Subject: Bigfoot 2. 
Feb. 10, 2012.

  This talks aboutg a lot of sightings made on Bluff Creek Road.

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August 14, 1960. Bob Titmus sees the same 2 sets of BF tracks he saw
a week before (see 64) on Mill Creek Ridge Road, 8 miles southeast of
Hoopa.

Notice Creek
June 13, 1963. BF tracks 16 inches long are found crossing Notice
Creek near Bluff Creek only 100 feet away from where 3 men were
sleeping in a car.

1965 Indian road grader operator Dewey Haupe hears distant night
whistles while bear hunting with Titmus, one whistle would cause a
return whistle from opposite direction. Titmus tells Haupe it's BF.

Bluff Creek and Blue Creek Mountain Roads, logging roads June 19,
1967 Dewey Haupe finds lg tracks around his road grader 8am on a
Monday morning; tell friend Larry Omeg then phones Titmus from
Ed Saunder's place.

Summer 1967 Jim McClarin begins carving his now famous "Willow
Creek BF Statue." No specific date given, just summer.
August 1967. BF tracks 16 inches long are found for 3 miles on Bluff
Creek Road going from East Fork to Notice Creek by Bud Ryerson;
he notifies Bob Titmus. August 1967 J. Crew and D. Haupe mention
to Titmus a disturbance around the equipment staging area down
near the bridge, vandals or BF?
August 1967. Bud Ryerson sees hundreds of 13 to 15 inch BF tracks
on the road he is building on Blue Creek Mountain, west of Bluff
Creek. Tractor parts are scattered all over the area; he notifies
John Green, Bob Titmus and Al Hodgson. Green brings in tracking
dogs, Jim McClarin, Rene Dahinden, S.C. Buttram and Dale Moffitt.

August 27/September Labor Day week1967 John Green and Rene
Dahinden fly down to Bluff Creek in chartered Cessna 185 landing at
Orleans airstrip; tracks are photographed. Al Hodgson and son Mike
drive family station wagon to pick them up. Green tells Al Hodgsons
to phone Patterson.

October 20, 1967. Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson see and film
motion pictures of a female BF just above Notice Creek between
Onion Mountain, Bee Mountain and Fish Creek Butte. Her tracks
measure 14 inches long.

Bluff Creek, California
1958. Lawrence Omeg sees a Bigfoot outside his shack after work
on a logging job. He quits his job and leaves the following day.

September, 1958.
Bigfoot tracks are seen 4 different times on Bluff Creek Road, Titmus
is notified.

October 1, 1958. Jerry Crew finds a quarter mile of BF tracks on Bluff
Creek Road and makes casts.

October 12, 1958. Ray Kerr and Leslie Brezeale see a BF
cross a 20' road in 2 strides and find tracks several miles
south of where they are usually seen on Bluff Creek Road.
Hired by Ray Wallace to track BF, they redouble their hunting
effort but their dogs disappear a few days later and are
never seen again. (The hunting dogs belonged to Ivan Marx)

A husband and wife flying a private plane over Bluff Creek
see and follow BF tracks until they pass over the BF making
them.

Mid October, 1958. BF tracks are seen again in Bluff Creek.

October 23, 1958. BF tracks are seen on Bluff Creek Road
once again.

October 28, 1958. 2 miles of 16" BF tracks are seen on Bluff
Creek Road.

October 30, 1958. BF tracks are seen going down a hill from
Bluff Creek Road.

November 2, 1958. Bob Titmus and Ed Patrick find BF tracks
on a Bluff Creek Sandbar.

December 18. 1958.
Betty Allen finds 6 miles of BF tracks on Bluff Creek Road,
expressed fear in her articles.

August 16, 1959. Bob Titmus finds 300 yards of BF tracks along
Bluff Creek Sandbar.

August 30, 1959. Bob Titmus finds more BF tracks at Bluff
Creek Sandbar.
November 1, 1959. Bob Titmus finds more BF tracks at Bluff
Creek Sandbar, notifies Tom Slick, Green & Dahinden.

November 2, 1959.
Betty Allen finds BF tracks coming down a canyon and along Bluff
Creek Road.

January 30, 1960.
Betty Allen finds BF tracks around a shovel loader on Humboldt Fir
logging road at Bluff Creek.

June 19, 1960. Dr. Charles Johnson and his family find BF tracks
on both sides of the Klamath River a half mile west of Bluff Creek.

August 19, 1962. Skip Clark finds and casts Bigfoot tracks at Bluff
Creek sandbar.

September 26, 1962.
Bob Titmus finds miles of BF tracks on Bluff Creek Road and in the
creek bottom itself.

June 22, 1963. Skip Clark finds and casts a 15 inch BF track on
Bluff Creek sandbar.

1963. Thomas Sourwine says a 300 pound boulder was used to
repeatedly hit road building equipment near Bluff Creek.

June 30, 1963. BF tracks 10 to 15 inches long are found and cast
in the Bluff Creek area.

1963. Pat Graves follows BF tracks for 5 miles from Laird Meadow
to Bluff Creek Road at Notice Creek. Sticks in thick are found
broken in the tracks.

 Dave Blake finds BF tracks where a barrel of diesel fuel was
thrown off the road.

1963. BF tracks 15 inches long are found at Bluff Creek logging
operations, with boxes of spikes thrown around and sticks of
dynamite bitten into.

August, 1963.
BF tracks are found on Bluff Creek Road at Notice Creek bridge.

October 1963.
Al Hodgson finds a set of BF tracks a few hundred yards above the
Notice Creek bridge at Bluff Creek sandbar. The sandbar was
washed away in the 1964 flood.
July 1964. Scout Master Joe Christensen Sr., and Boy Scout Camp
medic Dick Beathel found (a mile from the camp) 17 inch by 7
1/2 inch bare footprints in the mud and cast them. The stride was
around five feet between imprints; five toes. Photo of casts were
published in the Modesto Bee on July 16, 1964. The location was
7 miles northeast of Mariposa, Mariposa County, California.

Summer 1964.
Dave Blake often finds BF tracks at Laid Meadow at Blake and
Tregoning Logging operation west of Bluff Creek. A culvert 4 feet
in diameter and 20 feet long is thrown into the canyon and 450
pound barrels of diesel fuel are moved around.

August 21, 1964. Roger Patterson finds and casts 17 inch tracks
with a 52 inch stride on Laird Meadow Road.
September, 1964.
Samuel Brewer Jr. finds and casts a 15 - inch BF tracks with a 47
inch stride along Bluff Creek.

Fall, 1964. Dave Blake sees BF tracks around his logging equipment
every morning for a week. A trailer load of 18 inch culverts is
overturned while men are working nearby.

1965. Jay Rowland finds BF tracks along Bluff Creek a short
distance from Notice Creek.

July, 1965. Steve Sanders and 2 others sleeping the a tent awake to
see a large finger or stick opening their tent flap. Their yells scare
it off. Investigating the next day, they find BF tracks 17 inches
long and 7 inches wide around their tent at Blue Lake near Bluff Creek.

1966.
Richard Sides sees a BF squatting at Bluff Creek drinking water with
cupped hands.

Fall, 1966.
Jay Roland sees BF tracks on a road a Scorpion Creek in the Bluff
Creek area.
October 25, 1966. Dan Mullens finds BF tracks and an unopened case
of oil cans crushed on Notice Creek.

August, 1967. Several BF tracks are found and cast by a road crew
on Onion Mountain, west of Bluff Creek. The tracks measure 13 and
15 inches long.
August, 1967 Al Hodgson see's Patterson's 9" track on Bluff Creek
Sandbar; casts a 14" track
August 1967. Bud Ryerson sees hundreds of 13 to 15 inch BF tracks
on the road he is building on Blue Creek Mountain, west of Bluff Creek.
Tractor parts are scattered all over the area. Notifies John Green
by company radio phone saying, "What you're looking for is here..."
August 15, 1967 Road grader operator Dewey Haupe arriving early to
work discovers hour glass tracks near water tower, notifies Titmus.

September, 1967 Roger Patterson poured a plaster of paris cast of a
left & right 9" child's track

November, 1967 - In remote area John Wenger of Summit City,
found huge footprints showing only ball and five toes, no claws on
the north shore of Shasta Lake.
The tracks went across sand isthmus towards brush covered two
acre island off shore two miles east of Shasta Dam. Wenger
counted seven clear tracks.
Barry Hennings of the Record Searchlight newspaper took casts
and photographs; published them November 10, 1967.

June 1968. Steve Marlin and Bruce Cornwall find BF tracks
between Bluff Creek and Fish Lake.

January 1969. Pat Graves sees BF tracks from a plane between
Blue Creek Divide and Nikowitz Road.
1969. Peter Byrne, Brian Matthes and Steve Matthes find Bigfoot
tracks along Bluff Creek. Byrne does exhaustive investigation of
Patterson site in 1972, photos in B & W.

Late May, 1969. Dr. Bernard Northrup and a party of San Francisco
Theological Seminary Students find over 1000 16" BF tracks in
the Bluff Creek area.
They also find torn, twisted bark stripped from the trees near
the tracks in the sand. It may be that the individual who left the
big 16" tracks after the summer 1967 at Bluff Creek was one of
the survivors; and it may also be that this was the same individual
whose track Jerry Crew first cast that became a media sensation.

August, 1969. The owner of the Bluff Creek Resort and a small
cluster of fishing cabins, Ed Saunders found a line of 16-inch
Bigfoot tracks in the sandbar at the mouth of Bull Creek in the
Bluff Creek area.

Bill Saunders, Ed's brother acted the mechanic and handyman
there in and around the resort. Ed and his wife were a bit edgy
about scaring off the public

Part 2.

John Winston.   johnfw@mlode.com