DUA6 BIGF

February 2,

super-human. cap tured - The re -vas no

suggestions or comments will be most welcome. Our thought for the month

Canada writes ( 'Harch 9, 1969} regarding the above s·ighting : "Rene Dahinden and I vrere there on the weekend and talked to Cox. His story was fully convincing, and the cutbank beside the road and the ground above it sho.ved appropriate indentations. There had been· heavy rain since the s i ght i

T RIBUNE , February 9, 1969 "THE BIGFOOT HOAX.

the Editor : vlhen this thing started it was all in fun. It ceases to be fun when somebody starts making money on people's gullibility. I will bet my best C h a rl ey Hoss that there was a man in that monkey suit.

1-!arch 20 ,

SPECIFl CAllY

BIGFOOT- OH·MAH- SI\SQUAfC.H

-'trr. tfi FACTOR FAcroRs BASED oN Bt.JILO

B.C. C nada, writes : " Two men from Vancouver, 1968, saw line of B. c., hunting south o r Li lloet , B. G., on November miles long on mine access road up Texas Creek. T r a c k s came out

SAYS LOGGER It was a·bout 5 feet all, weighed a ro u nd 200 pounds end could· move pretty rast.

Calirornia 94618 415 - 652-9791

JOHN FUHR ·IANN ites from Portland, Oregon, April 3, 1969 :11It looks like King Kong himself is roam ing the mountains only 40 minute s drive from here 1 Keith Soesbe and I went up l'1Iond ay (Harch 31) with Dan Wiggins, v-rhose group "Bigfoot Research Association", has been very ac tiv e

They say) the Board of C ormi s sioners of Skamania County, Ha shing ton , _ e d an em e re e ncy law making it a crime to k il l a Bi '"" .fo ot or Ape cre ature, punishable by a $10,000 fine and up to five y e ar s imprison ment. {Information :from : THE OREGONIAN, Portland, Oregon, April 2, 196

Most important recent newspaper article on the frozon body found in a carnival in Hinnesota by Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan T. Sanders on THE WASHINGTON POSTL March 27, 1969. Or An Old Hoax ? " by Phil Ca s e y.

Ray Nelke ) ; ARKANgAs DENOCRAT 1 :Harch 27, 1969 ( Cr edit : Lucius Farish); THE DE TR OI T NE\vS, Har c h 28, 19b9 {Cr ed i t : Lucius Farish, Floyd Murray). ARGOSY Mag a z i ne , May 1969, contai n s Ivan T. Sanderson•s -article on the Ice Nan which he titles "The Hissing Link". Illustrated by co

JOHN GREEN writes

\..,Tite the e..nd tell him· so.

April 30, 1969 JD McCLARIN writes : . nrn his article 'The Early Relatives of 1"1an', appearlrig m July 1964 SCIENTIFIC ANERICAN, Dr. Elwyn L. Simo ns mentions that the 4 fo ot tall ape - l i ke Oreopithecus, kno1m from l0-15 million

\..rhether or not NORTHERN CALIFOR JIA RESIDENTS PLEASE NOTE. John Green's bo o- k

"HU}rTING GIGAHROPOD. On May 23, 1969, Dr. B ern ar d E. Northrup, Old T e stament Professor of San Fr ancisco Baptist Theological Seminary, guided a group or his stu den ts and graduates on a • Big foot Bash•. Remarkably successful, the g roup found over 1,000 B igfo ot tracks in s now and a few

May 31, 1969 BIGFOOT SIGHTED ABOVE PARADISE, BUTTE COUNTY,

IN CALIFORNIA

ornia, a SASQUATCH Soccer team rrom Chehalis, B.c. and a boa t named t he SASQUATCH at Eve rett , Washington. RICHARD L. TIERNEY, now in Alaska, has turhed up a re c ent report of a track sighting at \ihitev.rater Bay on

"Wetve returned from our trip to Bluff Creek, and Itm sorry to report that we did not find a trac e of Bigfoot. Prior to arriving I had placed an advertisement in the Klam-Ity Kourier and the Humboldt Times stating that there would be a $25 ret.;ard for any fresh tracks. There t-ere no responses. N

An advertisement in the ADVANCE,

May-22 ,i9b9, AgssB.C. edited by Jo11ll Green, offrs : ,.SASQUATCH STEAK, Salad & Chips, $2.00 at the DENu -------- -- -

n I mad e two recent excursions to the Bluff Creek area searching ·for s i g n s of Bigfoo t activity. On June 3 , in the company of Ron Ko nicke, Hoite Herron , and h is son Danny, I sp ent about 7 daylight hours se ar ch ing on foo in the areas of Oni on Mountain, Blue Creek Mountain, Barren But

The Ic e l1an has tur ned up again . It had never " d i s appea red " a.t all ; the exhibitor, Frank Hansen, had si mp ly moved the-mysterious Hbody" in ice to a new location. According to our latest i nformation, the exhibit was on display for two we e ks in }J!a.y at a shopping ce n ter in Detroit

ORTHRUP suggests the·following formula for determining the approximate heights of man and Bigfoot from their tracks : Height of man. 1. rralceaverage l e ngth o:r stride. 2. Double it and add 10 inches.

FOSTER W. WILKINS, Juneau , Alaska, June 4, 1969, wr i te s .: "In r ef ere nc e to fo ot rint s or tracks at Whit e wa t er Bay (southwe stern end of Admiralty Island), I had a bear hunting party o ut and at the time of s ight ing these tr a c ks I did not pay too much attention as my int e r e st

JOHN GREEN writes (April 29, 1969): "'!:le stopped to see a couple of the people at the University of Washington on the way home. They had a book illustrating human footprints including a completely flat fo ot, some

JOHN FUHRHANN, Portland, Oregon, ·Hrit e s (July 8, 1969): "Here is an item for the BULLETDI, the first sighting I know of since the Don Cox Beacon Rock case in this e en e r al area of Oregon and Washington. I managed to contact by phon e both r-:rs. Doris Newton, who lives five mile s -yrest of D

On July 12, 1969, Charles R. Jackson and his son Kevin, 6, were burning trash in their backyard on Cherokee Road near Oroville. They reported th t a female cleature having nvery large breasts" came out of a shed behind their house and fled i nt o the woods·. Jackson is reported to have

July 14, 1969. ) ( Credit for cl i pping fro CHICO ENTERPRISE-RECORD : Robert L. Behme) information

The other creature sighting apparently occured about 10 days earlier near ain, California, which is on Highway 70, some 60-70 miles north ea s t of Oroville. Lester Orlinger, 16, son of the o1·mer of a grocery ... tor and postofi'ice at T ain, reported that he and t1.;o girls , returning-from a s

RECENT SIGHTINGS NEAR WILD\-IOOD_, TRINITY_ C01Jr TY;! CALIFQRNIA

BEN E. FOSTER JR. o f Anderson, California, writes (July 4, 1969) : "We have been thankful for the past fovr da.ys. ·-:e haYe had ext!lemely good luck. We spent some ti1 e in the Shasta-Trinity rational Forest around the Yolla Bolla District. :'Je stopped in ·Jildwood -v:hore v;e got two accounts

400 FOOTPRI}S FO On July 14, 1969, John H. Dana o El Cajon, California and George F. Haas found about Lt.OO foot p r ints in the trail leading from ltJest Low Gap to the East Fork of the South Fork of the Trinity River in the Yolla

One of the most active Bigfoot hunters is Dick Frey, a student at Humboldt State College at Ar c ata , Cali:fornia. During the past few months he has made almost weekly excursions into Bigfoot country : into the Bluff Cr e e k, Klamath, northern Humboldt County and Del Norte County regions. He has h

RENE DAHINDEN of B.C., Canada, is now in the Willow Creek-Bluff Creek area of northern Calirornia and wants to conta ct as many Big root hunters as poss ib l e. He will be in the area fo r• two or three 'weeks and can be contacted thr oug h Al Hod g son at the Willow Creek Variety Store.

Fos ter Jr., Rt. 1, Box 45 Fig Tree Lan e , Redding, Calif. 96001. B rackett, · Dewayne Erickson, John K it c hen, Damien Franco and S horty Sharp. Sponsor : Claude Gasser, proprietor or a paint st o r e in Anderson and owner of the "Bigfoot Claim", a mining property in Trinity County at the base o

DAVID .PEZONLLA, BIG HILL LOOKOUT

l oo kout on Big Hill, six miles east of Hoopa C alifornia, found one clear sharp foot print sixteen in ches long when he went outside early Saturday morning,

1-JITH BEAR CLAUDE V. NEUFFER of Portland, Oregon, wr ites ( July 15, 1969) : "Six

this time most readers or the BIGFOOT BULLETIN will have read one or more a ccount s o the sighting o a Sasquatch by a sheriff's deputy Tewspapers all of Grays Harbor County, Hashington, on July 26, 1969. over the countr r, picked up the story and we are in receipt of dozens of

would say about 3 to 4 in-1 ches on the head. · Q. It didn't have long hanging

Your ed ito r wishes to apologize for delay in an s wering corres 1Jh i l e on three ield

h as recently returned from a tr ip to the east coast with They visit ed the Ringing Rocks in Pennsylvania, investigated a " B g foo t " report in Georgia, visited the vlillis brothers at INFO he ad quarters in Arlington, Virginia, Lucius Farish in Arkansas, Loren E. Coleman (who researches nBiff'

The a llowi ng report is by JOHN GREEN, dated Septemb er

of th e bank they com pare its height with trees in the back

of Stevenson, vJashington 98648, They had an ·ad in the August ARGOI magazine. This is a conden.sed edition of three former editions that were put out at the time of the Beacon Rock sighting. See

an article by Haude Z i e g l er in the r•Iedford Nail Tribune September 8, 19 6 9 , Perry (Slim} L0vell, an eld er ly prospector "wvho ITves in a cabin near Copper on the Applegate R i ver near the-california line, found 18-inch tracks near his ·garden· and on nearby sandy bottorl'l land$ T""hese w

---...-.--.. On August 21, 1969,-Al.fred King, an employee of: the Forest Service stationed a.t the fuite Rock Guard Station in the Trinity National Forest, Trinity County, California, ·found two :Ci:fteen-inch huraan-like footprints in dr•y sand along the East Fork of' the South Fork o:f the Trini

Kent E. Hvlt on , 68.55 S.E. Lexington, ·_ Por t l and , " Oregon· 97 206, has ob t a ined a copy, in French, of nr.· Bern ar d Heuvelmans' scientific paper on the

We are indebted to JOHN GREEN for sending us thi s remarkable report. In turn it was sent to him by Gilbert Hulin, a reporter on the Cottage Grove, Oregon, SEINEL. It comes from the LANE COUNTY LEADER, Cottage

small cafe with a big sign : BIGFOOT BULLETIN

Caliornia, writ e s (eptember 30 and October 10, 1969) : "Concerning predator calls and Bigoot, my friend ·William And erson , Game Biolog is t for the C a l i ornia Dept. of Fis h and Gamo , often uses such predat or calls to lure coyotes and oxes into view

B e h1o nt,

.RENE DAHINDEN of British Columbia is now in Alberta,

REPORTED FROr·1 IDAHO RUSSELL GEBHART of Lewiston, Idaho, writes (October 7, 1969)11 I would

October 31, 1969 RECENT PUBLICATIONS

MEN l-ia.gazine, November 1969, "Hunt F1or .The .North America.", by Tom Christopher.

San Jose, Cali.fornia, October 12, 1969,rrHappy Birthday, Dear Bigfoot, Happy Birthday To You" by Susan Ncinnis. ru'!A.ZING Stories magazine, I\.ovcmber 1969, "Sons Of Hann by Gr eg Benford a science-fictio n story about Bigfoot. (Credit : Patrick Huyghe)

IN ARKANSAS 415-652-9791

The d ate ? : May 16, 18$1 ! The newspaper : Orleans Times Picayune. \ie are i ndeb t e d to Lo.ren E. C oleman of C ar b ond ale , Illinois, for sharing with us this remarkable repo r t. Mr. Coleman writes ( N ovemb er 16, 1969) :

E QUI ER, ovemb er 16, 19'69," "Danbuilders Report Seeing Giant In C anadi an Rockies" by vlilliam Dick. (Credit : Lucius

Edmonton, Alb erta, Canada, August 29, 1969. Spot ted at Bighorn Dam.11 (Credit : Dr. V.

ttHairy Giant tories v. darkoti c)

Alberta, Ca. na.d a , August 29, 1969,

"Har;azine ..::as qua tch Story". Th.is is a revie\-1 of the s tory in -1-agazlne, .Jovember 1969. ( C redi t: tTohn H. Hall) · LUCIUS· FARISH of Plumerville, Arkansas, has compiled a bibliography of

MORE STRANGE UN:30LVED HYSTERIES, Emile Sc hurm a eh er ,

!969, "The Controversial Sasquatch", pp. 91-94.

"I have just returned from spending the Thanksgiving ho lidays ( Nov. 27-30) looking for Bigfoot in t he hills ( C a li f. ) . This was my s e cond trip up there.

JIM l-1cCLARIN, P.o. Box .512, \A/illow Creek, California 95573. BOB BETTS, P .O. Box 511, Arcata, California 95521. DICK FREY, P. O. Box 511, Arcata, Cali f orni a 95521.

ROBERT BARBOUR JOHNSON, San Francisco, California, 'iter, former circus man and animal trainer, write s ( January 17, 1970) : " I note that a an •escaped circus gorilla• being mistaken for one. As a lifelong student of the 'Big Top ' field, I can make a contribution by laying this t he ory

FATE !•1agazine, Februe.:y 1970, p. 67, "Big:toot13 Ancestor Concerns the Carson City, Nevada, fossil footprints.

and Peter c. btte.L. (Credit : Clint Elliott, Loren Coleman, ?" by Hike Koble.

in the woods screaming. Since thoy v-rait e d 4 or 5 '\·reeks b e for e telling me of this and the fact that I was still recuperating from surgery, I didn•t investigate this on0 either. nThis fall, t.rhile combining Sasquatch hunting and working on a stump

JOHN FUHRHANN, Portland, Oregon, writes (December 25, 1969) : talking to the owner of our local grocery store last week on this subject v-rhen a delivery man standing nearby mentioned

Nover.1ber 23, 1969, on the Calkins Ranch o n Neimi Ro _d near Woodland, Washington, when a visitor, Charles Kent, went outside and thought he saw a bear standing upright in the moonlight 30 to 40 yards away. He went ins1de t o find a

Despite all doubts of the fe male giant's existence the jou"n alist John Green want tu set out an ex ped it i on to catch the creature, which even haunted

"It is an unfortunate, as well as tragic, circumstance th a t many Sasquatch invest i ga tors are still doing field studies without ad e q u at e and suitable equipm ent. Admittedly, some i t e ms are as yet beyond our financial means; however there are c e r t ain articles the lack of which will h

"Due to an overs ight in cen sus takin g we have no idea vlhether the numbers of Sasquat ch have increased, de creased or remained :fairly steady over the past centu:Pies. Worse, t hey have checked into t h e . p opula t ion control centers so infrequently that re have almost no data on them at all

ftin 1920 while I was in Panama an old and experienced American prospector, Shea by name, came tome with a stran e story. He had just returned from a tr i p to southeastern Darien. With another American he

"Bulletin readers might have "WWndered at Elwyn L. S imon s 1 upHard weight estimate of 600 lb s. for a 9 ft. tall Gigantopithecus in his Jan. 1970 ·scientific American article. It can b e noted from the height-weight scale on p. 2 of Bigfoot Bulletin Noe 3 tha t a 9 ft. tall anything is 3.37 times

PUBLICATIONS

}!AN'S ACTION April 1970,

Of" The Sasquatch, 1JORTHERN CALIFOR IA "There has been little recent activity in th i s part of the country.

'All B igf o ot hunters, for their own p ro t e c ti on as well as t hat of Bigfoot, hould make themselves famili ar wi th t he l aws, rules and regulations in the v arious states and provinces. This month we are p rinting what we ho pe will be the first of a s e ri e s to acquaint the readers of t

DIVISION 3. F'ISH .A.t"\TD GAf.iE GENERALI1Y

·.:roJm GREEN writes, Mareh 17, 1970, :"Nick Carter,, approaeh to pop ura.t'ion estimating is inter es t ing , but I challenge his first premise. I would call the basic range s omething like 400 miles wide by 1,500 long , with plenty of indication that it might be almost. twice that area if you ca

INVENIENT -

"Is ?bere Really a Bigfoot ?n by Jack Pieree. lashington, Iv!arch 1, 1970. (Credit : Russell Gebhart ) KLAMITY KOURIER , Willow Creek, California, Marc h 25, 1970, prints

stickers may be 'O'btained by postpaid mail from Pay less Printers, Room 218, Rooke ry Building, Spokane,

The Bigfoot Bulletin is·a private mon thly newsletter sent free in exchange for news and in form at i on . \oJe

We are in forme d by Rene Dah i nd en that Dr. G. Clifford · Carl , Director of the B.c. Museum , died on or about the 2nd. or 3rd. of Apr i l . Dr.

RENE DAHIEN, 734 Sidaway Road, Richmond, B.c., Canada, writes (April : "I think I will spend a few months up the coast this summer around the Bella Coola - Kitimat area in the high country. Nobody has ever spent any time in the m0untains there. If I can find about four guys

·Loren E. Colem"'l) 11Strange Creatures" by Lowell

by LOREN E. ·"For the last dec ade , some detailed accounts of' ·ABsN:

The Buckley Expedition, consisting of Archie Buckley, his brother Delmas Buckley and their brother-in-law Jim Whalen, as mentioned in the last issue, intended making an extended reconnaissance of the Middle Eel Yolla Bolly Wilderness Area, Trinity National Forest, Trinity County, California. They we

JOIDr GREEN writes ( May 24, 1970 ) : 11 A Salt Lake City w.ildlife movie

BOB BE TT S writes (May 9, 1970) : '"Things have been' busy ·here in Fairbanks with training new jumpers andgetting ready for the forth coming fire season. \'ie rve been working with a new pr.ogram of rappelling

TIMES-STANDARD , Eureka, California, May 3, 1970. "'Bigfoot' Makes Big ··,'Tracks In HUmboldt". A rehash of old reports and information. (Credit : Mr •. & Mrs.

1970. "Those Real by Mike Culbert. Native Californians - Do They Leav e 18-inch Tracks ?' (Credit : Gilbert w. Colby). SACRAMENTO , Sacramento, California, May 14, 1970, "Settler Reports

A·Bigfoot ?rr by Richard Ramella. Concerns the Butte Creek Canyon "shoot ing 11 incident. (Credit : Bob Behme). THE-ADVANCE, Agassiz, B.c., Canada, April 23, 1970. A photo of' a 15-inch footprint taken in the Tien Shan mountains in the early 1960s. Sent to John Green by Professor Boris Porshnev of

nflflHIE'BttELE! tr Bah Ltlhdrt. celirhrnih. returnefl ta thn Trinit unh curcct in ntrthtrn telifchhie. thic tint tithe. Ht atttt ilhtd I hflEB a! uptratiana at Stuart Gap, ahuut 3 Bir'mdltt south Of thi Earriacn Gulch Hangar Statith. Ehring put out rattan or 'hifih" fish as

mine 30. 1.2T." RENE! .Efitet_.eeererzmr III! RENEE, '5 "Hy teraetigetiene in

"Hy teraetigetiene in

the Pit Hirer eeuntry here t u r n e d u p tee f i r e t bend Sighting reeerte by tee Barney, Ballfernie, r e e i d e n t e , and a halt er rumered reperte Iran the peet hfl yeere. I f e e l e diligent inveet1geter eeuld eene u p with e number er edditienel f i r s t heat r e p a r t u . The tree h e

In A r ' d i e p e t e h . printed in verieue eepere en June 1? end June 13; ripert: that 3 teenage Eirle e l u i n e d t e have been eheeed in their air E'HeEEe previeuely by e Tureet fieeeueteh which left 15-inch trltke in e T-feet etride. The Tether er ene g i r l , Rueeell F153, I

Attending t e e UPI d i a p e t e h . e r 1 n t e e in numereue taper: threugheut the eeeutrg, Hebert H. Hergen e r Eleni, Fleride, is tending en expeditien te the reeeree Hertheeet.*"emhere include Heynend H. Hfifdflfg higlngjat

JDHM FEHHHAHN, Prrtland. Dragnn, Hritea {Junn Eh, 19TH} : " I rtqantl: EEa aEaut n 31 frat righting that uncured nbuut thrtt with: HE: near

A nanny; diam-bah, reprinttd in many napalm, rtgfirt: thH-t EDI! Willi-m. I Emitjah.mpufituin ulimhar with the Erltith Annnrurna Exptflltinn fit" a "baby" Yeti last Hurrah. He watched i t tin-aush a talUP-u $1115 5-111?" 3115

"1111: very mull-eating that the pee-111:1 who 111':- 111 "I: muntainl believe in Yeti: emi the peeple Hhe denft. b e l i e v e in then l i v e in the cities and i n n i t ever get- 11111: the Haunteinn." - Dan 'II'hillene , British neuntein elinber with the Britieh nnnepurne Expeditien Ie

Eelnd Inn-Eg- Isle: 111-1: ej' Hen Illa-ruler Ind Ilia IhmIIIH-Ht meme-e. 11:11:1_'1I51I:I|1I lIli-Ifllll'J1 iu.-. the: "I elee Heulfl like te have it knew. in the

1. 15111.11 Hut-m: the: ere fltti'rfll': 11:1a reeiereh. flaua' Hmifi. Ind of: Fuel-

assume that. 31111 are no 1111155111! interestei. dud II1IE_il11|:I-1-l Jul'; . In: {er I dln.m.e*...-1111.

"As of this time, approximately 15 to 20 UCLA students and graduate students(including several doctoral candidates in anthropology and geography) plan a month-long expedition into northern California. They may spend part of that time in the Or leans - Bluff Creek area, and part of the time in the a

JOHNSON, Louisville, Kentucky·, vlrites (July 22, 1970) : n I found an old somewhat sketchy report of the sighting of tt.Jo creatures in South America in a book I got from the library. It is titled The Auk, The Dodo and the Oryx by Robert Silverberg, Thomas 'Crowell Co. Ln it there is a chapter on t

Patagonia."

..JACK E. SULLIVAN, 15316 S.E. East .Street, Hil\-Taukie, Oregon 97222, writes (July 9, 1970) : "Hay I have the follo-vring in the Bulletin ? My researching has led me to many detiled microscopi pictures of hair samples 1orith reports analyzed in England for r·r. Thomas Slick some years ago. Sho

1. The biological foible of this particular species is the difficulty of surviving during the winter months. Natural instincts compel him (usually in autumn) to look for anything resembling a c av e, even deserted

On hearing these calls,

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DONALD K. ALLEN, San Berna rdino, Calif., investigated and sent us the following report on July 20, 1970; "In the summer of 1965, Jim and J"an Gorrell, both employees of the

Sasquatch Gave His Name" by Rick Anderson. It had to happen sooner or later : a Seattle woman claims telepathic contact with a Sasquatch 1 (C edi t : Nick Carter).

AUGUST 1-20,

BY WA RREN THOMPSON FROM DESCRIPTIONS G IVEN BY BEN E. FOS TER JR. AND SHARON GORDEN. ---·.-- -----.w.------..---.WBP. . Current address

We have no further word on.the MORGAN EXPEDITION other than that they are still in Florida l"aising fund s for their proposed second expe d it ion. spent most of J uly on a Oregon, Washington and British Columbia visiting other Bigfoot hunters and i nvestigating

Caliornin1 motorcycle trip through northern California, A group of young men calling themselves the IDJNGUSLAND CONFEDERATION,

( August 6, 1970)

JOHN GREEN writes (August 6·, 1970): "Last Monday we had the first exampl6 I have encountered of a d e li b e r a t e masquerade. A group of scouts at a crunp sneaked out after 10 P.M. with a dark blue turtle sweater and toque, and one of them would d on these so that only his eyes shc-v;ed and. sta

BOB BETTS, smoke-jumper for the u.s. Forest Service out of Fairbanks, Alaska, together with Jim McClarin of Willow Creek, California, and two others have been camped in an abandoned fsh crump near an Indian village on the Yukon River since September 12 hoping to make contact with a "Bushmantt as th

Twenty-nine California,

Goldblatt's Dept. Stores in Chicago are selling 3-foot long "Bigfoot Rugs". "Take a giant step on a fluff of fun" the ad reads. (Credit : Loren E. Coleman)

The Ken Krasney Expedition the Bluff Creek area in no rthern California ended on September 9th without finding any trace of Bi gfo o t . However,

NATIONAL WILDLIFE, October-November 1970,"ha.s an i nteresting and up 1D date article.on Bigfoot and tracking attempts. It primarily concerns the Morga n expedition around the Washington state area."-John Poole • . SEATTLE MAGAZINE, August-September 1970, ( .Credit : Re ne Dahinden)

No. 59, 1970. Published by Gene Duplantier, vJiiTOWd a le , Ontario, Canad a , a UFO magazine, has a tl,ro·-page art icle titled "On The Trail of' the Sasquatch". Illustrated., Singl e c o pies 75.

St Paul, Minn., Septe!'1ber 27 1970. "Nevad t s People Eaters" by Charles Rillinger, ne Los Angeles TimAs,. red-ha1red giant mummies a llegedly foQd-in caves in Nevada past sixty years. (Credit : Mark A. Hall)

October 31, 1970.

If we are ever going to get a closeup photograph of B igfoot, it will probably have to be done ·by using a camera trap - a· trip line setup that will allow B igroot to take his own picture. The chances of meeting a Bigfoot in the woods·in the daytime and of getting close enough to take a good photo

FATE agazine pr in ted a letter in their November 1970 issue, in t heir

DICK GROVER, Everet t, Washington, writes (August 10, 1970) : "On August 8th this account was g ive n to us by Ronal d ZimmeMnan, Seattle, Wash. : 'On S at u r day, August 2nd. I was sit t ing next to a stream in a meadow above treeline at about 3:00 or 4:00 P.M., in · Boston Basin , near Cascade Pa

October 31, SAGA mag a z i ne ,

A m eet :i . ng or ceremony with the above t i t l e was held on the s t e p s of the Sta t e Capitol in Olympia, Washington, on Wednes d ay evening, August 26th s po nsored by A PACIFIC N ORTHW E ST LEAGUE FOR THE PROTECTION OF SASQUATCH. Master of Cer e monie s was JAHES DOLLIVER, Second A ssi sta

California 94618 ( unlis t e q ) : 415-652-9791 TAKES COLOR MOVIES OF A BIGFOOT

· IVAN MARX, a hunting guide of Boss burg , Washington , succeeded in taking about two minutes of color movie film of a Bigfoot o October 7 , 1970, a c co rding to an AP dispa tch which has already appeared in most news papers, and according to communications from our correspondents on the

GREEN writes ( November 14, l9'70) : "Ivan Marx, at Bossburg, took up Sasquatch hunting when the others left early this year, and_has had tremendous resul ts, climaxed .for the time being by the taking o'f a '16mm. movie on October 7. This was kept quiet until a few da ys ago. He has learned.a great

OF THE IVAN MARX FILM THE STATESMAN..;.EXAMINER, Colville, Washington "Bigfoot S een , Photgraphed" by Denny Striker.

!!i_CHIE BUCKLEY, San Leandro, Ca1iornia, writes ·(November 27, 197 0 ) : Several p eople who have had the privilege of

almost a cond itioned r ef lex when enoun t ern g sudden weigh t bearing or resistive force, such as in a rall, in order to avoid painful sprain or joint injuries."

"The Abominable Snowma n of the Himalayas is reported to be stlll a mystery - f or the good r ea so n , we s ho uld say, that there is no such th ing . " - THE ARKANSAS GAZETTE, November 6, 1970. ( C red i t : Lucius -5November 30, 1970

TRINITY COUNTY, By Buzz McLaughlin

GREEN v.rrites (Nove:mber 29, 1970) : "The film was supposea -co ha.vo on the eaet b·ank of the Columbia just no r th of Bossburg and It .nay not have been, however .. It is a srr:. ..... 11 mcunt9.in

BIGFOOT VISITS CAMP IN BLUFF CREEK AREA (1965)

RAINIER,· WASHINGTON The following report w as sent t o us by DICK GROVER, P.O. Box 3276, Ev ere tt, \1ashington 98201, who says (November 24, 1970) : " He re i s a report we checked o ut for the Bigfoot Bulletin. Th is incident was

By Jim Mc C larin 4156.52-979 CAPTURE ATTEMPT

- March 23, 1971 ror Bigfoot and Bigfoot evi denc e in the summer of 1970 with National \vildlife managing e di tor George Harrison was widely publicised in the

Bigfoot specimen. As Morgan relates it, he is not quite the newcomer to the field many of us have thought. He says he first learned of ,.Bigfoot•, per seS' in reading Ivan T. Sanderso's accounts. But he claims he encountered a creature while be a r hunting in 1957 in or around Mason County, Wn.

Redwood City, : ...I spent

By this time most r e ad ers will have r e ad one or more accounts of the recent; track s ightings in Washington. Ne arly every newspaper in· the c ountry carried either AP or UPI reports of the several thou s and tracks found near Ar d en , Washington, a sma 1 1 town just south of Colville, ·during

Colville, Washington, writes (March 23, 1971) : "There has been considerable happening since the first of the year : several miles of tracks near Arden, a small community south of Colville, about three sightings, all of which might or might not be true. There has also been considerable t a lk that t

According to the Hera ld Decatur, Illinois, January 12, 1971, : "Tokyo (AP).Former television sports reporter Jviasahiko Taniguchi has left for Katmandu, Nepal, for a five-month expedition in the Himalayas. He hopes to become the first Japanese citizen to see the legendary Ab.ominable Snowman ." (Cr

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IN WASHINGTON STATE DICK GROVER, Everett, Washington, re ports (January 31, 1971) : "On January lOth at approximately 9:30 P.H. it was snowing at Deming, Wash ington, about 10 miles northeast or Bellingham. Mr. Gerry Willet and

The expedition led by Robert W . 1-1organ of Vanguard Re se arch Ine., of Miami, Florida, has been in t h e field actively searching "somewhere in the Cascades" in Washington for over a·month. We have no report from

According to an Associated Press report printed in various newspapers tnroughout the country on. or about April 10, 1971, there is a controversy going on between Peter Byrne of the International Wildlife Conservation Society Inc. and· Ivan Harx regarding the authenticity of: 1-1arx t s film. Since w

RENE DAHINDEN, veteran Sasquatch investigator of Richraond, B.C., plans a lengthy trip to European countries this coming fall, probably sta:r•tir..g about November 1st. He will visit England, France, Germany, weden, Fir:land Switze.rland and the Soviet Union. He plans to take along all of his 161

QHAR_! , Lewiston, Idaho, writes (May 4, 1971) : "I have been spending a "l o:C of time in the woods in the '0' Hill a1--ea but have found

ers to the ar ea to search : .. : (UPI) - An enterpris ing hoaxer says he man.

The first meet ing of Wil !ow .

:Neanderthal. Man, .Lacking Pharynx, , - Called BQby Talker