Cover-ups of Bigfoot...Georgia

I received some information from K. Steven Monk of the Georgia Bigfoot Society recently, as part of my research into the possibility of evidence being supressed or destroyed in an attempt to cover up the Sasquatch's existence from the public. Steven related the following to me:

I have read lots of stories about government cover ups of Bigfoot incidents and info.  I know of one personally that a friend of mine told me about.  He lives in the Chatsworth area and is a member in the GBS with me.  His story took place out on Fort Mountain some years back while he was doing a little looking around off trail for the Big Guy.  He was confronted by a ranger who told him that hikers were not allowed to venture off marked trails in the park.  When my friend explained to the ranger what he was doing, the ranger had some comments that were very typical of some of the government coverups that I'd been reading about.  The ranger said that the State of Georgia knows that these things are out there, but they don't want people to go looking for them.  He said that it would create problems for the State if the existence of these creatures were to be confirmed.  He made it clear that his remarks were quite off the record and that he would never admit to having said them if confronted by them.


Cover-ups seem to be happening everywhere, I am finding it difficult to believe that they stem from isolated local efforts, and if so who is behind all this?

Bob Titmus-best Sasquatch hunter that ever lived

I had hoped to place information here only pertaining to the sasquatch for the enjoyment of readers. Its quite amazing to me what I find researching for information, an article I read about the late Bob Tirmus is as wrong as can be. So I wanted to comment a little here about Titmus as someone who knew him and some of the other pioneers of the subject of the sasquatch.
The article claimed that Titmus hoaxed sasquatch evidence, and even someone prominent in the issue has made the claim, although that person as Rene' Dahinden once told me, couldn't even find the Patterson film site! even after being given directions by Dahinden himself, so I have very little confidence in his claims. I have been all through Titmus's home with him, we discussed evidence of all kinds. His home in Harrison Hot Springs British Columbia was dedicated to nothing but evidence, and I don't mean it was on display, his entire house was a work shop! he slept on a cot, with very few comforts. I have since used what he shared with me in my field investigations and it has been VERY useful. When your the best, everyone lesser wants to knock you off the pedistle so to speak. Rene' Dahinden and I were friends for 25 years, he hated Titmus, now I understood his reasoning, when the Northwest expidition was active, millionair Tom Slick appointed Titmus as the head of it, Dahinden was furious as he believe he should have been appointed to that position, the author of the article says Rene' was going to write an expose" about bigfoot hunters shennanigans....well folks, I can tell you that Rene' shouldn't have written such a book (and didn't) because he did them too! in fact, I was at his home for a few days in 1988, one evening we were talking and he told me that he had the Patterson film and its individual frames on slides, I said lets look at them, so he went and got them, we looked at the slides on the wall of one of his mobile homes (he had two joined together as his home and research storage). He then remarked that he had the original film and the two surviving footprint casts that Roger Patterson had made that day after filming the creature, the film was in his safe. Now I had believe that the original film  had been lost, as do most people, but he was emphatic that he had in his safe the original film. About 5 years later, I spoke with Roger Patterson's widow, Pat, she told me the circumstances of the original film disappearing, along with the two footprint castings. Rene' had been calling her relentlessly prior to the items mentioned disappeared, he wanted to obtain them from her as she owned the rights to the film, he had since procurred the rights to the still photo's from the film, He had been business partners with Roger Patterson up to Patterson's death in 1972, and wanted to own the entire rights to both still photo's and the film, he received he told me approximately $600.00 each time a still was sold, Pat told me she got around $2500.00 each time the film usage sold, so it was a matter of money, Rene' wanted control over all the film he believed he should have. One one particular trip to Yakima Washington, Rene' called Mrs. Patterson in another attempt to procure the film rights from her, he wanted to meet at her attorney's office to discuss it. This same day, the original film and the footprint casts were on her attorneys desk, as part of an arrangement to talk over selling them to Rene'. The attorney happened to be out of his office for a short time, with the door unlocked and the original film and the two casts disappeared. Now I know for fact that Rene' did in fact have the casts, in 1992 he loaned them to me and I made molds of them, I never actually saw the original film but since he had in his posession, and I first saw the casts in  the 1980's at his home, I believe him when he told me he had the original film too, the casts in his posession prove it. Now I brought this up because it helps demonstrate his desire to control the issue of the sasquatch, and anything he said about Bob Titmus must be viewed from this perspective. John Green knew Titmus best, and certainly is best to judge his character and actions, no one else was close enough to Titmus to be qualified to make any remarks on what he did or didn't do. The remark was also made that Titmus was trying to get money out of Tom Slick....no one involved during the Northwest Expedition got a cent from Slick, he barely covered food and gas for them to operate! so that claim is totally bogus. One more item, it was claimed that feces Titmus provided was from a moose..I would certainly like to know how Ivan Sanderson made that observation, even today as my research turned up while writing my book and discussing this with a DNA expert at the University in Edmunton that fecal samples are very tricky to deal with, they must be frozen very quickly after they are freshly made otherwise degradation quickly sets in and they are of little or no value, so in the early 1960's and these finds were not very fresh once examined, could not be determined what they came from....not to mention there are no moose in northern California where the sample came from! Titmus was the genuine article, jealousies aside, he was the best Sasquatch hunter ever, even today he has not been surpassed in his achievements.  

Possible cover up - part 2

I experienced a second event that I believe may have been a cover up of evidence of a Sasquatch passing through an area where I used to conduct my field searches for them, this is what I recalled of events that day :

This is the second event I personally experienced in what I possibly could consider a "cover-up". This took place in the early 1990's as did another event in which forest service personnel appear to have hidden or covered up Sasquatch footprints. During the late 1980's and through the 1990's I searched for Sasquatch evidence throughout the region between southern Mt. St. Helens and the Columbia River in southern Washington State.
I had become friends with the owner of the Eagles Cliff store and campground, and would make a point of stopping by to see him when ever I was in that region. Eagles cliff is the last vestage of human population just a few miles north of the town of Cougar.
On one such visit, his sister was working in the store and told my companions and I, that just that morning a forest service biologist had stopped in and had told her and her brother about a local resident finding a large amount of Bigfoot tracks along a creek just a short distance from their store. He remarked that he was going there to fully document the footprints and anything else that may be there and take lots of pictures. He then left, they did get his name before he left.
When we were told this, only about three hours had passed since this biologist had told of the track find, I happened to have several members of my field search team with me that day so we decided to immediately go to the location as we knew the area there well.
When we reached the location, no one was there, I thought it possible this biologist might still be there if the find was as big as he made it out to be. We decided to break into two groups and cover both sides of the creek, we thoroughly searched every part of the water way, but no sign of any tracks of a Sasquatch, in fact no animal footprints at all. Now this was somewhat unusual since the deer and elk population is quite heavy in that region and is a favorite hunting area, there should have been some animal sign especially along a creek.
We returned to the Eagle's cliff store and related what we had found, or not found to be more accurate. Both the owner and his sister were emphatic that this forest service biologist had reported a very good track find that morning and they knew the person who made the initial find, a person of impeccable character. The biologist was in uniform, so they believed him to be genuine. Someone wearing a federal uniform and not being a federal employee would not only be illegal, but the local forest service personnel knew everyone who worked just up the road, and someone being an imposter would easily be noticed.
So my next logical step was to go to that forest service center to talk with this biologist, I knew a couple of the employee's there and felt confident they would help me find this person.
When we got there, no one knew who this person was, and had never seen him! in fact they checked his name we had gotten from the owner of the store, no such person could be found by the name we had. I have no idea to this day what was going on there, was this biologist from out of the region and just dropped in without telling the local forest service office of his being there and so close by? was he a real forest service biologist? what happened to all the sasquatch tracks the local resident had found?
I never found anything out, so if this was a cover up, they did an excellent job!

Possible cover ups - part one

This is something that was never a part of my thinking in regard to the subject of the sasquatch. However in recent discussions with colleagues across the country, my thinking is changing the more I learn. I have had two separete incidents in which I was personally involved that on reflection may very well have been cover ups of evidence of sasquatch activity. This is the first of those incidents, this is something I am now looking into in ernest.

"I was involved in a discussion recently regarding the possibility of Sasquatch (Bigfoot) incidents being covered up. I have never really thought about such things, although the discussion jogged my memory to the early 1990's and two cases I was personally involved in that certainly appeared as if a genuine coverup was happening.
My close friendship with Rene' Dahinden heavily influenced my views and thinking about most things surrounding the subject of Bigfoot, and he was a stickler for hard facts and no room for nonsense of any kind so I suppose without hard evidence to support what I am about to relate, I relegated the incidents to follow as just coincidence.
The first incident happened around 1992 or 1993, the father of a co-worker had been scouting a favorite hunting area near Mt. Adams in southern Washington State with a friend. The area, not far from the town of Goldendale is heavily forested and sparce in human population, and the stories of sasquatch's being seen in that region go back to the earliest recorded history of that area.
The particular region the two men favored to hunt was closed to public access, so to gain entry to the area, they built baja's out of old volkswagon beetles. These vehicles worked amazingly well to drive cross country through the forest there, and thats how they traversed that region, entering the road system going around closed gates or other obstructions.
They later told me that they had seen a forest service water truck not long before entering the forest, it was parked by the logging road with its occupant cutting the lower tree limbs near the road. They stopped and chatted with the young man for a few minutes but did not mention what they were doing in the area, they said he told them he was doing some fire prevention work and shortly afterward they parted company.
After watching the road for several hours for deer tracks, the two men came upon some very unusual footprints, and they realized right away that they must have been made by a Sasquatch. This area is warm and arid, and the logging roads are largely covered in a fine dust two to three inches thick. This dust is perfect for footprint impressions, and the men found hundreds of tracks along the right side of the logging road. They decided to get out of the area and report what they found.
When they drove out of the forest and onto the road leading to the highway, They saw a forest service pick up coming their way, they stopped to talk with its driver who identified himself as the area supervisor. They talked about hunting for a few minutes then told the forest service supervisor what they had found. The forest service officer (I have since lost his name) immediately retreived a metal case and took out what they said was a very expensive looking camera, and asked where they had found the footprints? when told, he said he was going to take pictures and document what they had seen and he drove off.
They decided that they needed to get someone out there to document what they had found, the one man who's son worked at the same company as I did then, knew that I was a Sasquatch investigator, so had told his father once about me. His father recalled this fact and contacted his son at work, who in turn reached me and asked if I would accompany his father to the location where they had found the footprints.
I agreed and they were already enroute to meet me and go to the site. It took about an hour to reach the location, by the time we reached the area, it had been about 4 hours since they had found the footprints, we got in the baja once we arrived at the point where they had entered the forest previously (it was not street legal and had to be brought on a trailer). We retraced the same route they had taken earlier that day, and finally reached the place where they had found the first footprints as they had marked the place.
There were no footprints! instead it was obvious what had happened, we saw the duel tire tracks of the water truck they had seen earlier, this is the kind of vehicle used to support forest fire fighting efforts, the operator of the truck had "misted" the road only where the two men said they had seen footprints. misting is a heavy mist from a fire hose which saturates vegetation and uses minimal water, very helpful in preventing the spread of fire.
On this very powdery dust on the road it appeared as if no tracks of any kind had ever been there, actually a very clever way to erase them giving the appearance of never having been there. But I had fought forest fire one summer and knew what to look for, water evidence was obvious, so the footprints had been destroyed deliberately.
The two men had gotten the forest service supervisors name and he had told them they could get copies of the photographs he was going to take of the tracks, when we tried later to find this person, they and I were told on separate dates that no such person worked for the forest service, and no one had taken any photographs of supposed Bigfoot footprints!
The two gentlemen who took me to that area were very credible and not prone to making up stories, and I have no doubt they were being completely honest about what they said they found. The remoteness and difficulty reaching the place they took me makes the story credible alone.
To this day, that event remains a mystery.

William Jevning"


　

My book - Notes From the Field, Tracking North America's Sasquatch

This is my current title, I was never interested in attention to myself or my work, for many years I simply conducted my field work and tried to help Rene' Dahinden in his quest to prove the Sasquatch existed. After Rene's death in 2001, many friends tried and finally convinced me to begin writing and share what I knew of the subject, having been Dahinden's protege'. So having never written before except in college, I started putting information together on what I wanted to share with people on my first project. This is that work, there was much more I wanted to put in it, but was urged to put in my next project that I am now working on. My book was reviewed by Kirkus Indie, the toughest reviewers in the business, here is that review. It provides a good explanation of my book. 

NOTES FROM THE FIELD (reviewed on May 1, 2011)
Jevning’s book makes the case for the existence of Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot, through a variety of sources, from historical to anecdotal.
Jevning divides his book into two parts; the first section relaying the history and first attempts to track Sasquatch, the second concentrating on modern anecdotal accounts and scientific evidence. The idea of simian animals living in North America dates back more than 400 years; Native American peoples have long told stories of hairy, manlike creatures in the woods. Since then, there have been hundreds of similar reports in newspapers, ranging from the 1800s to the present. Jevning has collected many of these stories and presents research he has conducted on several of the "major" incidents, such as the famous 1967 film footage of a walking Sasquatch. From this point, Jevning talks about his sighting a Sasquatch at a young age, his involvement in the Sasquatch-tracking community and his personal field research and findings from the last 40 years. While Jevning would be the first to agree that there is no hard evidence supporting the creatures’ existence, the sheer amount of personal accounts and historical research he has culled is impressive. Newspaper stories from the late 1800s and early 1900s not only give weight to his case, they also provide a fascinating look at how such incidents were responded to by the media of the day. In cases of incidents occurring after the 1950s, Jevning has located and interviewed the people involved. These interview portions of the book (written in a question and answer format), while informative, can be meandering and make the book’s pacing a bit rocky at times. While Jevning is clearly a believer and enthusiast, his tone is always evenhanded, addressing incidents that he believes to be faked and giving as much factual information as he can to back up his claims. The latter half of the book, chronicling his experiences alongside some of the first people to investigate Sasquatch, effectively pieces together the physical character of these creatures, as well as what their habits may be.
Writing with experience and thoughtfulness, Jevning gives an intriguing glimpse into the mystery of Sasquatch.
　
Pub Date: Feb. 28th, 2011
ISBN: 978-1452848013
Page count: 290pp

Biological evidence-fecal evidence

This is something I have often been asked about when talking to people about the subject of the Sasquatch. I talked to some length about this with veteran Sasquatch hunter  Bob Titmus, who I believe was the best sasquatch hunter ever. he told me that in northern California through the late 1950's and through the 1960's when a lot of footprints were being found in the Bluff Creek area and elsewhere, that feces was also being found in conjunction with the footprints. When the volume of the samples was measured, it was determined to be the same as that of a 1200 pound horse. After some joking by Rene' Dahinden towards Titmus during the Northwest Expedition, the matter of Sasquatch feces was not spoken of but rarely. I always wondered about this, having hunted with my father from a young age and growing up on a farm, animal feces is often a valuable sign when tracking and gaining other information about certain animals. In 2003 I found the first of many dozens of sasquatch fecal samples over the following years. One location where I have determined that several Sasquatch to inhabit, it is common to find 50 such fecal piles in a single days search. This photograph is one of those piles, it is very different from any other animals anywhere in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Footprint comparisons

 There exists, unfortunately a lot of misconception regarding the proportions of Sasquatch foot size in comparison to human and animal foot prints. Its been often claimed that Sasquatch footprints are nothing more than bear tracks mis-identified. my photograph here shows this is not the case at all. I placed alphabetical assignments to each cast here, A is my own human foot, B is a Sasquatch footprint cast by Al Hodgson at Bluff Creek California in 1963, C are the left and right Patterson sasquatch footprints cast by Roger Patterson in 1967 at Bluff Creek California, D are black bear tracks I cast in 2005 at Bluff Creek California, E are Elk tracks I cast on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State in 2005, and F is a Deer track also which I cast on the Carbon River in Washington State in 2005. The casts all together shows the proper size relation of each creature.
 This photograph is of a human hand (mine) and a sasquatch hand, many people are not aware that there have been a few hand impressions left by Sasquatch's cast, this is one such impression cast in north eastern Washington State in 1972.

Sasquatch behavior-territorial markings

Of all the years I have been a researcher in the Sasquatch issue, to me, John Green's books are the best produced. I have always kept in mind the things he wrote about, and found very useful when searching for and finding evidence in my field excursions. Sometimes from a single story he used in a book. This is one such item, published in 1956 in Sports Afield magazine by Russell Annabel. The article titled ""Long Hunter-Alaskan style". The incident took place in the 1940's near Anchorage Alaska on the Nelchina plateu. In the story local Indians show two trappers the mark of "Gilyuk" the cannibal giant who wears a small hat. The Indians believed it was there hunting them and they wanted the white trappers to stay in their camp as Gilyuk did not eat the white man, only Indians. They agreed, and the Indians took them to show them its marking. They found a sapling tree mangled badly, the description was "twisted like a match stick". In 2003 on one of my field investigations, at an area Bob Titmus told me he had found a lot of evidence and told me to watch for such markings and showed me what he had collected from the area. What he showed me paled in comparison to my photograph here, I found that mid July this young ponderosa pine indeed "twisted like a match stick" as my photograph clearly shows. The damage was at 7 feet above the ground and freshly done when I found it, there were numerous trees of the same age surrounding this one with no damage to them, and not near any place where people might have done it as it was in a remote location and accessable on foot alone. The damage was so severe that 1/4 inch gaps were in the trunk and easy visibility through the tree. The tree trunk was approximately two inches thich at the area of the damage.  There was hair on the tree near the damaged area I collected. This to me is exactly what was described in the story from Alaska. I talked with Indian friends who told me that the Sasquatch did this to mark territory or as markings for others of its group to follow while traveling from one area to the next. I have now found this marking in other remote areas, sometimes a little different depending on the kind of tree, but in the same type of location and always obvious from that of weather damage, I think this is a very important piece of evidence in Sasquatch behavior. 

Sasquatch behavior-rock stacking

 I first saw reference to rocks being stacked by Sasquatch's when I read John Green's first book "On the Track of the Sasquatch in 1976, towards the back of the book was one photograph of some rocks stacked, he told the story behind the stacks of how a logger had observed three creatures engaged in this odd behavior and ending with that he supposed that where one were to find such stacks of rocks, then it could be supposed that Sasquatch's were there also. I saw nothing more about this until about 1991 when Rene' Dahinden telephoned me from northern California, on his way home from one of his yearly trips to the Bluff Creek area. He wanted me to meet him for breakfast in the town of Estacada Oregon the next morning, I agreed since it had been about 6 months since we had visited. I went there the next morning with a friend, and we had a fun visit with Rene"....visits were always fun with him, he was very humerous and had lots of funny stories! before leaving, he asked if I had ever seen the rock piles Green mentioned in his book? I said I had not. He said we should follow him as he was going to spend the day looking around the area before returning home to British Columbia, and he would take us to the site where they were. We said sure, might be interesting. By the time we finally got to the site, it was almost dark as we had looked around with Rene' the whole day, we marked the place on a map and decided to return some time when we had a full day. We said our goodby's to Rene' and went back to Vancouver Washington. Rene' called me the next day and said he didn't want to say anything in front of my friend as he didn't know him, but that I should look in other certain locations he gave me, he said no one but him knew of the existence of additional sites where sasquatch's had made stacks of rocks, and that I should go to these places and document what was there, as he had only done limited photographing and documenting of the sites. I agreed and said I would fill him in on what I had done when finished. The same friend and I went to the places Rene' told me about a few days later, first to the original site Rene' had taken us to, it is quite astonishing what we found, Green didn't do justice to what we saw there. on this original site we found more than a dozen rock stacks, each granite stone weighing approximately 150 pounds, and each pile generally consisting of three or four such rocks, this averaged as some were different, but most were of this number. The logger who witnessed the creatures making these stacks said that just prior to their discovering him there watching from behind a tree then fleeing the area, reported the big male digging a large hole and retreiving some rodents. The hole is there, John Green had his son stand in the hole to show the scale, but all that photograph shows is his head and shoulders out of the hole and does not show the hole itself, I measured this hole, it is 6 feet deep and 6 feet across, the photograph here is of me standing inside the hole which gives the reader a much better size comparison, I am 6 feet tall myself. We then went to the other six locations, all seperated by stands of forests and some distance from each other, they were very similar to the first. I have found two others since then, these being in the region south of Mt. St. Helens in Washington State, and similar to those in northern Oregon, I show these in my book. Its is unknown why they did this, some might suppose marking of some sort, I will discuss that in another blog, but it is interesting behavior and do not know if it is repeated in other regions, perhaps it is something peculiar to that region alone and the group of Sasquatch that traverse the forests there. 

Fossil evidence supporting existence of the Sasquatch

 Many people are not aware that there does exist in the fossil record a creature very similar to the Sasquatch, but larger. It was discovered in China in 1935 and named "Gigantopithecus Blacki" The creature was first discovered by G.H.R. von Koenigswald, he along with other scientists of the time traveled to China and searched the markets there for "dragon bones" often fossils of extinct animals. He procured numerous teeth, and many species are represented by nothing more than teeth found fossilized. Since then, Chinese scientists have discovered many teeth and 4 jaws of the Gigantopithecus. They have determined that the Gigantopithecus grew up to 12 feet in height and weighed as much as 1200 pounds, which makes it larger than the sasquatch which averages 8 feet in height and 800 pounds. scientists believe it stood erect and walked bipedally as do humans and the sasquatch. With the huge gaps in the primate fossil record, and the fact that a species of creature very similar to the Sasquatch actually did exist, then the existence of the Sasquatch is very reasonable and not so incredible as many people might believe. The top photograph is of artist Bill Munns and his accurate reconstruction of a Gigantopithecus.

Sasquatch footprints elsewhere

real Sasquatch footprints, while unique between individuals, do not change with geography. This would be expected in a living species. I have seen over my many years involved in the subject what I and others believed to be hoaxes, these are easily spotted because they are dramatically different than the thousands of footprints found over the years before. Tracks found by my brother in law Bill Fox in 2005 have the same dimensions and characteristics. Over time and geography this hasn't changed.

Bluff Creek footprints

Its easy for anyone to claim the thousands of sasquatch footprints found in the Bluff Creek area of Northern California to have been made by hoaxers, but knowing the details of those times and the terrain make those claims virtually impossible. One has to remember that this area wasn't accessable until the 1950's, and road building didn't really begin there in the wilderness until the 1960's. Locals long knew of the "apes" which lived there, but had no interest in learning about them or finding them according to Al Hodgson. Rene' Dahinden and Al Hodgson both told me that when footprints were discovered there, it was never just a few as newspapers would make readers believe, it was always in the thousands. One one trip to the area, Dahinden and newspaper publisher John Green counted well over 900 such footprints, this being the leftovers that road building equipment had not destroyed. footprints were found there many times over a decade, and several different individuals could be identified by each unique foot shape, not uncommon to us humans. here are just some of those tracks. I placed a photograph of bear tracks I cast in the same area where the Sasquatch footprints were cast for contrast. The sasquatch footprints here range from 13 inches, to 17 inches in length. This is the common range everywhere for Sasquatch footprints. iIt is believed by those who investigated in those days that at least half a dozen different Sasquatch's inhabited or traveled through that region, based on the footprint evidence. 

Patterson sasquatch footprints...10 days after the filming

Ten days after Patterson and Gimlin filmed the Sasquatch, taxedermist Bob Titmus went to the film site, he photographed the footprints and cast a number of the tracks himself, this is one of them. Skeptics often claim that the footprints are made with nothing more than carved wooden feet, but this track clearly shows a flexible living foot, note the way it flexes over the buried tree branch here.

Footprints of the Patterson sasquatch

 After their encounter with the Sasquatch that October day, Patterson and Gimlin covered some of the creatures footprints with bark from nearby trees, fearing it would rain and destroy them. They returned to camp and got plaster to make impressions of the tracks. Patterson made three castings, one broke however and they were left with castings of the left and right foot. Rene' Dahinden became business partners with Patterson a couple years later and eventually came into posession of the casts Patterson made that day. Dahinden loaned me the original casts which I made molds from, these casts are copies I made from those molds, the original casts are still in Rene's belongings held by his two son's today.

PATTERSON SASQUATCH

This photograph is called "the famous frame",(bottom photograph, the top photograph is of the back of the creature as it walked away) it is from the film taken by Roger Patterson in October 1967 at Bluff Creek, Callifornia. The creature was encountered by Patterson and Bob Gimlin while making a search of the creek area. They went there from Yakima Washington because just a week prior, John Green, Rene' Dahinden had flown to northern California to investigate footprints found by a logging crew there. The loggers had found three sets of large footprints on a road they were traveling on, and had told local store owner Al Hodgson. Hodgson called Patterson's wife and told her that Roger should come to the area right away, he and Gimlin were looking for Sasquatch't in the Mt. St Helens area at the time, and when they returned they prepared to go to Bluff creek. After being there three weeks, they were getting ready to return to Yakima Washington, and the last day at Bluff creek, they searched the area. They rode 4 miles cross country along the creek until they came upon this creature at approximately 1:00pm, it was squatted until the two men came around a slight bend in the creek, it then stood erect and began walking away from them. Patterson's horse reared, and he quickly dismounted grabbing the film camera from a saddle bag. the film is jerky at first due to this as he tried to get his footing and the camera under control, he followed the creature some, but it quickly disappeared into the forest. They did not follow fearing the location of the other two Sasquatch's, both being much larger than this female. To date, this is the best photographic evidence of the sasquatch's existence.