Another big step into the world of Bigfoot for me was my Mother buying me the book “The Best of Sasquatch Bigfoot”. I devoured this book back then. Revisiting it now I am able to make copious notes that I will be sharing as I move forward on this blog.
The book is mostly highlights and interviews from John Green’s huge database of encounters (which I will also cover in the future). Many are interviews he conducted himself but most are from newspapers and historical record. This makes sense as Mr.Green was a newspaper reporter and owner. The first part is focused on the details of the Patterson/Gimlin film and how it could not been have faked.
But what really got my attention was the $100,000 reward that had been offered by the Willow Creek China Flat Museum. I can’t find any detail of it being offered any longer. But no matter, it’s not the money that interests me but the details. The reward was for anyone who could demonstrate how to fake the Bigfoot tracks that were found in the Bluff Creek valley in northern California in 1958.
Here were their requirements:
A successful applicant will have to be able to make flat-footed, humanlike tracks with more than twice the area of human feet and longer-than-human strides which do the following:
1) Traverse a variety of terrains, including climbing, descending and crossing steep slopes covered with underbrush;
2) Show variations of shape and toe position and stride accommodating to the terrain;
3) Sink into firm ground to far greater depth than human footprints specifically as much as an inch deep in hard sand where human prints barely penetrate at all;
4) Leave hard objects in the ground, such as stones, sticking up above the rest of the track.
The applicant will also have to be able to make these tracks under the following conditions, although not all in combination: 1) In the dark, hundreds in a single night; 2) In places where it is impossible to bring any vehicle or other machine or any equipment except what humans or animals could carry; 3) Without doing anything to attract the notice of people a few hundred yards away.
The Best of Sasquatch Bigfoot from Amazon.com