Pine Winds Press. - Bigfoot casebook updated: sightings and encounters from 1800 to 2004

Bigfoot Casebook Updated

Sightings and Encounters
from 1818 to 2004

Janet & Colin Bord

Foreword by Loren Coleman

Pine Winds Press Smashwords Edition

Pine Winds Press

An imprint of Idyll Arbor, Inc.

Cover Design: Judy Ness

Pine Winds Press Editor: Thomas M. Blaschko

2006 Janet & Colin Bord

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Revised and updated version of The BigfootCasebook, first published in 1982.

ISBN 9780937663103

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Contents

This book could not have been written but for the hard workcarried out by Bigfoot investigators in the United States andCanada, and also by those who take the trouble to publish the dataand thus make it available to researchers. Many of these peoplehave been most helpful to us, supplying details of investigationsand other useful information. We especially wish to thank LuciusFarish and Warren Thompson, both mines of information; and JohnGreen, for allowing us to mention many cases collected by him andpublished in his own invaluable books on Bigfoot. Also helpful wereArchie Buckley, Tim Church, Loren Coleman, Cliff Crook, RenDahinden, Dave Drake, George W. Earley, Henry Franzoni, JohnFuhrmann, Mark A. Hall, Grace Gensman Hamby, Joan LaBord Jeffers,Norman O. Josephsen, Wayne W. King, Edward Loughran, Gary S.Mangiacopra, Christopher L. Murphy, Daniel Perez, Marion T. Place,Ron Schaffner, Mike and Linda Ward, R. Martin Wolf, and DonWorley.

For help with illustrations we wish to thank LorenColeman, Cliff Crook, Ren Dahinden, Paul Freeman, Tony Healy,Peter Jordan, Wayne W. King, The Mobridge Tribune,Christopher L. Murphy, Daniel Perez, Wesley Proppe, William M.Rebsamen, Ron Schaffner, Richard Svensson, Warren Thompson, and R.Martin Wolf. Most of the illustrations are held by the ForteanPicture Library, and sources are given after each illustration(RD=Ren Dahinden).

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following fortheir kind permission to reprint copyright material:

The Editor, for material from the Vancouver, WA,Columbian; William P. Cheshire, Editor-in-Chief, formaterial from the Charleston, WV, Daily Mail; Ren Dahinden,for extracts from Sasquatch by Don Hunter with RenDahinden; excerpt from Situation Red: The UFO Siege byLeonard H. Stringfield, copyright 1977 by Leonard H. Stringfield.Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. and SphereBooks Ltd.; Charles Edmonds, for an extract from his report on the1962 sighting at Fort Bragg; Albert Fletcher, for his 1917 sightingreport; John Green and Cheam Publishing Ltd., for extracts fromAlbert Ostmans abduction story; Jove Publications, Inc., for anextract from Abominable Snowman: Legend Come to Life by IvanT. Sanderson, copyright 1961, 1968 by Ivan T. Sanderson; Mrs.Callie Lund, for an extract from her 1969 letter to John Green;Elliott Merrick, for an extract from his book True North;Ron Schaffner, for extracts from two sighting reports (Gallipolis1912, Eaton 1977); Stewart Spencer, Editor, for material from theCharlotte, NC, News, reprinted by permission of TheCharlotte News; C.P. Cheney, Managing Editor, for material fromthe Ogden, UT, Standard-Examiner; Mrs. Myrtle Walton, forWilliam Roes 1955 sighting report; R. Martin Wolf, for extractsfrom his report on the 1977 Wantage sightings; Mrs. Bruce Wright,for an extract from Wildlife Sketches, Near and Far by BruceS. Wright; Burns Yeomans, for an extract from his 1939/40 sightingreport.

We would like to add a further acknowledgment tothis updated edition. Our thanks go to Tom Blaschko for hisenthusiasm, to Loren Coleman for his generous help, and not leastto the late great Ren Dahinden for his spirit anddetermination.

Foreword by Loren Coleman

You are reading a book that I feel changed thehistory of Bigfoot research. Let me explain.

One day, sometime in the 1960s, we all woke up andthe world had grown decidedly weirder. Was it the anti-war, peace,and hippie movements? Or the cultural trends evidenced in the musicrevolution and new sexual freedoms? Could it have been the breakoutfrom the Eisenhower doldrums and unreality of the shock from theJFK assassination? It seems like it was much more than the Beatlesand Vietnam that changed us all. But something did happen, and italtered the landscape of Bigfoot studies too.

During the 1960s, Bigfoot began to bask in the glowof continental wonder, much differently than how wildmen andSasquatch had experienced the calmer local outbreaks of interestbefore 1958. Certainly, the post-Patterson-Gimlin film days seemed,at first, to be a moment in Bigfoot history when the ultimate questappeared nearly at an end. One of these animals would be capturedand classified soon, it was assumed, and a new zoological discoverytale would be told. But then a detour down some side roads inMinnesota and Bossburg gave a hint of a bizarre new age ahead. Theensuing period became known as one of high strangeness.

The impact of those times still influences thestories gathered, and the books produced today. It was an era inwhich the mixing of several threads of the inexplicable overlapped,danced about together, and merged. Bigfoot met Forteana, whether itwas globes, cattle mutilations, electromagnetic effects, or otherbizarre imports from the world of the so-called paranormal.

Ufologist Jerome Clark talks of the transformationsof this period in his 1996 encyclopedia, High Strangeness: UFOsfrom 1960 through 1979. Clark noted that the UFO controversy[changed] from a debate about aerial phenomena into one aboutexperiences at ground level[in which] the strangeness of thecontent of these claims seemed to escalate. No wonder manyufologists lost their bearings. The distinction between a hoaxerstall tale and a frightened witness sincere testimony blurs whenthe content of one is barely less outlandish than the other. Bothshameless liars and earnest souls told of meetings, sometimes withextended communication, with alien humanoids. Clark also notedthat other persons spoke falsely or sincerely of sightings ofhairy creatures, which he has characterized as Hairy Bipedsightings, some in conjunction, supposedly, with UFOs.

During the 1970s, individuals like Californiaresearcher Peter Guttilla began discussing what he saw as theoverlapping nature of Bigfoot and UFO reports. Mostly unaccreditedtalks between Guttilla, Barbara Ann Slate, and Alan Berry wouldlead to writings by Slate and Berry highlighting the UFO link toBigfoot sightings.

In Pennsylvania, UFO researcher Stan Gordon waspromoting attention for the strange hairy creature reports thatwere coming his way. He was especially intrigued by a rash ofreports beginning in 1973 that seemed to link sightings of Bigfootand UFOs. Gordon told of sightings on October 25, 1973, nearUniontown and Greensburg, on November 2, 1974, again nearUniontown, and on February 6, 1974, in rural Fayette County,Pennsylvania, in which glowing objects would be seen near whereBigfoot were also being seen. Through police officers alerting StanGordon, he and Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz did the primaryinvestigations on these cases. Tracks found at a landing site,Bigfoot seen near a UFO site, and other tentative associations madethe UFO/Bigfoot link for Gordon, and he was convinced of theinteractions. We have hundreds of unexplained cases that standout, he said.