[pct-l] BIGFOOT ?

[Edward Anderson]

Anything about Bigfoot or Yeti or Space Alians or Loch Ness Monster- - - always sparks interest.  
 
Here are a couple of stories from my memory:
 
 In the early 1960's I met Norman Darenforth - a Swiss climber who, I think. had climbed Everest. He had told of alleged Yeti sightings while in the Himalayas. He was also a film maker. When I met him he was organizing a serious Bigfoot Expedition that was to spend, I think, about two weeks, at various locations in Northern California where there had been reported Bigfoot sightings. As I recall, there were about 10 or 12 on the expedition; probably all volunteers. Some were scientists. There were also experienced hunters and trackers. Norman had assembled quite a team. They had state-of-the-art film technology and set several cameras in various locations that could film at night - sensing the heat (infa-red radiation) of animals. Of course, they interviewed everyone who had claimed to have seen Bigfoot, or signs of bigfoot..They looked for tracks, fecal deposits, bones, and especially hair - anything that would indicate the possibility of
 Bigfoot. Of course, Norman felt that if bigfoot existed there would have to be a breeding population - not just one. Here is what they found: Nothing. Of course, not finding something is not proof that it does not exist. Norman made a documentary film and sold it to T.V.. 
 
The other Bigfoot story that I recall was told to me by a professor friend, a vertebrate zoologist who taught at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. His name is Jake Houck. I had originally met him when I was helping to put together the first Whale Festival in Mendocino. It was during the mid-1970's We had several speakers, including myself, all save-the-whales environmentalists. I was, at that time, a media spokesman for the Greenpeace Foundation. I felt that we needed a respected scientist to speak about whales.Someone told me about Dr. Houck. He was, then, one of the worlds leading experts on the sperm whale. I got his home number and called him. I explained that we needed him to speak at our Festival. I invited him to stay at my home in Mendocino. He checked his schedule the next day and agreed to come. Now we come to something that he told me about Bigfoot during the couple of days that he stayed at my home for the Festival: He
 had been invited, along with about 20 other scientists, to view the film of Bigfoot that everyone has undoubtedly seen more than once on T.V.. The footage, was taken from horseback by one Roger Patterson. Dr. Houck, and almost all of the other scientists had the opinion that, based on the gait, etc,, it was a man in a suit. He said that there were one or two who thought that there might be something there, perhaps a large primate. Those, the one or two, who bought into the hoax, were the only ones that were ever mentioned on the T.V. film that followed. Since then a person has admitted that he was the man paid by Patterson to wear the suit and be Bigfoot. It was a well-crafted hoax.
 
MendoRider-Hiker
 

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 From: "gschenk1 at roadrunner.com" <gschenk1 at roadrunner.com>
To: Greg Hummel <bighummel at aol.com> 
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net 
Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Bigfoot in 1986 on the PCT?
  
There have been many reports of Bigfoot in the upper Kern over the years. It's a huge trench and not visited much.

I've always thought a good trip would be to start in Kernville and follow the Kern to its headwaters.

Gary

---- Greg Hummel <bighummel at aol.com> wrote: 
> 
I've never heard of seen this before . . . the lore continues . . .


http://fresnofamous.com/01/25/12/fresno-bee-reported-bigfoot-sighting-1986 




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