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PGF BIGFOOT FILM SITE MATHEMATICALLY PROVEN, plus More Season Two BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT Videos

2012-01-25T17:03:00.000-08:00

BIGFOOT'S BLOG
Late January 2012 Edition

YES ANOTHER BLUFF CREEK MEGA-ISSUE

Well, the PROOF is in, now without the slightest doubt: The PGF Site has been completely verified. Find below a mathematical proof displaying the correspondence between our site map of the location as it is today, and the 1971 Rene Dahinden "aerial" shot. This proof adjusted camera angle and compared prominent lasting landmarks using trigonometry and geometry. It was done by a practicing geologist. The conclusion?:

"Overall the geometry of Robert Leiterman, Rowdy Kelley, and Steven Streufert’s survey is a perfect match with the photo taken by Rene Dahinden of the Patterson-Gimlin film site. It's nice to see some actual hard science being applied to the field. The survey was really well done. It made it fairly easy to get accurate numbers. Now all we need is the DNA project to prove these things are real. :-)"

The "Big Tree" hiding in the new "jungle" of Bluff Creek.
Photo by Steven Streufert, October 2011.

Documentation will continue next summer, but for now this should be pretty much the last major Bluff Creek blog entry here until then. A few more episodes of the video project will appear in the near future, along with an interview being planned with our mathematician, geologist Jamie Snowhorse.

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I'm hoping to move on to a bunch of other topics that have been brewing in the background (for me) while taking up all of the Bigfooting world's time and attention in hopeless waiting and conclusion jumping--that's right, Bigfoot MindSpeak, DNA, ETs and UFOs, and BS. The latter, we hope you know, stands for "BlobSquatches," and many other things in the "Bigfoot Community."

This entry has below the next series of Season Two of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT VIDEOS, now up over sixty entries. Check them out, Videos 55-62.
Click the link above to view them all on YouTube in descending chronological order. Thanks to the BFRO for hosting it on their BFRO-VIDEOS account.

Now, on to our main feature. As luck would have it, a fellow wandered into my bookstore one day. He lives in a very woodsy area down in the redwoods, and his wife works there, so he has developed some interest in Bigfoot topics. It just also happened that he was a qualified Geologist, capable of doing mathematical analyses of terrain and locations. I told him about our Bluff Creek PGF project, and he was fascinated. Herein we will use his pseudonym for his last name, for privacy.

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Comparing the PG Site Survey with the Dahinden "Aerial" Photo.
by Jamie Snowhorse

Jamie Snowhorse who graciously did this
proof for the sake of Bigfooting history.

Out of all of the evidence for the existence of Bigfoot none is more compelling than the Patterson-Gimlin film. The film is the most studied and analyzed piece of evidence in the Bigfoot community. At face-value it is either a hoaxed video of a man in a suit or an actual creature. Over the years the original location has been highly debated with many different “X”s on the map and none seemed to fit perfectly. Only recently has the newest and most promising suspected location been surveyed and mapped with accuracy. The newly suspected site was surveyed by researchers Robert Leiterman, Steven Streufert, Ian C. and Rowdy Kelley in an attempt to put an end to the controversy. Over the years the site had become overgrown and was subject to hydrologic processes that eroded away at the adjacent streambed. The gravel bar in the film is now meters above the meandering creek. And 40 years of weathering has altered the gravel bar beyond immediate recognition. A photo taken by Rene Dahinden on the hillside opposite the creek shows an aerial view of the original film site. This photo clearly shows the same gravel bar where the PG film was taken. In the photo there are many distinguishing objects that would appear in a survey of the area. These objects are durable and static enough to withstand the test of time and maintain their original positions. The best objects to use as survey monuments are trees and stumps because they are immovable and their positions can be easily surveyed. The photo serves as an accurate record of the film site and It’s monuments. The survey of the suspected site by the researchers is mapped on a two dimensional plane consisting of an X,Y grid with ten foot spacing. The survey is accurate enough to trigonometrically determine distances between objects with an accuracy of a couple feet. It clearly shows the stream bed and sand slope of the evolved creek. The orientation of the creek and the overall geometry of the survey gives the impression of a direct match; that the survey of the suspected site is an accurate survey of the original Patterson Gimlin film site. Even though the site gives the impression that it is a match with the original survey site, further mathematical comparison is needed.

The PGF Site as it is today. Map by Robert Leiterman, based upon research
and survey work by Streufert, Leiterman, Rowdy Kelley and Ian C.
Copyright. Research Purposes Only. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

The survey site and the Dahinden photo can be compared geometrically to prove that they are a match. And the first step in that process is to determine the angle of the camera of the Dahinden photo. To do this, a line is drawn between two monuments in the photo. For ease of calculation this line should be perpendicular to the camera and be significant in distance. A line between monuments marked P and K is suitable.This is the line all calculations will be based on. A Third monument should then be selected to complete a triangle between them. The same triangle should be drawn on the site survey between the same monuments. Now that there are two triangles to compare, the actual distances between the monuments in the survey are measured. For an accurate comparison and to double check the trigonometry a calibrated ruler is needed. For the site survey this should be calibrated to the grids set out on the graph. For the photo the ruler should be calibrated so that the actual distance of line PK should be marked on the corresponding line on the photo and the ruler should be stretched to fit (in this case 10.4x10 feet or just 10.4).

The 1971 Rene Dahinden "Aerial" Photo of the PGF Site.

Next the actual length of the sides of the triangle in the survey are trigonometrically derived. Then on the triangle in the photo, a line is drawn from monument V down to line PK forming two right triangles with respective 90 degree angles. This line should form a ray to the camera. This intersection is labeled Delta or “Δ” . Now using the calibrated ruler, the length of lines VΔ, ΔP, and ΔK are measured. The length of line ΔP should be transferred to it’s corresponding position on the survey to exact the location of point Δ. Then a line is drawn from point Δ to monument V to make a triangle that corresponds to photo. These triangles can then be compared and a camera angle derived. The equation used was:

Length(camera angle°/90°)=Measured length on photo

With this equation, an approximation of the camera angle is derived. Therefore, if the actual length of line ΔV is 12.8 and the measured length is 3.7 then the approximation of the camera angle is about 26 degrees. This camera angle can then be used to find objects seen in the photo and objects documented in the survey. If the monument’s actual position corresponds with the measured position on the photo then the survey location and the photo location are a match.

Proof Diagram 1: Camera Angle Comparison.
CLICK TO ENLARGE AND READ.

Now that the camera angle has been derived, it is used to predict lengths that would appear in the photo.

Proof Diagram 2: Landmark Comparison.
CLICK TO ENLARGE AND READ

Based on a camera angle of 26 degrees the prediction of the length of line AK in the photo at 5.37. When the photo is measured with a calibrated ruler the measured value is about 5.2 which is very close... within 2 feet. This proves that the geometry in the survey correctly matches the geometry of the photo. Even more objects can be compared this way to determine their corresponding locations. It is easiest to use the same calibrated line PK to base the trigonometry off of. Next, the position of monuments U, X, and F are exacted. Their positions were verified with an accuracy of about two feet.

Proof Diagram 3: Further Triangulation.
CLICK TO ENLARGE AND READ

Overall the geometry of the survey is a perfect match with the photo taken by Rene Dahinden of the Patterson-Gimlin film site. From this survey, accurate positions in the film of the alleged creature can be exacted which could prove to be useful to determine further information about the film and it’s subject.

Jamie Snowhorse, snowhorse420@gmail.com
Geology student at Humboldt State University, Participant in the US Antarctic program
BRIEF BIO:
"I'm a geology student at HSU. I Work for the US Antarctic program. I live in Orick and maintain a small network of trail cameras around the national park. I'm a geology and science enthusiast. I'm also a skeptic and freethinker. I could come up with more but I'd have to do some serious introspection..."

Above, Leiterman's comparative marks on the Dahinden photo and the
2011 Site Map. No, the red circles are not "blobsquatches."

UNIQUE WORK HEREIN IS COPYRIGHT, FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY.

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THE BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT, Current Members and NEW Videos

Rowdy, Film Producer, Adventurer, the most recent member
of our group, whom we met when he was working for
Animal Planet during the local FINDING BIGFOOT filming.

Me, you probably know me all too well.
Bigfoot nerdiness started this PGF obsession, but
at least it came to something REAL in the end.

Robert, State Parks Ranger in the Redwoods,
long-suffering videographer and video editor, he is the one
who forced Ian and me to actually document this stuff.

Ian C., in partial retirement, well OK, total Bigfoot retirement, at least for now.
Ian was a founding member,along with myself, of this obsessive pursuit.
We still don't know if he has seen the site geometry proof yet. Last we heard
he had had enough of California and gotten lost in the mountains of Virginia.

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If there is going to be a BIGFOOTERS OF THE YEAR award, it should go to all four of us, not just Robert and me. Thank you to Daniel Perez and BIGFOOT TIMES for the honor.

READ A FREE ISSUE OF THE NEWSLETTER Containing the Bigfooters of the Year Award on our Bluff Creek PGF site research HERE.

Yep, we're not bragging. We just want to share the information, as always.

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Click on the player boxes below to view the videos. If that isn't good enough for you, right-click on them to open in another window.

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT.

This is Season Two, brand NEW. Back to the Creek Again! Here you will find the "Discussion at the First Sighting Spot" episode. Part 55. Check it out!

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand NEW. Back to the Creek Again! Here you will find the "Where did Bobo Walk? and Start of the Site Survey" episode. Part 56.

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand NEW. Back to the Creek Again! Here you will find the "PGF Site Survey in Action" episode. Part 57.

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand NEW. Back to the Creek Again! Here you will find the "Stomping Around in the Bluff Creek Jungle" episode. Part 58.

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand NEW. Back to the Creek Again! Here you will find the "Dog Barks at Bigfoot while the Guys Analyze Trees and Cross the Axis" episode. Part 59.

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand NEW. Back to the Creek Again! Here you will find the "Surveying the Stumps Walkthrough and Censored Daniel Perez Photo" episode. Part 60. (Believe It or Not)

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT.
This is Season Two, brand NEW. Back to the Creek Again! Here you will find the "Pacing the Grid Layout and Marking the Stumps and Debris Piles" episode. Part 61.

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT.
This is Season Two, brand NEW. Here you will find the "Marking the Grid, Big Trees, and There You Have It, Folks, The Patterson-Gimlin Film Site" episode. Part 62.

WATCH FOR THE LAST FEW SEASON TWO VIDEOS COMING YOUR WAY SOON.
We'll be back in Summer 2012 with more, and probably More....

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

What can me say? I show hu-man guys to film site many time, they just no see. Now they get award, and what I get? Bunch of survey flags on my home turf. It not funny. When Bigfoot get award? I the reason you all out there on snipe hunt. Me make you famous on hu-man TV, and I not even get cameo role? I start think again go back to eat hu-man and dog, be monster again and not care. No more Mr. Nice Bigfoot, me say.

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This blog is copyright and all that jazz, save for occasional small elements borrowed for "research" and information or satirical purposes only, 2011-2012, Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert. Borrowings for non-commercial purposes will be tolerated without the revenge of Angry Bigfoot, if notification, credit, citation and a kindly web-link are given, preferably after contacting us and saying, Hello, like a normal person would before taking a cup of salt. No serious rip-offs of our material for vulgar commercial gain will be tolerated without major BF stomping action coming down on you, hu-man.

BIGFOOTERS OF THE YEAR, plus Season Two: BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT Videos; Announcing... The Coalition for Reason, Science, Satire and Sanity in Bigfoot Research

2012-01-17T04:03:00.000-08:00

Page One, December 2011 Bigfoot Times
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BIGFOOT'S BLOG
Mid-January, 2012 Edition

A BLUFF CREEK MEGA-ISSUE,
Once Again....

The 2011 BIGFOOTERS OF THE YEAR award has been announced by Daniel Perez, of THE BIGFOOT TIMES newsletter. Here in this blog we will let Daniel tell the story with a free copy of the December issue. Click the images to enlarge and read them. Robert Leiterman and I would like to say thank you to Mr. Perez for recognizing the value of our long labors on this issue of Bigfooting history and geography. We'd also like to extend this award and all the due credit for it to those who were also part of The Project, founding member Ian C. and concluding member Rowdy Kelley. Also, thank you to all of you who helped us along the way. To all of the naysayers up and down that creek, well, neener-neener to ye.

The long-lost-in-confusion site of the Patterson-Gimlin Film on Bluff Creek has finally been found, and definitively identified by the members of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. A mathematical proof using trigonometry and geometry has been done by a geologist, comparing our site map and the 1971 Rene Dahinden "aerial" photo of the site. The final draft of this in formal proof form is in, and after review will be posted here soon for all to see, in the next entry of this blog. Work will continue in the coming year, no longer to verify, but now to further explore and identify the aspects of the film site. We are planning a major congregation of researchers to arrive sometime in the summer for further analysis and documentation. You can probably expect a Season Three of our YouTube video series presentation. For now, see the first part of Season Two, below. Also find below a preliminary statement from our site data analyst, a radio appearance I did recently, and a link to the new, revolutionary Facebook group that has been founded to fight the lunatic fringe in Bigfoot Research.

Page Two, December 2011 Bigfoot Times
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Page Three, December 2011 Bigfoot Times
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Page Four, THE BIGFOOT TIMES, December 2011 Issue.
CLICK EACH PAGE TO ENLARGE AND READ.
(Right-Click to View Full Size or Save)
This issue has been authorized to distribute, read and save freely as
a holiday season gift from Mr. Daniel Perez, Bigfooter extraordinaire.

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YOURS TRULY ON BLOG TALK RADIO, BIGFOOT TONIGHT.

Recently I was the guest on this show, which you may access via podcast archive or streaming online. In it we mainly talked about the PGF and Bluff Creek issues, but of course this talk inevitably led to MK Davis calling up on the live show. He dug himself even deeper into a "bloody pool" and made a massacre of the historical truth. Little more than an hour after that on-the-air radio conversation, I received notice from MK's blog that he is RETIRING from Bigfooting. Well, I must have done something right, eh? All credit to the early work of Mr. Davis, and best of wishes to him in the future, but I am simply going to say here that: We Were Right. Bob Gimlin Was Right. Rene Dahinden was right.
Listen through this link, or via the player box below: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoottonightshow/2011/12/19/special-guest-steven-streufert

Listen to internet radio with Bigfoot tonight on Blog
Talk Radio

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HERE ARE THE FIRST SERIES OF SEASON TWO OF THE VIDEOS FROM...
THE BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT: A JOURNEY OF REDISCOVERY

Season Two: The Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 46, Old Bluff Creek Road. Out Now!

NEW VIDEO: Bluff Creek Film Site Project, Part 47!!!

See the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film Site area as it is today. Study a little history while you're at it. Part on an ever-ongoing series....

The continuing melodrama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand new. Here you will find the "Devil's Advocate" episode. Part 48. Check it out!

The continuing melodrama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand new. Here you will find the "Bickering in the Creek" episode. Part 49. Check it out!

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand new. Here you will find the "Initial Considerations of the Bigfoot Trackway" episode. Part 50. Check it out!

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand new. Here you will find the "Considering All Options ad Infinitum" episode. Part 51. Check it out!

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand NEW. Here you will find the "Every Tree at the Edge of the Woods is a Possibility" episode. Part 52. Check it out!

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand NEW. Here you will find the "Stumbling over Stumps and Right into the Big Tree Discovery" episode. Part 53. Check it out!

The continuing drama of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. This is Season Two, brand NEW. Here you will find the "Discovery and First Analysis" episode. Part 54. Check it out!

Videography by Robert Leiterman. Research by Steven Streufert, Ian C. and Robert Leiterman, with invaluable assistance in the endgame from Rowdy Kelley.

You may always use this link to find the full series on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bluff+Creek+Film+Site+Project&oq=Bluff+Creek+Film+Site+Project

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The Comparisons of Leiterman. Here Is the 1971 Film Site from the Hillside,
Compared with the Survey Map of 2011. Forty Years, and Still There.
CLICK TO ENLARGE.

PRELIMINARY MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF OUR PGF SITE DATA

A professional geologist is running a mathematical look at our site identification, and so far the results, only a first glance, really, have shown a very high level of certainty. He has only looked at one cluster of features, and found a 90% correspondence between the map of today and the Rene Dahinden "aerial" photo of forty years ago. This level of matching over the course of four decades on the site is simply astonishing. Beyond a shadow of a doubt now, this is the PGF FILM SITE. A full mathematical/geological write-up paper will be forthcoming soon. Here is what the fellow, Jaime S., has said, after only the first few hours of looking:

"I did some quick trigonometric comparisons between the Dahinden photo and the new PG site survey and it looks like they match up pretty good. I only focused on the tree stump cluster marked J,I,G, and H. I was able to match it up to an accuracy of about 90% (just for that particular group). The lens on the camera from the Dahinden photo is distorted a bit from spherical aberration (about 5-10 degrees toward the edges of the photo) but i am pretty sure i got the interior angles fairly accurate. I'll work on it more tomorrow and see if i can use some other objects in the photo to compare the trigonometry which should bring it up around a 97-99% positive match. Might take me another couple days to do write a proof but it shouldn't be a problem. I'll e-mail you again tomorrow with some diagrams and calculations."

The Site Survey Map of the Now Known PGF Site.
CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Not to brag, but THIS IS AN EXAMPLE of where Science, Logic and Reason may take us. Despite decades of false claims, we were able to prove more than just our opinions. And we documented it thoroughly in ten foot grids on a map that are now capable of producing real mathematical data. This is real PROOF. I hope that the lesson learned from this process, which took four years and is still ongoing, is that persistence pays, that it is worthwhile to do history, and that rational analysis is preferable to wishful thinking and egotism.

If only we could apply such methods to finding incontestable proof and knowledge of Bigfoot, eh?

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JOIN NOW. Click the link above.

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

Me Say You Join:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/smartbigfoot

That all me say to you now, hu-man. We talk when you read 200 email a day. It fun.

You survive, you be worthy. You say, Bigfoot not serious about Science? Well, that true. Me just like to see hu-man brain hurt. Me just happy with good Bigfoot woman, good beer me steal from Book Man. Me not need Logic when me just live on land, eat what me find, pick cave and me sleep there. Some say Bigfoot "hu-man"... What, you diss me? You not like Bigfoot get feeling hurt.
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This blog is copyright and all that jazz, save for occasional small elements borrowed for "research" and information or satirical purposes only, 2011-2012, Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert. Borrowings for non-commercial purposes will be tolerated without the revenge of Angry Bigfoot, if notification, credit, citation and a kindly web-link are given, preferably after contacting us and saying, Hello, like a normal person would before taking a cup of salt. No serious rip-offs of our material for vulgar commercial gain will be tolerated without major BF stomping action coming down on you, hu-man.

Bluff Creek Film Site Project, Journey of Rediscovery: Confirmation! By Guest Blogger Robert Leiterman

2011-12-17T06:13:00.000-08:00

The PGF "Big Tree," October 2011.
Photo by Robert Leiterman.

BIGFOOT'S BLOG

Mid-December, 2011 Edition...

THE STORY OF THE BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT, as Recorded by Robert Leiterman

Robert Leiterman is a California State Parks Ranger. He is also a published author and accomplished public speaker and videographer (see his resume at the bottom of this blog entry!). He is one of the three original members of our Project to rediscover the location of the Patterson-Gimlin film site and study the history of the Bluff Creek region in which the film was shot (and where "Bigfoot" was more or less born). He joined Ian and I during the summer of 2010, first acting mainly as a curious videographer, but by the next year he was not only a full research participant, historian, and natural-historical expert of the area, he was also an inspiration. Though Ian and I are PGF geeks, it took the determination of Ranger Robert to get us to endeavor to survey and document the site we found to be the best candidate. Without him, and the vital help and mind of Rowdy Kelley, who joined us toward the end of this summer, we may never have accomplished this. What we found was, truly, way beyond our expectations. We'd thought (save for Ian, who had essentially dropped out from the project most of the summer due to other life requirements) that we had found the right site. We had Bob Gimlin's reconfirmation as icing on the cake. The results of our site survey, though, showed confirmations greatly in excess of what we could possibly have thought would still remain on-site. We found everything: the Big Trees, the stumps, the debris piles, and the approximate course of the film's trackway, still there on the essentially intact and protected Bluff Creek sandbar. In a way, it was practically a time capsule. However, I'll let Robert tell the story, from his unique perspective and in his own style. Here you go. Enjoy! --Steve

See below, too, many maps, diagrams and site photos which are representative of the data we have gathered.

Some of these will be made available to serious folks who may wish to aid us in the analysis of the site. We'd especially like help from professional types in photography and surveying.

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Bluff Creek Film Site Project, Journey of Rediscovery: Confirmation!

By Robert Leiterman

Written 11-11-2011

Robert Leiterman, resting from surveying at the north end of the PGF site.
Photo by Steven Streufert

(NOTE: Some of the photos below are by Robert Leiterman, where noted, and he retains copyright.)

I tossed my tattered notebook and my brush trimmers onto the ground for a quick break to vent my concerns and frustrations. It was well after 6:00 in the afternoon on this hollows eave Sunday (interestingly, the day of the premier for Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot two hour special on, of all things, Bluff Creek and the Patterson-Gimlin Film Site). We still had a check-off list to complete before the last of the sunlight faded away for good. Here I was in Six Rivers National Forest in Northwestern California, on a forested gravel bar along the watercourse of Bluff Creek, with Steven Streufert (bigfoot historian and bookstore owner), one of three film site zealots who make up our current team. The concept of the Bluff Creek Film Site Project was a byproduct of frustration. As a group, we decided to try to put an end to the confusion as to the exact location of the P.G. Film Site once and for all. Only the two of us (of the five members who have participated) have managed to make the journey for this October 30th weekend project. Steven is out of Willow Creek, only about two hours of mountain roads from the P.G. Film Site. I’m more in the range of three hours, coming from Fortuna. Our third party member, Ian, caught a bug and regretfully canceled at the last minute. He would have been looking at four hours coming from Redding. It takes two to accurately operate a measuring tape, so we’re still in the game for now, but not much longer. Unfortunately for me, Steven can only stay for a couple of hours (with family obligations to fulfill). He should have already started his nearly two mile hike out of the canyon and back up to his awaiting vehicle before the cloak of darkness engulfed him, but I asked him to stay a bit longer to hash out a couple more items.

Ian and Robert on a more clear area of the PGF sandbar, near creek.
Photo by S. Streufert

Ian and Robert on the gravel bar downstream from the PGF site, on
an earlier trip this year. Photo by S. Streufert.

The little warmth we had managed to absorb from autumn’s low-angle rays had already dissipated hours ago. The remaining light was quickly absorbed by the surrounding forest and had disappeared faster than we had expected. This time of year, any sunlight that did manage to briefly grace the exposed canyon bottoms and gravel bars of Bluff Creek was a welcomed gift. I questioned myself, wondering if we’d be able to finish this portion of the project during these remaining two days. I was racing against time and I was my worst enemy. Did we bite off too much this time? Did we overestimate our abilities? My anxiety was building. But, as far as I was concerned, weather-wise, it wasn’t raining like hell, like it did last year.

Big Tree and Maple. Photo by Robert Leiterman

I had decided to spend the night there alone on the forested alluvial flood plain, serenaded by a handfull of tree frog holdouts and whispered to by the babbling creek, camping right there on what we were trying to confirm was the true location of the P.G. Film Site.

Dead and live alder trees, as seen in the PGF.
Photo by S. Streufert

We were fighting against the building low pressure weather and the expected rains. Changes that would in turn bring seasonal gate closures and limited access. We had two field days left to complete the site grid that Steven Streufert, Rowdy Kelley (a local field researcher friend of mine) and I started the week before. We had also planned to extract core samples from the surrounding trees that inhabited the alluvial flats. With that information, we would be able to estimate the ages of the trees and use that pertinent data to finish our grid.

PGF Site Map, 11-1-11 Revision.
Copyright by Robert Leiterman and BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT.
Click to Enlarge.

Back on October 21st through the 24th, 2011, Steven Streufert, Rowdy Kelley and I decided to apply a bit of forgotten “algebra,” by utilizing the concept of X and Y axis points and the basic science of extracting core samples to count the trees’ growth rings. Our plan was to divide the alleged film site into a north/south (“Y” axis) and east/ west (“X” axis) meridians. We then divided each grid into a 30 foot by 30 foot (10 yard) work areas, every corner point on the grid was designated by a flag with the appropriate locating coordinates. Within those grids we recorded stumps, root balls, logs, debris piles, larger trees and anything else that we felt was significant in that it was old enough possibly to be there in 1967, when the film was shot. I know it sounds complicated but once the trees are eliminated, on paper, from the view shed the familiar artifacts can be noted. The film site location that we had decided to grid was what we originally called the Cliff Barackman (reality-TV star for Finding Bigfoot) Film Site proposition. For the record, we’re now calling the place the P.G. Film Site, after having changed it to the “Gimlin Site.” I’ll explain that, though, later in this essay.

PGF site tree. Photo by S. Streufert

We had already conducted our field research for the potential film sites proposed by a bunch of other researchers, downstream, during our 2010 investigations. Because of our work load, we were only able to briefly search the upper sandbar area of the Barackman/Gimlin/P.G. Film Site location during the time of our video filming. During the 2011 season, we tried to focus mostly on were now calling the P.G. Film site, having essentially ruled out all of the others. Steven and I did some preliminary investigations in June, and found the lower sandbar of the “General Consensus” area to be inadequate. In July, Steven Streufert, Rowdy Kelley and I guided BFRO expedition members on an orientation tour of the five perspective P.G. Film Sites, heading all the way up the creek from the Bluff Creek Bridge, three miles downstream. Finally, we participated in three separate investigative trips in October, and two of those were spent creating the film site grid.

Rowdy Kelley, during surveying. PGF sandbar.
Photo by S. Streufert

Last September and October of 2010, Steven Streufert, Ian (Field Researcher), Rip Lyttle (Cryptozoologist) and I had spent a considerable amount of time and energy exploring and investigating the three mile length of Bluff Creek and an assortment of gravel bars. We started at the Bluff Creek Bridge and traveled up the creek to the area often called the “bowling alley”. To do it right, we needed to apply the same line of testing to all the potential film sites along the ½ mile section of Bluff Creek where the main site location propositions were claimed. After following up on and confirming the evidence of the old Bluff Creek Road that followed the creek to the film site locations, we found a potential candidate for Gimlin/Paterson campsite (potentially matching a description in Barbara Wasson’s book, Sasquatch Apparitions). Our first film site location to investigate was the proposed M.K. Davis Film Site. From there we investigated the proposed Peter Byrne Film Site Location. And then the Christopher Murphy potential film site. The farther we investigated upstream, the better the sites looked. At the end of 2010, the area above Murphy’s location was starting to look good. We were at this point still in the area noted by Daniel Perez in his booklet, Bigfoot at Bluff Creek, but exploring a potential trackway path that no one had yet proposed.

Steve with the PGF Big Tree during survey.
Photo snapped by Rowdy Kelley.

The overview (“aerial”) photograph that Rene Dahinden had taken from the hillside back in 1971 was comparable to what we had experienced looking down from the hillside road area onto this potential film site spot, in the middle between the lower and upper sandbars. The gravel bar looked great! But, because of the heavily reforested gravel bar and flood plain, we couldn’t see through the trees. We realized that we needed to do something different if we wanted to be able to compare the 1971 overview photograph. During our last trip in October 2010, I finally got to focus on what we were calling, at the time, the Cliff Barackman Film Site (P.G. Film Site). From what we had seen, it had most of the artifacts we were looking for. So, at the end of 2010, we decided that we would finally focus on the P.G. Film Site during our 2011 season. We also decided that we were going to grid the site area so we could focus more on the artifacts that could confirm the site, in effect removing the forest to see the Big Trees.

Draft 1 of Map, with "aerial" photo comparison.
Leiterman map and photo.

By “artifacts” we meant things like the size of gravel bar, location of creek, film site dimensions, proximity and locations of big trees, logs, stumps, root balls, locations of huge root balls, debris piles, tree clusters, locations of large trees on the gravel bar, proximity and height of the nearby hillside where a photo could be taken that would match the 1971 film site overview taken by Rene Dahinden, and also the back lighting potential. It was quite a list, but useful nonetheless. During our investigations we found that many artifacts were found in some, but not all of them in one of the downstream proposed sites. The exception to these was the last site location up the creek, adjacent to the “bowling alley.” This was what we are now calling the P.G. Film Site, based upon our grid and mapping work.

Stage Three, Map with Comparison to Dahinden Photo showing
myriad correspondences. Photo and Map by Leiterman.
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Steve and Ian had been looking into these issues since the early to mid-2000s. Since September 2010, we’ve been documenting our journey through the B.F.R.O’s YouTube channel with 45 episodes (so far) of our The Bluff Creek Film Site Project series. At 10 to 11 minutes a pop, it was quite a commitment of time. For those of you who are curious what the Bluff Creek area looks like, or what challenges we encountered in front of us, have a look.

The Dahinden photo with clear remains of the PGF film site as seen in
1971 and in the 1967 film. Marks by Leiterman.

As it turned out the upper sandbar, first identified to us in our research efforts by Cliff Barackman, was the best candidate. Here, following, is a bit of history on it.

Stumps from the 1966-67 salvage logging, rotten but still present on site.
Photo by R. Leiterman.

Back in September of 2003, Sunday, the last day of the Willow Creek International Bigfoot Symposium, a group of renowned Bigfoot researchers and witnesses like John Green, Bob Gimlin, Daniel Perez, Christopher Murphy, Dmitri Bayanov and Tom Steenburg, just to name a few, had taken a field trip to revisit the Bluff Creek Film Site. Daniel Perez more or less led the way. The end result was confusion and frustration, as none of them could agree to the film site location, so obscured was it by trees, and so changed since 1967 or 1971. The question arose, had too much time gone by without proper documentation and continuous knowledge? Had the memories of these primary figures in Bigfooting begun to fail? Had the true site location been lost?

Test footprints left in sandbar to see if they will last though the winter,
as reported by McClarin and Green in 1968 on-site.
Stomping by Steve, photos by Robert.

That day Bob Gimlin, despite initially not recognizing the place, had talked in private with James “Bobo” Fay (also a star for Finding Bigfoot), about a location, farther up the creek than where most were focused, that looked familiar. In turn Bobo had shared this location with Cliff Barackman who had spent a considerable amount of time himself exploring the Bluff Creek localtiy. Cliff in turn shared his belief that Gimlin was correct with Steven Streufert. Daniel Perez, who had been providing us with film site information, shared the topographical map containing Dahinden’s “X” as the film site location. Our un-answered question was whether or not the “X” was the start, the middle or the end of the film site. We found that Daniel’s clarification of the mark fell right upon the spot Gimlin had chosen as the site of the first sighting of the creature.

Perez booklet map. Why couldn't anyone locate the site? A very
confounding issue indeed, as that is Rene Dahinden's mark.
We had to explore the whole area above and below "National" to
rule out the proposals of other researchers.

In August of 2011, Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot was down on Bluff Creek to film a special two-hour episode on the area that aired of October 30th 2011. To get useful video on the site area they had to avoid the trees, so they only filmed in front of the gravel bar next to the creek, starting in the vicinity of Gimlin’s first sighting claim. The film crew never made it onto the 1964 flood plain sandbar and into the heart of the film site where the track-way of the subject would have to be located. My two friends and fellow squatchers, Bobo Fay and Cliff Barackman had both explored the Bluff Creek area in the past. On the set of Finding Bigfoot and away from the cameras, Bob Gimlin once again confirmed that the P.G. Film Site area looked familiar. He stated that the larger logs appeared to have been washed farther down the creek (though the huge root ball-attached tree trunk was still in sight of the site). He also said that he remembered the creek being closer to the southern hillside where the old road ran down, and that the gravel bar across the creek had been eaten away considerably on its facing side.

Gimlin with Finding Bigfoot, 2011

Not surprisingly, we could imagine the whole scene as he described. Many of the landmarks were still there on the site area.

Rowdy investigating debris piles near the stumps at the end of the film site.
He is looking off onto the "bowling alley" of Bluff Creek, to the east.
Photo by S. Streufert

Bill Munns (for 30 years a Hollywood costume designer and film effect master, now a P.G. Film Investigator), who had never been to the film site before, had created a three-dimensional animation of the P.G. film Site using only internal film data and perspective, with moving Patty and Roger Patterson icons. He examined every frame of the second generation P.G. Film copies he got his hands on to reconstruct the pathway taken by the Bigfoot and Roger. His goal was to reconstruct the gravel bar and relative positions of the camera and film subject, based on what he was able to see in the film itself. Surprisingly, his animated project looked an awful lot like the upper sandbar area we were attempting analyze. Seeing Munns’ recreation led to us reorienting the angle of our view upon the site area, leading to us seeing that a diagonal course of the filming event heading across the sandbar was plausible. Counter-intuitive though it was, this scenario worked very well with the confines of that spot. To see the animations for yourself, look up the Munns Report online, or the Bigfoot Forums thread of the same name.

Two paths identified by Bill Munns, drawn upon the
Draft One map. A preliminary confirming look only.
We think the camera position is to left of debris pile.
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So, you see, it wasn’t an accident that we eventually decided to grid out this potential site location. As far as we were concerned comments like … “The site just looks right!” or “It felt right!” weren’t going to cut it for the true P.G. Film Site zealots. There was evidence right there on the ground, and we could document it. Suddenly the big trees off to the right hand side of the sandbar made perfect sense, too, and they looked to be the right size.

Screen capture from the Bill Munns view of the film site that helped us
greatly in reorienting our view of how the film action occurred.

To prove it, though, we needed to remove the old forest from its current trees on paper and focus on what was left after taking away the new growth. We needed to expose and record the stumps, logs, root balls, trees, debris piles and anything significant within. Our first step was to locate a common-sense starting point. We chose the start point for our grid near where Bob Gimlim stated the gravel bar and surrounding features had looked familiar. This vicinity is where Finding Bigfoot filmed the recreation in their episode (the gravel bank in front of the sandbar, that is).

Munns' digital site model in screen capture, showing how the "Big Trees"
are really located way to the "right" side of the sandbar, and seen at an
angle across the site, not in the apparent "straight line" seen in the film. The
greatest enemy to finding the site was film perspective flattening and illusion.

To find our own path, we took a direct north bearing with corrected declination (that difference between true north and magnetic north) with our Ranger Sylvia compass. With a hundred-foot measuring tape in hand we headed north, marking our course along the way as we traveled through the creek, across the gravel bar, up the incline, and into the 47-year-old re-grown forest. We constantly double-checked our back bearing to maintain our accuracy. At 378 linear feet, we reach the bottom of the slope at the north. Surprising, just to our right was an old large, moss covered big leaf maple in its autumn grandeur. Just to our left and partially up the slope in front of us was one of the largest Douglas firs (the type of trees seen behind the creature in the PGF) we had seen at any of the alleged film site locations. With its aged, rough, pock-marked bark, it fits the description that Peter Byrne recalled (though his location of the site was incorrect). Off to our right were other large trees, and beyond them, more large fir clusters. Things were looking good.

Big trees as seen in 1971 Dahinden photo, detail.

The next step was to apply our basic axis--X and Y axis, positive-negative meridians--and produce a workable grid. Half of our north grid line was 189 feet, so that was going to be our workable center off our X and Y meridians. Next was to draw an east/west meridian grid line for our X axis. From there we measured and marked our 148 foot west meridian direction line to the base of the hill and we marked our 210 foot Eastern meridian directional line to the base of the other hillside to the East. Our eastern meridian line reached the edge of the bluff (bowling alley) at 153 feet. It appeared that a portion of the 1964 gravel deposits from the December flood, 47 years ago, had been eroded away from the southwestern corner of the P.G. Film Site by the persistent creek. I give you an eye ball estimate at best of 60 to 100 feet of gravel based on who you ask. With that said, not knowing the exact position of the creek and the location of the gravel bar road to the southern edge of the opposite hillside in October of 1967, it’s all a hard guess. On the other hand, the “bowling alley” portion of the creek on the eastern portion of the P.G. Film Site has stayed relatively within its original channel as it churns through the narrow canyon in a straight line. In doing so, the creek has left a portion of the film site intact or potentially recognizable, in a way protecting it. The landslides, the hungry creek, the growing forest and fading memories hadn’t taken it all yet.

Note how the big trees site to "right" of site, as in detail above.
They actually sit exactly on due magnetic north from the first sighting.

Our next step was to divide the grid into 10 yard/30 foot square increments using a positive/negative X and Y axis point grid. Within each grid box we were to draw in every log, stump, root ball, debris pile, large trees, or anything else significant.

Black and White Version.
Copyright Robert Leiterman, Bluff Creek Film Site Project
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One of the last things we set out to do this time around was to estimate the age of the trees that occupied the flood plain within our grid. You see, 47-year-old trees were around during the 1964 flood. Existing trees at that time on the level of the flood waters would have either been killed or severely damaged in some way. Anything 44 years or older had to have been around during the filming of the P.G. footage. Dead snags are seen along with stumps and logs. The new trees would have been three years old or less at the time of the filming. At 40 year old, the trees would have been growing for 4 years after the P.G. Film was taken. These would have shown up during the 1971 over view take of the film site by Rene Dahinden.

Data collected is presented in the following details.
These are reduced size but still huge, with full resolution 50-inch images
available for research. Copyright Robert Leiterman, Bluff Creek Film Site Project
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We didn’t have to measure all of the trees in the film site location--that would definitely take more time then we had. Through circumference measurements (outside of the bark) and taking core samples (drilling a hole through the tree to count the growth rings) to confirm the age of the tree, we could eliminate almost every single tree on the sandbar without cutting any of them down. We were going to put a little science to work to help us see the forest without the trees. When we were done, we had planned to have an accurate map of the current gravel bar/flood plain to compare with the 1971 overview photograph taken by Rene Dahinden of the then well-known and identifiable P.G. Film Site. And that we did. It couldn't have worked out better.

Research Purposes Only.
Copyright Robert Leiterman and the Bluff Creek Film Site Project
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As it was, we found out that the oldest tree on the flood plain was a big leaf maple growing near the debris pile near the front. Its circumference was 77 inches, with an estimated age of 41 to 45 years. Judging by its large base and multi-forked top, the tree had seen tough times. The oldest and largest Douglas fir in the flood plain (near the creek edge), approximately 30 feet from the large protective debris pile had a circumference of 60 inches and was estimated to be greater than 35-plus years. We ran into core rot that prevented us from getting a more accurate age estimate. The red alders, large trees that dot the film sandbar, are very deceiving. The larger of the red alders on the film site we measured were 48 inches in circumference, but through a core sample, we found them to be an estimated 27 years old. Alders grow, and die, and decay, rather quickly. They were definitely not a factor to be considered in the film site unless they were the dead snags seen in the P.G. Film itself. Those, however, rotted away a long time ago. From what we can tell, determining the age of the trees was helpful in showing that the sandbar had been predominantly clear in 1967.

Research Purposes Only.
Copyright Robert Leiterman and the Bluff Creek Film Site Project
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Steven and I have become very familiar with this place. In fact, on October 30th we were currently at the back edge of what we were now thinking was the long-misplaced P.G. Film Site. Misplaced you say? Due to the fact that numerous parties didn’t agree on the exact location of the P.G. Film Site, we were forced to come here to clarify the issue. This is one of the reasons we were here, anyway, aside from the natural beauty of the place, and the ever-alluring idea that Bigfoot might still be out in those hills.

Big Tree Measurements. Research Purposes Only.
Copyright Robert Leiterman and the Bluff Creek Film Site Project
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A little more than a year ago, Steven, Ian, and I had gotten into a discussion about where the film site was. The more people I asked, the more unclear things seemed to become. Several well known Bigfoot researchers couldn’t even agree on a location, let alone on other issues. How could that be? I got to thinking, if the UFOlogist could hand-deliver me upon request to the alleged alien crash site in Rowell, New Mexico, why couldn’t the renowned Bigfoot research dudes take me to the exact gravel bar where Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin documented their life-changing encounter with a legendary creature, on 16 millimeter movie film from a Kodak K-100 camera, back in October 20th. of 1967? I wasn’t asking for the exact footprint locations, or DNA samples, just the gravel bar. Most researchers agreed that the film site was within a half mile radius along a section of Bluff Creek, located geographically in the wilds of Northwestern California’s Six Rivers Nation Forest, and to be more accurate, within the boundaries of Del Norte County. This is what we have been calling the “General Consensus Site Area.” A handful of researchers had put the film site either about a mile and a half down river (MK Davis) from the “bat boxes” (where Peter Byrne located his Film Site), or upstream toward the vicinity of Scorpion Creek. The problem here was, only one of them could to be right. There is only ONE true PGF site. The question was: whose? We focused on five of the most popular and practical locations.

Research Purposes Only.
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Our views of the canyon walls were obstructed by 47 years worth of forest growth from encroaching Douglas firs and riparian environment, their crowded branches merciless in some places. To reach these picturesque, old growth, landmark firs, our every other step had to be methodically placed. The entangled tripping hazards, uneven ground, discarded dead branches, and ankle- or knee-grabbing ground cover were wearing us down.

GPS Readings at Sighting. Research Purposes Only.
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We crunched noisily through the decaying forest litter as we wove our way through the strangling masses of vine maples. The beautiful autumn yellows of the big leaf and vine maples dotted the forest canopy, their fallen leafs beautifully lined our path. Very few of the vine maples reflected the scarlet reds found in the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bluff Creek footage, however. Those controversial reds worked their way into the ridiculous conspiracy and hoax theories of some researchers. Much like last September and October, the vine maples were still awaiting their first cold snap of the season to set the mood and change their colors. As it was, only a few had barely started their magical transition to their scarlet reds. We concluded that the film had to have been shot in late October, when Bob and Roger had said it was.

Tree Bore Data. Research Purposes Only.
Copyright Robert Leiterman and the Bluff Creek Film Site Project
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Both Steven Streufert and I, this time stood in front of what fit Ian’s description of the necessary “smoking tree” that would prove the site, the Big Tree notable in the background of frame 352 of the PG Film. After today’s 30 minutes of crawling up and down and around these hillside obstacles, Steven now seemed more convinced then I had ever seen him. Last October 9th Ian had joined us as we tromped through this particular alluvial flood plain searching for recognizable big trees, stumps, logs and debris piles. Outside of a few disagreements along the western edge of the site, for the most part, we had liked what we had seen. Ian, as always, remained skeptical. For the most part, though, this site had an assortment of stumps, logs, root balls and debris piles that appeared to be in the right places. Before us, like in every other potential film site candidate, lay a mix of second growth Douglas fir forest, ferns, moss covered logs and trees growing out of sand and gravel deposits from the devastating 1964 flood that altered the landscape in Northwestern California. Up on the hillside, though, above the flood level, it was different.

The Axis. Research Purposes Only.
Copyright Robert Leiterman and the Bluff Creek Film Site Project
CLICK TO ENLARGE. Note, the upper GPS is a mis-reading.

The site’s northern region remained relatively intact, groves of large old-growth Douglas firs were well entrenched along the hillside. To the east, the erosive power of Bluff Creek remained well within the rock confines of what we’ve been calling the “bowling alley”. Here the creek flows virtually directly north and south for a considerable distance, cutting a deep channel eight to ten feet below the eastern edge of the eroding site sandbar, before it slams into the canyon wall downstream. Here, Bluff creek is forced to take an immediate turn southwest and then west as it collides with the natural rock protected embankment of the canyon wall. From that point the creek has been eating away at the 1964 sand and gravel deposits for the last 47 years. All part of nature’s plan to find a balance.

Logs and Stumps. Research Purposes Only.
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It is the creek’s relentless action, the gravity-influenced flows that had many believing that the flow of water had virtually removed all signs of the historic P.G. Film Site. If fact it is those very processes that may have preserved this particular gravel bar. For lack of better explanation, we lucked out by having much of the bend in the creek protected.

“Hey, look at this…” the excitement was notable in Steven’s voice as he waved around his smart-phone flashing me the coveted photograph that Daniel Perez sent him with the understanding that he wasn’t allowed to share it with the public. “I’m pretty sure that these are the same ones.”

He’s right, the familiarity is obvious to this hungry, tired researcher. After spending the last year tromping up and down the three-plus miles of Bluff Creek with P.G. Film Site geeks he has a point. I felt my heart rate increase as well when I started to think about the significance.

*****

You’re wasting your time, the ghost voices drifts from the memories of earlier conversations with doubters.

In the color picture on the phone screen, three huge fir trees assumed the proper positions to be those seen in the 1967 film, still standing. To our left, adjacent to a large big leaf maple in full Autumn splendor, stood a huge fir with pock-marked bark, similar to the one described to us by Peter Byrne.

Check!

Almost in an direct easterly line, from left to right, approximately 32 feet away stood the second large fir in the lineup, The Middle Tree.

Check!

Just 14’away from the Middle Tree stood a thinner dead fir snag, its top laying on the hillside above it, almost entirely grown over with salal (low growing ground cover that produces edible blue berries in fall). The Spiky Snag… as seen in several old photographs, the secret Perez photo from 1977, as well as the 1971 over view photo taken by Rene Dahinden. It’s hard to know just how long ago the top had broken off and came to rest on the uphill portion of the slope.

Check!

And another… approximately 32 feet away, in an easterly direction, stood another huge fir with numerous broken, dead branches protruding in ladder-like “rungs,” out farther than two feet from the trunk as far up as the eye could see. This was the Ladder Tree, a very distinct feature in several of the old site photographs.

Check!

What was more, approximately 30 feet up-slope from the Big Tree, and well within a 70 foot radius of this unique cluster of trees was a large fir that leaned towards the Laddeer Tree. The Leaning Tree, a feature we’d noticed before. Now, that one even got me more excited.

But the film site is washed away… lost forever, the inner doubts say again. I keep the ghosts at bay.

You see, in the top right corner, behind what is being called the Middle Tree, in the overview photograph of the PG Film Site taken by Dahinden, is a large leaning fir. What were the odds that all of these features would line up together? Was it beyond coincidence? With tape in hand, per Bill Munns’ request, Steven and I scrambled across the hillside and measured the distances between the three main trees. Even more striking, the whole scene also slopes off to the right, giving the areas similarities to the frame 352 shot found on page 58 of Christopher Murphy’s book, Meet the Sasquatch.

How could this all be mere coincidence? Did this means that the big trees weren’t cut down as thought by so many, or that the film site hadn’t all been washed away by the meandering creed as believed by most researchers? Does this mean that Peter Byrne, M.K. Davis, Christopher Murphy, and all the others were misinformed about the PG Film Site location? Did National Geographic get it wrong when they landed their helicopter on the wrong film site? Sorry Christopher Murphy. Did Animal Planets’ Finding Bigfoot get it right (at least finding the gravel bar in front of the film site)?

My night alone on the film site proved uneventful; there were no unexplained sounds in the night, and no mysterious visitors, despite the game trail that passed near my camp. Maybe they decided to let me rest in peaceful slumber. I find it interesting that some people still ask us if we have ever found any evidence of Bigfoot up there. I wish I could say we had. Out of all of my trips over the last two seasons in the Bluff Creek area, the only strange encounter I have to share was my hearing a muffled conversation from an adjacent feeder creek adjoining Bluff. It was late afternoon and I was hiking the creek back alone, working my way the three miles back to Louse Camp from a long day of investigating the proposed film sites. My hasty follow-up investigation found no one around.

Solitude makes you think. Spending my last night on the film site for this 2011 season had my mind racing. I thought about the time I had spent away from my family, about taking the kids trick-or-treating the night I’d get back, what the results of our project would mean, the friends who’ve supported and assisted me (and the ones who hadn’t) on this journey. I couldn’t help but wonder what dominated Patterson’s and Gimlin’s thoughts that day back in 1967 and the days that followed.

They did the impossible. They filmed a supposedly legendary creature in an isolated canyon on Bluff Creek. Roger didn’t choke when it was show time. Gimlin didn’t shoot the creature out of fear. They were even able to stay clear, make the right choices, follow the tracks, pour the casts and cover some of the remaining track evidence to be recorded later. They safely made it out of the canyon before a major storm trapped them. They had been in the right place at the right time. Were they gifted, or cursed, by the spirits of the canyon? Only they would know. One thing I’m sure of, both of their lives were forever changed. So were ours.

I thought about the film site itself. How at one time, October 20, 1967, Bluff Creek had been a known landmark. How by the mid-1980s it was just another place to read about. How people like Rene Dahinden and Daniel Perez fought to keep the memories from fading, but couldn’t keep nature from changing the place over time. They couldn’t keep the facts in fading memories from disappearing, or the public’s interest from being drawn elsewhere. I wondered if they themselves had forgotten the exact gravel bar, assuming that nature had already dealt her hand and had taken back the gift. They thought that just pointing to a bend in the river was good enough. It isn’t and will never be good enough. To truly understand the significance of that day, one needs to talk the talk and walk the walk. You need to smell the trees, drink the water, and experience the autumn splendor. I had truly feared that the P.G. Film Site was in danger of being erased from memory, absorbed back into the forest, to be lost forever as a real, known location. I’d like to think what we have attempted to discover and document has made a difference, somehow.

The big trees, the leaning tree, they all seemed to point the finger in the right direction. Were these Ian’s “smoking trees”? For me, the answers were not in how the frames in the P.G. Film matched what we saw before us. It wasn’t just in the memory of a man whose life had been changed forever by what he had witnessed. Yes, those were all important connectors, but I needed to understand, I needed to make the connection my way. For me, it was also about bringing the past in line with the present. I needed to compare the Dahinden 1971 aerial with our film site grid of today. I needed to be sure… I needed to double check our grid map… I needed to confirm the ages of those trees….

October 31^st 2011. I got up at first light. I continued our project alone in the peacefulness of the morning. I cored and measured trees, completed and double-checked the grids for accuracy. I tried my best to video tape the process. I even focused on detailing and mapping all of the tall stump areas, which later proved to be a good call. When I was finished, I packed up my camp and hiked back up to my vehicle. I could hardly wait to update the grid map when I got home.

You could imagine my excitement when I was finally able to compare my finalized grid map with the 1971 overview photo taken by Rene Dahinden. Despite Steven’s encouragement, I had been holding out on my opinion until I could compare the two. At first I thought it was coincidence, but then item by item, it all started to match up within reason and beyond randomness. Questioning my own judgment, I asked several others. Every one of them thought there were big similarities. One individual even questioned what the odds were that a forested gravel bar would have this many similarities to the gridded map we had created. One even asked why I had drawn a map of Dahinden’s 1971 over view photograph, and was surprised to hear that the map was of a gravel bar rediscovered 40 years later. Even Bill Munns was excited about our map and site discovery.

Some skepticism remained, though. When Steven e-mailed Ian our most recent gridded map and asked to compare it with the 1971 overview, Ian (who hadn’t been able to be there on our last site trips) wasn’t convinced that they were necessarily from the same location. Always the stickler he insisted that the similarities might have been coincidences. Well, stranger things have happened in the universe. He still feels that the elusive P.G. Film Site might still located either in between the M.K. Davis and the Peter Byrne sites, or tucked in just down river from Dahinden’s X-marked spot. He still looks for the smoking tree. I have the feeling we will be back out there again next year to take another look. I still need to finish the southwestern corner of our grid map. There are a couple of root balls, the size of a room, within a stone’s throw of the film site that needs some attention. I guess the question we need to ask is … How much change do we really expect to see in 40-plus years? Compare the map and the overview and see for yourself. Did we nail it or are we just fooling ourselves? Did the haze from the smoking tree get in our eyes?

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With that said I still found the similarities quite uncanny. They are as follow (see the comparative image):

The “V” shaped logs near the big log to the east.

Match?

The pattern of logs around the two taller stumps (the detailed map of this decaying log pile proved to come in handy) had several matches. Though some of the logs were missing or rotten away, more than four of them were still there where they should have been.

Possible match?

Several of the larger stumps on the eastern portion of the grid map matched positions with the overview. Though not every stump drawn in the grid map was accounted for, some of those could have been covered by young trees, sand, and vegetation. Not a perfect match but definitely a congregation of similar stump patterns.

Possible match?

On the far eastern edge, a decaying log with extended branches, very similar to one that can be seen in the 1971 overview. When liked up in relation to other artifact the directions match.

Possible match?

An assortment of log and debris found about the same location as others.

Possible?

Bigger root balls located in the same locations along the southern edge.

Possible?

Two clusters of stumps in the northwestern grid that match the overview.

Possible?

There is a cluster of 4 larger firs in the alluvial flat that virtually match in the western portion of the grid. Only one tree on the north end isn’t accounted for. But there is a stump in its place on the grid map. Could the bottom tree that looks dead be a snag now on the grid map?

Possible?

Then there is the combination of the Big, Middle, and the Ladder trees to the north the combination Steven so favors. The snag near the middle tree on the overview matches the one in the grid map.

Possible?

And the most unusual for me is the leaning tree that is near the Big Tree and Middle Tree. There is a leaning tree in the overview and a leaning tree on our grid map. Could they be one in the same? What are the odds of that?

Possible?

One item by itself is possibly coincidence. Four similar items in themselves… luck. What would a couple of dozen be? Is it time to play the lotto? When you orient all the artifacts together, they all appear to be where they are supposed to. Sometimes finding the answers to the questions isn’t always as complicated as we make them out to be.

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A special thanks to Steven Streufert, Ian, Rip Lyttle, and Rowdy Kelly for their contributions of time and effort to this project, I could not have done it without you all.

You can follow our hands-on, boots-on-the-ground quest for the P.G. Film Site, started last September 2010, with our video documentary series, The Bluff Creek Film Site Project, as well as others projects edited and produced by yours truly, Robert Leiterman. The ongoing project may be viewed on the Bigfoot Field Research Organization (B.F.R.O.) YouTube Channel. For the deeply inquisitive, there are 45 episodes from the 2010 seasonal effort with more to follow from our 2011 Film Site work as well.

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CURRICULUM BIGFOOT VITAE

Robert Leiterman a graduate from Humboldt State University with a BA in Recreation Administration and minor in Natural Resources has been a Field Researcher with the BFRO since November 1999. He organized the first public BFRO Expedition in May of 2004 and has assisted with 18 others through 2011. Since 2009 he has been documenting numerous video related projects, several of them for the BFRO on their BFRO You Tube Channel. His current project, Season Two of Journey of Rediscovery The Bluff Creek Film Site Project documents their journey of locating the P.G. Film Site. He is currently a park ranger on California’s North Coast. His unique experiences and his vivid imagination has inspired him to share the richness of the North Coast environment in educational, but yet entertaining way through numerous articles and several books. He enjoys being with his family, spending time in the outdoors and squatching.

Bigfoot Related Activity:

Presenter: BF symposiums
Bigfootbooksblog.blogspot.com @ Discovery Museum Bigfoot Discovery Day 4 October 15th through October 17th 2010. Reconyx Adventure Four Seasons.

Presenter @ Willow Creek Symposium Friday September 12th 2003-Bigfoot talk. BFRO

Published Author: Books by Robert Leiterman
Published Juvenile Fictional trilogy on Bigfoot:

(the links go to Amazon, where you may buy Robert's books)

The Bigfoot Mystery the Adventure Begins
ISBN: 0-595-14175-7 iUniverse (2000)

Yeti or not Here we come! Bigfoot in the Redwoods
ISBN: 0-595-26561-8 iUniverse (2003)

Operation Redwood Quest Search For Answers
ISBN: 0-595-30513-X iUniverse (2003)

Other Fictional books by Author Robert Leiterman
Óna Crainn An Ancient Secret – From the Trees
iUniverse (February 2012)

Either One Way or The Otter
ISBN-13: 978-0-595-38218-7 iUniverse (2006)

GOJU QUEST-A Martial Artist’s Journey
ISBN: 0-595-34185-3 iUniverse (2005)

Great Valley Grassland Adventure
ISBN: 0-595-20302-7 iUniverse (2001)

Other articles on the BFRO and other newsletters: written by Robert Leiterman
BFRO The Grasshopper Peak Trail Follow Up.
www.bfro.net/REF/FIELDRES/rnagerrobert.htm
www.bluenorth.com/RangerRobert.htm
Round The Campfire Bigfoot Times-Studies Center for Bigfoot Sept 1999 Issue.
Rangers doing B.F. related Campfires.

BFRO The Bigfoot Stigmata.
www.bfro.net/leiterman/stigmata.htm
www.bluenorth.com/stigmata.htm
BFRO Bigfoot Rock Art.
www.bfro.net/leiterman/bigfoot-rock.htm
Article related to: www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?ArticleID=902
Bigfoot Behind the Redwood Curtain.
California Department of Parks and Recreation News and Views Spring 2003 http://intranet index.htm
BFRO Sierra Snow Mounds. www.bfro.net/news/roundup/sierras_2005_snow_mounds.asp
www.bigfootforums.com/index.php?showtopic=21099&mode=threaded&pid=425091
Public Discussion Forum:
S2.excoboard.com/exco/thread.php?forumid=150505

Making of the Bigfoot Ranger.
The Redwood Current-North Coast Redwoods District Newsletter Fall 2007- California State Parks

BFRO Rangers’ Proposal for use of Reconyx RC60 Cameras. BFRO Website December 2008
www.bfro.net/avevid/leiterman/RobertReport.htm

Putting a Road to Bed Bigfoot Times-Studies Center for Bigfoot October 2010 issue.
Also on Bigfootbooksblog.blogspot.com (search under Leiterman)

Saturday December 17th 2011
Bluff Creek Film Site Project, Journey of Rediscovery … guest bloger on Bigfoot’s blog
Bigfootbooksblog.blogspot.com

Articles mentioned:
News Letters: (mentioned within)
BFRO Website wrote article about The Video I produced on the North Coast Trail - skunk video March 2011 Unknown web address
The Bigfoot Times: www.bigfoottimes.net
Bigfoot Meets-Discovery day 4 guest speaker- Bigfoot Times-Studies Center for Bigfoot Sept. 2010 issue

Bigfoot Discovery Newsletter:
www.bigfootdiscoveryproject.comNovember18,2007volume3Number7.pdf.
www.bigfootdiscoveryproject.comMay21,2006volume2Number1.pdf.
www.bigfootdiscoveryproject.com/newsletters/vol3No9.pdf
Follow-up Alton report-Bogus- Bigfoot Times-Studies Center for Bigfoot October 1999 issue
Reports- Alton Report-Bigfoot Times-Studies Center for Bigfoot Aug. 1999 issue

Book Stuff-Penning The Bigfoot Mystery Bigfoot Times-Studies Center for Bigfoot May 1998 issue

Orange County Register- interviewed during BFRO Fall 2007. Sierra Nevada California-Northern Sierras-Auburn November 1st through 4th 2007.
www.ocregister.com/news/bigfoot-bigfoot-field-1936583-researchers-organization

Blogs: (mentioned or written)
Saturday December 17th 2011
Bluff Creek Film Site Project, Journey of Rediscovery … guest bloger on Bigfoot’s blog
Bigfootbooksblog.blogspot.com (search under Leiterman)

Thursday November 17th. 2011
Patterson-Gimlin film site Rediscovered … and documented. The Bluff Creek Film Site Project Reaches Preliminary Conclusion re. the location of the True PGF Site.
Bigfootbooksblog.blogspot.com 2010 Bluff Creek Film Site Project (search under Leiterman)

Northamericanbigfoot.blogspot.com:
Northamericanbigfoot.blogspot.com/…/friends-cookies-and-wackos.html

Radio shows: (interviewed)
MNBRT m.blogtalkradio.com mnbrt Jan 3rd 20011 with Steven Streufert, Ian Carton and hosts.

Shane McMahon & Vic Cundiff’s Campfire Shadows Blog Talk Radio Feed & Pod Cast.com---September 9th 2009…..With guest Bart Cutino

www.blogtalkradio.com/campfire_Shadows/2009/09/10tba

Shane McMahon & Vic Cundiff’s Campfire Shadows Blog Talk Radio Feed & Pod Cast.com---July 29th 2009…With guest Mike Ray
www.blogtalkradio.com/campfire_Shadows/2009/07/30tba

Stan Courtney 48 in 08 interviewed Bart Cutino and myelf on the shore of Howard Lake BFRO Expedition North Coast California-Mendocino-Yolly Bolley- Expedition April 30th through May 5th 2008. www.stancourtney.com/wordpress/category/48-in-08/
www.stancourtney.com/wordpress/2008/page/2/

Video Productions: 62 uploaded to YouTube videos (11-2009 through 4-1-2011)

NOTE: the following videos may be found at

http://www.youtube.com/user/bigfootbooks

under Favorite Videos, or hosted on the BFRO YouTube page

Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 46 Season Two (December 2011)
North Coast Part 2 (March 2011)
North Coast Part 1 (March 2011)
Bear Facts (March 2011)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 45 Season One
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 44 Season One
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 43
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 42
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 41
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 40
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 39
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 38
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 37
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 36
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 35- investigation General Consensus Film Site # (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 34- investigation General Consensus Film Site # (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 33- investigation Hillside General Consensus Film Site # (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 32- investigation Hillside General Consensus Film Site Hillside approach # 1 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 31- investigation Road put to bed Hillside General Consensus Film Site # (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 30- investigation M.K. Davis # 6 to camp Film Site # (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 29- investigation M.K. Davis # 5 Film Site # (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 28- investigation Christopher Murphy # 8 & Gen Consensus # 6 Film Site # (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 27- investigation Christopher Murphy # 7 & Gen. Consensus # 5 Film Site # (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 26- investigation Murphy Film Site # 6 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 25-orientation M.K. Davis Film Site # 4 Byrnes # 6 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 24-old Bluff Creek Road # 4 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 23-A.H Film Site orientation # 1 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 22-old Bluff Creek Road # 3 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 21-evening discussion # 2 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 20-evening discussion # 1 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 19-orientation Peter Byrne Film Site # 1 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 18-orientation M.K. Davis Film Site # 3 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 17-orientation M.K. Davis Film Site # 2 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 16-orientation M.K. Davis Film Site # 1 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 15-old Bluff Creek Road M.K. Davis Area (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 14-old Bluff Creek Road # 1 (10-08-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 13- investigation # 9 Gen consensus # 4 (09-18-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 12- investigation # 8 Gen consensus # 3 Barackman (09-18-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 11- investigation # 7 Gen consensus # 2 (Perez-Barackman) (09-18-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 10- investigation # 6 Murphy # 4 & Gen. Consensus (Perez) # 1 (09-18-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 9- investigation # 5 Murphy # 3 (09-18-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 8- investigation # 4 Murphy # 2 (09-18-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 7- investigation # 3 Byrnes # 3 & Murphy # 1 (09-18-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 6- investigation # 2 Byrnes # 2 (09-18-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Part 5- investigation # 1 Rd. Byrnes # 1 (09-18-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Creek Access Part-4 (09-15-2010)
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Bluff Creek Film intro Part 3 09-15-2010
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Bluff Creek Film intro Part 2 09-15-2010
Bluff Creek Film Site Project Bluff Creek Film intro Part 1 09-15-2010(Season One)
Reconyx Adventure Part 4 Winter through Spring
Reconyx Adventure Part 3 Autumn
Reconyx Adventure Part 2 Summer
Reconyx Adventure Part 1 Spring
North Coast B.F. Trip- Vocalization # 3 no music
North Coast B.F. Trip- Vocalization # 3
North Coast B.F. Trip- Vocalization # 2 no music
North Coast B.F. Trip- Vocalization # 2
North Coast B.F. Trip- Vocalization # 1 no music
North Coast B.F. Trip- Vocalization
Bluff Creek Area Research no music
Bluff Creek Area Research

Wenatchee Part-4 no music
Wenatchee Part-4 with music
Bart Cutino Sighting- daylight recreation no music
Bart Cutino Sighting- daylight recreation
Discovery day – Bigfoot The Living Legend
Wenatchee Part-2 Paul music
Wenatchee Part-2 with music
Wenatchee National Forest Part 1 no music
Wenatchee National Forest Part 1 with music

Artwork produced:
“Hairy man”-Yokut Cave painting transcribed onto sand stone. Displayed at the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton CA. Put on display 2008.

For your entertainment check out the below article from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Pirates of the Eel sfgate.into/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2003/03/09/…DTL

I have given 120 formal talks to 5,037 people on the Bigfoot Subject Matter from 1999 through end of 2011

--Robert Leiterman

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

Forest People Friends? Bah, humbug! First there tree hugger, now there Bigfoot hugger? Out of my way, hu-man! Yuk! Me no time for this sentimental crap.

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This blog is copyright and all that jazz, save for occasional small elements borrowed for "research" and information or satirical purposes only, 2011, Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert. Borrowings for non-commercial purposes will be tolerated without the revenge of Angry Bigfoot, if notification, credit, citation and a kindly web-link are given, preferably after contacting us and saying, Hello, like a normal person would before taking a cup of salt. No serious rip-offs of our material for vulgar commercial gain will be tolerated without major BF stomping action coming down on you, hu-man.

PATTERSON-GIMLIN FILM SITE REDISCOVERED... and DOCUMENTED. The BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT Reaches Preliminary Conclusions re. the Location of the True PGF Site.

2011-11-17T02:57:00.000-08:00

BIGFOOT'S BLOG
Mid-November 2011 Edition

Site Survey Draft 3 compared to a page from Christopher Murphy's book
showing the 1971 PGF site "aerial" photo. Red marks show I think very
clearly that a high level of correspondence exists between features found
on the site today and in 1967.
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW IN MEDIUM SIZE.
Map and marks COPYRIGHT Robert Leiterman, Bluff Creek Film Site Project.

THIS IS THE TRUE PGF SITE.

After four years of investigation, two seasons of serious on-site research and filming, having looked into this mystery of geography and history since 2001, I am very, very convinced that we have finally found and documented the site of the filming of the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film in Bluff Creek. Though the proof is not officially final and professionally analyzed yet, and one member of our team still has some reservations (this is Ian, who was unable to attend this year's work on the site save for one appearance before our site survey work was begun), we have found enough correspondence to offer this to the world with very high certainty that we have indeed found the site and are able to show it.

The November 1st corrected and revised map, drawn by Robert Leiterman.
Copyright. Right Click to Enlarge and Save, for Research Only Please.

Large, half-size image of our map, drawn by Robert Leiterman and copyright.
Right Click to Enlarge and Save, for Research Only Please.

Large, half-size image of the 1971 (or '72) Dahinden "aerial" shot, matched
with our map. Red pen features drawn by Robert Leiterman and copyright.
Right Click to Enlarge and Save, for Research Only Please.

We did a full (though admittedly a bit amateur) survey grid of the site on the upper sandbar of what we'd been calling the "General Consensus Site Area." Having ruled out so many other untenable "theories" of where the site was, we had determined to give this area good, full and true look. The upper sandbar was the only spot that even came close to having the features found in the film, despite its modern-day appearance as a temperate jungle. This summer we'd found that the lower sandbar area did not match our current information, and ruled it out. However, on the upper area we found a very large tree, one that bore an uncanny likeness to the one seen the the PGF. This last month we determined a true north-south axis from the spot Gimlin had noted as that of the first sighting, and then gridded out the entire sandbar in ten-yard increments, noting all features found in those grids. Lacking Ian, we found Rowdy Kelly, whom we had met during the filming of the Animal Planet series, to be of immeasurable help and film intelligence. This data, all of the older features found on-site, along with the big trees in back and the creek position, was then translated onto a to-scale ten-foot per square map by Robert Leiterman. Folks, this is the PGF site.

The Big Tree, directly north of the Gimlin first sighting spot on our grid map.
It sits right on the sandbar level, and is the biggest tree in the area.
Note that it bears a large number of woodpecker holes, as recalled by Peter Byrne.
Photo by Steven Streufert, 2011. See very top of map grid for location.

Comparative image from the BFF, my photo is from an angle
slightly to the right.

Some, such as MK Davis, have made claims to the contrary over the years since the 1977 Rene Dahinden/Barbara Wasson/Walter Leeds photos were taken. They are wrong. These photos, provided to us by Daniel Perez (not publishable here until we finally get his permission to do so) are the last images that we have been able to find showing the site recognizably before it became an overgrown jungle of new forest. Since then, no one has to our knowledge demonstrated the location of features readily seen in these images and in the film from 1967. Many have tried to show the location on Google Earth, with flawed GPS coordinates, and photos on web sites and in books that bear no resemblance at all to the site as it was in 1967. We, in the course of our studies on-site, were able to rule out all the sites proposed by other researchers, save for one, the area identified by Bob Gimlin to James "Bobo" Fay, first told of to us by Cliff Barackman. This is the spot marked by Rene Dahinden on Daniel Perez' map.

Detail of 1971 photo showing the site before it became an overgrown jungle.
These stumps and large logs are still to be found on-site. We documented
all of them that could be found.

Big Trees cluster detail. Note the leaning tree behind the middle tree, as well
as the spiky snag beside, both still present and documented on-site today.

Rene's "X" in Daniel Perez' booklet BIGFOOT AT BLUFF CREEK.
The compass shows magnetic north, explaining again the diagonal course
of the film action across the sandbar area.

It was not, ironically, the site chosen by Daniel and others present on the general site area in 2003, with the group from the Willow Creek International Bigfoot Symposium. At that event NO ONE could agree. Christopher Murphy published images of the wrong location in his books, John Green could not recognize the site at all, even Bob Gimlin had trouble remembering it, so changed was the appearance of the vegetation in the creekbed. At the end of that trip, however, Gimlin turned to James Fay and said, "This is the spot, Bobo. This is where we first saw her." He had recognized the canyon walls, and settled in his mind that he was in the right spot. Still, no one could agree; and at that point no one could walk up and touch the true "Big Tree" of the film. Well, finally, we have.

Middle Tree and what is left of the "spiky snag" fir, missing its top.
Note how the tree on left sits higher on the hill, as in the image below.
Photo by Steven Streufert, October 30th, 2011.

Frame 352, showing the Big Tree, the yellow-leafed maple, the middle tree,
the "spiky snag" and then the "ladder tree," from left to right

The "spiky snag," "ladder tree," and background tree clusters.
Photo by Steven Streufert, October 30th, 2011.

Crucially, we came to realilze, someone had to find the big trees as seen in the film; but not only that, given the long endurance of stumps and large logs on the ground, one should be able to locate those as well. Many, during the course of our investigation, uttered assumptions such as "You should be looking for stumps of those trees, not the trees themselves." Well, we found that the last logging that had been done in the actual creekbed of Bluff Creek in the area where the film was shot was done after the 1964 flood, salvage work conducted in 1965 and 1966. Investigating, we found clear signs of this, with old stumps still there in the ground since that time. No site, however, had the stumps in the right configuration, along with the big, old-growth Douglas fir trees as seen in the film itself, save the upper sandbar of what we've been calling the General Consensus Site. Due to a couple of observations this summer I, with Robert Leiterman, was able to ascertain that the lower and middle sandbar area simply did not match new information and images that we had received since our first season of investigations the previous year. We set our sites on finalizing our site investigations, and finally spending enough time on that overgrown upper sandbar to measure and document it properly.

The so-called "ladder tree," still showing its retained lower branches, not
a common trait in old-growth Douglas fir.
Photo by Steven Streufert, October 30th, 2011.

The same tree, in 1972, with the "spiky
snag" to its left.

Having had Bob Gimlin return to the site this last summer and reconfirm his 2003 feelings about the location added fuel to our suspicions that he might just be right, even after all of these 44 years since the filming. Then the digital site model work of Bill Munns came in, and my mental image of the site and camera perspective in the film was changed forever. Like an epiphany, old images of the film site fell away, and we were able to look at it as it really was. The camera position had changed greatly during the course of the film, as did that of the moving subject. We realized that the film was shot diagonally ACROSS the sandbar, and it was a moving viewpoint that one sees in the film. It was not as if within a square box, as Christopher Murphy's fine but limited site model diorama represented. One had to overcome the optical illusions of camera perspective and film image flattening. At one point MK Davis published a completely incorrect image with lines drawn to represent the film perspective from Frame 352 superimposed upon the 1971 Rene Dahinden "aerial" photo of the site. I was able, with knowledge of the site, and a little common sense (I am certainly not a "film expert"), to draw in the proper perspective lines (as seen below).

The Incorrect Perspective as represented (and later retracted) by MK Davis.

Perspective corrected by Steven Streufert. Image overlay altered by MKD,
upon Rene Dahinden's original 1971 "aerial" photo of the known PGF site.
Confirmed by Bill Munns.
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE.

Bill Munns, film professional and PGF researcher, fully confirmed this understanding. Hence, we were ready to return to the site with a new mental image. And lo, upon returning to the site with my daughter during the summer, I was able to look to and consider trees way off to the "right hand" side of the site as true and viable candidates for the "Big Trees." We had written off these trees in the past, as they seemed way too far east of the main action of the film, considering the location of the creek and the size of the sandbar. Given our new understanding, it was very clear to me that this site WAS indeed big enough. All we needed was 400 feet from sighting to the end of the film, about 300 feet of actual film action, and that was readily apparent as possible within this spot (and was confirmed by our grid map). Conferring with Robert and Rowdy Kelly, it was decided we would return to the site and not only measure these rough distances, but also do as accurate an amateur survey, grid and map as we could. The map images seen in this blog entry were done from our initial ten-yard grid and flagging work, done with a correct north compass reading for each square, translated into a ten-foot per square map describing the older items present on the sandbar, things that could plausibly have been present in the 1967 film. We were, in effect, removing the new-growth forest, and were able at last to "see the trees from the forest." We were stunned at what we found.

Bill Munns' digital site recreation, as seen in screen captures from his
YouTube presentation. These were derived solely from data contained in
the film itself, showing the curious starting point and creek position that
has puzzled seekers of the site for decades.

The animation by Munns showing the postion of Frame 352 against the
background trees, with the subject paralleling the creek.

The later part of the film as depicted by Munns. Note how much the positions
of both subject and cameraman have changed through the process of this film.

When Leiterman took the data home and made two drafts of the map, we saw that nearly every major stump and debris pile we marked as presently on-site could be found in the 1971 Dahinden "aerial" shot. It was simply too much confirmation to be coincidence. The first line we drew in the survey was a direct north axis from the claimed Gimlin first sighting spot. this course led directly to a cluster of old trees, and most notably the biggest darn fir we had found up there at the creek level. Upon consideration, with the photos of the film site in hand, we found the middle tree, the "ladder tree," the spiky fir snag seen between them still standing though with a broken top. Many other features were found. The scales of history fell from my eyes and I was able to clearly see: this WAS the spot. So, we finished our grid, marked out all that remains on the site, and now we feel that we will soon be ready to show more or less exactly where the creature in the film walked, and where Roger Patterson, ran, stumbled, stabilized and filmed the subject.

The sloping hillside behind the big trees, letting the light come through.
Photo by Steven Streufert, October 30th, 2011.

The same feature as seen in the 1972 Dahinden photo.

Bill Munns has our full data set and images. Much of this has been posted by me on the Bigfoot Forums (BFF), in the Munns Report thread, under "Film," and the "Patterson-Gimlin Film" subcategory. While he is busy on a job, we await his professional analysis. Should anyone out there with professional qualification wish to aid us in truly confirming and proving that this is the actual site, we'd be happy to establish a working exchange wherein the full, high-resolution images of our map and map details, complete with measurements and GPS coordinates will be provided. We don't want to "own" this data, but rather are eager to share it with the world. We are hoping that professional analysis will be undeniable and FINAL, at last proving the site location and verifying this special spot on the earth for all of time and history into the future.

Stumps and old sawed log debris, remnants
of the 1964 flood and post-flood salvage logging,
as may be seen in the PGF. Still there today.
Photo by Steven Streufert, October, 2011.

Stumps that were there when Patty walked, still there today. These are the
sort of durable features that we sought to place on our survey map.
Photo by Robert Leiterman and copyright.

One thing I'd like to say: BOB GIMLIN WAS RIGHT.

Gimlin on the first sighting area, with Finding Bigfoot cast.
From promotional trailer.

Next time on this blog we will have a lengthy guest blogger appearance by BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT member and videographer, ROBERT LEITERMAN. He has written a fine piece on the whole process of our "Journey of Re-Discovery," and the frustrations, excitement, controversies and fascinations all along the way. This blog entry today is just the first step, the tip of the iceberg, in revealing all of the data we have gathered.

Bill Munns' PRELIMINARY study based on our first generation grid map.
CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Another Munns' PRELIMINARY study based on our first generation grid map.
CLICK TO ENLARGE.

We would like to thank especially Bob Gimlin, Cliff Barackman, James Bobo Fay, Daniel Perez, Christopher Murphy, John Green, Jim McClarin, Thomas Steenburg, Peter Byrne, Rip Lyttle and Al Hodgson for their help along the way in this research. Thanks to Tom Yamarone and Scott McClean, too, for being the ones who first showed me how to use 12N13H to access the PGF site (else I'd have been lost on Lonesome Ridge Road!). Also, we'd like to extend a full, spitty raspberry to Mr. M.K. Davis, who was of no help whatsoever, would not provide us with his claimed site location, and who generally has spread more mystification and stupefaction than knowledge on the PGF since he veered from his fine original work. Also, to Bobbie Short, sorry, but you were just plain wrong, but it would have been nice to have that map you promised us. Oh well. To all the anonymous commentators along the way, thanks for your input, too.

Old firs, to right of PGF big trees.
Photo by Steven Streufert, October 30th, 2011.

A full new set of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT videos will appear soon on YouTube. We'll have the links for you here, and through the blog's Facebook wall. These videos will not number up to 45 like the last set, so tune in to see all the things described here and in the maps we've made as they are now, on the ground, in reality and not in myth and human imagination.

Leiterman's camp, right about where Patterson filmed Frame 352.
Photo by Steven Streufert, October 30th, 2011.

The "jungle" of the film site, right in front of the "Big Tree."
Here is Robert shooting the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT videos.
Photo by Steven Streufert, October, 2011.

(Click the link above or the one below to view all the previous videos we've done on the Bigfoot Books YouTube page. Look under "Favorites" and "See All.")

Best to all ,
Steven Streufert,
Bigfoot Books, Bigfoot's bLog, Willow Creek

Vine maples, the source of the red color seen in the PGF, still not turned red,
and this on October 30th. So, naysayers, how was it that there was red in the
film if it wasn't shot in mid to late October, or even later?

Autumn on the hill behind the PGF big trees.
Some orange-ish red starting to show.
Photo by Steven Streufert, 2011.

PS--Mr. Marlon Keith Davis, in obvious response to our work, has posted a blog trying (futilely) to make the case for his utterly incorrect film site. Read it HERE.

Here is my response to him:
"Au contraire, MK. We have found the true site, upstream from your location. The proving is ongoing, but the documentation is done. We surveyed and gridded out the sandbar and found not only all the main trees, but also the majority of old stumps and aging log debris piles. What is more, we have made our grid map starting at the very spot Gimlin himself identified in 2003 and again this summer. Having pursued this since 2001, and living near the locality of the filming, I am hardly a "debutante." Not one "expert" has, in our lengthy investigation, been able to identify extant landmarks as seen in the film. Now we have, and there is no doubt remaining."

Measurements taken by Robert Leiterman and Steven Streufert on-site.
These show the distances between the big trees, with spiky snag, bent
maple, middle and ladder trees and leaning tree in back.
CLICK TO ENLARGE. Drawing is Copyright Robert Leiterman.

EXPLORE FURTHER: There is much on the BFF through this link to the... Munns Report Thread. We've been working with Bill on this, and he has allowed us to post some preliminary analysis here. The images above were done using the uncorrected first draft of our site grid map. Robert Leiterman has since refined, confirmed and in minor ways corrected the map to the versions seen above. As I said above, we are currently working with Bill, but we will consider a working relationship in the future with anyone out there who would like to work with our images and data.

James "Bobo" Fay, a vital link in the PGF site rediscovery process, is seen
here walking in front of the Bluff Creek sandbar. They filmed their recreation
there as they could not get good lighting for the cameras up on the actual
film track-way location. Bobo knows this, but its what you have to do for TV.
(I think this image came from the Finding Bigfoot video, but if you took it,
do notify me and I'll give credit.)

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In case your didn't see it, "Bigfoot Books" and myself appeared on a recent episode of FINDING BIGFOOT on Animal Planet. Here is a video clip of that segment someone made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2jY-djy-xA

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

Me glad hu-man finally learn to look, like hu-man Sherlock Holmes, and find one real place in woods. Me tire of trying to trick them and them lead to wrong spot. Me think now that they done, a Sasquatch might get some peace and quiet at my Bluff Creek home.

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This blog is copyright and all that jazz, save for occasional small elements borrowed for "research" and information or satirical purposes only, 2011, Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert, with some images copyright strictly by Robert Leiterman. Borrowings for non-commercial RESEARCH purposes will be tolerated without the revenge of Angry Bigfoot, if citation and a kindly web-link are given, preferably after contacting us and saying, Hello, like a normal person would before taking a cup of salt. No serious rip-offs of our material for vulgar commercial gain will be tolerated without major BF stomping action coming down on you, hu-man.

"FINDING BIGFOOT" All Over the Place in Willow Creek, Lunch with BOB GIMLIN and AL HODGSON, The Filming of "Birth of a Legend." THE UNEXPURGATED VERSION

2011-10-31T16:09:00.000-07:00

Rogues Gallery at the Museum: James Fay, Bob Gimlin, Al Hodgson,
Tom Yamarone, Cliff Barackman and Steven Streufert.
Photo snapped by a crew member whose name we didn't catch.

BIGFOOT'S BLOG
Mid-Late August 2011 Edition,
Updated for Late October...
and RESTORED

NOTE: This is an older blog entry that we decided to expurgate so as not to get my friend, Bobo, into any trouble with his Animal Planet employers. The producers felt that this blog had revealed too much about what went on during the production of the show, and was giving away its secrets. I took those parts out of it, not so much for fear of a massive lawsuit from the Network, but really just for our friends on the show. NOW we may speak. I've got a ton of other stuff from the nearly two weeks the FINDING BIGFOOT crew spent up here in the Willow Creek area, and you'll see much of that here on this blog. For now, suffice to say it was a wild time, indeed. Bob Gimlin's return to the film site was a highlight, and helped us in the Bluff Creek Film Site Project focus in on the area we've been seeing as the most promising. Let me just say it now: BOB WAS RIGHT.

It is very weird to see one's friends on TV. It is even weirder seeing oneself on there! More on that coming up soon. The new season's episode aired last night on Animal Planet, and so far has gotten really good reviews. Kudos, guys, and gal! Personally, I saw it right after I rolled in to Hoopa, at the local casino, after a busy afternoon at the Bluff Creek Film site with Ranger Robert Leiterman. I could barely hear the episode due to the jingle-jangling of slot machines, but it was fun nonetheless to see it with the real Locals.

And, by the way, we have REDISCOVERED the PATTERSON-GIMLIN FILM SITE, or so it seems, and we have documented it. Yes, that means we have found the big trees and the stumps, and will almost certainly be able to re-trace the creature's track-way as in the film. That news is going to be coming out slowly here on this blog. I've also been posting on the MUNNS REPORT thread on the BIGFOOT FORUMS. It looks absolutely certain, to me anyway, that we have indeed found the site. So, stay tuned for yet more BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. (See under "Favorites" through this link.) It should be said here and now that the film crew were on the right spot, as identified by Bob Gimlin, but the recreation shown in the show was done down on the gravel bar edge of the creek for better filming. The ACTUAL film site is back on the elevated sand bar BEHIND where you see Bobo walking. That is not the true track-way of the creature seen in the PGF.

For now, read on with this little blast from the past....

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This sleepy little hamlet of Willow Creek often bustles with Squatching enthusiasts, but the last month or so has been simply ridiculous. What Mecca is to Islam, what Jerusalem is to those other religions, this place seems to be for Bigfooters. On top of the usual parade of Bigfoot-interested tourists, the BFRO came to town to hold an expedition up in Bluff Creek, and then another down in the coast redwoods area. After that the four stars of Animal Planet's FINDING BIGFOOT came knocking on our door, trailing behind them a vast retinue of camera people, boom mikes, lighting arrays, producers, location scouts, managers and a large U-Haul trailer. The Bigfoot Motel read "No Vacancy" for nearly two weeks, and the townsfolk woke up again to the fact that they are, indeed, living in the "Gateway to Bigfoot Country," whether or not they even care for a moment about the hirsute legend.

Bob and me at the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum.

BREAKING NEWS!:

BOB GIMLIN RE-CONFIRMS PGF SITE LOCATION.

Indeed. But we'll blog about that next time, okay? The location has been under the consideration of the Bluff Creek Film Site Project for some time, and will be thoroughly documented and filmed by us in mid-October.

Yes, indeed, we did have lunch with BOB GIMLIN and AL HODGSON. With only Tom Yamarone and Paul Graves along, we somehow managed to escape from the TV production circus to have a genial conversation at Gonzalez Mexican Restaurant. Questions were asked of Bob, but we did try to honor Bobo's request to "not go getting all Danny Perez on Bob, now!"

Real Bigfoot old-timers, still sharp: Bob Gimlin and Willow Creek's
Al Hodgson. Out in front of the Museum.

For those few of you who do not know, FINDING BIGFOOT is a new television show on Animal Planet, featuring BFRO director, Matt Moneymaker, Cliff Barackman, James Bobo Fay and a woman known as Ranae (why doesn't their website tell us her last name?). Okay, her last name is Holland (but why did we have to look it up?) "MEET THE TEAM": http://www.cliffbarackman.com/finding-bigfoot-meet-the-team.php

It's weird to see your friends on TV.

We were somewhat involved in helping out the producers in coming to Willow Creek and finding the Bluff Creek PGF site, and we were allowed to hang out at a bunch of their filming spots, so this blog is going to try to respect their wishes not to reveal things that would act as "spoilers" for the show. We'll try to skirt around that by showing a few things that happened off camera, such as the above. Since we are friends with Bobo and Cliff, and Matt to some extent, such hanging out also involved a certain amount of after-hours beer drinking. Best not to talk too much about that, either, we guess.

It all started in late July when the BFRO invited us (me, that is) to give a talk at their expedition up in Bluff Creek. That public speaking prospect was unnerving, but we've been told it was pretty good. The topic was The History of Bigfoot in Bluff Creek. We met some very cool folks there, including a family from Utah and a fellow all the way from England.

Fish Lake, just up off Bluff Creek, base of the BFRO expedition.
It is known for its civilized campground, as well as a whole heck of a
lot of Bigfoot activity around the area.

The expedition base was at Fish Lake, but branched out all across the Bluff Creek basin, with some interesting results (details private to the BFRO, save if you can find the report on their page, www.bfro.net). We noticed that these folks hardly ever sleep. They're up into the wee hours of the morning sitting around in the dark woods with night vision and thermal imagers, and the seem to arise at the crack of dawn.
After a night of very little sleep indeed, we and fellow Bluff Creek Film Site Project member, Robert Leiterman, led a big group of expeditioneers up the creek from the Bluff Creek bridge some three miles to the Patterson-Gimlin film site area. During all of this we met Animal Planet producer Jen, and location scout Rowdy (last names withheld here). From there the Bigfoot thing snowballed to take over nearly the entire next month.

READ THE REST OF THE EXPEDITION REPORT... HERE.
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And then, shortly afterwards, Finding Bigfoot came to town....

Though we're not going to give it all away, here are a few pictures around about before and after the filming scenarios.

Before a visit to Bigfoot Books some interviews were done at the Early
Bird ("Bigfoot Burger") Restaurant. Here Al Hodgson, Willow Creek elder
of Bigfooting hangs out, Matt and Bobo get prepped by head honcho.

Before the familial Bigfoot 'n' Donuts mural, Bobo devours his
Bigfoot Burger, Ranae gets in the groove. After this the crew came over to see
us at the shop, and we had to pretend we were meeting them for the first time.

On the second day they were in town a full house assembled at the Willow Creek Veterans' of Foreign Wars Hall to tell their stories of Bigfoot encounters. Word of mouth around town was enough to gather the crowd, and surely many more would have flooded the place had the event been formally advertised. A few historical notables showed up, as well as some noted Bigfoot Researcher types. We were happy to encounter Tom from Jefferson State Bigfoot Research, veteran but now-retired BFer Rip Lyttle, and some others.

Sign announcing the Town Hall Meeting, outside Veterans' Park.

VFW Hall, Al Hodgson meets for the first time in ages with
Jon and Wade, sons of Jerry Crew. Local, Ranger Jim, also converses.
Al knew Jerry quite well back in the day. It was Crew who made the
1958 track casts up in Bluff Creek that made Bigfoot a front-page name.

In this photo before the meeting began one may see Al Hogson and some
other locals including Ranger Jim and Denali, who was quite excited
to hang out with the TV people and her friend, Mr. Bobo himself.

The meeting getting going inside the Willow Creek VFW (Vets') Hall. Cut!

Bobo's dog Mountain Monkey was a prominent figure playing with her ball
at the feet of the stars of the show all during the filming of the meeting.

Bigfoot bros... Bobo Fay, Matt Moneymaker, and researcher Rip Lyttle.
At the FINDING BIGFOOT town hall meeting in Willow Creek August 10th.

After the meeting it was a great honor to finally meet the sons of Jerry Crew.
Here Wade and Jon are showing a display they made with an article about
their father and the ORIGINAL, slightly fragmented 1958 Bigfoot track cast.

Tom Yams poses with the Crew Bros. and Jerry Crew's track cast. History!

"The Foot Fetish is strong in this one..."

Thomas Graham of Jefferson State Sasquatch Research, with Folksinger
and researcher Tom Yamarone, whose song about Jerry Crew helped
facilitate the sons getting back into the Bigfoot world.
Photo provided by Tom Yamarone.

Afterwards it was beer with Bobo at the Forks Lounge.
Bobo actually defeated an arm-wrestling champ here that night.

And here is a clincher, perhaps of of the true Holy Grail items to emerge from the historic return of the Crew brothers to the world of Bigfooting. While the brothers were getting their photos taken with some fans, the wife of one of the brothers showed us the binder of materials they had brought with them to the event. Inside was an old brown paper note which I noticed was signed "Bob" and addressed to "Jerry."

Bob Titmus' map and note to Jerry Crew, detail.

It turns out that this was the ORIGINAL grocery sack note that Bob Titmus had slipped onto the window of Jerry Crew's tractor up in Bluff Creek sometime in late September or even early October, 1958. The note tells Jerry that Bob is leaving some plaster in the cab, and tells Jerry to make casts of the best footprints. On the other side of the opened grocery sack paper Bob Titmus drew a MAP of the Bluff Creek area, leading along the new road construction, up towards the area surrounding Notice Creek. Get this: THE MAP SHOWS THE LOCATION OF THE FOOTPRINT FINDS! Along the road and creek, beside such notable items as "Dump Truck" and "Logging" sites, one sees little hash marks where Titmus found additional tracks that Jerry Crew had apparently not known about. This historical relic shows the incredible and fundamental importance of BOB TITMUS to the history not only of Bigfoot in Bluff Creek, but of the entire field of Bigfooting. For now we'll publish two photos we took of the original in its binder. Next time we will publish the four-page photocopy of the Titmus-Crew map and note, once we get around to scanning it.

Bob Titmus' note to Jerry Crew. Click to Enlarge and Read.

Disclaimer: Though this blogger is affiliated in a friendly, non-formal way with the BFRO, and we are indeed friendly with a number of members of that organization, we'd like to say that we have never actually signed the NDA, and are in no way obliged or beholden to follow any rules or censorship from that organization. Neither are we "an informant" for the BFRO. That having been said, we spent a good bit of time hanging out with Mr. Matt Moneymaker, head of the group and quite a controversial figure, and we found NOT ONE moment of displeasure in doing so. The conversation was good, and fair, and nearly entirely free of judgment of other researchers. We understand that there are a lot of you out there who have reason to feel otherwise, but it has been our own experience over the last few years that Matt is really a cool dude. Strange, you might say, but true.... Go figure. Maybe it is because this blog has nothing to prove to ANYONE.

A slightly melodramatic promo pic from Animal Planet. Enough techie gear to
scare off the biggest squatch. Bobo, what is there in that "Evidence" bag?

We were interviewed for a story by the Hoopa Valley tribal newspaper on the topic of the TV show coming to our area. If you go to the bottom of the online article you can even read the reporter's sketch notes from the talk, for some reason also published. Read it here: Shooting Bigfoot with Film not Bullets.
For the rest of the story, tune in to Animal Planet in October. We've heard the special two-part episode on the Klamath-Trinity area is supposed to air on Halloween. After that we will surely have yet another blog entry to write.
Hanging out with the rest of the gang, especially our friends Cliff, Tom Yams, Paul Graves, Craig Flipy and Rowdy from the production crew was also quite fun. It involved a lot of great Bigfoot discussion, endless planning sessions for the filming (which we were not really part of, by choice), and lots of sitting around while the filming sessions were going on. Much of the time Cliff and Craig were out in the field doing "real" squatching activities. A rather extensive day was spent with Bob Gimlin at the WILLOW CREEK-CHINA FLAT MUSEUM. Here are a few more photos from there. We'll leave the rest for later.

Ever quizzical and inquiring, Cliff Barackman considers the Evidence.
Willow Creek Museum Gift Shop.

Next blog entry we will have some more detailed TALES OF BOB GIMLIN'S VISIT, and we'll tell what we can of his return to the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE. Sorry to leave you all hanging a bit, but there's only so much we can put into one blog entry, and there is only so much we can tell you out of respect for our friends involved with the FINDING BIGFOOT TV show. You'll see it all soon enough; and after we'll tell you about all the stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor.

At the start of a filming day, here are Bob Gimlin and Tom Yamarone entering
the Museum. Tom drove all the way to Yakima and back to bring Bob here!

Until then, see ya....

Bobo, Bigger than Bigfoot.

Go to the web page for the show for updates, here:

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/finding-bigfoot/

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

Me HATE the hate. Me "Angry," that true. But Bigfoot not like be cause of all hu-man hate each other. You KNOW me? No. You know ABOUT me? Not. Me still laugh at hu-man in woods with silly headlamp and goggle on face. But me not hate them. They like TV to me. But when me see them use me to hate other, then me say, phooey. Me not EVER let you see me. Me not EVER let you even come close. Me go far away so you not EVER even hear me laugh, and me laugh harder and harder every day, hu-man.

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This blog is copyright and all that jazz, save for occasional small elements borrowed for "research" and information or satirical purposes only, 2010, Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert. Borrowings for non-commercial purposes will be tolerated without the revenge of Angry Bigfoot, if notification, credit, citation and a kindly web-link are given, preferably after contacting us and saying, Hello, like a normal person would before taking a cup of salt. No serious rip-offs of our material for vulgar commercial gain will be tolerated without major BF stomping action coming down on you, hu-man.

Nine-Year-Old Rediscovers BLUFF CREEK P-G FILM SITE. Bigfoot Footage Turns 44; BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT Updates

2011-10-20T23:58:00.000-07:00

Denali on the upper sandbar, PGF General Consensus Site, with the big
trees behind her obscured in foliage.

BIGFOOT'S BLOG,
OCTOBER 20TH PGF ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Denali, a real trooper, did what many a grown-up would not do. She slogged her way down the last mile or so on the now-closed 12N13H on foot, reaching the bottom of the canyon where Bluff Creek flows. Proceeding through thick forest, over downed trees, through thick brush and nettles, into and out of mud bogs, we came to the area where it is generally accepted that Bigfoot was filmed 44 years ago today by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin.

Hoof prints of a certain famous Bigfooting fellow's horse.
Bluff Creek film site area road, 12N13H. We followed these
on the hill above the site.

Not only is she perhaps the youngest Bigfooter on record to reach the film site area, we now have reason to believe that it is the CORRECT site, and not just someone's wild and unfounded theory. Based upon our studies of four years now, as well as on recent developments in the research of Bill Munns, and Bob Gimlin's reconfirmation of the location of the first sighting of the creature, we have now come to the point where we feel pretty darn confident that we can prove the location on-site. We have the big trees. We have the old stumps seen in the film still there in the ground. We have the correct layout of the creek. We have, therefore, only one area that we can lay out the track-way of the film's subject in that fairly narrow creekside sandbar. All we have to do now is measure it out... and we'll be doing that tomorrow. For now, see below for some film site diagrams, as well as Denali's film site quest, wherein she saw what adult eyes have lost track of and not been able to pinpoint for over two decades.

Here are some landmark spots of the PGF area with photos.
The larger photo to lower left is the site in 1971 or '72. We believe
now that it is to be found in the white part in the upper right
CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Lower sandbar area. Victory!

In the "Big Bend" or "gulch.

Root balls as big as a room. In the gulch.

Heading upstream to the "rounded gravel bar." Big trees are in a direct
line far back behind Denali.

Just downstream from the first sighting spot identified by Bob Gimlin.

Just below the "Dahinden X," also identified by Gimlin as the spot.

Nearing the end of the film site sandbar area, big trees to left off frame,
the "bowling alley" just ahead.

Start of the bowling alley. Denali Art of Sasquatch painted with
water on rock at bottom.

BIG TREES! Upper sandbar, among the trees seen in the film background.

We're here!

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BIGFOOT

Heading back downstream, through the Bluff Creek jungle.

Heading back up the incredibly steep hill.

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ADDENDA and ANCILLA

Screen capture from the FINDING BIGFOOT promotional trailer online.
Here we see Cliff Barackman (Patterson) filming James Bobo Fay (Bigfoot)
at the spot where Bob Gimlin has indicated they first saw and started filming
the creature in the famous film. Here Bobo is walking on the gravel bar, for
better filming, rather than up on the sandbar behind where he really should be.

Here, in another screen capture from the promo trailer, we see the cast of
FINDING BIGFOOT standing with BOB GIMLIN on the site Bob identified
as the correct sighting zone, right next to Bluff Creek. Cliff starts to film here.

Here is Bill Munns' digital recreation of the PGF site, which he made based
solely upon data contained within the film itself. Despite the limited view of
the camera in the film, it is utterly uncanny how well this illustration matches
with the real area of the creek where Bob Gimlin identified the first sighting
spot. It depicts the upper sandbar nearly perfectly. Blue dots are Patterson's
track, the red ones are representative of Patty.
Screen capture from the Munns YouTube page.

Here again, for your reference, is a diagram we made based upon a model
that MK Davis set up. We corrected his perspective lines as found above.
Bill Munns confirmed these as correct. Note how the film was shot
diagonally across the sandbar, and the "big tree" is actually way to the right.

For a very long time now the above is how we have been
seeing the PGF site, as if it were a box oriented top-down,
from north to south, involving straight lines. The new view,
however, reflects a dynamic and shifting camera position, and
the motion of both subject and photographer to view
diagonally across the sandbar. People looking for the image
above would never find it on the ground, in real life. In great
measure, this desire to graph out the film dimensions has
contributed to the loss of knowledge of the site, on site.

So folks, stay tuned here for new developments from our last trip this year to Bluff Creek. Watch for a new series of Bluff Creek Film Site Project videos on YouTube coming your way soon. Also, tune in to FINDING BIGFOOT on Animal Planet, October 30th. It is their special two-hour "Birth of a Legend" episode, filmed here in the Willow Creek area. I'm told that Yours Truly appears in the final edit. Hopefully they didn't edit it to make me look like a goofball... or maybe I just am a goof? Well, tune in for that. See ya.

LINKS...
* View the FINDING BIGFOOT trailer HERE,
with details on the episode HERE.
* View the BILL MUNNS video HERE on YouTube.
* Join the MUNNS REPORT thread on the Bigfoot Forums HERE.

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

What me have to angry be about? It my birthday. Me drink a beer and eat pizza I find in hu-man trash bin. It taste better than eating hu-mans, which me do if me get angry. So me won't.

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This blog is copyright and all that jazz, save for occasional small elements borrowed for "research" and information or satirical purposes only, 2011, Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert. Borrowings for non-commercial purposes will be tolerated without the revenge of Angry Bigfoot, if citation and a kindly web-link are given, preferably after contacting us and saying, Hello, like a normal person would before taking a cup of salt. No serious rip-offs of our material for vulgar commercial gain will be tolerated without major BF stomping action coming down on you, hu-man.

BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE UPDATE; plus JOURNEY TO BLUFF CREEK, by Guest Blogger TRAVIS McHENRY, wherein Travis Finally Reaches the PGF Site

2011-09-23T02:00:00.000-07:00

BIGFOOT'S BLOG
Mid-Late September 2011 Edition

Yours Truly on PGF Site, with "Big Trees" in the Background, 2011.

A BLUFF CREEK PGF SPECIAL, featuring...

BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT UPDATE.

plus

TRAVIS TRAVELS TO BLUFF CREEK BIGFOOT COUNTRY,

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OK, it's me, the hu-man, and I am back. I've kicked that stinky ape-man out of my bookstore, changed my blog password, and cleaned up my keyboard which he filled up with cookie crumbs.

There have been some very exciting and interesting developments in the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT endeavors since we stopped filming last year. Certain tribulations have occurred, not the least of which has been the absolute impossibility of getting all of us together on-site once again. We'll be up there at the PGF site next month, and there will be another batch of videos for all of you. Though none of us fully agree on the location, and though there is no absolute proof yet, we have settled our sights on the upper sandbar area. At first we called it the "Barackman" site, as it was Cliff who told us of James Bobo Fay being there with Bob Gimlin in 2003 and settling on that area as the most likely, according to his memory of the much-changed location. As of early this year we are calling it the Gimlin Site (or perhaps the Gimlin-Bobo-Barackman Site, though that seems a little laborious).

View of the Dahinden-Gimlin "X" spot, from downstream.
This is the area indicated by Gimlin in 2003 as that of the first sighting.
Photo by Steven Streufert, 2011

Recent developments and on-site observations made over the summer have convinced at least this writer even more. That location has always looked very much like the right spot to me; but we did have to settle the matter of all the opposing claims. If the film site is not located there, at least in the general area of what we have been calling the "General Consensus Site" (the larger area identified in Daniel Perez' BIGFOOT AT BLUFF CREEK), then it would have to be way farther downstream. We are not convinced that it is in the locations identified by Bobbie Short, Peter Byrne or MK Davis.

View of the Dahinden-Gimlin "X" spot, from upstream.
Wherever Perez has indicated on the ground, this is the spot marked in his book.
Photo by Steven Streufert, 2010.

We do have to consider the oddity of Al Hodgson saying he thought it was below the Bluff Creek bridge above Louse Camp, as well as the further oddity that the Forest Service office (according to Joe Beelart, private conversation, OSS 2011) used to tell people it was only five miles up the creek from the Highway 96 bridge. Could these two locations be possible? Yes, but we seriously doubt it. All the history of the studies of Bigfooters on the site would have to be thrown out the window. If Rene Dahinden said it was above Louse Camp then so be it! Unless, I guess, he was fibbing to mislead people. That just doesn't seem likely at all, as so many in the past have been there when it was still recognizable by the landmarks seen in the film.

Here is a very rough diagram showing one proposed track-way
of the P-G Film subject, with the "aerial shot" superimposed,
including the Titmus-proposed after-tracking up the hill.
(Excuse our transgression of the contour line at upper left.)

As a reminder of past work, here is Daniel Perez' marked map clarifying the
exact spot marked by Rene Dahinden. Note the arrow points to the exact site
declared by Bob Gimlin for the first sighting in 2003. Daniel could not specify
what part of the track-way Rene's mark was meant to show... Frame 352, start
or finish of the film. We think that Gimlin has clarified that for us now, but we
will need to certify the trees and stumps by gridding out and surveying the site.

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One piece of BIG NEWS (that does not have to do with stepping on the toes of FINDING BIGFOOT) is this: Roll One of the Patterson-Gimlin footage has been recovered! BILL MUNNS has gotten the roll from John Green, and is scanning it in its entirety. Yes, this is the scenic and horseback footage that precedes the Bigfoot segment, shot in Bluff Creek, possible on the same day as the filming of Bigfoot.

Fascinating composite by Bill Munns from Patterson footage.

It is as I suspected, after seeing the BBC "X-Creatures" documentary. John Green is shown at his home showing what looks like a full film reel. They edited it for TV such that only parts of the horseback footage and scenery shots were shown. I asked, and John told me that he couldn't recall having the full film roll. This will kill off all of those odd "Massacre" and "Blevins" type conspiratorial suppositions about the editing of the film. Clearly, these were shot as they rode up the creek at some point or other, and apparently sequentially lead up to the Bigfoot sighting.

Start with Munns' post #925 et seq. for the whole story, as well as some wonderful panoramic montages Bill has made from the film here on THE BIGFOOT FORUMS, THE MUNNS REPORT.

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Recently MK Davis (check out his great new BLOG!) posted an image of Frame 352 superimposed upon the Dahinden 1971 "aerial" photo of the site. He asked if people could draw the proper film perspective in from the camera view to the big trees in back. MK removed his original (incorrect) version, but here is our corrected one...

The PGF Site, perspective lines drawn by Steven Streufert, on MK Davis' inset.
Click to Enlarge.

Enough nerdly blather!
Next blog entry I'll have an account of the trip I took with my nine year old daughter to the PGF site. She toughed it out, even through the mile-long slog up and down the now-closed road spur down to the site, even past the bear tracks and bushwhacking through dense regrown forest down in the sandbar area. She only faltered when she saw the innumerable spiders hopping among the creek rocks. Arachnophobia!!

Travis McHenry, Bluff Creek, 2011. Self-photographed, in heroic idiom.

This time we have an account written by one-time Pennsylvania researcher, TRAVIS McHENRY, of his trip down to the film site. For him this was a grand, life-long pilgrimage, finally realizing its goal. We were happy to help him on his way! And from the quality of his observations on the ground up there we are now proud to announce he is being made an honorary member of the Bluff Creek Film Site Project. We're hoping he can join us there next summer for further documentation of the veracity of the accounts of the filming of Bigfoot in Bluff Creek in 1967.

Thom Cantrall, photographed by Steven Streufert, 2011.

Recently we were visited at Bigfoot Books by author and Bigfoot contactee, THOM CANTRALL. A fine conversation ensued. He voyaged onward to Bluff Creek after the visit, seeking to find Patty. You may find out about Thom and his books at http://www.ghostsofrubyridge.com/

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Recently, Florida "researcher" Tim Fasano had some slanderous words to say on Facebook regarding myself, of all people. Imagine that! Well, he made a stupid remark about how I "never have set foot in the woods." Ha ha! To that I will simply respond with an image, and to note: Fool, I LIVE in the woods!
Click the image to the right if you need to enlarge it, and view just where Timmy boy drives his cab vs. where I happen to spend 24 hours of my day, in Bigfoot Country, USA.

NOTE: I've recovered the idiotic things that Timothy Fasano said on Facebook. They amount to slander, but anyway.... Ugh. See the COMMENTS section below this blog entry for what he said, and what some prominent Bigfooters said in response.

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JOURNEY TO BLUFF CREEK, by Guest Blogger TRAVIS McHENRY

Text and Photos by Travis McHenry, 2011.
Copyright if he wishes, so ask him.

Read Travis' earlier Guest Blogger spot, wherein he became stranded in the Bluff Creek snow, HERE.
Click Images to Enlarge.

During the first week of June my wife and I attempted to reach Bluff Creek, but were forced to turn back nine miles short of our goal due to thick snow on the roads. I couldn’t go on existing without seeing the Patterson-Gimlin Film Site for myself, so during Labor Day weekend, I decided to return to Humboldt County and try to reach the site again. This time, I would be heading into the woods completely alone.

Hard at work reviewing my maps at Louse Camp

I got into Willow Creek after an eleven hour drive from Orange County and promptly connected with my old pal Steven Streufert for dinner at Cinnabar Sams (which has excellent food and a nice selection of local beers). We spent an hour or so combing over my maps and confirming the directions that would lead me to the Film Site. My goal in this trip was to visit and photograph all the possible Film Sites starting with Peter Byrne’s bat boxes.

Hard at work at Louse Camp

The remainder of my first night in Willow Creek was filled with what I’ve come to call High Humboldt Strangeness: we saw Saint John Hunt, son of the infamous Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt, singing “Low Rider” with his band St. John and The Sinners. At the bar where Al Hodgson’s store used to be, spontaneous fights broke out among the locals while we investigated an old disused phone booth behind the building. The phone booth was possibly the exact booth used by Roger Patterson when he made his historic first phone call after his 1967 Bluff Creek encounter. Possible, but unlikely. [See this blog's previous blog entry for photos of the phone booth and such, at the bottom of the Bigfoot Days presentation.]

At Bigfoot Books, earlier in 2011.

Steve and I ended up talking about Bigfoot until three in the morning, when I finally had to call it quits so I could go find a campsite. I chose Aiken’s Creek campground because it was relatively close to the G-O Road and I wanted to get an early start. After less than five hours of sleep, I was awakened by the morning sun and even though I was dead tired, I was so excited about seeing the Film Site that I couldn’t go back to sleep. A few minutes later, I was off on my great adventure into the mountains!

Can You Find the Blobsquatch?

Surprisingly, while I was headed up the G-O Road, I passed four cars coming down the mountain. They all appeared to be teenagers who had most likely been partying somewhere in the woods out of the reach of adults. At the seventeen mile mark, I found the turnoff for 12N12, which is a paved road of similar quality to the G-O Road. A few miles down 12N12, the turn for 12N13 is a hard right which is easy to miss; but I didn’t have any problem since I was using my odometer to keep track of distances. Fortunately, all the roads I had to drive were labeled by metal posts, so there was never any doubt I was headed the right direction.

Upper Bluff Creek

On 12N13, I started driving very, very slowly. The road isn’t paved, and the KIA Rondo is technically a low-clearance vehicle. In addition, I only had one spare tire and I didn’t want to end up with multiple flats by speeding over the sharp rocks that littered the road. Despite the hazards, 12N13 is a beautifully scenic road with stunning vistas overlooking the forested landscape. Mountains, valleys, and trees as far as the eye can see. I took advantage of the view to stop and get some good pictures of the Bluff Creek area before proceeding on to my final objective.

The KIA at the pullout for 12N13H

About five miles after turning off the G-O Road, I came to a large dirt pulloff (basically a big parking lot) at the road leading down to Bluff Creek. As with all the other forest roads, this one was clearly marked 12N13H.

12N13H sign. The "H" stands for Hell.

Once I arrived at the parking area, my excitement about being so close to Bluff Creek increased dramatically. I took a mental inventory of how long it had taken me to arrive at that moment. From my first interest in Bigfoot as a teenager, researching the Patterson Film on the Internet using a 14.4K dial-up connection in 1995, to my most recent expedition to Bluff Creek trying to stand on the very spot where the creature was filmed: it had been a much longer journey than just driving a few miles up the G-O Road.

A very beautiful hike down 12N13H

To make things even more exciting, the woman behind the counter at the Willow Creek Bigfoot Museum informed me that Bob Gimlin had been in town a couple of weeks prior and had actually visited the Film Site with the crew from “Finding Bigfoot.” Steve said he couldn't confirm or deny whether that was true, but sure enough, there was ample evidence to suggest that Bob had been present. There were horseshoe prints all along the road leading down to Bluff Creek, and there were numerous piles of manure dotting the landscape. The idea that I would literally be following in Bob Gimlin's hoofsteps ignited a romantic Bigfoot fervor that caused some serious errors in my decision-making.

"In the hoofsteps of Bob."

Steve had warned me that 12N13H was a pretty rough road, but if I was careful I should be able to make it down to the point where the road is closed and then hike the last mile to the creek. I didn’t want to take any chances with my vehicle, so I decided to park at the pulloff and hike the entire 2.4 miles down to Bluff Creek. Gigantic error #1. In an excited haste, and reeling from the pitiful amount of sleep I had gotten, I started throwing supplies into my backpack. Things I packed: two bottles of water, a camera, binoculars, first aid kit, ham sausage with cheddar jack cheese and pita bread (for lunch), a bottle of California champagne, a crystal champagne flute (to celebrate my arrival at the Film Site), an extra pair of shoes for walking in the creek, and a flashlight. Things I didn’t pack: compass, emergency whistle, and LOTS MORE WATER. Gigantic error #2.

Rockslide on 12N13H. Very dangerous area.

I began hiking down 12N13H at 10:30AM. It was an easy, pleasant hike through a truly beautiful forest. All downhill. The road was fairly rocky—I nearly twisted my ankle twice. Despite the rocks, I saw numerous bear, rabbit, and deer tracks along the road. Before I knew it, I was at the bottom of the hill and came right up to a clearing with Peter Byrne’s bat boxes. There was a sense of elation rushing over me in seeing that metal pole and knowing I had made it to the right place. Adjacent to the bat boxes is a small campground with a fire ring that looked like it would be a fun place to spend a week in the woods. But I wasn’t there to camp. The bat boxes were merely a marker for the beginning of my journey up Bluff Creek.

Overlooking the lower sandbar

I nearly died crossing this creek. It was very steep and treacherous

Campsite at Bat Boxes Landing

One of the Bat Boxes

At first, I tried to follow what could be considered a trail through the trees, but since I didn’t have a machete, my forward movement was somewhat limited by the forest cover. While pushing my way through the thick vegetation, I kept my eye on the creek to watch for landmarks indicating I had reached the Film Site. Several times I unnecessarily crossed the creek because the “trail” led me in that direction, and then stopped cold. My only guess is that the “Finding Bigfoot” crew spent a lot of time wandering around through the trees getting their footage and inadvertently throwing me off the path.

Bluff Creek

Eventually, I resigned myself to simply using the creek as my trail and made much faster progress. The first squeal of excitement came when I reached the root balls marking the edge of the lower sandbar. This lower sandbar is significant because it’s the General Consensus Site: Identified by Daniel Perez, Chris Murphy, and Rene Dahinden (among others) as the general location of the Patterson Film. I spent some time investigating the sandbar and the surrounding trees, but I didn’t see anything that I could conclusively match with my Frame 352 printout.

The root balls identifying the lower sandbar.

Gravel bar at the lower sandbar

Area around the lower sandbar

Area around the lower sandbar, again.

Area around the lower sandbar, upstream more.

However, while poking around the sandbar, I found a strange track in a sandy puddle that was sheltered under some low-hanging branches. The track was a little too perfect, though. Given that the “Finding Bigfoot” crew was just there, it’s entirely possible that one of them made the track. The track looked basically like a human foot (about twelve inches long) but sunk down more than twice as deep as my footprint. Whoever or whatever made the track was significantly heavier than me.

Strange track I found at the lower sandbar.
Finding Bigfoot, or FROM Bigfoot?

Moving further upstream, I came to another bend in the creek and followed the trail up off the creek bed onto what is called the upper sandbar. According to Cliff Barackman (and many others), this upper sandbar is the actual location of the Film Site. Immediately after stepping into the heavily overgrown area, I felt like I was in Bigfoot Nirvana. There were stumps. There were big trees. There were downed trees. Unfortunately, it was so overgrown it was difficult to tell where you were standing. I took numerous pictures of what appear to be the large tree directly behind Patty in Frame 352. Also, I tried to match up the stumps on the ground with the stumps in the picture with limited success.

Headed toward the upper sandbar

Is THIS the "Big Tree"?

Stump on the upper sandbar.

More stumps on the sandbar. Do THESE match with those seen in the PGF?

After spending some time at the Film Site, I wanted to push on further up the creek to verify some information that I had gleaned from an interview Bob Gimlin did on the Artist First Network with Robert W. Morgan back in 2003. In that interview, Bob stated that he and Roger followed the creature’s tracks over some gravel and saw where it went around a big bend in the creek. They guessed that it climbed up the hill after crossing the creek. Bob also stated that he and Roger would’ve had to climb a 15-foot rock cliff in order to follow after her.

Area around the upper sandbar

Ladies and gentlemen… I found that rock cliff.

Area of the upper sandbar. The Patterson-Gimlin Film Site is right up there!

The Bowling Alley

Pool at the bend in the creek. I went swimming here. It was cold, but amazing!!

The rock cliff around the bend in Bluff Creek.

After the Film Site, there’s a long, straight and narrow section of the creek popularly referred to as the Bowling Alley. It’s filled with gravel and rocks. At the end of the Bowling Alley is a very big bend. On the other side of that bend is a vertical rock cliff. Finding the rock cliff was especially exciting because I was able to corroborate the location information given in Bob Gimlin’s interview, and it confirms the upper sandbar as being the location of the Film Site.
It was time to celebrate!

Trees at the Patterson-Gimlin Film Site

Unfortunately, when I took off my pack, I realized that I had only packed two bottles of water to last me all afternoon. It was a pretty hot day, and most of the first bottle was already gone. I wisely decided not to drink the champagne with lunch knowing it would dehydrate me further. Instead, I carefully rationed what remained of my water while enjoying lunch at the Bowling Alley.

Sandbar across from the rock cliff. I found cougar tracks here!

After lunch, I decided to go for a swim in the pool at the bend in the creek. I stripped down to my hiking shoes and jumped into the icy water, letting it rush over me in a sensation of pure existential ecstasy. If I had died at that moment, it would’ve been fine with me.

But I didn’t die. Instead, I went around the bend to get a closer look at the rock cliff and found a bunch of cougar tracks in the sand. There were several sandy areas surrounding the bend in the creek, but none of them contained humanoid tracks. I spent an hour or so in this area quietly investigating my surroundings, meditating, swimming, and taking pictures. I did all of this naked, and I’d like to explain why.

Trees overlooking the bend in the creek.

During my college career, I’ve taken numerous anthropology classes in an effort to learn more about human beings and primates in general. An effect of this education is that I’ve learned how real scientists interact with primitive peoples. One image that has always stuck with me is the lone anthropologist walking nude into the center of a Ya̧nomamö village with his hands held out to show that he has no weapons and he is arriving as a friend. A similar approach seems warranted if a lone cryptozoologist wishes to make contact with a Bigfoot.

I can’t say for certain whether or not my methods were successful; but at the very least, if a Bigfoot was watching me while I was at Bluff Creek, it saw a vulnerable, peaceful human making a gesture of friendship. And that’s something I can build upon in future visits.

Downed trees in the Bowling Alley

As the sun changed position in the sky, I searched my pack and realized I hadn’t brought a watch so I had no idea what time it was. Rather than take a chance at having to find my way back to the car in the dark, I decided to gather up my things and begin hiking down Bluff Creek. The hike back toward the bat boxes went very quickly and I only stayed for a moment to take a few close-ups of the campsite for posterity.

Then began what I like to call The Bluff Creek Death March. The hike back up 12N13H taught me why it has the letter “H” attached. It means Hell. Living. Breathing. Hell. It was very hot, and the sun was still high, and I was already dehydrated from the hike down to the creek. I had only one bottle of water for a 2.4 mile uphill hike. I knew I had to carefully ration my remaining water, try to stay in the shade, and walk slowly to control my heart rate. The weight of my pack, made heavier by the full bottle of champagne, was like a two ton chain pulling me toward the earth. I trudged up the mountain one slow step at a time. It was brutal. Toward the end of the road, I stopped sweating and my heartbeat was irregular so I knew I was going into heatstroke. I felt like I might die soon, so I took a chance and started running the rest of the way until I reached the car. My lungs nearly collapsed. But that didn’t matter. I had air conditioning. And water. Ahhhh.

Bluff Creek Bridge

I was delirious and my eyesight was messed up, but once I started sipping water, everything was all right. After ten minutes, I felt coherent enough to drive and headed down 12N13 in the direction of Louse Camp. I drove over Bluff Creek Bridge and somehow mustered the energy to stop the car and take some pictures with the intention of returning later to explore the area.

Pensively sitting beside Bluff Creek

At Louse Camp, I set up my tent, ate a delicious Ritter Sport Stracciatella chocolate bar, and promptly passed out from sheer exhaustion.

Louse Camp

I spent the following day exploring the vicinity of Louse Camp and Bluff Creek Bridge. There were no further near-death experiences, and overall, I had a very enjoyable time. I also spoke with two friendly families who visited Louse Camp for a few hours on Sunday. One of them shared some smoked salmon which made a delightful addition to my evening meal. They all agreed that Louse Camp is simply a perfect campground; additionally, it has easy access to Bluff Creek!

Channeling General MacArthur storming the shore of Bluff Creek.

In general, I had a very successful expedition. I would’ve liked to have spent more time documenting measurements of the trees and stumps at the Film Site, but I didn’t have the time or the manpower to effectively accomplish such a feat. I was able to corroborate the rock cliff from Bob Gimlin’s interview, which lends validity to the upper sandbar being the actual Film Site. After having spent four hours at the site, I think it’s possible to nail down the precise spot where Patty stood 44 years ago. While it won’t contribute anything whatsoever to anthropological understanding, our ability to visit the Patterson-Gimlin Film Site gives Bigfoot researchers a landmark all their own: a holy Mecca where the faithful can come to rekindle their inspiration and maybe find what they’ve been searching for all along.

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Travis made this intriguing little video. IS IT REAL? You decide.

BLOBSQUATCH AT BLUFF CREEK.

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

Hu-man kick me out from book store. He find me when he come back, and me here after drink whole box of beer. He drag me with rope from truck and dump in forest. He not appreciate me write blog for him, and me only ask cookie and beer. Him complain about mess I make, but me consider that decorating. Plus store smell better with Bigfoot pheromone. Him maybe even attract hu-man female friend. He no thank me. Hu-man never grateful!

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This blog is copyright and all that jazz, save for occasional small elements borrowed for "research" and information or satirical purposes only, 2011, Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert. Borrowings for non-commercial purposes will be tolerated without the revenge of Angry Bigfoot, if notification, credit, citation and a kindly web-link are given, preferably after contacting us and saying, Hello, like a normal person would before taking a cup of salt. No serious rip-offs of our material for vulgar commercial gain will be tolerated without major BF stomping action coming down on you, hu-man.

BIGFOOT DAYS 2011 REPORT. Willow Creek Celebrates Home and Labor Day in a Squatchy Way...

2011-09-09T03:57:00.000-07:00

BIGFOOT'S BLOG, Early September 2011 Edition.

BIGFOOT DAYS!

Me ANGRY BIGFOOT. Me report. One thing good about what hu-man call BIGFOOT DAYS be that me only have to be self, and can walk street of hu-man town and no one notice. There so many hu-man in ape suits there that me only wear hu-man t-shirt and hat and blend right in. Only difference? Me smell better.

Look down page and you see picture I take of things on hu-man road. Many people want shake my hand, and me do it. They not even know that I REAL Bigfoot. It so funny. Me even go and drink bloody mary at Forks bar before parade start. All picture here taken by me, Angry Bigfoot, and you have to bring me jar of peanut butter if you want to use them. Me call this Peanut Right, not copyright.

Banner at Coast Central Credit Union

(Hu-man Steve help me do this blog by write caption under picture. He good with word.)

This year the name of event be called: "RIVER FUN IN THE MOUNTAIN SUN WITH BIGFOOT'S FIFTY-ONE." That all good, but me lot older than 51, hu-man. Ha ha! What you know? You sent rocket to moon, and you not even know what live in your backyard.

The new highway-spanning banner.What happened to the cooler old one?

The start of the parade.

The WCK Volunteer Fire Department shows off their rigs.

Young squatcher and fire fighter in training.

The first appearance of a "Bigfoot" type of creature.

This Bigfoot is an odd cross between Chewbacca and something from Gidget.

A troupe of Bigfeet causes a traffic jam in the parade's progress.

The Family Bigfoot, showing the multiple natural hues of the species.

Bigfoot antics, or time for a spanking?

Papa Bigfoot approaches the human spectators.

Bigfoot in work boots?

Bigfoots ambling past the statue of their forebear.

Spectators get pretty eager out in the middle of the highway.

The Bigfoot Contractor Supply float passes on by.

"River Fun in the Mountain Sun, Bigfoot Days is 51."

The Coast Central Credit Union float approaches.

A pink Bigfoot? A Bigfoot in a tent? This goes against BFRO guidelines.

Enemy of Bigfoot, Smokey the Bear approaches.

Bigfoot prances on the Ray's Market float.

Bigfoot growls, human waves.

Did Bigfoot steal this guy's groceries, or what?

The Ace Hardware float approaches, Bigfoot hiding in the trees.

A fish in a little river.

Bigfoot holds a fishing pole.

A rustic scene, though Bigfoot never caught the fish.

What IS that thing? Freelove Circus float.

That thing is "THE THING," with sexy attendant.

Kids can't wait when they see a lady Bigfoot approach with a candy basket.

Hey, PGF Patty had boobs, but this one really outdoes her.

What's that approaching? It's a Bigfoot in a Biscardi suit, causing another
traffic jam.

The Blue Lake Casino float, with Georgia Gorilla.

Bigfoot tries to wave, but those arm extensions are tough to negotiate.

Patriotism gets Bigfoot all stirred up...

Humboldt local, Rowdy, working for a certain television network,
really does FIND BIGFOOT.

Bigfoot makes off with a bucket of candy, another one behind nabs an
ice cream cone.

Time to pose for a few photos and sign some autographs.

End of parade, start of the festival down in Veterans' Park....

Festival in the park.

A vendor booth.

The Sentinel Winery BIGFOOT RED booth.

Bigfoot does indeed like wine.

Fine local goods....

T-shirts, too....

Another vendor with a unique product theme.

Is Patty getting royalties from these?

Gambi Cabins operators survey some Bigfoot-themed clothing items.

More unique and interesting Bigfoot goodies were available.
One could also find delicious Indian Tacos and Rez Dogs, Snow Cones,
Chinese food, and much wholly non-Bigfoot-related merchandise.

And, of course, there was face-painting in the park, bicycle and lawnmower
races, logging and fireman competitions, and much more fun stuff under
the nearly 100 degree mountain sun. Indeed.

Schedule of Bigfoot Days events for 2011. Click to Enlarge.

Partial page from the Eureka Times-Standard the next day.

Bigfoot rafting-themed pinball machine at the Pizza Factory.
Quite appropriate to Willow Creek.

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Friday Night of BIGFOOT DAYS me see me hu-man friend, Steve. He in phone booth in alley behind pool hall bar. He think there still phone in phone booth, and he say he also think he can talk to ghost of hu-man name Roger Patterson in there. Hu-mans very strange!

Decommissioned phone booth once in the spot in front of Al Hodgson's old
Variety Store, now a pool hall, across the street from the Chevron station.
It was on this spot, if not in the very same phone booth (this one seems to
be from the 1980s or so) that Roger Patterson called Al to announce that he
had just "filmed one of them sumbucks" up in Bluff Creek, Oct. 20, 1967.

Spot now occupied by a bulletin board kiosk, where
once stood the phone booth used by Roger Patterson
when calling Al Hodgson about the filming of Bigfoot.

Visiting researcher Travis McHenry at the booth.

Me also see a band at Forks Lounge Friday that have son of JFK Assassination and Watergate spy guy E. Howard Hunt. Son name Saint John Hunt. Band name is Saint John and the Sinners. They pretty good. Him web site I found is this: http://www.saintjohnhunt.com/

Saint John and the Sinners playing a fine cover of "Low Rider."

A cryptic note slipped under the door one morning at Bigfoot Books.
What does it mean???

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ANGRY HU-MAN SPEAKS!!

There has been lots and lots of BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT news lately, folks, and it is coming your way soon. I'm still Angry Hu-Man, but yes, I will be back with more. First I've got to kick that big, smelly ape-man out of my bookstore, and probably buy myself a new keyboard after all the food, drool, and beer he has spilled on it.

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BIGFOOT DAYS 2011, Willow Creek, CA. Labor Day Weekend........... Angry Bigfoot Reports!

2011-09-02T01:06:00.000-07:00

BIGFOOT'S BLOG: NEWS September 2nd, 2011

WILLOW CREEK BIGFOOT DAYS!

Me ANGRY BIGFOOT. Me still write blog. Hu-man leave. He in woods, pretend to be Angry Bigfoot. Me sit here in bookstore and eat his cookies. Me also read book. In fact, Me learn a little more how to write and read Hu-man words. It fun. Not too hard. You hu-man think you special, but you not. Bear be smarter.

OK, me talk business.....

Willow Creek hu-man Commerce Chamber ask me to put up blog about thing called BIGFOOT DAYS. It happen this weekend. That is on hu-man calendar September 3 and 4. They give me food. Me take.

Me also hear fun happen on Friday night, including hu-man Steve going to bar and drinking beer and listen to son of Watergate burglar play at Forks Lounge. That right. But me stay here. They give me whole box of free doughnut to write this, so me sit here and eat, get jelly filling on hu-man keyboard. They also give me big box of jar of peanut butter. They know how to make Bigfoot come around. Me not care about call blasting. Bigfoot Days really just days hu-mans do silly thing. WHAT DIFFERENT? It same as every day me see! It named after me, but it be all about hu-man, maybe hu-man in gorilla suit.

Here some more things me see on wall around the hu-man town, when no Bigfoot Researcher looking I take picture. HERE BE SCHEDULE I FIND IN GUTTER OF ROAD...

Click picture. It get bigger. Me read it.

Me say click this. It get bigger. Me find this out today.

Me say one more thing. Happy Camp have BIGFOOT JAMBOREE. But they not real Bigfoot town. Me say they just steal idea and now try to build more Bigfoot statue and RV park than Willow Creek. It sad, hu-man. But me LAUGH. We Bigfoot sit on hill and laugh all day, and then we steal your beer and Indian Taco when you not looking.

BIGFOOT DAYS Special from the Klamity Kourier, 2002

Me invite lady come visit me in book store. That make Bigfoot happy. Bring treat.

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ANGRY HU-MAN SPEAKS!!!

OK, I am that Angry Human. Sorry. I just can't write on this stupid Bigfoot stuff anymore. There is too much vile gossip, competition and pettiness, too much violent ignorant slander, too much supposition and dogma. I will say one thing, though. Last time I said something about the "reward" in all of this. Well, there is ONE thing that I really have gotten out of this. It is getting to know some very, very cool people, all across the country. I know that the vast majority of people who are into the Bigfoot thing are super cool, very smart, excellent individuals. THANK YOU for that!!!! I just wish the bad apples out there didn't spoil the fun of it. OK, me have my say. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Me back to woods. See ya.

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ANGRY BIGFOOT. Me Say Me Write Blog Now!

2011-08-29T13:22:00.000-07:00

BIGFOOT'S BLOG, NEWS
August 29th 2011.

ME ANGRY!

Call me Angry Bigfoot. But he more angry. Hu-man, "Steven Streufert," not write blog any more. ME write it now. Me took over. He go off in woods and howl, me stole his password and sit at computer desk. He say he sick of it and leave. He stomp foot and leave footprint in grass and dirt. Me not know if he come back. Me think he go be Bigfoot, like me. But he have no fur for winter, so who know how long he last? Not long, if me know hu-mans. On computer me find words he write and leave behind. Me learn to copy-paste, and here it be for you to see....

EGADS. Sometimes I wonder: WHY DO I EVEN DO THIS ANYMORE? I mean, where is the reward? Who is paying me to do this? What do I get from it? Why should I do it when all I get for it is a load of hassles and hyper-defensive attacks from trolls, as well as other more disturbing threats, hoaxes, blobsquatches and jokers every damn day? I have received threats of death and violence, harassment, snooping from spies and enemy factions, and threatened lawsuits... over Bigfoot. It's BIGFOOT, folks, not religion or politics! What does one do when a fun little hobby and curiosity turns into something really quite sinister and disturbing? Someone out there please do tell me... WHY? Give me at least one good, redeeming reason, please! Otherwise, seriously folks, I'm defecting to UFOlogy.
I cannot really laugh anymore at slander, gossip, rivalries, threats, cryptic notes passed under my door, bizarre phone messages, anonymous spying emails and Facebook creeps, accusations of libel when I have only spoken philosophically or critically about ideas, legal threats in general, macho repressive dicks who find books and intellectual pursuits "gay" or whatever, paranoid conspiracy theories, ignoramuses who could not think their way out of a paper grocery sack, people who function with irrationality first and for whom reason is seen as regressive, etc. etc. etc. And ah, the all-too-human ingratitude, the lack of respect and civility!
I am done doing things the way I've been doing them.
The blog will change into something else, and it will seek a type of justice for all of this stupid misery I've had to deal with, by being above it all, and tearing down the mountains of universal human bullshite.

OK. Me Bigfoot. Me say WORD, me post this, me signing off.
Bye, Hu-mans.
Try to find me. You won't.

--ANGRY BIGFOOT
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PS--Me go back to read book now. Here, you too do it:
HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN: A BOOK FOR FREE SPIRITS
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Not Exactly "FINDING BIGFOOT" in Willow Creek, EDITORIAL EXCISION, BFRO Expedition in Bluff Creek EDITORIAL EXCISION: Sasquatch Invades Our Life in General

2011-08-27T02:53:00.000-07:00

Bluff Creek Road Sign, on Forest Road 12N13, heading toward PGF Site.
All non-promotional photos in this blog entry by Steven Streufert,
and yes, they are hereby Copyrighted.

BIGFOOT'S BLOG
Mid-Late August 2011 Edition

NOTE: THIS BLOG ENTRY HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY PARTIALLY CENSORED AS SOME OF THE THINGS IN IT APPARENTLY REVEALED TOO MUCH ABOUT THE RECENT FINDING BIGFOOT FILMING IN WILLOW CREEK. WE ARE JUST GOING TO CUT THOSE PARTS OUT FOR NOW. SORRY. WE WILL REPOST THE ENTRY IN ENTIRETY WHEN WE FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT WE DID THAT WE APPARENTLY SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE.

The rest of this blog entry will be left just as it was. Hopefully the producers of the show will see from what remains that we WERE NOT trying to "scoop" their episode, but rather to PROMOTE it, as many other journalistic outlets have done with prior episodes. We sought, also, to defend our friends involved in the show from attacks upon it from within the Bigfooting Community.

Sorry if it now seems disjoint. None of this will be an issue once the episode is aired in October.

"EDITORIAL EXCISION" here means something was cut out entirely. The rest remains just as it was. You can still read about the BFRO Bluff Creek Expedition... or will we have to edit that out too? I dunno.

This sleepy little hamlet of Willow Creek often bustles with Squatching enthusiasts, but the last month or so has been simply ridiculous. What Mecca is to Islam, what Jerusalem is to those other religions, this place seems to be for Bigfooters. On top of the usual parade of Bigfoot-interested tourists, the BFRO came to town to hold an expedition up in Bluff Creek, and then another down in the coast redwoods area. After that the four stars of Animal Planet's FINDING BIGFOOT came knocking on our door, trailing behind them a vast retinue of camera people, boom mikes, lighting arrays, producers, location scouts, managers and a large U-Haul trailer. The Bigfoot Motel read "No Vacancy" for nearly two weeks, and the townsfolk woke up again to the fact that they are, indeed, living in the "Gateway to Bigfoot Country," whether or not they even care for a moment about the hirsute legend.

*EDITORIAL EXCISION*

It's weird to see your friends on TV.

We were somewhat involved in helping out the producers in coming to Willow Creek and finding the Bluff Creek PGF site, and we were allowed to hang out at a bunch of their filming spots, so this blog is going to try to respect their wishes not to reveal things that would act as "spoilers" for the show. We'll try to skirt around that by showing a few things that happened off camera, such as the above. Since we are friends with Bobo and Cliff, and Matt to some extent, such hanging out also involved a certain amount of after-hours... *EDITORIAL EXCISION*

It all started in late July when the BFRO invited us (me, that is) to give a talk at their expedition up in Bluff Creek. That public speaking prospect was unnerving, but we've been told it was pretty good. The topic was The History of Bigfoot in Bluff Creek. We met some very cool folks there, including a family from Utah and a fellow all the way from England.

Fish Lake, just up off Bluff Creek, base of the BFRO expedition.
It is known for its civilized campground, as well as a whole heck of a
lot of Bigfoot activity around the area.

A rustic high-tech presentation on animal sounds found in the woods.
This included some very interesting barred owl calls, which are all too
often mistaken for Bigfoot vocalizations. They can sound like apes.

Like the Illuminati and the Bilderberg Group, the BFRO has sinister, secret
meetings, where vast conspiracies are hatched. Here ranger Robert
Leiterman films a talk, proving a great governnent cover-up.

After a night of very little sleep indeed, we and fellow Bluff Creek Film Site Project member, Robert Leiterman, led a big group of expeditioneers up the creek from the Bluff Creek bridge some three miles to the Patterson-Gimlin film site area. During all of this we met Animal Planet producer Jen, and location scout Rowdy (last names withheld here). From there the Bigfoot thing snowballed to take over nearly the entire next month.

Leiterman casts on display at Fish Lake Campground.

Here are some more images from our experiences on that BFRO expedition, presented without revealing "trade secrets." Read on below for more on Finding Bigfoot!

On the road to Onion Mountain and some night squatching.

The famous Louse Camp on Bluff Creek, before the BFRO.

Louse Camp, after the BFRO invasion.

Hiking up Bluff Creek to the PGF Site, with BFRO expedition.

PGF Big Tree??? This is one of the prospects.
Lower PGF site sandbar.

The area on Bluff Creek where Rene Dahinden put his mark for the
PGF site on Daniel Perez' map. Just upstream.

The area of the "X" as above, seen from just downstream.

Big old growth Douglas fir, with vine maples, upper PGF site area sandbar.

Could this one be one of the big trees?
We will find out in October

"Root balls as big as a room." Remains of the 1965-66 salvage
logging, downstream at the "Big bend in the creek."

And then, shortly afterwards, Finding Bigfoot came to town....

Though we're not going to give it all away, here are a few pictures around about before and after the filming scenarios.
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Sign announcing the Town Hall Meeting, outside Veterans' Park.

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Bobo's dog Mountain Monkey was a prominent figure playing with her ball
at the feet of the stars of the show all during the filming of the meeting.

Bigfoot bros... Bobo Fay, Matt Moneymaker, and researcher Rip Lyttle.
At the FINDING BIGFOOT town hall meeting in Willow Creek August 10th.

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Afterwards it was beer with Bobo at the Forks Lounge.
Bobo actually defeated an arm-wrestling champ here that night.

And here is a clincher, perhaps of of the true Holy Grail items to emerge from the historic return of the *EDITORIAL EXCISION* to the world of Bigfooting.... *EDITORIAL EXCISION*
(SORRY!)

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A slightly melodramatic promo pic from Animal Planet. Enough techie gear
to scare off the biggest squatch. Bobo, what is there in that "Evidence" bag?

For the rest of the story, tune in to Animal Planet in October. We've heard the special two-part episode on the Klamath-Trinity area is supposed to air on Halloween. After that we will surely have yet another blog entry to write.

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Hanging out with the rest of the gang, especially our friends Cliff, Tom Yams, Paul Graves, Craig Flipy and Rowdy from the production crew was also quite fun. It involved a lot of great Bigfoot discussion, endless planning sessions for the filming (which we were not really part of), and lots of sitting around while the filming sessions were going on.

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Ever quizzical and inquiring, Cliff Barackman considers the Evidence.
Willow Creek Museum Gift Shop.

Next blog entry we will have some more detailed *EDITORIAL EXCISION*

Sorry to leave you all hanging a bit, but there's only so much we can put into one blog entry, and there is only so much we can tell you out of respect for our friends involved with the FINDING BIGFOOT TV show. You'll see it all soon enough; and after we'll tell you about all the stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor.

Until then, see ya....

Bobo, Bigger than Bigfoot.

Go to the web page for the show for updates, here:

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/finding-bigfoot/

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

Me HATE the hate. Me "Angry," that true. But Bigfoot not like be cause of all hu-man hate each other. You KNOW me? No. You know ABOUT me? Not. Me still laugh at hu-man in woods with silly headlamp and goggle on face. But me not hate them. They like TV to me. But when me see them use me to hate other, then me say, phooey. Me not EVER let you see me. Me not EVER let you even come close. Me go far away so you not EVER even hear me laugh, and me laugh harder and harder every day, hu-man.

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