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NO. 5
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THE BIGFOOT RECORD
EDITORIAL!
FREE
Hello out there in Bigfoot Land! In this issue, you are going
to see information from George W. Earley, Thomas Steenburg, -
Sam Sherrys and also Ray Crowe.
Feel free to send or report any sightings or anything related
to the sasquatch phenomenon as long as it is legitimate.
This is a picture of Ray Crowe
of the Western Bigfoot Society
standing next to the Bigfoot
Statue at Willow Creek.
Thank You
From the Editor
Billy Green
Bill Green c/o
N.E.B.I.R.C.
21 Benham St. Apt. F
Bristol, CT 06010

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Credit: George W. Earley
SEE NO
SASQUATCH
By Bill Palmroth
Ape-man alert
Kootenays awash in Sasquatch sightings
Special to The Province
By Suzy Hamilton
NELSON
sightings of the ape-like beast.
been calling them to report their own
Delorme and two other believers got
After word of the sightings by
out recently, Kootenay residents have
creatures are vegetarian.
Sasquatch print last summer in the
Selkirk Mountains. He also figures the
he found a 35-centimetre (14-Inch)
Delorme, 29, a "bush rat" who says
know they exist," says Terence
"I can believe anything I want, but
mountain-dweller.
footprint made by a hairy
filmmaker who insists he found a
is living in the Kootenays, says a
A tribe of Sasquatches
Pass in October.
spot deer near the Blueberry Paulson
Hourie, 35, who was helping buddies
The latest sighting came from Mark
high as the 17-foot trees," sald
walking on two legs.
covering too much ground and
knew it had to be a Sasquatch. It was
Hourle's wife, Linda Lockhart. "He
"It was a black biped about half as
The black biped was striding with
through his binoculars.
arms swinging as Hourie watched
right out of his head," said Lockhart.
before he saw it. But when he came
"Mark was a real non-bellever
home that night his eyes were bulging
Delorme said yesterday.
And these are not weekend hikers,"
"We've had 15 calls in two weeks.
found a footprint two years ago near
Laska Creek, north of Nelson.
Kokanee Provincial Park in 1979 and
he saw a Sasquatch while hiking in
Auto mechanic Brent Hastings sald
not going to be seen more.
sightings. "There's no way they're
wilderness will likely provide more
Hastings predicted that shrinking
with humans hasn't been good."
all. Whatever contact they've made
sald Hastings. "I don't doubt them at
"There's a whole race of them,"
years," has never seen a Sasquatch
meaning hairy or wild men.
which comes from the Salish,
who has been trapping for "60-some
But Slocan Valley trapper Ed Kania,
elude everybody...I think they're
"In this day and age it could not
ankle-look to it."
was a ball and a heel and an
don't know how to read tracks."
"reading tracks for years" and "there
But Delorme insists he's been
dreaming. These people probably
Herald, my
friend, the
late
The Hammer Tail Cat, the Sidehill
Gouger, the Sundodger, and the
Buckaboomer are all mythical creatures
that I have described and written about at
one time or another. They are products
of my dreamings. Finley Hays, retired
publisher of Loggers World, calls
them Paul Bunyan-type exaggera-
tions and there's really no
better definition. Still,
not all myths are
pure fabrica-
tion. Some
have
the Coquille River. Woodruff claimed that
he saw several Bigfoot specimens in a
single sighting near his home. He de-
scribed what he had seen and showed me
castings that he had made from
several sets of footprints. That
was enough to convince me
of Sasquatach's probable
existence.
Later, while checking
out some very old
issues of the
Myrtle Point
their
Credit: Thomas Steenburg
basis
in fact.
That gets us to the
question of Sasquatch, or
Bigfoot. What is more probable:
A hoax or evidence of existence? In
Sasquatch, the probability leans more
toward existence.
Bigfoot sightings have been reported
from almost every area in the contiguous
United States, with most of the contem-
porary reports coming from the Pacific
Northwest. The most famous piece of
evidence of Bigfoot-if not the most
convincing is from a film showing a
large, hairy animal crossing a clearing in
Bluff Creek, Calif., photographed on Oct.
20, 1967, by Roger Patterson. I was one
of millions of Americans who viewed the
Oregon Fish & Wildlife Journal
Winter Edition 1992
Bigfoot film on network television.
Early in the 1970s, while I was
serving as publisher of the Myrtle Point
Herald weekly newspaper in Southwest
ern Oregon, there were several reports of
Sasquatch sighungs in the Myrde Point
area. One of them was by a personal
acquaintance, Jack Woodruff, a reured
postal service worker who lived near the
community of Dora on the East Fork of
Curt
Beckham,
came across an
astonishing tale of a hairy
-8
ant hurling big rocks at a miner's cabin on
the Sixes River. In an article which he
Wrote for the local newspaper, Beckham
theorized that the so-called Wild Man of
the Sixes may have been "Bigfoot's
Grandpa".
A set of footprints, purportedly made
by Sasquatch, was found by a Forest
Service employee on June 10, 1982. near
Walla Walla, Wash. The prints showed
dermal ridges, the smaller ridges in the
skin that make up the whorls of foot-
prints and fingerprints. Grover Krantz, a
physical anthropologist from Washington
Page 43
192
The Province
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1993

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State University, examined the casts of
the prints and concluded that to perpetu-
ate such an elaborate hoax, one would
need expertise in anatomy, biomechan-
ics, engraving, engineering and der-
matoglyphics.
In the case of Bigfoot, many of us
refuse to examine the evidence with an
eye toward probability because the
possibilities pose an intellectual threat.
We want proof: Why hasn't someone
found a dead Sasquatch? Why hasn't
someone shot one?
There are credible answers to these
questions. If Sasquatch exists, he is an
intelligent creature whose principle
defense is his very ability to be elusive.
Sightings, therefore, are limited. Sightings
by armed observers who have the time
and the presence of mind to get off a
killing shot so far have been rul.
As far as finding a corpse goes, when
was the last time you found the carcass of
a bear in the woods? Or heard of some-
one who had found a bear? The
Sasquatch population is small; the animal
is elusive; the country in which it lives is
big, rugged and inclined to quickly
consume the remains of its dead. The
likelihood of someone stumbling upon a
dead Sasquatch is minute.
Why we reason the way we do is
easy to understand. There have been
several elaborate hoaxes, and when
exposed, they have fueled our skepticism.
I remember such a hoax being perpe-
trated in the Coos Bay area by several
mischievous teen-agers during the early
1970s. They did it by creating some
fake footprints with a huge pattern cut
from a piece of plywood. After an
organized Bigfoot search had begun.
the local teen-agers came forward and
admitted they had perpetrated a hoax.
The lack of endorsement by the
scientific community or even the
possibility of existence of Bigfoot has
no doubt contributed to skepticism
among laymen. Most of the scientific
community will not acknowledge the
existence of a cryptozoid like Sasquatch
until one is stretched out on a table, yet
no one wants to put the effort into field
work in order to bring in a Sasquatch
to stretch out because Sasquatch does
not exist (because it has never been
stretched out on that table...).
Add to that the fighting that goes on
among dedicated Sasquatch searchers,
and we are left with total confusion
leading to the simple conclusion that
dismissal is the sensible solution.
Still, I keep thinking about
Woodruff's stories and the footprint
castings that he showed me about 20
years ago and find myself believing that
Bigfoot is real. I know that many of you
OFWJ readers are loggers and you have
seen some amazing things in the
woods-single-antlered cow elk, as
well as lightening-fast stiff-legged deer,
visible to the human eye only when
they stop running and lean against a
tree to rest or sleep, and mile-or-more
birds, so-named because of their unique
ability to scatter their droppings for a
mile or more. Thus, it only stands to
reason that it will be a logger who
makes the next significant Bigfoot
sighting.
So what should a logger do if he sees
a Sasquatch?
Try to get an accurate measure-
ment of its size. One helpful trick is to
stretch out your arm and compare the
creature to your knuckles; that is, see
how many knuckles it spans. If your
can approximate the distance from your
position to the creature, you can
determine its size.
Pay close attention to the duration of
the occurrence. Look at your watch. Was
it there for 30 seconds? A minute? Five
minutes? So often observers say, "Wow,
it was there for a long time," and that
long time turns out to be only about 15
seconds.
Finally, pay particular attention to
detail and try to relate what you see to
things you know. For example, does the
animal walk with a rolling gait or with
long, even strides? If you can accomplish
such detailed observations, you really
have your wits about you.
Now, if you do happen to sight a
Sasquatch sometime in the future, what
are you going to do about it? Are you
going to report the sighting to authori-
ties or keep quiet about it? If you were
to report it, there's always the chance
that the federal government could
suddenly become interested in Bigfoot.
If so, your logging operation probably
would be suspended indefinitely while
the Feds took time to study the
creature's habitat requirements. That
would leave you in a real fix. What's
more, any habitat study by the govern
ment would very likely lead to a
Bigfoot recovery program necessitating
additional forest setasides. In this case,
perhaps second-growth timber would
be targeted.
Your smartest option is to keep any
future Bigfoot sightings under your hat,
especially if you're on public land. As my
grandfather used to say, "Say nothing and
saw wood!"

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OREGON ORANGUTAN SIGHTING-RAY CROWE, FEB., 1993
Walter Soller was 17 years old in September of 1982, and his dad had
left him at a deer hunting stand. He was about a mile or two up a
logging road NE of Frog Lake, east of Estacada (T5S, R6E, sec. 25, OR),
on a rock pile about 30 foot high, and overlooking a grassy meadow with
a creek running through it. He was intently watching 5-6 browsing doe
at 7AM that very dry year. All of a sudden in the nearby second growth,
twenty foot Christmas trees (douglas fir replants), he heard a
tremendous racket of limbs breaking, and trees being "smashed." The
deer, curious, looked towards the racket for about ten seconds before
skittering away. He thought there must be a bear or something big to
make all that noise. About that time Walter says, a Bigfoot came out of
the trees/brush about 100 feet away, saw him, and quickly and quietly
disappeared back into the brush. The creature was 7 foot high, covered
with long straight red, red, hair, like an Irish setter, and had a face
that reminded him of the orangutan on the Clint Eastwood movie "Every
Which Way But Loose."
On January 31st, 1993 members of the Western Bigfoot Society *
visited the area, guided by Cliff Olson, a long time resident of the
area and new WBS member. The weather was clear, with about six inches
of old snow on the ground. Game tracks were abundant; deer, elk,
weasel, bobcat and cougar (small 4 1/2 inch forepaw). A small herd of
elk was also briefly observed, but no evidence of Bigfoot was found at
the site. A nearby logging road was hiked for about a mile and a half,
but no Bigfoot tracks were found here either. It was hoped that with
the abundant game spoor that traces of Bigfoot would be found also.
This might represent the descendant of the Asian bipedal orangutan that
Dr. Grover Krantz mentions (and discarded as a Sasquatch ancestor)
several times in his new book, "Big Footprints."
Report prepared by Western Bigfoot Society Director Ray Crowe, 8622
[AD] North Lombard, Portland, OR 97203, (501) 640-6581. Two stamps and two
dollars for sample newsletter.
The Ligonier Echo
Wednesday, March 24, 1993
Sam Sherry, Ligonier Valley's own "Bigfoot Tracker," came
up with an interesting track recently, on the other side of
Chestnut Ridge. That's right: a three-toed version of Bigfoot.
Sherry believes the critter that left these prints has large
claws and perhaps tusks and should be left alone.
Ligonier Echo photo
Credit:
Sam Sherrys
:: Ray Crowe and Western Bigfoot Society
1992 another big year
for the 'unexplained'
The Pennsylvania Association
for the Study of the Unexplained
(PASU), headed by Stan Gordon
of Greensburg, recently issued its
annual report on unexplained
sightings during the past year,
covering everything from Bigfoot
to UFO sightings.
"The two UFO incidents which
attracted the most attention, and
were apparently seen by thou-
sands of observes, were found to
bo scientifically explainable,'
noted Gordon's report.
The first on Aug. 30-a glow-
ing object that some took to be
a "flying saucer and was seen in
several western Pennsylvania
counties turned out to be a
blimp returning from a sporting
event in Ohio to its home base
in New Jersey. It was illuminated
from within by two bright halo-
gen bulbs.
The second, on Oct. 9 at about
7:48 pm, was a brilliant meteor
- a bolide-flashing through
the night sky. The object was seen
over a wide area encompassing
saven states, noted Gordon, who
went on to list some of the unex-
plained cases of 1992:
Febuary 5 At around 6:15
p.m. in a 40-mile area around
Williamsport, apparently
hundreds of people observed one
or possibly more triangular or
boomerang-shaped objects, mov-
ing very slowly, and in some
cases were seen directly above
some homes. The objects pro-
duced a loud sound that caused
structures and windows to
vibrate and frightened animals,
March 9 In New Kensington,
Westmoreland County, two boys
playing in a cemetery in the early
evening see disk-shaped object.
Lights on the object go off as it
reaches the vicinity of the boys,
and a bright beam of light is
emitted toward the youths - a
light so intense it hurts their eyes.
The frightened boys run toward
a road, and the object follows a
short distance before returning in
the direction from which it came.
June 23-A woman traveling
on Route 22 in Washington
County, about two miles from the
West Virginia line, observes three
objects flying at tree-top level.
They are round in shape, wing-
less, make no noise, and have red,
yellow and green lights. The
objects make several turns and
then assume a triangular forma-
tion before suddenly vanishing.
The light pattern of all three
objects blinked in, unison, the
witness reports.
August 14 A mother and
daughter traveling west on Route
22 in Indiana County notice in
the distance a row of four blue
lights in the sky. As they get
closer, the realize the lights are
attached to an object that it
approaching their position at an
angle. When they round a curve,
the object comes into view. The
slow-moving, low-flying object
has a roughly triangular shape
and its structural framework
seems to be made up of large
beams. The object is silver in
color, and is estimated to be about
60 feet long.
Similiar
triangular Or
boomerang shaped objects have
been reported all year across the
state, noted Gordon, and as
recently as Dec. 3 there were more
sightings in the Williamsport
area.
"Bigfoot sightings were also
reported during 1992 from var
ious locations," Gordon added,
with close-up sightings reported
in Somerset and Indiana coun-
ties, and other reported encoun-
ters originating from Westmore
land, Washington and Allegheny
counties.