Found a smaller version of a Bigfoot in the trap, but the trap did not spring,so she escaped.
This is a real trap, build to catch the BigFoot, its about half to three quarters of a mile from the main road.
At the time this was build, the Lake was not there, the Town of Copper was about mile or more away. (town of Copper, another blog)
As a kid in summer of 1969, Bigfoot was quite the thing.
My Dad took the hole family to see this expert talk about how important a find this was and that we need to watch for them in our own back yards.
This big to do, was held at the fair grounds in Grants Pass, at the time there was only one building there, that would hold the numbers that showed up to see the wonderful event. Any other building in the fair grounds, that was bigger would house animals only.
They showed the 8mm movie film of the creature walking away from the camera man as he is trying to keep up with the creature, running with the camera going so its pretty bouncy.
Looking back on the event, it was pack wall to wall with only standing room left.
This was a serious thing, a monster in our woods.
The creature was spotted about hour and half from Grants Pass, outside of a little town of Happy Camp, a place about the size of Wimer.
The areas main source of industries was logging and mill work.
So if your going to be in the woods 8 to 12 hours a day, you better know what you dealing with.
It all funny now, but not then.
I pasted and copy, some stuff from Wikipedia, so you could see some of the history of the Big Foot.
(Patterson-Gimlin film was the one shown and one of these person spoke at the showing)
1958: Two construction workers, Leslie Breazale and Ray Kerr, reported seeing a sasquatch
about 45 miles northeast of Eureka, California. Sixteen-inch tracks had previously been spotted in the northern California woods.
1967: On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin captured a purported sasquatch on film in Bluff Creek, California in what would come to be known as the Patterson-Gimlin film
In 1958 bulldozer operator Jerry Crew took to a newspaper office a cast of one of the enormous footprints he and other workers had been seeing at an isolated work site in Bluff Creek, California. The story and photo garnered international attention through being picked up by the Associated Press (Krantz, 5). Crew was overseen by Wilbur L. Wallace, brother of Raymond L. Wallace. Years after the track casts were made, Ray Wallace got involved in Bigfoot "research" and made various outlandish claims. He was poorly regarded by many who took the subject seriously. Napier wrote, "I do not feel impressed with Mr Wallace's story" regarding having over 15,000 feet of film showing Bigfoot (Napier, 89).
Shortly after Wallace's death, his children called him the "father of Bigfoot". They claimed Ray faked the tracks seen by Jerry Crew in 1958. There were some wooden track makers among Ray's inherited belongings which the family said were used to make the 1958 tracks. At the height of the publicity, the Wallace family sold the story rights to a Hollywood filmmaker. The film, set to star actor Judge Reinhold, was never produced.
4 comments:
That was fun. I want to post some pictures of the REAL Sasquatch in the trap--uncle Dan! We're on for more geocacheing when I come visit after finals are over. I'll bring better trinkets this time.
I didn't know we had a trap for it! And still standing at that. haha! That's cool.
I also never knew your how involved you got to get to all the commotion about the whole thing.
That's way cool. Glad you had a hunting buddy!
That's so cool! thanks for posting some of the history, too, it's really interesting!
That is a crazy story! It's so funny to think things we used to believe, way back whenever.
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