast of British
Columbia. The name of the village is called Port Simpson. There
have been foot prints taken, moulds casted all to the size of around
17'' long and 5-6'' wide. In the last five years the have been about
7 sightings. - Anonymous

Dear
Autumn,
Hi, my name is Kevin, and I have been studying cryptozoology in
my own time. I had seen your website, and that you were asking for
reports on any sightings of Sasquatch. I wanted to tell you about
something that happened to me 24 years ago when I was 14, if you
are interested in a report this old? I am from a Navy family, my
Dad is a retired Lt. Commander, and back in the early 1980's, we
were stationed on N.A.S. Meridian, Mississippi. This base was used
for flight training, and for SAR operations, that's Search and Rescue,
and my Dad was the head of it on this base. The base was divided
into different sections that were connected by roads through the
woods. To get to base housing, there was a two mile long road through
a wetlands that the Navy had set aside for wildlife. That was from
the part of the base that had the Commissary, gas station, movie
theater, skating rink, arcade, and so on... The flight line was
separate even from that. I want to say that this event occured in
the Fall of 1981. It was just a little cold then, not like in the
middle of winter, but you needed a jacket. It's funny, I don't remember
the date, but I'll never forget what happened that night as long
as I live.
One night, a friend of mine named Jim, who lived directly across
the street from me, and I decided to go to the skating rink. This
was back in the early days of video games, and most kids lived in
arcades. I was no different, but people on this base also used to
go skating a lot too. We stayed at the skating rink, playing video
games until about, well I guess it was about 8:30 p.m., and we decided
to walk back home. The road that we had to walk along was about
two miles long, and at this particular time had been closed to traffic.
That was because it had a small bridge that went across a stream
that was in dire need of repair. In Mississippi, when it rains,
a lot of the time it also floods. Roads, yards, ditches and things
get washed out some times, and this stream lead right into the wetlands
that I mentioned. Anyway, we got to the part of this road that had
a steep hill on it, and a side walk beside it. The road was lit
with street lights, but the light did not reach that far out. The
woods were pitch black from our position. Just about the time we
started down this hill, we smelled something that stank like sulfur
mixed with garbage. Kind of a rotten smell. As I remember it, the
wind was blowing towards us, not hard though.
We didn't think much of it and kept on walking and talking, about
movies, video games and so on... About maybe 20 yards down this
hill, we started hearing some thing walking in the woods right beside
us, within, well it sounded like it was only about 20 feet away.
It sounded heavier than a human, and was making sounds like a gorilla
would make, it did not sound like it was in the vocal range of a
human. It also made some shrill sounds, almost like an ape trying
to speak. A kind of garbled gibberish. It sounded angry, and me
and Jim did not have any idea what it was. We could not see it,
we could only hear it. We took off down the road towards the bridge
as fast as we could, and it started chasing us. We could hear it
plainly crunching through the underbrush right near us. It never
came out of the woods where we could see it, but it was running
right beside us with big strides! I would like to point out here
that we were on a flat surface running under street lights, and
it was in the dark, running through brush and trees and it kept
up with us with no problem.
We made it to the bridge in record time, and we each stopped and
grabbed a couple of boards that the construction workers had left
laying around, in order to defend ourselves from what ever was chasing
us. At that time, the construction workers had bulit another small
bridge for joggers to use, to go around the construction site. It
was smaller even that this main bridge, but further over in the
woods on the other side of the road from where we were. We decided
in a heart beat to just run across the one under construction, we
were that scared of this thing. Then it did something that I don't
think any human in the world could, it jumped across this stream.
The loud sounds of a large animal landing on the other bank was
a shock! The point where it jumped this stream was about 40 feet
wide at that time. We didn't miss a beat, we took off down the road
for home faster than I even knew I could run! I could run like the
wind when I was younger, but, some days, the wind just doesn't seem
to move fast enough. Anyway, about the length of a football field
from the bridge that we crossed, I risked a glance behind us, and
thought I saw something move across the road behind us. I could
not be sure, it was night, but it seemed to be upright.
We made it home as fast as we could, and told my Dad what had happened.
He was sure that it was a Sasquatch that had followed us, but he
told us not to talk about it. It could have affected his and Jim's
Dad's jobs in the Navy. We did what we were told, and kept it quiet.
The thing is, right after our encounter, maybe one or two days later,
an enlisted Navy man saw this thing in broad daylight on his way
to work. He went public with his sighting. I think that there was
even a mention of it in the local news. I know for a fact that it
made the base news, everyone was talking about it. Me and Jim though,
just looked at each other when we heard it, both with a worried
look I guess. We were used to going places on the base day or night
without fear. Now, as far as we knew, there was something out there
that maybe we ought to fear. It had chased us in the dark. And the
worst thing was, we were forbidden to speak about it.
A few months later, Jim's Dad got his orders to move up north, I
want to say it was to Norfolk, VA at the Marine base there, but
I might not be remembering that right. We moved in July of 1982
to Natchitoches, LA. My Dad got a Navy school billet there to get
his Masters Degree in Physiology, then on to the next duty station.
I have not been back to Meridian in the past 24 years, but to tell
you the truth, those final months that we spent there had some sleepless
nights for me. I would lay awake at night, as still as I could be,
listening to every sound around our house, hoping that it would
not show up in base housing. I was afraid to go down that road again
by my self. It was hard even with friends. I kept looking into the
tree line along the road, even when we drove along it after the
bridge got fixed. I don't even know if the base there is operational
still or not. The Navy is closing down my home base of Pensacola,
FL right now. I'm not happy about that. NAS Pensacola was my home
for a long time, and it's where me and my brothers were born. But,
I guess it has to be, it's almost 100 years old now and was torn
up by Hurricane Ivan two years ago.
I hope that won't mind me telling my story, and I hope that the
information will be of some use to you in your research. Perhaps
someone else who got chased in the night, will read my story and
know that they are not alone. I've only spoken to a few friends
about it over the years. I guess that most people don't really believe
it when you tell them these things. I have not seen or heard from
Jim or his family in all these years either. Military families mostly
lead a Nomadic life, we move around a lot and it's hard to keep
track of everyone. Take care, and good luck in your research. May
the Hand of Christ guide you in all things.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Kevin

My
name is Sue. I once saw a Bigfoot or Yeti or whatever is correct
these days. It was in Ashfork, Arizona. We (My Mom and I) were driving
in the early A.M. heading for Calif. when it just ran across the
road and jumped a fence that was about 4ft. in height on it's back
feet, hind legs...anyway it was not on all fours. I wanted to go
back and look for it, but my Mom was very scared of it and kept
driving. It was an unusual experience but I have never forgotten
it.

My name is Cynthia
and I live in XXXXXX, Missouri. Back in July of 1997 my husband
and I decided to go looking for different areas to go fishing in.
We ended up near Silas, Missouri. We entered a wildlife conservation
spot, called Logan Wildlife conservation. We were told there
were some lakes up there but I couldn't see any at first, then I
saw a sign saying no parking beyond here, and the site was numbered
#6. So we parked the car and looked down over the hill and there
was a narrow path that came down to a nice small lake. It was in
the middle of no where, so we went down the slope of the hill to
get there, and on the way down I spotted huge bare foot prints.
I was joking with my husband and said wow! look at this foot print,
this must be bigfoot. Funny as it may seem, I went and took a picture
of it, and the lake. My husband and I were facing the lake, I had
binnoculars and my husband had a little cassette recorder and we
were checking out the beauty of it all and my husband was recording
the nature sounds, birds and locusts. It was such peace and tranquility
that surrounded us, very hot I must say I think the temperture was
100 degrees out. S
Shortly after checking out the site, still facing the lake we hear
this growling and snarling and heavy breathing going, on along with
breaking of branches. I mean the branches sounded to be 3-4 inches
in diameter. The growls were very guttural like when I lion roars,
how deep it sounds. The breathing sounded very human like except
1,000 times more magnifying. It came from behind us down this slope
of a hill in the ravine of it about 30 yards away. The woods here
are very dense so its hard to see through them. Right away fear
set in and I dropped the binnoculars down against my chest and looked
to the side of me at my husband and said " do you hear that?"
and he answeared back yes
and were out of hear and just took off running and I said wait for
me, he was already up at the car while I was struggleing to get
up the hillside.
Its amazing how fear takes over and all you can think of is run,
and don't even turn around to see what you were running from. We
got in the car and started driving not knowing where we were driving
to, and I said did you get those sounds on the recorded and he said
I think I did. So I played it and I said " what is that? Don't
it sound like a monkey?" And he said a monkey, it
sounds like a f______ gorrilla. I said lets go back and he said
" What?" And I said yes, lets go back, and I said where
is your sense of adventure? He said, in his pants. Well when we
got back, we both were too scared to get out of the car,so we just
sat there with the window down, I said I hear something rustling
around down there so I took the recorded and started to record.
Well from all the excitement, I turned around and recorded over
what we already had on there.
Never in my
life did I ever experience anything like this. It wasn't your ordinary
nature sounds. Belive me I know my nature sounds, for I use to hunt
and fish. I was so obsessed over all this, I went home and typed
in bigfoot and came upon a website with all siteings in the US.
I typed in my state and Lincoln county and sure enough, there were
a few sitings of one, in Silas and other little towns around there.
I also seen there were many in the state of Washington, Oregon,
and California. So for vacation, we went to Oregon and stayed at
seaside. Our first evening there
we stopped at saddle mt. and then got a place to stay. Very scarey
up there. Then the next morning we ate breakfast at Best Western
hotel. The waitress that waited on us asked how we were enjoying
our stay and I said well we just pulled in last night and the only
place we checked out was saddle mt. She said saddle mt, us locals
don't go around there and I said, Why? She said
because of, she paused, you could tell she didn't want to say it,
but then she said because of bigfoot. I acted dumb like, yea right,
bigfoot. I said why? do you know anyone that ever saw, heard or
smelled one? She said yes, she did. She said her and her husband
were driving down the bend near saddle mt. late at night and there
it was standing on the edge of a road next to a sign. She said they
are big and they are real. She told me her dad goes on these logging
trails and see's tracks all the time , she said he even has several
casts he took of the foot prints. Another area we went to was Mt.
St. Helens, another interesting area.
Well I could go on and on. But what we experienced, I truely believe
in them and of course if you try to tell someone they look at you
like your nuts. And then there is the ridicule. I believe its just
a matter of time before we have proof. Sincerely, Cynthia
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SUBMISSION:
National
Geographic films Bigfoot experiences
AND
Bigfoot
reports from two more at Mill Creek
By Rita Swanson, Hoopa People Newspaper
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When National
Geographic filmmaker Noel Dockstrader called Bigfoot researcher
Al Hodgson with the news that he wanted to create a Bigfoot documentary,
it seemed too good to be true. Dockstrader asked Hodgson to gather
together those people who wished to share their experiences with
viewers of National Geographic Television, but only gave him one
week to do it.
Both local newspapers, The Kourier and The Hoopa People Newspaper
announced the news, but few responded to the articles. However,
six people came to the filming, which Hodgson planned for 2pm
Saturday, Sept. 4, at a quiet, shady spot behind Trinity River
Farm on Highway 96. One by one, the unassuming, everyday, community
members told what happened to each of them.
One Native American woman said she saw this "thing"
in her headlights at Teigmeir's Beach in '87, a retired California
Highway Patrol officer said he was scared when he saw a moving
torso and upper leg on Waterman Ridge Road, a U.S. Forest Service
employee put his hand in a whole track in the snow and felt the
toes of a Bigfoot, a woman saw a "younger one" chasing
her son on a motorcycle, and last, but certainly not least, a
woman came from Sacramento to tell what happened to her just a
few weeks ago on Ironside Mountain when she saw a Bigfoot standing
20 feet away watching her.
Dockstrader and sound man Eli Chessen stayed in Willow Creek all
of Labor Day Weekend, better known in those parts as Bigfoot Days.
The two were also spotted getting shots of the Bigfoot Parade.
"I've heard the stories and always wondered," Dockstrader
said. "I spent a lot of time in the wilderness. I like to
backpack and all that, so I find it fascinating and have read
quite a bit recently and it intrigued me."
He told those he interviewed he would ask questions he thought
skeptical people might ask.
"I will use a journalistic approach," the filmmaker
said. "Skepticism with an open mind."
Besides those at the Saturday afternoon gathering, the crew of
two also interviewed Rebecca Cape at Brush Mountain Lookout, who
found a track. They interviewed Larry "Dud" Orcutt,
who found tracks on Blue Creek Mountain in August just before
Patterson made the video, as well as Bob Walund, an old timer
who worked in the woods and saw lots of tracks, according to Al
Hodgson.
The National Geographic guys also had plans to do interviews in
Washington State and visit scientists to get their analytical
views. The film aired January 31 2005, Dockstrader said.
Those Hoopa residents who were featured in articles published
in May 2004 in The Hoopa People Newspaper were invited to the
filming, although Pliny McCovey Sr. was the only one able to participate.
McCovey shared the details on film of his experience in the dark
last October (2003) when he heard what he thought was an adult
Bigfoot communicating with a younger one near his home on Mill
Creek Road. McCovey also told Dockstrader he thought the Megram
Fire was bringing the creatures in to search for food.
Hoopa's Raven Ulibarri, who saw one pack off a bag of garbage,
could not be contacted to participate in the documentary, and
Hoopa Tribal member Debra Carpenter, who saw one walking down
the road in Hoopa, was unable to come because she had her wedding
planned for 6pm that day. During the Bigfoot Symposium last September,
Debra was interviewed by Cryptozoologist Autumn Williams for the
show, "Mysterious Encounters," which still airs on the
Outdoor Life Network.
Dockstrader and Chessen left the Bigfoot Motel behind last Monday
after a weekend of Bigfoot burgers, donuts, casts and people sharing
their experiences.
"These were some of the nicest people I've dealt with so
far," Hodgson said.
09/09/04

Bigfoot
reports from two more at Mill Creek
By Rita Swanson,
HPN Staff Writer
Since the
last article in The Hoopa People Newspaper about Bigfoot sightings
in and around Hoopa, two more Hoopa residents have reported their
experiences in the Mill Creek area.
"The cat's out of the bag now," said Pliny McCovey,
who lives on Mill Creek Road. After Ulibarri and Debra Carpenter
told their experiences to The Hoopa People Newspaper last month,
McCovey decided he would no longer keep his experiences out of
the press.
"One night I heard the dogs barking," McCovey said.
"It was around the first snow and it was dark. I heard something
and thought maybe it was people. They talked in their own language-kind
of a growl at first, like to get attention, then there was gruntal
talk-different pitches and stuff like that.
"So I sat down and listened for about five minutes. It happens
so fast you don't realize what's going on. I know what bear and
cougar sound like and this was like nothing I've ever heard. The
porch light was on, but it was dark and I didn't get to see facial
features or anything. The dogs came back up to the house."
McCovey said he knew there were two, one of which was "huge."
"I walked down there and pulled the brush back and that's
when I saw the big one. It growled like a warning. I turned to
run and fell down. I thought it would come after me, but it went
up the ridge.
"When I stumbled, it took a couple steps and then stopped.
Then I got up and started moving again, and then it started moving
again. Then I stopped and it stopped. Then I just turned around
and walked back up and it moved. It came back to where the other
one was and then they both took off. Then I heard the dogs take
off (after them). I was maybe 15 feet from it, maybe closer.
"A friend of mine used to stay here with me and he said when
he went out there, he felt very uncomfortable and that he felt
something was watching him."
About three nights after that, McCovey said his wife was in the
bedroom and heard a big exhale. He looked out the window and heard
the same growl and heard it take off.
"Another time I heard it growling and then my cousin's dogs
barking," he said. "I think it's human, but a different
type of human. I wish the tribe would do something to protect
them. I've never doubted what my old people have said. Usually
what they say turns out to be true. My main concern is that people
don't come in here and hunt them. I will run people off if they
come out here."
A 26-year-old Hoopa mother also said she saw something that she
couldn't shake "a few months back" in the same area.
She wanted to remain anonymous.
"I couldn't really make it out and I wasn't sure what I saw,"
she said. "All I saw was the eyes and it was just getting
dark. I was on Mill Creek Road dropping behind Highway 96 and
I was on a downhill slope when I looked up and saw it at the top
of my windshield. It was just for a split second. It was already
by the trees. I just caught the eyes."
The sighter said she only realized how big it was because she
was on a downhill slope and it appeared at the top of her windshield.
She said her cousin went back to the area later to investigate
for tracks or see if he noticed a smell. He didn't find anything.
The area was covered with leaves, making it difficult to see if
anything had been there.
Patterson
film site identified on trip to Bluff Creek
Tony Hacking,
wildlife biologist at the Orleans Ranger District, was the U.S.
Forest Service liaison at the Bigfoot Symposium last September
in Willow Creek. Hacking went on the tour to Bluff Creek on the
last day of the symposium along with Bob Gimlin, the man who was
with Roger Patterson when he filmed the infamous Bigfootage. Hacking
calls himself an open-minded skeptic.
"A lot of time was spent trying to find the spot where the
film was made," Hacking said. "People had stills from
the movie and were holding them up to see if the location was
the same. Finally, someone noticed a distinctive rock that was
in the film over Patti's (Bigfoot's) shoulder. It had a pyramid
shape. When Bob saw that, he said it was definitely where they
were, but things had changed."
Hodgson said people had started calling the star of the Patterson
film "Patti" just a few years ago. After the symposium,
a group went back to the site and determined that not only had
Bluff Creek meandered around and the trees grown up, it was also
graded down as much as ten feet.
Absence
of evidence not necessarily evidence of absence
Hacking said
he has been a biologist in Orleans since 1986 and has been looking
for clues of the existence of Bigfoot, but hasn't found any.
"But, absence of evidence isn't necessarily evidence of absence,"
he said. "If things this large are living in this area, there
should be more evidence. For example, elk were reintroduced in
the mid 80s. There's unmistakable evidence. One could argue that
elk are herd animals and Bigfoot are solitary animals, so the
impact of a single Bigfoot isn't going to make the same impact
as a herd of elk."
While Hacking had scientific rationale that Bigfoot couldn't possibly
exist, he also spoke of examples that parallel what he called
the "Bigfoot phenomenon."
"I was involved with a graduate research project in the Bluff
Creek/Blue Creek area where we surveyed for a low elevation coastal
subspecies of marten we thought had gone extinct and relocated,"
Hacking said. "A known animal thought to be extinct was hiding
out in that Bluff Creek country unknown to science for over 50
years."
The wildlife biologist also noted that during the project, students
had to re-bait a box every two days and that their marks were
definitely left on the landscape. Why wouldn't a Bigfoot leave
more marks on the landscape, especially when accessing food sources
regularly?
Hacking said wolverines are another good example of an elusive
creature.
"They're extremely rare," he said. "There hasn't
been hard evidence detection in California for several decades,
but there's been quite a few sightings of them, like tracks and
scat. They are solitary animals, have huge home ranges, and can
travel over a hundred square miles, but they use their scent.
"Homonoids don't generally have a good sense of smell. How
would they communicate over a large distance? Some say they use
sound, but I think people would be more familiar with the sound.
I've heard a lot of strange things, especially at night when I'm
doing owl surveys. But they are all owls-they have a wide range
of vocalizations. I think what people may think is Bigfoot is
probably an owl."
Hacking also said he has received sightings of wolves in the area
and believes wolves are coming back because of the reintroduction
of elk.
"I welcome people to come in and talk to me about interesting
wildlife sightings," Hacking said. "I love hearing about
people's experiences."
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Rita Swanson
(formerly Molhoek) has written for the Hoopa People Newspaper
since 1996. She lives in Willow Creek, Calif., with her husband
and daughter and has been interested in Bigfoot since moving to
Willow Creek in 1995. Hoopa is just north of Willow Creek and
just south of Bluff Creek (the site of the 1967 Patterson/Gimlin
film). She holds a B.A. in journalism from Humboldt State University.
The preceding article was originally published in the Hoopa People
Newspaper, May 24, 2005 and is reprinted here with the author's
express written consent.
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