Guest Post: Interesting facts about the Patterson sasquatch footprints

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by William Jevning (@bukwas01), 38 year veteran sasquatch investigator, and author of "Notes From the Field, Tracking North America's Sasquatch". Read more about Jevning at his Bigfoot blog, Bigfoot Researcher.

10 days after the filming...

Ten days after Patterson and Gimlin filmed the Sasquatch, taxedermist Bob Titmus went to the film site, he photographed the footprints and cast a number of the tracks himself, this is one of them. Skeptics often claim that the footprints are made with nothing more than carved wooden feet, but this track clearly shows a flexible living foot, note the way it flexes over the buried tree branch here.

About the original footprint casts...

After their encounter with the Sasquatch that October day, Patterson and Gimlin covered some of the creatures footprints with bark from nearby trees, fearing it would rain and destroy them. They returned to camp and got plaster to make impressions of the tracks. Patterson made three castings, one broke however and they were left with castings of the left and right foot. Rene' Dahinden became business partners with Patterson a couple years later and eventually came into posession of the casts Patterson made that day. Dahinden loaned me the original casts which I made molds from, these casts are copies I made from those molds, the original casts are still in Rene's belongings held by his two son's today.

Original Patterson cast

Copy of original