Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Part 4
Let's close this chapter of 2007...
After a short break, we reconvened to toast the film and the men who made the film. The champagne was generously provided by Terry Smith of Long Beach, CA and from here on the celebration lived up to its name. Mary-Anne McTrowe who had traveled to the event with her husband entertained us with two incredibly witty bigfoot songs accompanying herself on the ukulele. Both were about the Patterson-Gimlin subject and both took jabs at the naysayers. This was a surprise highlight of the afternoon. I then played a few verses of Buddy Knox’s unreleased bigfoot song.
Daniel Perez returned for a question and answer session and James “Bobo” Fay took some time to tell us about Irwin Supple, a man he befriended in the late 1980s who had bigfoot experiences in the area dating back to 1947. Irwin Supple actually had heard of the creatures back in his Army training days at the Presidio in San Francisco. An incredible story of a cavalry unit chasing one in the mountains of southern New Mexico in the 1930s was told to him and his unit stationed along the Mendocino Coast at the beginning of World War II encountered one as well. Bobo’s talk was informal and interrupted by frequent questions from the crowd. They seemed just as interested to ask Bobo an opinion on something bigfoot related as they did to hear his talk.
We spent the rest of the afternoon talking bigfoot and enjoying the company of some dedicated individuals – dedicated enough to be in Willow Creek this day. I played my unreleased song “John Green” and pointed out a letter to the gathering from Dmitri Bayanov. We lingered at the hall until well into the evening when we broke away to grab a bite to eat. Some of us decided to take advantage of a break in the whether and followed Cliff and Thom Powell to Louse Camp two hours away. We spent the next two nights camped along Bluff Creek. A very appropriate way to cap off our celebration! (we'll save those stories for another thread..)
THANKS!!
Thanks to all who participated in this historic occasion…Thom Powell made the event possible with his computer projector – and Mark Stenberg brought along an essential back-up projector! Scott McClean provided his computer and worked it all day during the presentations – and also designed the event poster, co-designed and produced the event commemorative t-shirt and printed out a plethora of articles for display…Cliff Barackman provided the PA system and had footprint casts on display. David Murphy made excellent displays about Roger Patterson. Daniel Perez brought relevant items to share and sold his “Bigfoot at Bluff Creek” booklet for 67 cents…Robert Leiterman, Bart Cutino, and Mark Stenberg helped with the set-up at the hall…and Terry for the bubbly...Bart for the non-al alternative...Joyce Kearney and yours truly organized the event. Phew! It was fantastic…glad we did it…see you in 5 years!
P.S.
there are about 20 t-shirts left...(XL and 3 L's)
I post a blog at www.bigfootsongs.com about how to order one...tomorrow.
we need to sell about 15 to break even on this wild celebration...
they'll be going for $15 plus $6 p/h...'cause I'm paying for the delivery confirmation, too.
Dear friends,
Greetings to you from Russian hominologists in Moscow!
I am glad that you and we are celebrating the 40th Anniversary of this historic event jointly in thought and feeling, though physically apart many thousands of miles. We started the tradition of celebrating the film's anniversaries back in 1977, marking the 10th anniversary by a well-attended session of our Hominology seminar in the Darwin Museum (you can read about it and see the photograph in the book America's Bigfoot: Fact, Not Fiction - U.S. Evidence Verified in Russia. The book is devoted to and deals with our study and verification of the Patterson/Gimlin documentary).
We also celebrated the 20th anniversary in 1987 by a similar gathering in the Museum. You can also read about it in the same book, chapter Celebrations in Moscow.
Then to mark the 30th anniversary, in 1997, we organized something bigger - an International Conference, attended by Grover Krantz from the U.S. and John Green from Canada. This event is depicted in my new book, to be published this month, entitled Bigfoot Research - The Russian Vision.
Now, for the first time, celebrations are held simultaneously in Russia and America, and this is great.
A novice in our investigation may ask: What's so special about this seven-meter strip of cellulose that makes us celebrate its anniversaries? This is how I answered this question in our report read at the 1978 Sasquatch Conference in Vancouver:
"Until October 1967, we had lots of information on relict hominoids but they remained inaccessible to the investigators' sense of vision. We were dealing then with the underwater part of the 'iceberg', as it were. October 1967 was the time when the fog cleared and the tip of the iceberg came into view." And I added, now we "know how such a biped looks and how it walks, this knowledge being available now to anyone who wants to use their eyes..."
The validity of that statement depended, of course, on the truthfulness of the film, on its authenticity. So when was this first established and firmly and publicly stated for the benefit and knowledge of the scientific community? In 1972, Rene Dahinden presented us with two copies of the footage, and in 1973, after a thorough study of it, we found the documentary true, which was announced in Dahinden's book, and repeated by us in the December 1974 issue of Current Anthropology, the leading world journal of the sciences of man.
Did any mainstream scientist in the world, and in America in particular, pay attention to that and check our claim? Nothing of the sort. It was only 18 years later, in 1992, that Grover Krantz announced his analysis of the footage and also declared it genuine. Still, in 2000, Professor Philip Lieberman, of Brown University, wrote me the following: "The supposed Bigfoot film appeared to primate specialists to be that of a human walking, wearing a crudely modified ape costume." That is 33 years after the film was taken and 28 years after we in Moscow verified its authenticity. With reference to the International Society of Cryptozoology, based in your country, which organization's direct duty was to study and evaluate the Patterson/Gimlin movie, which it never did, I commented, "U.S. cryptozoologists have hidden the truth of the Bigfoot documentary not only from themselves but also from the whole of America."
If on this solemn occasion you don't mind my further recalling and sharing with you what I said in the past about the Patterson/Gimlin film, I will continue.
The first Bigfoot documentary film will always retain a special place, not only in Bigfoot research but also in the history of science in general. Why was it rejected in America in the first place? Why turned down in England? Why proven authentic in Russia? Why is it still being rejected in America? The shortest answer is in the word hominology. The analyst had to take a scientific approach in examining the film before accepting or debunking it. A scientific approach of what science? The answer is hominology. Bigfoot was unknown to science because there was no science to know it. Back in the 1970s, Russia had already a tiny team of hominologists who tested and verified the film in a scientific manner. The world outside Russia had no such specialists at the time and the documentary was inevitably rejected.
As for aspiring debunkers, one of the arrogant ones is British TV presenter Chris Packham, who ahead of Greg Long and Heironimus attempted in vain to re-enact the Bigfoot movie. In a September 1998 BBC Wildlife magazine article, titled "Bigfoot - Proof or Spoof?", he said that he and colleagues "talked to special-effects experts, who laughed at the simplicity of the suit. They produced one, and we re-enacted the encounter precisely, to the centimeter. We re-shot it using the same type of camera."
As a result, the Packham film shows with brilliant clarity that, with a monkey suit on, "a man's a man for a'that!"
To complete his mission, the TV presenter used the hospitality extended to him by the late Roger Patterson's wife, Patricia Patterson, for what Packham describes as "pawing through the perpetrator's personal effects, his wallet, his phone book, his letters, and photographs." Packham says that when he found what he sought, "My heart nearly leapt from my chest." But, "In a way, it was a huge anticlimax. I remember, - he said, - walking to the car feeling I had the blood of the Bigfoot legend all over my hands."
What compromising evidence did the TV presenter turned detective find among Patterson's personal effects that killed the Bigfoot legend? He wouldn't say. It's a secret.
This writer and film analyst is sure that a huge anticlimax for Chris Packham is still to come, and that his feeling of triumph in Mrs. Patterson's home was caused by an illusion. As any genuine (not fake) researcher of the Bigfoot film knows, its subject is unassailable, because it is made by Nature, not man. It is as true as the Earth is round.
"A stake protrudes from the bleeding heart of Bigfoot, from cryptozoology itself," boasted Packham. In fact, a stake protrudes from the bleeding reputation of the TV presenter who boldly staged an act of verbal hari-kari.
Another aspiring debunker, anthropologist Dr. David Daegling, in his book Bigfoot Exposed, says on p.205 that "Skeptical inquiry into the film has made significant strides since 1967." Actually, it hasn't moved an inch. On the contrary, all aspiring debunkers of the film over the past decades have been exposed and defeated, and not a single proof or argument put forward by us for the film's authenticity has been refuted.
Fed up with the opponents' monkey business, we at the International Center of Hominology in Moscow, in May 2004, made an announcement and offered $100,000 to anyone who can successfully demonstrate to a panel of hominologists and anthropologists that the Patterson/Gimlin film shows a human being in a special suit. Our offer is based on the security of the equipment, vehicles, and intellectual property of our organization. So far no application has been filed.
Now some words about the Bluff Creek heroes of October 20th, 1967. The famous film resulted not only from a fluke, but also from Roger Patterson's dedication, courage, resourcefulness, and adroitness. Quite a few other people, with cameras, have chanced to encounter a Bigfoot, but none has managed so far to rival Patterson's achievement. I can imagine any number of people, myself included, in Patterson's shoes at Bluff Creek, coming back empty handed. No doubt, his action was a feat of investigation.
As for Robert Gimlin, I love what Greg Long says about him in his book on p.159. He says that film producer Robert Guenette was one among many who offered Gimlin large amounts of money to "tell the truth" about what "really" happened that day. Gimlin's answer was, "I'm already telling the truth."
I commented: Noble Gimlin, I embrace you in my thoughts... How proud I am that you count me among your friends, how lucky I am to have mixed all along with people of your make, not that of Heironimus and his patrons. If only most people stood up for the truth as strongly as you.
As for the Bigfoot movie, it calls for action in two aspects: scientific and humanitarian. I wrote to Grover Krantz in 1982: "It's a crime against science and common sense that the film has not been studied by science in Patterson's own country." Grover agreed with me on this point. Regarding the humanitarian aspect, it's a shame and disgrace for America to have let Roger Patterson die without his exploit having been recognized and awarded. It's a shame and disgrace for America to have let the names of Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin be mocked and slandered for decades by unscrupulous glory vultures. I wonder how long such shameless violation of human rights in America can be tolerated.
But be sure, we shall overcome some day.
So don't worry. Be happy!
Dmitri Bayanov
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After a short break, we reconvened to toast the film and the men who made the film. The champagne was generously provided by Terry Smith of Long Beach, CA and from here on the celebration lived up to its name. Mary-Anne McTrowe who had traveled to the event with her husband entertained us with two incredibly witty bigfoot songs accompanying herself on the ukulele. Both were about the Patterson-Gimlin subject and both took jabs at the naysayers. This was a surprise highlight of the afternoon. I then played a few verses of Buddy Knox’s unreleased bigfoot song.
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Daniel Perez returned for a question and answer session and James “Bobo” Fay took some time to tell us about Irwin Supple, a man he befriended in the late 1980s who had bigfoot experiences in the area dating back to 1947. Irwin Supple actually had heard of the creatures back in his Army training days at the Presidio in San Francisco. An incredible story of a cavalry unit chasing one in the mountains of southern New Mexico in the 1930s was told to him and his unit stationed along the Mendocino Coast at the beginning of World War II encountered one as well. Bobo’s talk was informal and interrupted by frequent questions from the crowd. They seemed just as interested to ask Bobo an opinion on something bigfoot related as they did to hear his talk.
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We spent the rest of the afternoon talking bigfoot and enjoying the company of some dedicated individuals – dedicated enough to be in Willow Creek this day. I played my unreleased song “John Green” and pointed out a letter to the gathering from Dmitri Bayanov. We lingered at the hall until well into the evening when we broke away to grab a bite to eat. Some of us decided to take advantage of a break in the whether and followed Cliff and Thom Powell to Louse Camp two hours away. We spent the next two nights camped along Bluff Creek. A very appropriate way to cap off our celebration! (we'll save those stories for another thread..)
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THANKS!!
Thanks to all who participated in this historic occasion…Thom Powell made the event possible with his computer projector – and Mark Stenberg brought along an essential back-up projector! Scott McClean provided his computer and worked it all day during the presentations – and also designed the event poster, co-designed and produced the event commemorative t-shirt and printed out a plethora of articles for display…Cliff Barackman provided the PA system and had footprint casts on display. David Murphy made excellent displays about Roger Patterson. Daniel Perez brought relevant items to share and sold his “Bigfoot at Bluff Creek” booklet for 67 cents…Robert Leiterman, Bart Cutino, and Mark Stenberg helped with the set-up at the hall…and Terry for the bubbly...Bart for the non-al alternative...Joyce Kearney and yours truly organized the event. Phew! It was fantastic…glad we did it…see you in 5 years!
P.S.
there are about 20 t-shirts left...(XL and 3 L's)
I post a blog at www.bigfootsongs.com about how to order one...tomorrow.
we need to sell about 15 to break even on this wild celebration...
they'll be going for $15 plus $6 p/h...'cause I'm paying for the delivery confirmation, too.
ADDRESS sent by
Dmitri Bayanov, science director
International Center of Hominology
Moscow, Russia
to
Colleagues celebrating 40th Anniversary
of
the Patterson/Gimlin Bigfoot Documentary
in Willow Creek, Northern California
Dmitri Bayanov, science director
International Center of Hominology
Moscow, Russia
to
Colleagues celebrating 40th Anniversary
of
the Patterson/Gimlin Bigfoot Documentary
in Willow Creek, Northern California
Dear friends,
Greetings to you from Russian hominologists in Moscow!
I am glad that you and we are celebrating the 40th Anniversary of this historic event jointly in thought and feeling, though physically apart many thousands of miles. We started the tradition of celebrating the film's anniversaries back in 1977, marking the 10th anniversary by a well-attended session of our Hominology seminar in the Darwin Museum (you can read about it and see the photograph in the book America's Bigfoot: Fact, Not Fiction - U.S. Evidence Verified in Russia. The book is devoted to and deals with our study and verification of the Patterson/Gimlin documentary).
We also celebrated the 20th anniversary in 1987 by a similar gathering in the Museum. You can also read about it in the same book, chapter Celebrations in Moscow.
Then to mark the 30th anniversary, in 1997, we organized something bigger - an International Conference, attended by Grover Krantz from the U.S. and John Green from Canada. This event is depicted in my new book, to be published this month, entitled Bigfoot Research - The Russian Vision.
Now, for the first time, celebrations are held simultaneously in Russia and America, and this is great.
A novice in our investigation may ask: What's so special about this seven-meter strip of cellulose that makes us celebrate its anniversaries? This is how I answered this question in our report read at the 1978 Sasquatch Conference in Vancouver:
"Until October 1967, we had lots of information on relict hominoids but they remained inaccessible to the investigators' sense of vision. We were dealing then with the underwater part of the 'iceberg', as it were. October 1967 was the time when the fog cleared and the tip of the iceberg came into view." And I added, now we "know how such a biped looks and how it walks, this knowledge being available now to anyone who wants to use their eyes..."
The validity of that statement depended, of course, on the truthfulness of the film, on its authenticity. So when was this first established and firmly and publicly stated for the benefit and knowledge of the scientific community? In 1972, Rene Dahinden presented us with two copies of the footage, and in 1973, after a thorough study of it, we found the documentary true, which was announced in Dahinden's book, and repeated by us in the December 1974 issue of Current Anthropology, the leading world journal of the sciences of man.
Did any mainstream scientist in the world, and in America in particular, pay attention to that and check our claim? Nothing of the sort. It was only 18 years later, in 1992, that Grover Krantz announced his analysis of the footage and also declared it genuine. Still, in 2000, Professor Philip Lieberman, of Brown University, wrote me the following: "The supposed Bigfoot film appeared to primate specialists to be that of a human walking, wearing a crudely modified ape costume." That is 33 years after the film was taken and 28 years after we in Moscow verified its authenticity. With reference to the International Society of Cryptozoology, based in your country, which organization's direct duty was to study and evaluate the Patterson/Gimlin movie, which it never did, I commented, "U.S. cryptozoologists have hidden the truth of the Bigfoot documentary not only from themselves but also from the whole of America."
If on this solemn occasion you don't mind my further recalling and sharing with you what I said in the past about the Patterson/Gimlin film, I will continue.
The first Bigfoot documentary film will always retain a special place, not only in Bigfoot research but also in the history of science in general. Why was it rejected in America in the first place? Why turned down in England? Why proven authentic in Russia? Why is it still being rejected in America? The shortest answer is in the word hominology. The analyst had to take a scientific approach in examining the film before accepting or debunking it. A scientific approach of what science? The answer is hominology. Bigfoot was unknown to science because there was no science to know it. Back in the 1970s, Russia had already a tiny team of hominologists who tested and verified the film in a scientific manner. The world outside Russia had no such specialists at the time and the documentary was inevitably rejected.
As for aspiring debunkers, one of the arrogant ones is British TV presenter Chris Packham, who ahead of Greg Long and Heironimus attempted in vain to re-enact the Bigfoot movie. In a September 1998 BBC Wildlife magazine article, titled "Bigfoot - Proof or Spoof?", he said that he and colleagues "talked to special-effects experts, who laughed at the simplicity of the suit. They produced one, and we re-enacted the encounter precisely, to the centimeter. We re-shot it using the same type of camera."
As a result, the Packham film shows with brilliant clarity that, with a monkey suit on, "a man's a man for a'that!"
To complete his mission, the TV presenter used the hospitality extended to him by the late Roger Patterson's wife, Patricia Patterson, for what Packham describes as "pawing through the perpetrator's personal effects, his wallet, his phone book, his letters, and photographs." Packham says that when he found what he sought, "My heart nearly leapt from my chest." But, "In a way, it was a huge anticlimax. I remember, - he said, - walking to the car feeling I had the blood of the Bigfoot legend all over my hands."
What compromising evidence did the TV presenter turned detective find among Patterson's personal effects that killed the Bigfoot legend? He wouldn't say. It's a secret.
This writer and film analyst is sure that a huge anticlimax for Chris Packham is still to come, and that his feeling of triumph in Mrs. Patterson's home was caused by an illusion. As any genuine (not fake) researcher of the Bigfoot film knows, its subject is unassailable, because it is made by Nature, not man. It is as true as the Earth is round.
"A stake protrudes from the bleeding heart of Bigfoot, from cryptozoology itself," boasted Packham. In fact, a stake protrudes from the bleeding reputation of the TV presenter who boldly staged an act of verbal hari-kari.
Another aspiring debunker, anthropologist Dr. David Daegling, in his book Bigfoot Exposed, says on p.205 that "Skeptical inquiry into the film has made significant strides since 1967." Actually, it hasn't moved an inch. On the contrary, all aspiring debunkers of the film over the past decades have been exposed and defeated, and not a single proof or argument put forward by us for the film's authenticity has been refuted.
Fed up with the opponents' monkey business, we at the International Center of Hominology in Moscow, in May 2004, made an announcement and offered $100,000 to anyone who can successfully demonstrate to a panel of hominologists and anthropologists that the Patterson/Gimlin film shows a human being in a special suit. Our offer is based on the security of the equipment, vehicles, and intellectual property of our organization. So far no application has been filed.
Now some words about the Bluff Creek heroes of October 20th, 1967. The famous film resulted not only from a fluke, but also from Roger Patterson's dedication, courage, resourcefulness, and adroitness. Quite a few other people, with cameras, have chanced to encounter a Bigfoot, but none has managed so far to rival Patterson's achievement. I can imagine any number of people, myself included, in Patterson's shoes at Bluff Creek, coming back empty handed. No doubt, his action was a feat of investigation.
As for Robert Gimlin, I love what Greg Long says about him in his book on p.159. He says that film producer Robert Guenette was one among many who offered Gimlin large amounts of money to "tell the truth" about what "really" happened that day. Gimlin's answer was, "I'm already telling the truth."
I commented: Noble Gimlin, I embrace you in my thoughts... How proud I am that you count me among your friends, how lucky I am to have mixed all along with people of your make, not that of Heironimus and his patrons. If only most people stood up for the truth as strongly as you.
As for the Bigfoot movie, it calls for action in two aspects: scientific and humanitarian. I wrote to Grover Krantz in 1982: "It's a crime against science and common sense that the film has not been studied by science in Patterson's own country." Grover agreed with me on this point. Regarding the humanitarian aspect, it's a shame and disgrace for America to have let Roger Patterson die without his exploit having been recognized and awarded. It's a shame and disgrace for America to have let the names of Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin be mocked and slandered for decades by unscrupulous glory vultures. I wonder how long such shameless violation of human rights in America can be tolerated.
But be sure, we shall overcome some day.
So don't worry. Be happy!
Dmitri Bayanov
Part 3
Al Hodgson
Al Hodgson, who attended the celebration with his wife Frances, is a central figure in all the bigfoot goings-on in Willow Creek since Jerry Crew first showed the world his giant footprint cast in 1958. Now, he admits that he didn’t buy into the hoopla back then, but he was in the midst of it all as he ran the general store in town. He drove the Eureka-Times Standard columnist Betty Allen to Bluff Creek to see tracks in the early 1960s and they did just that. He returned time and again and found some more in 1963. He phoned Roger Patterson in 1967 to tell of the track discoveries that summer in the Bluff Creek area. And he was visited by Roger and Bob the evening after they had taken the famous film. Al Hodgson was integral in getting the bigfoot wing added to the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum and worked tirelessly to organize and support the 2003 International Bigfoot Symposium. He IS the bigfoot report contact in Willow Creek and he took the podium to share with us many of the more significant sightings in the area over time.
“Sightings are much more common than people think,” he stated to begin his talk. The first he can recall was by a doctor driving the old, windy road to the coast in the 1930s. It was a road crossing over near the scales on the way to Arcata. Then, only a mile from here across the river ten years ago, tracks were found. A woman from town was staying at her family’s hunting cabin below Weitchpec, CA and saw one chasing her son as he road his motorcycle up the road. She came face to face with the creature for quite some time – the son didn’t know it was there. Another friend was driving to Weaverville, CA to visit her son in the hospital and she observed a juvenile sasquatch along the Trinity River “that was the color of a Golden Retriever.” He told us the story of two young guys who were bear hunting and almost shot one. They realized in time that it wasn’t a bear and used an old instamatic camera to shoot some photos – they didn’t turn out well. This was the closest anyone had come to documenting the creatures near town since the P-G film. He had another story from a retired highway patrolman who was getting firewood near Denny, CA. He had to get out to unlock a gate along the road and saw it moving through the brush from the waist down. He told Al that the thighs were “humongous” and that he had “never been so scared in all his life.” Another story involved a young man riding a bike on county road 1 near the junction with highway 36. He hit the creature at high speed and when he came to his senses, his bike was ruined and he had a handful of reddish hair. His stories seemed endless and he was determined to make the point that bigfoot is still around and still seen on a regular basis near Willow Creek.
Al was also a gracious attendee and participated in many of the Q&A sessions throughout the day.
It sure made the event to have him there!
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Al Hodgson, who attended the celebration with his wife Frances, is a central figure in all the bigfoot goings-on in Willow Creek since Jerry Crew first showed the world his giant footprint cast in 1958. Now, he admits that he didn’t buy into the hoopla back then, but he was in the midst of it all as he ran the general store in town. He drove the Eureka-Times Standard columnist Betty Allen to Bluff Creek to see tracks in the early 1960s and they did just that. He returned time and again and found some more in 1963. He phoned Roger Patterson in 1967 to tell of the track discoveries that summer in the Bluff Creek area. And he was visited by Roger and Bob the evening after they had taken the famous film. Al Hodgson was integral in getting the bigfoot wing added to the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum and worked tirelessly to organize and support the 2003 International Bigfoot Symposium. He IS the bigfoot report contact in Willow Creek and he took the podium to share with us many of the more significant sightings in the area over time.
“Sightings are much more common than people think,” he stated to begin his talk. The first he can recall was by a doctor driving the old, windy road to the coast in the 1930s. It was a road crossing over near the scales on the way to Arcata. Then, only a mile from here across the river ten years ago, tracks were found. A woman from town was staying at her family’s hunting cabin below Weitchpec, CA and saw one chasing her son as he road his motorcycle up the road. She came face to face with the creature for quite some time – the son didn’t know it was there. Another friend was driving to Weaverville, CA to visit her son in the hospital and she observed a juvenile sasquatch along the Trinity River “that was the color of a Golden Retriever.” He told us the story of two young guys who were bear hunting and almost shot one. They realized in time that it wasn’t a bear and used an old instamatic camera to shoot some photos – they didn’t turn out well. This was the closest anyone had come to documenting the creatures near town since the P-G film. He had another story from a retired highway patrolman who was getting firewood near Denny, CA. He had to get out to unlock a gate along the road and saw it moving through the brush from the waist down. He told Al that the thighs were “humongous” and that he had “never been so scared in all his life.” Another story involved a young man riding a bike on county road 1 near the junction with highway 36. He hit the creature at high speed and when he came to his senses, his bike was ruined and he had a handful of reddish hair. His stories seemed endless and he was determined to make the point that bigfoot is still around and still seen on a regular basis near Willow Creek.
Al was also a gracious attendee and participated in many of the Q&A sessions throughout the day.
It sure made the event to have him there!
David Murphy
(sorry, my photos of David at the event are like bigfoot pictures...blurry...here's one of him in 2005)
David Murphy, a Los Angeles area man who is authoring the biography of Roger Patterson, explained his interest in the subject since the 1970s and how for the last ten years he has been interviewing bigfoot witnesses independently. In 2004 he began corresponding with Patricia Patterson to coordinate the opportunity to preserve Roger’s bigfoot bust. A book was published at the time that vilified Roger’s name and reputation and he discussed writing the true story with the permission of Mrs. Patterson. He flew to Yakima in February 2005 and spent a week at the Patterson house going through some of Roger’s bigfoot collection. He has since returned on three occasions to the area and has interviewed over 50 people including all of Roger’s siblings and children. He has amassed close to 200 hours of interviews and an amazing collection of personal photographs.
On this day he shared with us some of his own photographs of the Yakima area as it relates to Roger’s life. He also had some photographs from Roger’s brother, Glen. He took us on a quick tour of Roger’s childhood and his acrobatic talent. David showed us photographs of Roger’s childhood home, the property where he lived in 1967 and Jerry Merritt’s house, a location that involved two sightings noted in Roger’s book. He had a photo of Roger's bigfoot restraint made of steel bars that he hoped to utilize once he had tranquilized one. Also a picture of a hand-crafted scrap book that was a collection of articles and information bound into a volume entitled “Prehistoric Giant Men.” David also located and photographed Bob Gimlin’s old truck that they used in 1967 on the trip to Bluff Creek sitting behind a home in Yakima. He has taken his research the extra step in every instance and we should anticipate a very thorough and interesting biography in late 2008.
David brought along a set of posters exhibiting some of these photographs and several bigfoot statues, including the first few copies of Roger's bigfoot bust.
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(sorry, my photos of David at the event are like bigfoot pictures...blurry...here's one of him in 2005)
David Murphy, a Los Angeles area man who is authoring the biography of Roger Patterson, explained his interest in the subject since the 1970s and how for the last ten years he has been interviewing bigfoot witnesses independently. In 2004 he began corresponding with Patricia Patterson to coordinate the opportunity to preserve Roger’s bigfoot bust. A book was published at the time that vilified Roger’s name and reputation and he discussed writing the true story with the permission of Mrs. Patterson. He flew to Yakima in February 2005 and spent a week at the Patterson house going through some of Roger’s bigfoot collection. He has since returned on three occasions to the area and has interviewed over 50 people including all of Roger’s siblings and children. He has amassed close to 200 hours of interviews and an amazing collection of personal photographs.
On this day he shared with us some of his own photographs of the Yakima area as it relates to Roger’s life. He also had some photographs from Roger’s brother, Glen. He took us on a quick tour of Roger’s childhood and his acrobatic talent. David showed us photographs of Roger’s childhood home, the property where he lived in 1967 and Jerry Merritt’s house, a location that involved two sightings noted in Roger’s book. He had a photo of Roger's bigfoot restraint made of steel bars that he hoped to utilize once he had tranquilized one. Also a picture of a hand-crafted scrap book that was a collection of articles and information bound into a volume entitled “Prehistoric Giant Men.” David also located and photographed Bob Gimlin’s old truck that they used in 1967 on the trip to Bluff Creek sitting behind a home in Yakima. He has taken his research the extra step in every instance and we should anticipate a very thorough and interesting biography in late 2008.
David brought along a set of posters exhibiting some of these photographs and several bigfoot statues, including the first few copies of Roger's bigfoot bust.
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More Photos and Notes from the P/G Movie Celebration, from Tom Yamarone, Part 2
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!” |
Photos and Notes from the recent P/G Movie Celebration In Willow Creek, California from Scott McClean and Tom Yamarone Part 1
back home now and hoping to get some notes up here... here's a link to the myspace page of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum.... http://www.myspace.com/bigfootdiscoveryproject check out the videos on the right...the one from Arthur C. Clarke's "Mysterious World" is the ONE to check out... what do you think?  pretty cool, huh? yes, more photos, Bill...I agree! and Oh Mah, sorry you missed Thom Powell... This post has been edited by tugboatwa: Nov 7 2007, 11:59 AM -------------------- Love is all you need.... | |
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 Official BFF Historian Group: Members Posts: 1,071 Joined: 15-January 04 Member No.: 635 | Hey everyone, since I was running the projector, it seems I don't have any shots from the event...DOH! But here are some photos taken at Bluff Creek Sunday Oct. 21 (we got very near the film site) and that blobby impression we found there. It was big at 22 inches, with an indication of a mid-tarsal arch and big toe, but inconclusive at best. In retrospect, I should have taken a few more photos of it and the other dead moss impression showing a possible stride...Cliff is right about taking 5 shots! Anyway, it was a great event and camping at Louse Camp was unbelievably beautiful...and remote! tirademan (And I think I saw some of those tee shirts in Tom's car...er, um) Attached thumbnail(s)
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