I kept promising notes from the presentations...and well, here they are... for the record...better late than never. (excerpted from my Nov 2007 Bigfoot Discovery Museum newsletter article...) Daniel Perez
Daniel Perez, author and publisher of the Bigfoot Times newsletter and the 1992 publication "Bigfoot at Bluff Creek," was first to speak. We had tapped him to anchor this event due to his long-time research of the Patterson-Gimlin film. He began his research of this subject in 1977 after seeing the movie "The Legend of Boggy Creek." He has been publishing a monthly newsletter in its current form since 1998 - "10 years ago this January." He brought along a Kodak K-100 16 millimeter movie camera similar to the one Roger Patterson used that day. After explaining the differences in the lens configuration, he pointed out just how heavy the camera was. He also shared an interesting detail that the camera was equipped with a pistol grip that also had a trigger to control filming. "Once you feel how heavy this camera is, you'll realize how extraordinary it was that he got this footage," Daniel stated, "especially under those circumstances they found themselves in on Bluff Creek that day." He spoke reverently about the late Rene Dahinden, a renowned sasquatch researcher with whom he developed a close relationship. During a visit to Canada to see Dahinden just prior to his passing in April 2001, Rene emphasized how important it was to carry on this research into the film event. He told him at a prior meeting that he considered the 1992 publication "Bigfoot at Bluff Creek" to be "the best damn thing published on the film" - and so on this occasion, Daniel would be selling copies of the booklet for a mere 67 cents in honor of the 40th anniversary. We then watched the Patterson-Gimlin film and he started in on a series of slides that included a composite photo from the Glickman study that Peter Byrne had sponsored in the 1990s. He also showed us a photograph of the film site as it is today. He was there last year with a local man named Richard Henry who had accompanied Jim McClarin to the site on November 5, 1967. He exhibited a photo from the P-G film that Rene Dahinden had drawn on with surveyed lines of distance between objects in the photo criss-crossing the scene. He stated that Dahinden did much to assist research into the event with his on-site measurements. Slides were exhibited of John Green's comparison film of Jim McClarin retracing the subject's steps and Peter Byrne's 1973 comparison photo of Al Hodgon's son at the film site. He also had several photographs of bigfoot costumes to show how "you can tell right away they're fake... They don't have the look of reality." Several other important figures in the film event were discussed including Lyle Laverty, Bob Titmus and current researchers M.K. Davis and Roger Knights. He concluded his presentation speaking of his meetings with Bob Gimlin and how his story has never changed. He made the point that "if this were a man fleeing a bank robbery, the film and footprints would be considered evidence." And that in forty years, no one has been able to duplicate the film (using a costumed actor).
Cliff Barackman
Cliff Barackman addressed the gathering next and his presentation was entitled, "The Patterson-Gimlin Film Subject 1959 - 1967." He is a member of several bigfoot organizations and he has been conducting independent field work for 14 years. He is a self-described footprint "cast geek" and had the opportunity in 2006 to photograph the Titmus collection housed at the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum. He had created multiple slides comparing track casts that had come out of the Bluff Creek area. He began with the premise that primates have very low birth rates and that we would expect to see the same individuals in the same area over time. Jerry Crew's cast was shown beside Roger Patterson's 1963 Laird Meadow cast. He was utilizing the casts made at the film site by Patterson and Gimlin and by Bob Titmus as his data set. He briefly described certain characteristics of a sasquatch footprint including the mid-tarsal break and showed examples of these from his photographs of the Titmus collection. He also said other identifying features for this comparison would include toe shape, toe size and what he called the "ball angle" - that is, a line drawn under the toes that angles downward after the 2nd digit. The first possible casts of the P-G film subject's tracks were from November 2, 1958 when Bob Titmus cast four tracks on Bluff Creek. He also cast tracks exactly one year later along Bluff Creek and these, too, were the same length and exhibited similar characteristics as did Patty's track casts from 1967. He showed us a photograph taken by Peter Byrne in1960 during the Pacific Northwest Expedition that showed the same similarities. Next, he compared the casts made by Al Hodgson and Betty Allen in October 1963 and also the Blue Creek Mountain cast of August 1967 made by John Green. He concluded his presentation by stating that similar tracks were never documented again in this area after the film event. "Once she was 'caught' by Patterson and Gimlin out in the open, she either was very careful about leaving tracks or left the area altogether." This post has been edited by moregon: Today, 02:21 PM -------------------- Love is all you need.... | |||
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 One star - Yowie  Group: Members Posts: 1,603 Joined: 9-November 03 From: California Member No.: 395  | Scott McClean
(pictured here with Bartlojays) Scott McClean began by telling us about his archival newspaper article research and the subsequent book where he compiled these findings, “Big News Prints.” He had printed and displayed nearly 35 articles that mentioned Roger Patterson or the film event on one of the walls, too. Scott also told us how he had seen something cross the road in front of his car in 1984 late one night in North Carolina. After his sighting, he read Dr. Grover Krantz’s book in 1988 and the advent of the internet found him searching the Library of Congress site for articles about strange animals that he assembled into a collection entitled, “Strange Howls.” This led him to the site www.newspaperarchives.com where he began searching for articles containing the subject “wild man of the woods” and this resulted in “Big News Prints.” He read to us an account from California in 1891 where the animal was observed to be in the trees, emit unearthly yells, thrash the undergrowth, beat its breasts, snap small trees, swing broken branches like a club and, after frightening the witness into dropping his game bag, eat some of the hunter's take. The man fled after observing all this. He had an article from the Fresno Bee of an event in 1893 where the creature beat its breast and roared to such a degree that it made the air shiver. A search party found an apparent lair with scattered sheep bones and the article stated that “the Indians know of the creature and do not consider it dangerous.” He then went on to display articles from California in 1964 from Pinecrest where one was spotted and most interestingly, one about a school teacher from the Fresno area who had found tracks on Bluff Creek that year. He also had an interesting article about Roger Patterson visiting Vance Orchard in eastern Washington in 1966 when Roger’s book was released. He then discussed what he had seen in 1984 and stated that he considers the Patterson-Gimlin film a concrete reference for people who have had sightings of a similar creature. Scott ended by showing us a Halloween card his father found for him in Wisconsin with a bigfoot costumed trick-or-treater on the front. Inside there were footprints across the card with the sentiment, “Believe…it’s more fun that way!” |
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