Where Bigfoot Walks by Robert Michael Pyle

Author:Robert Michael Pyle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nature
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2017-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

14

Natural History of the

Bigfoot Hunters

This may very well be the destiny of the lonely Sasquatch, to be perpetually obscured by those who try hardest to discover it.

—Michael M. Ames, Manlike Monsters on Trial

Two plaster casts stand on my work table. One, bought from the Western Bigfoot Society, was taken from a mold made in 1967 at the site of the Patterson-Gimlin film at Bluff Creek in northern California. Pressed in gray Mount St. Helens ash, this copy is gray, fourteen inches long, six across, and obviously hominoid: a big footprint or a fake. The other cast is the one I made at Deep Lake. It is about an inch shorter and narrower than the Bluff Creek cast, and it lacks obvious toes, but the possible heel, big toe, and ball of the foot aren’t bad. To me it suggests the press of a primate foot: a big footprint or a feature of erosion.

So I was prepared to leave the matter until I saw in an issue of Smithsonian an article by Richard Wolkomir on recent anthropological finds in the Americas. A photograph said to represent a child’s footprint preserved in Chilean sandstone looked strikingly like the negative of my Deep Lake artifact. Recently I showed my cast to Grover Krantz, author of Big Footprints: A Scientific Inquiry into the Reality of Sasquatch. Krantz regards the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film and the prints that came from the area as probably authentic. But he was not impressed with my Indian Heaven plaster; it seemed to him too flat-bottomed for a human footprint. When I compared it with the Chilean print, he said he didn’t regard that as a real footprint either.

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