1967 Truly Was The Year Of The Bigfoot

We all know about the Patterson Gimlin Film of 1967, but do you know the other major events that took place in that same area that very same year? Steven Streufert, owner of Bigfoot Books and member of the Bluff Creek Project, lays out the timeline (link at the end of this article) of the events that took place in the Bluff Creek basin in 1967, that would help shape the bigfoot world forever.

In 1967 three major events in Bigfoot history occurred in the Bluff Creek basin, First, in late August, tracks were found along the dirt road and adjacent hillsides of Onion Mountain. These were investigated by John Green and Rene Dahinden. Then, a few days later, just after John Green had gotten back home in Canada, another track collection, this time of three different sizes of feet, was found on nearby Blue Creek Mountain. Contractor Bud Ryerson called Green on a radio phone of some sort, and another trip down to California was put together immediately. This time they brought a tracking dog, White Lady, her handler Dale Moffit, the pilot Keith Chiazarri (often mistaken for Bob Titmus by "Massacre Theory adherents like MK Davis and Bobbie Short). Of note regarding these two track finds is that the images in the ground and the casts both appear to be perfect matches for wooden footprint stompers made by one Ray Wallace, erstwhile Bluff Creek road-building contractor. Ray had moved from Willow Creek by then, but his brother Wilbur "Shorty" still lived there (in the house next door to where I myself now reside, in fact).

The other event of that year, of course, was the capture (or making) of the Patterson-Gimlin film. Right after Green and the others had left the area, local shop owner and Bigfoot go-to guy, Al Hodgson, called the Patterson home and spoke with Roger's wife, Patricia, about he events. Roger and Bob were out at Mount St. Helens around that time of the Labor Day weekend, but when they got back and heard the news they immediately started planning for an expedition to Bluff Creek. They didn't make it out of Yakima until very late September (according to Gimlin's current memory), or sometime in earlier October (according to other accounts).

For more, see the timeline of these events, following these two classic videos from that time.

Two classics from Bluff Creek history, to which I've added the stabilization from YouTube. I've posted these so that they won't ever disappear from the internet.

Rene Dahinden's footage from Bluff Creek, while investigating the Blue Creek Mountain trackway, and subsequent footprint finds. This is the so-called "Tracking Dog Video," which is mistakenly associated by MK Davis and others with the Patterson-Gimlin film event that occurred nearly two months later. This is from late August and the first days of September, 1967, while the PGF was shot on October 20th that year. Please note, there are no "dead Bigfoot" in this footage, and no blood on "Titmus'" hands. In fact, that is Keith Chiazarri, the pilot for the trip down from Canada.

For the full article and timeline, click here.