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NO. 2
THE BIGFOOT RECORD
EDITORIAL!
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Welcome to the second issue of the Bigfoot Record. I hope
that you enjoyed the first issue and continue to enjoy the
following editions. Anyone may submit information in this
newsletter as long as it is legitimate.
Please send information to:
The New England Bigfoot Info Center
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Thank You
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Bigfoot on rampage
GIANT BIGFOOT
monsters have been
spotted stomping
around the orange
groves of central Flor-
in southern U.S.
footprints.
Ida, sloshing through | him before he ran off, and
the Everglades and the then they photographed his
Louisiana bayous and
chasing after the
shrimp boats near
Brownsville and Cor-
pus Christi, Texas.
The monster in the orange
groves was first spotted by a
couple of hunters on a
weekend trip near Auburn-
dale, Florida.
Bubba Williamson. 21.
and his friend Flip Statler,
: 20, were looking for deer on
the edge of the Green
Swamp, a vast hunting area
in the central part of the state.
Monster
"I heard a rustling in the
bushes behind me. recalls
Bubba. "I turned slowly,
and about 30 yards away
from me there was this huge,
hairy monster.
"He didn't seem either
threatening or evil," com-
ments Bubba. "I think he
was more afraid of us than we
were of him Judging from
the scraps he left on the
ground, he lives on fruit and
other vegetation.
The Seminole Indians
have legends about a huge,
hairy monster which lives in
the swamps. They call him a
skunk monster because there
is a terrible sulpher smell
whenever he appears.
A shipbuilder in Algiers,
Louisiana, says he also has
spotted a huge, hairy mons-
ter. He saw the creature run-
ning through the bayou
swamps along the Missis-
sippi.
Algiers is located across
the river from New Orleans,
one of the world's largest riv-
Sightings of this monster
were first reported in 1983,
hut Buhho and the divin't peter parts
a view of him until the early
part of 1984.
"He must have been about
nine feet tall." says Flip. "I
don't think he noticed us at
first I moved a little closer
and then he turned and
started to run.
In March, Bubba was car-
rying his camera with him.
They spotted the monster
hiding behind some trees in
the swamps. The hunters
snapped a few pictures of
"I was taking a walk
through a wooded area late
one Sunday afternoon when I
spotted this huge monster
out 10 yards ahead of me,"
says Harry Simpson.
Pistol
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"At first I thought it was a
bear, but it was too big and
too graceful on its hind legs.
The damn thing walked like a
man." Harry notes.
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Sightings include
Texas, Florida &
Louisiana bayous
HAIRY BIGFOOT creature was spotted roaming
around in Florida swampland and photographed by
courageous Bubba Williamson
with me when I go out in the
woods, but I was so fright-
ened that I couldn't even
reach into my holster for it.
"You have no idea how
frightening it is to see some-
thing like that standing right
in front of you," he says
A Texas shrimper who
owns a fleet of boats in both
Brownsville and Corpus
Christi reports sightings by
his crew in both ports..
The monster tears the nets
open and yanks out shrimp
"He just stands in the water
gulping down the shrimp,
and the fishermen can't do
anything about it," says the
businessman.
"They have tried using a
stronger net, and they have
even shot darts at the mons-
ter, but he won't leave the
nets alone."
Experts who have inter-
viewed the monster spotters
in these three states say they
believe these creatures are
members of the same spe-
cies, and there may be as
many as 200 of them roaming
the wilds along the Gulf of
Mexico.
-DIANE AMERY
• NEARLY 200 bigfoot creatures roam the wild areas
around the Gulf of Mexico, according to experts who
have talked to people who have seen the monsters
How kissing stops
DURING YOUR CHILDHOOD, did
Yer notice your cuts and
scrapes always stopped hurting af-
ter your mother kissed
them? Have you ever
wondered why?
BUBBA WILLIAMSON was deer-hunting in a Florida
swamp area the first time he saw a bigfoot
pain
Scientists recently isolated
the "mom
factor in pain
killing medicine. It turns out
the kiss actually releases a
chemical in your brain which
makes pain disappear.
These painkillers are cal-
led endorphins, and they are
released by your brain
whenever you feel pleasure
Endorphins also give runners
a high after jogging
Responses
According to current stu-
dies on brain responses, kis-
sing relieves pain even better
than morphine.
In one instance, a 33-year-
old farmer in England lost his
arm in a wheat thrasher. It
was 20 miles to the nearest
hospital, and the man's wife
couldn't drive.
The unfortunate man had
to drive himself to the hospil-
al using his remaining arm.
To give him comfort, his
wife rubbed his hack and kis-
sed him on the neck for the
entire trip to the hospital.
Fainted
He later told doctors that
he didn't feel anything dur-
ing the drive. But as soon as
soon as his wife left him
alone at the hospital, he
fainted from the pain..
The man who swears he'll kill
ARK KELLER Is a
Iman with a mis-
MAK
sion: He wants to kill
Bigfoot to prove that
the legendary creature
exists.
The Vietnam veteran from
Eureka, California, quit his
government job to launch a
shoot-to-kill campaign
against the huge animal.
His grisly goal is kicking
up a lot of controversy in the
remote wilderness of the
Pacific Northwest, where he
hopes to smoke the animal
out.
The argument is between
those who say scientists can't
study the large mammal un-
less they have a body to dis
sect, and those who say the
creature needs to stay alive to
propagate in order to avoid
extinction.
Anthropologist Grover
Krantz of Washington State
University advocates bag-
ging the critter once and for
all.
"That way the rest of the
world will finally have proof
Hang on
cowboy!
Al least when you're rid-
ing a sheep, it's not a
long way to fall! Three-
year-old Tom Voegele
was more off than on
the bronco during a
rodeo for kidin
Moreton North
Bigfoot
By JOHN SCOTT
that Bigfoot exists," he ex-
plained
"Once we can examine its
remains and learn how II
lived. then we can take what-
ever steps necessary to avoid
the species extinction
But members of the Anim-
al Protection Institute of
America, a national orga-
nization, think otherwise
According to spokesman
Ted Crail, "Animals do best
when left alone Murder -
even in the name of science
-is still murder.
So far, Keller has yet to
bag his trophy, but says he
thinks he did see Bigfoot one
day. We'll continue to
search," he adds.
But Ted Crail notes:
"There is something crazy
about trying to shoot an
animal in order to save it. It
doesn't make sense.
VIETNAM VET gave up government job to launch shool-
to-kill campaign against legendary Bigfoot.
BIGFOOT FIGHTS
FOREST FIRE
A STUNNED WOODSMAN re-
turned from fighting forest fires
that ravaged Yellowstone Park
recently with an astounding tale
of how he witnessed Bigfoot bat-
tling the ferocious flames.
"The big fella stomped
on the blazes with his
feet," says Tom Barks, 40,
a camper who volunteered
to go to Yellowstone when
wildfires raged there and
help the fire crew.
"I saw him with my own
eyes. Hell, I owe my life to
Bigfoot. He saved me from
being turned into a human
marshmallow."
Tom first saw the hairy
beast in the park while he
was with a team of fire-
fighters trying to save a
ridge of timber from going
up in smoke.
The smoke was so thick
we could hardly see, and
we had to breathe through
masks," he recalls.
Bellow
"I lost sight of the guys
on either side of me. Then,
I heard a deep, bass bel-
low.
"I looked and I could
Gentle beast helps
park rangers save
SUN STORY
RED JACKSON
Yellowstone
without dropping from
heat exhaustion.
"But he was frantic
forest home.
make out a tall shape kind
of jumping around in the
trees. I assumed it was
one of our guys in trouble. about trying to save his
I ran forward to help him.
"It was Bigfoot! Eight
feet if he was an inch, and
beating out flames with a
shovel with his big, tough
arms. He looked at me
briefly, then ignored me,
BO I knew he meant no
harm.
"I could see his fur
smoking from the intense
beat. His eyes were red
and teary, and I knew no
matter how tough he was,
he couldn't keep that up
Blistered
I doused him with wa-
ter and he really liked it.
He rubbed it all over his
face and his blistered feet,
and he drank some, too.
Then he waved and
went off into the woods. I
wasn't going to tell anyone
what I saw."
But Tom saw Bigfoot
again two days later when
he was caught in the mid-
BRAVE BIGFOOT battles blaze alongside fire fighters in Yellowstone Park
dle of a wild blaze.
"I saw him at a distance
beating out fires with two
he remembers.
men,
They didn't seem to mind
him. They were too busy
putting out the fires.
"But the fire was all
made it to a clearing, and
he set me down gently.
"He made some soft
sounds, like he was say-
ing. There, now we're
even.' Then he took off and
I never saw him again.
around me and I yelled for
help. I saw Bigfoot drop
his shovel and run toward
me. The next thing I knew,
I was picked up in the air.
"Bigfoot ran me through
the burning trees like a
linebacker. He only
stopped when he finally Yellowstone."
"I hope he made it
through the fire," Tom
adda. Td like to think I
still have a friend in

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(Continued from Page 1) made in the Umatilla National Forest Is conclusive
that the elusive mammoth of the wilds really does exist.
Dr. Krantz revealed his astonishing evidence at a conference of the International Society of
Cryptozoology held in Vancouver, British Columbia.
board of directors.
Cryptozoology is the scientific study of hidden animals, and Krantz is a respected member of the society's
"The Bigfoot really does
live. Krantz emphatically
declared to The NEWS.
"In fact, the five plaster
easts that we have positively
prove beyond any doubt that at
least two of the creatures live
in the Umatilla forests.
"We have the 15-inch foot-
prints of two individuals, each
with its own Identifying der-
mal ridges. It's those fine, dell-
cate ridges like those that
make up a person's finger-
prints that makes it vir-
tually impossible for the foot-
prints to be fakes."
The plaster casts displayed
at the conference as proof of
Bigfoot's existence were made
only an hour after U.S. Forest
Service Ranger Paul Freeman
came face to face with the
towering creature last June.
The 39-year-old father of
three was on patrol in the Mill
Creek section of the forest, lo-
Stunned
ranger sees
a towering
1,200-pound
creature
roaming the
forests
cated a few miles east of Walla
Walla, Wash, when he had the
terrify. g close encounter that
still haunts his dreams.
"I was in a pickup truck on a
bark road near the top
ted a herd of eik," Paul re
called. "I stopped the truck
and got out.
Top scientist reveals startling evidence that
BIGFOOT MAN-APE
Washington State University anthropologist Grever Krants,
below, shows colleagues and newsmen a footprint cast of a Big
foot. Krantz was just as skeptical as other scientists, but the in
credibly fine details he found in the Impression convinced him
that there are Sasquatch roaming the forests of Canada and the
Pacific Northwest. He's supported in his findings by forest
rangers' eyewitness accounts.
public and I sure wasn't ex- this?' Then it dawned on me. It
"The area is closed to the thought, 'What the hell is in his chest as he breathed."
pecting to meet anybody. But was Bigfoot!
don't come any closer. I could see the muscles moving
Just as I rounded a bend In the
Switchback, there it was.
"It looked like a giant, hairy
chest. It was about nine feet
man except for his face and
IS ALIVE
Paul Freeman come face to
face with a 9-foot forest boast.
brought to the scene. In less
than an hour, his super
had arrived and car
photographs of the glar
prints were being mad
Dr. Krantz said A
show the casts to be authea
reproductions of the tracks left
by a living Bigfoot.
"They have to be real," he
explained. "The pattern of the
dermal ridges not only are ana
tomically correct for a higher
primate, some of the ridges are
deformed me they would be by
something that walked on bare
feet the ridges on the cast are
fake, they would have had to
have been pul in the dirt-
back at me."
running, but it took seven-foot else engraved right in the p
strides. And It kept looks ter cast. There are litera
thousands of delicate lines. i
Paul radioed to the ranger
When he reached his truck. would take a master engravel
headquarters and reported his
to do it.
Paul said the creature had
large, piercing, black eyes, a
broad nose rather than a
"It saw me the same instant
snout, and a wide, flat mouth.
"As I backed away, the crea- encounter.
"There's no doubt what-
I saw it. I started backing up tall and must have weighed be- ture turned and started walk-
soever in my mind. The casts
He asked that plaster cast prove beyond any doubt that
because it had a look that said tween 800 and 1,200 pounds. Iling away from me. It wasn't material and a camera be Bigfoot really lives."
LIST OF BIGFOOT REPORTS
1. Two farmhands saw a Bigfoot type animal in their
barn, sitting on a feed bunker in 1982.
2. In 1870, a man was hunting near Cole Brook, CT when
he encountered a strange humanoid animal in some
bushes.
3. A white hairy Bigfoot creature was seen near
Trumbell, CT in 1972.
4. A woman from Bristol, CT claimed she encountered
a Sasquatch - type animal standing near a bridge
in Whigville, CT in 1989.
Please note that some people who see these Bigfoot
creatures would rather be kept anonymous.
Paul who had to quit the
Forest Service because of the
"flak" and ridicule he received
from his superiors and fellow
rangers, said he feels vindi-
ed by Krantz' findings.
But I didn't really need any
proof," he declared.
"I've known all along they
were real. It wasn't a bear.
Hell! I've seen 'em every day
and I know a hear when I see
it.
"The Creature scared the
hell out of me.
"I didn't sleep for a week
and I still donleep at night.
Now, if anyone asks me. I can
tell 'em straight out Hell,
yes! Bigfoot lives!"
WEEKLY WORLD NEWS
Varember 197
Thanks,
From the Editor
Billy Green

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NO. 4
THE BIGFOOT RECORD
EDITORIAL!
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Hello out there, welcome back to the Bigfoot Record.
In this issue, you are going to see information from
Ray Crowe, Art Caruso and Bill Brann . Anybody can
submit information concerning the sasquatch mystery
as long as it is legitimate. If anybody has encount-
ered Bigfoot, please feel free to contact me. Here
is my address if you want to report a sighting or to
send information etc. for my newsletter.
Bill Green c/o
N.E.B.I.R.C.
21 Benham St. Apt. F
Bristol, CT 06010
Sasquatch drawn by Tron Peterson
Thank You
From the Editor
Billy Green

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PAGE 10-EWC
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE DECEMBER 30, 1992
By George W. Earley
I
I's huge, hairy and smells like it hasn't
bathed since the dawn of ume.
It can leave tracks 6 inches wide and
inches long They're human-like, but the to
configuration is unlike yours and mine
The white man calls it "Bigfoot "Native
Americans call it by many names; "Sasquatch," 3
Salish Indian word, is perhaps the one most frequently
used and is becoming the preferred term
Most scientists-zoologists, anthropologists and
folklorists, for example - don't believe in Sasquatch.
It's a myth, they say A legend. Monster folklore built
on childhood fantasies that have carried over into
adulthood and been reinforced by Hollywood monster
movies.
COVER PROFILE
terbeds and Futons shop in Vancouver, Wash., and a
photo of a man with a small Sasquatch-type footprint
lamped on his shoulder There's a "Harry and the
Hendersons movie poster, comic books, a Bigfoot
sing, and postcards of life-sized wooden BF statues in
California and Oregon (the nearest one to This Week
den op of the store at the Lost Lake camp-
of various other organiza-
round), and the addresses
tions of aquatch sockers in the United States and
Canada (tee boxed inmation).
Up front is a spe
sketch of Sa
holds
odiam complete with a
pearby display case
Sasquatch tracks from
fed feces y collec-
tion of animal bond skulls on? Sasquatch, un-
fortunately), Sasquatch coffee mugs and similar odd-
ments, and more photograph
Coos Bay and
Dahinden insisted they were takes The tracks, sald
John, were smaller than those usually reported being
only 12-13 inches long
Jake commented that unless we thought there was
only one Sasquatch who had lived longer than
Methuselah, then there had to be families Families
Putrand juveniles and. like human children.
CAMPER Won't begin life with adult-sized feet
d most people hiking in the woods
juvenile Sasquatch and dismissed
call he added somewhat sarcastically,
"everyone know many backpackers are crazy eco-
freaks who one hike naked once they are beyond the
prying eyes of the OCAL
Footprint fakery is a problem Crowe noted, point-
ing to huge track casts on the behind him All
BIG FOOT
But if it's all a myth, then what's been making all
those tracks people have found in the Pacific North-
west (and other areas of America and Canada) for near-
ly 200 years?
That's what Ray Crowe wants to know. Crowe is
founder/director of the Western Bigfoot Society, a lit-
the band of believers whose faith in the existence of the
beast is unshakable.
One evening a month they gather in a basement meet-
ing room below Crowe's used book and collectibles
shop in Portland's St. Johns neighborhood to exchange
viewpoints (possibly the hottest topic: Should we kill a
Sasquatch to prove they exist or leave them alone?) and
to listen to guest speakers on various aspects of the
Sasquatch mystery And perhaps to prove that they
are not merely armichair adventurers some of them
make field trips to nearby areas in Washington and Or-
egon where Sasquatch have been reportedly seen
and/or tracks found.
A recent meeting was typical. About 20 people at-
tended and because believing in, or claiming to have
seen, a Sasquatch can subject you to a lot of unwanted
ridicule. any names mentioned in this account, save for
Ray Crowe and the evening's main speaker, Jim
Hewkin are pseudonyms.
For the first-time visitor (non-members are welcome
to attend, Crowe merely asks a $3 donation to dis-
courage idle curiosity seekers and help pay the electric
bill") the long, narrow meeting room initially gives the
impression of being decorated in early flea market
At the foot of the stairs is a table with material for
sale: back issues of the WBS newsletter The Track
Record, WBS buttons, bumper stickers reading
"BIGFOOT is Alive and Well in Oregon," and books
about the Sasquatch
Beyond the table, a couple dozen chairs set up
two-by-two on either side of a center aisle - fill the
room wall-to-wall.
The walls themselves are covered with an eclecuc
collection of Sasquatch memorabilia: There are
topographical maps of areas where sightings and/or
tracks have been reported, dozens of magazine articles
and newspaper clippings (both straight news and su-
permarket tabloid sleaze), photographs of WBS mem-
bers on outings, an ad (and T-shirt) for the Bigfoot Wa-
After giving the attendees time to mingle, exchange
viewpoints and browse the walls, Crowe called the
meeting to order.
were props used in a movie shot in Portland and had
been decorations in the film's "Bigloot Bar and Grill
On the other hand, said Hew kin, a retired wildlite
Referring to track reports from Idaho which the As-biologist who spent nearly 30 years ranging Oregon's
sociated Press wire had carried, Crowe announced that
John, a new WBS member, had visited the site and
asked him for his observations.
Noting that he got there not only some days after the
initial find but after a heavy rain, John said he didn't
really know enough to pass judgment on the tracks he
was shown. He said the two longtime Bigfoot experts
who were on the scene - Rene Dahinden of British
Columbia, and Washington State University anthro-
pologist Dr Grover Krantz - disagreed about the
tracks. Krantz felt they were probably real, while
WESTERN
BIGFOOT
SOCIETY
LOMBARD
forests while working for the state wildlife department
when you find footprints many miles from roads and
other trappings of civilization in areas where tourists
are non-existent and even backpackers are rarely seen.
it is not easy to dismiss them as fakes.
Like John, Hewkin had traveled to the Idaho site
where he talked with Krantz as well as with some local
Indians who said many other tracks had been found in
the same area a week or two before the ones that had
gotten news media attention This, as Sasquatch inves-
tigators know, is not unusual Once a report - be it a
A WBS member recounts a recent sighung in Idaho that hus fueled debate among Bigfuul experts
sighting or the finding of tracks becomes public,
other people are willing to come forth and talk about
what they've seen. Some investigators estimate that
perhaps only 10 percent of all Sasquatch sightings are
ever publicly reported.)
BIGFOOT
Hewkin described the Idaho countryside as a mix of
woods and farmlands with ample ever for large ani-
mals Several attendees commented
with
which wild animals, oven male deer and
large antlers can move through under
their
that hu-
mans find virtually impassable
ns
In his talk, Hewkin said that at the beginning of his
Career as a wildlife biologist he tog di Sas-
quatch reports as fakes or mistaken
trained people inexperienced with wild Bat, he
went on to say, he kept finding signs" inconsistent
with known animals. particularly bears, frequently
cited by skeptics as a major cause for Sasquatch sight-
ings (Bears do appear human-like. particularly at a
distance, when standing upright on their hind feet. But
as they cannot walk more than a step ur two that way,
bears could not have left the long lines of tracks found
in Idaho)
Bears eat grubs, ants and other insect
rotten logs and stumps apart to get them
have claws and leave recognizable cla
they do so Hewkin says he has found broken logs
trees with obvious fingernail marks on them
from fingernails far larger than yours and uning
The Bigfoot, he believes are omnivores, able to eat
a wide variety of berries and grasses as well as meat of
various kinds.
He told of interviewing a man who said he saw sev-
eral Bigfoot dig out a rodent nest and devour the mice.
A deer hunter told him of seeing a fawn caught by an
unidentified animal The hunter was seated on a stump
only a few dozen feet from the edge of a woods. Sud-
denly, something" burst from the woods, snatched
up the fawn, which had wandered away from its moth-
er, and dashed back into the trees It happened so fast,
the hunter told Hewkin, that ail he could truly be sure
of was that the creature hadn't been a bear and that the
fawn had been grasped by hands and not a mouthful of
teeth.
This report provoked a number of secondhand anec-
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DECEMBER 30, 1992 THIS WEEK MAGAZINE EWC-PAGE 11
dotal accounts from attendees who recounted instances
they had heard of that fit in with Hew kin's belief that
the Sasquatch are active predators.
Tracks found in snow, says Hewkin, show that the
Sasquatch, unlike bears, do not hibernate in the winter.
To stay active then requires considerable food, and
Hewkin believes they cache the bodies of animals
caught earlier in the year.
The creatures then feed off this smelly carrion and
that, Hewkin believes, is the source of the horrible
smell frequently mentioned by Sasquatch sighters. The
smell is said to be so bad that even trained hunting dogs
refuse to follow it.
Charlie didn't agree with Hewkin's idea. He told me
afterward that while a Sasquatch would be smelly in
the spring after a winter of sharing a lair with rotten
meat, a few rains seen the stinkiest one
clean. Bu as mationed year-round.
"My guess," said Charlic, "is that the Sasquatch,
like some other animals, holved scent glands that
put out a really awful mell for defensive purposes. Big
and strong Sasquatch would be no match for
bears, cool pack but a truly nose-numbing,
gut-w
gare them away.
I flipped the
WBS
counts Comed
books ind
the tales
agreed no!
sources d
"I jus
decision
The Track Record, the
a mix of anecdotal ac-
hany years, excerpts from
newspaper reports. Some of
r out, I told Crowe. He
cked the ume and other re-
out much of what he printed.
the members make their own
aid, smiling. But if I can, I
do try to check, I've been told the Estacada Ranger
District on the other side of Mount Hood has a log of
Bigfoot sighting with 30 entries over the last three
years I got this from a reliable source but they deny it,
so I've written the chief ranger in Washington, DC..
No reply yet.
I wandered out of the store to find WBS members
still discussing their favorite topic one sidewalk.
Around me were the usual and so and smells
of the city. It seemed almoto considhat
only a few miles away, ick forests that bet
much of the Pacific Northern Califor-
nia into Alaska, may live neopants of mankind's for-
gotten cousins, the Sa
George W. Ea
Mount Hood, hus
cessful seeker of
Tracking Sasquatch
Ray Crowe founded the Western Bigfoot Society in
July 1991. Membership is $20 a year, and Crowe's
chatty The Track Record newsletter goes to 40 mem-
bers each month.
The group meets the last Thursday of each month in
the base most of Ray's Used Books and Collectibles,
Lombard in Portland's St. Johns neighbor-
Voting attendancrages about 20. Ray will
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you drop by the shop during the
tions waan interest in Sasquatch in-
quatch Report, in care of Mike Quast,
Ave. South Apt. 7, Farço N.D. 58103.
(Monthly newsletter)
California Bigfoot Organization. +4528 21st St.
West, Lancaster, Calif. 93536.
Bigfoot Co-Op. 14602 Montevideo Drive, Whittier,
Calif. 90605.
The International Society of Cryptozoology, P.O.
Box 43070, Tucson, Ariz. 85733 (Collects and
publishes reports on a wide variety of creatures whose
existence is not formally accepted by scienusts, e.g
sea serpents, lake monsters, Sasquatch, etc. Quarterly
newsletter and annual journal.)
British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoological
Club, 8790 Cartier Street #308, Vancouver, B.C
Canada V6P 4V2. (Irregularly published newsletter
concentrates on Sasquatch and Ogopogo, the
"monster'
Canagan.)
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Always include a stamped self-addressed envelope
when writing organizations for information - letters to
Canada should include an International Reply Coupon,
as they can't use our stamps.
Recent and readable:
"Bigfoot Warning by Tom Skizenski. Available
610 postpaid from the author at PO Box 40828,
Central Station, Portland, Ore. 97240.
"The Sasquatch in Alberta by Tho mas Steenberg.
Available for $10 postpaid from Western Publishers,
[AD] P.O. Box 30193. Station B. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
"Monsters of the Northwoods: Bigfoot in New York
and Vermont," by Bartholomew, Brann and Hal-
lenbeck. Available for $15 postpaid from William
Brann, 2 Mountain Drive, Hudson Falls, N.Y. 12839.
"Creatures of the North. The New Minnesota Sas-
quatch Encounters." Available for $10 postpaid from
Mike Quast see address above.
The above are privately published works - check
your library for such books as 'Bigfoot: Monster,
Myth or Man by Peter Byrne. Sasquatch: The
Apes Among Us" by John Green. Sasquatch" by
Don Hunter and Rene Dahinden. and Abominable
Snowman Legend Come to Life by Ivan Sanderson.
And just published this summer Field Guide to the
Sasquatch" (Sasquatch Books. Seattle), available for
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FOOTNOTE REPORT - RAY CROWE
Several reports received recently by the Western Bigfoot Society
indicate that Bigfoot/Sasquatch is alive and well in the Pacific
Northwest. The following is a summary of the November and December,
1992, activity reported in the "Track Record," issue #23, January, 1993.
Reports continue to come in, and undoubtedly there will be more reports
For December, besides reports of yesteryear.
Nov. 4th. On a MarkAir Express flight from Togiak to Manokotak,
Alaska, passengers spotted a Bigfoot walking down a ravine. This area
is on the mainland, at the northern base of the Aleutian Peninsula. It
was "black and gray with a beaver hat on," one witness noted. Another
said, "it was tall as my house...it was grayish black with a brown head,
and he was walking on two feet." Pilot Randy Quinto circled around the
area. "It was hiding by the creek in some brushes," a passenger said.
Later the Public Safety Officer checked, and found 16" long tracks in
the snow along a ravine. Tales of the "Yuilrik," or the Hairy Man, are
as old as anyone can remember, "The Tundra Drums" commented.
November 14th. Dick Wolfgang and his cousin were hunting in the
Blue Mountains of Oregon when they found fresh tracks near Tollgate
(3N, R38E). The tracks were about 17" long, and in one foot of snow.
Tracks paralleled Hy. 204 on a logging road, and were probably made the
night before, Dick reports.
Investigator Scott Sebring said one of his informants had told of a
recent newspaper article about Bigfoot collecting starfish along the
Oregon coast. He didn't recall the paper or the town though. Would
appreciate a report if anyone saw this, or any BF article. Am curious
as to what Biggie would want with starfish...didn't think they were
edible. The common Ochre Star has five legs and is found in intertidal
rocky areas at low tide ("Starfish," Jim White, in Oregon Wildlife, Apr.
1976) The star might have dozens of clams in its stomach that would be
edible, but am inclined to think the Bigfoot was curious, like a little
child, and just wanted to see what the "pretty things' were.
Wilma, who had been mushroom
picking in the Brush Creek area, NE of Carson, WA, on Nov. 21, and heard
something "yodeling" up on the hill above where she had been picking.
Contacting Datus, Wilma showed him the area and he searched, finally
finding 13" tracks, an area of the 'shrooms that looked trampled and
scuffed, and another place where bark had been pulled from a dead snag.
There was no snow on the ground at this time.
Datus Perry interviewed a lady,
This time
Two days later, on Nov. 23rd, Datus was contacted again.
from a 50 year old Sioux Indian lady, that ran a "sweat bath" (water is
heated with hot rocks in a tight lodge...and Indian sauna) off the Bea:
Creek road, very close to the above Brush Creek report. Nicknamed
"Wounded Knee," she showed Datus and Harry Schumacher the area where her
tepee was, and her complaint...her dog had been torn up in the roadway.
The front leg had been torn o, Datus said, and the neck bitten open.
Datus and Harry again found tracks crossing the road and going up a
bank, and again there was the tearing open of rotten wood on the side of
the hill. Probably the same "critter" that was seen before, Datus said.
The tracks looked to be a coupla' days old, and had been rained on, but
the "toes" were still plain. Again there was no snow on the ground.
As a parting shot, a Bigfoot investigator, who works northwest of
Linnton, OR, said at 8PM December the 6th, as he was leaving work, he
thought he saw an 8 foot Bigfoot standing along Hy. 30 (Saint Helens
Road) just as he pulled onto the highway. He admitted he was tired
though, and headlights from oncoming traffic were bright. Thinks he
should have gone back to check....but he didn't, thinking there wouldn't
be a Bigfoot so close to the city of Portland. Editor: I checked the
area and found a steep ravine that was heavily forested with thick
underbrush at the site. Trees and brush had lost their leaves for the
season, and the area was reasonably open. A small muddy creek (heavy,
recent rains) cascaded down the ravine. The area is in Forest Park,
part of the city of Portland. In 1991 Bigfoot was reported near there on
Germantown Road in the park. Associate Jim Hewkin investigated the area
for three hours, but could find nothing of note.
There are numerous other reports included in Track Record #23 from
other time periods: a possible burial from last summer, a deer that was
killed, a pair of lost sunglasses that were returned...stretched out of
shape, a recent dropping found, and other significant reports of Bigfoot
activity. Subscription $20.00 for ten issues; Western Bigfoot Society,
8622 N. Lombard, Portland, Or. 97203.
lew Dillmaham
are reserved for skiers only.
Though dogs are allowed
on some sections of trail,
Robb stressed that the only
pooches let on the trails will
be those walking or skijoring
with their masters. No
mushing will be allowed.
Fairbanks Daily News
November 29, 1992
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-The Valdez Vanguard
3 Bigfoot?
Reports of a strange crea-
ture sighted west of Manoko-
tak recently have revived
tales of Southwest Alaska's
legendary Hairy Man, de-
scribed as an elusive ape-like
creature covered with hair
and walking like a human.
"It was not a bear," said
one witness, a passenger on a
MarkAir Express flight from
Togiak to Manokotak on Nov.
4. "It was black and gray
with beaver hat on.
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"It was tall, maybe as tall
as my house," a second wit-
ness said. "It was grayish
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black with a brown head, and
he was walking on two feet."
A third passenger also
claimed to have seen the cre-
ature.
Passengers had alerted
pilot Randy Quinto to what
they thought was "a guy
walking down in a ravine.
Quinto circled around the
area, east of High Summit.
On the second pass, passen-
gers spotted the animal.
"It was hiding by the creek
in some brushes," one said.
Air taxi dispatcher Nicho-
lai "Gwim" Alakayak, his
son and the Manokotak vil-
lage public safety officer later
found 16-inch-long tracks in
snow om a ravine 15 miles
from the village.
Tales of "yuilrik," or the
Hairy Man, are as old as any-
one can remember. A Yup'ik
variation is translated literal-
ly as "Sinkers," or "The One
Who Disappears," according
to a source.
-The Tundra Drums
4 School Debate
School officials in Chugiak
are finding public interest in
year-round schools lukewarm
at best. Fred Stofflet, school
district of curriculum and
evaluation, estimated that the
crowd at a West High meet-
ing earlier this month was
split "about 50-50" on the
subject.
At other sites, "most folks
were somewhat skeptical,"
he said.
Under the proposal, stu-
dents would take several
short vacations each year in-
stead of having the summer
off.
In addition to holding pub-
lic meetings, a committee
Stofflet heads will research
the idea's pros and cons, and
compile a report, due to the
school board in January.
-The Chugiak-Eagle River
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Investigation
Art Caruso
12/20/92
A thank you goes out to Joe Turner for giving us this
information. On December 10,1992 I interviewed a Stark-
-County couple on the phone about strange foot prints that
was found outside near a window of their house.
heard cat or baby cries coming out of the woods near them
and the woman saw something or someone looking in the win-
-dow of the house.
They also
On December 20,1992 Don Keating and I went to Minerve
Ohio to interview the above couple. The report that we ob-
-tained here matched the ones Don and myself recorded over
the phone separately. An object was seen in the window one
night between November and December of 1991 by the woman.
She told us that she could not sleep one night, so she came
down stairs to watch T.V..As she neared the lower level of
the house she smelled an oder that reminded her of a dead
animal. The woman watched T.V. for 15 minutes then got up
and turned off the set along with the light in the room
but, as she did she had a feeling that someone was watching
her. She turned and looked up at the window and to her sur-
-prise an oval form was in the upper right corner of the
window. The object then pulled back from view and the woman
dismissed it as being a branch of a tree moved by the wind.
The next day a family member advised her to check outside
to see if it was a branch or something else, upon checking
they found no trees or branches that could have caused the
silhouette in the window, however they did find a large
foot print of some kind on the grond near the window. The
man there wears a twelve size shoe and when he compared it
with the print his was dwarfed. They also found what looked
like hand smudges on the window sill.
Not far from the same window there is a slope in the
land that goes around their house. Along the upper part
of this slope, large indentations were found by a carpent-
-er who told them that something or someone vary heavy had
walked there. The strangest thing however was the fact that
their dogs would not go near the spot for a long time after.
Also one of their dogs turned up missing and could not be
found and he was the kind of pet that would not leave his
house. They told us that one night in the summer as they
were about to full asleep, they heard cat or baby cries
coming from out of the woods near them. The woman gave us
photos of the foot prints from near their window. Don & I
found a foot print near the driveway and photos were taken
of it. The couple would like to remain anonymous.
Bigfoot sighting
a prank or real?
1986
Credit to Bill Brann
What may have been a harmless
prank was too real for a number of
midnight driven near Eatonville
on Scare Route 161 Friday, Feb. 28.
Nobody was willing to identify
what be saw a bugfour or me
quatch.
Each witness, however, reported
virtually identical sightings, mying
they saw a large, erect, human-
like creature walking acrom the
highway about a half-mile south of
the city limits. All sightings were
shortly after midnight.
Kevin Lindsay, 25, of Puyallup.
was heading south an 161 iom Entoo-
ville about 12:10 am. when his
headlights picked up a "large,
walking thing covered with black
hair, whose shoulders were above
the cab of my pack-up." cross the
road with a "long, slow gait."
Eatonville resident Dale Kisten-
macher was leaving town about the
same time when, as he was driving
Bown the hill, he saw something
big walking on two legs in the high-
way. Kistenmacher turned his ve-
hicle around and found the creature
still in the road as he drove back to-
wards cown
He described it as seven B
eight feet tall, with wide shoulde
black, shiny hair, and eyes that
glowed red in the beam of his
beadlights.
"I drove towards it and it started
walking from me. Then it stopped
and looked over its shoulder at us,
then went acro and down
the bank
"I've worked in the woods all
my life, and I've never believed
anything like that existed." he said.
was no be
Larry Magill, Eatonville, encoun
tered the being in the center of the
highway as he was driving up the
hill into town. He described it as
at least six feet call, with smooth,
black hair and no hair on its face.
He had ume to cum around and
see the creature again as he was
driving down the road, adding that
it was "swinging its arms as it
crossed the street. It was no bear."
Magill pointed out that what he
saw could have been a man in a big
monkey suit.
Sam Wildlife Agent Ken Kildahl,
who was rouard out of bed by others
who had seen the creature and who
visited the area shortly after the:
sightings, said that it appears that
someone was playing a prank. "A
fly sophisted pant," he called it
Kildahl said that a lot of people
the thing. Some even had time
om around for a second look.
He pointed out that animals don't
behave that way under noamal con-
ditions. They don't hang around
after an encounter with human
beings.
"If an animal is seen that many
times and it's known that it's an
animal, then the likelihood is chee
it could be sick. In this instance
there was a high probability that it
aught be an injured bear, and it
was my responsibility to check tha
out," he added
Kildahl said that he knew many
of the witnemes and knew that they
know what bear look like and, after
talking with them, accepted that
it wa't a bear. He mid ther people
were genuinely upset by what they
sw. Some were crying.
"I'm sure this was a prank,
and there are some serious concerns
when people do this sort of thing."
be said. He explained that there
was traffic congestion during the
sightings and there could have
been a serious accident. In addi-
non, he said, some people were
scared and will have trouble re
solving what they saw.
Whoever may have been on the
highway dressed in a costume
could have been hit, possibly pur-
posely, and, Kildahl, pointed out,
many of the people in this area car-
ry a rifle or pol in their vehicles,
bigtoot could have been shot.
Some witnesses said that, after
their initial shock, their second
thought was to get a gun, although
some suspected that they may
have been the victims of some sort
of hoax.
An extensive search of the area
the next day turned up nothing
more than a lot of boot tracks in
the general direction in which the
creature was headed.
Kistenmacher said, however, that
"If that was someone in a suit,
they've got some money invested
in that one.