Tribute to Bigfoot Research Pioneers
This is a brief tribute to the veterans, pioneers and innovators in Sasquatch Research over the past decades. Many researchers sacrificed their scientific careers, reputations or faced ridicule to dedicate their entire life to Sasquatch research. These brave men and women are honored and remembered.
John Green (1927-2016)
Canadian Journalist from Vancouver, B.C. who became a prominent Sasquatch researcher and investigator. Green met Rene Dahinden and investigated tracks around Bluff Creek, California. He has authored several books including Year of the Sasquatch (1970).
Rene Dahinden (1930-2001)
Dahinden was a Swiss Canadian Sasquatch researcher; he has conducted many investigations and interviews in the Pacific northwest. He was dubbed one of the ‘Four Horsemen of Sasquatchery’ along with John Green, Peter Byrne, and Grover Krantz.
Bob Titmus
He is one of the earliest Bigfoot researchers and was quite active researching in the Bluff Creek area; he showed Jerry Crew how to make a plaster cast during the late 1950s. He shied the spotlight and made few public appearances. He lived and researched in B.C., Canada for several years.
Roger Patterson (1933-1972)
Rodeo rider and filmmaker in California, who filmed the famous footage of the female Sasquatch in Bluff Creek, California on October 20, 1967.
Bob Gimlin (1931- )
Horse trainer and rodeo rider, he was a friend of Roger Patterson. The two rode in Bluff Creek, California searching for signs of Bigfoot. Gimlin witnessed the Sasquatch during the filming on October 20, 1967.
Dr. Grover Krantz (1931-2002)
Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University, Krantz is considered a pioneer in the study of Sasquatch.
Dr. John Bindernagel (1941-2018)
Canadian Wildlife Biologist born in Kitchener, Ontario, he became a Sasquatch researcher since 1963. He moved to B.C in 1975 and has written books about Sasquatch.
Peter Byrne (1925-2023)
Born in Dublin, Byrne was an Irish explorer, author and Bigfoot researcher. He appeared in numerous documentaries and TV Shows including In Search Of.. (1977, 1978) with Leonard Nimoy and Unexplained Mysteries (2004) hosted by Robert Stack.
Dmitri Bayanov
Russian Sasquatch researcher. He is the director of the International Center of Hominology (ICH) based in Moscow, Russia. He wrote the book The Making of Hominology: A Science Whose Time Has Come. He is also a founding board member of the International Society of Cryptozoology.
Igor Burtsev
Russian Sasquatch researcher and author. He wrote among other titles Introduction to Hominology.
Ron Morehead
American author, Sasquatch researcher and the producer of the Sierra Sounds. Morehead recorded Sasquatch vocalizations in the Sierra Neveda mountains in 1971 and appeared in documentaries such as Missing 411: The Hunted. He is also the author of Quantum Bigfoot.
Paul Freeman (1943-2003)
American Bigfoot researcher, who filmed footage of a Sasquatch near Blue Mountains, Oregon in 1994.
Scott Carpenter (1963-2023)
Influential American Sasquatch researcher, US Air Force veteran and a member of the North American Bigfoot Search (NABS). He is the author of the book: Truth Denied: The Sasquatch DNA Study. He had a YouTube channel and blogs.
Dr. Melba Ketchum
An American veterinarian and Sasquatch researcher from Texas. Dr. Ketchum has actively researched Sasquatch DNA and has stated that the Sasquatch is a human hybrid. According to her studies, they are the result of breeding between Homo Sapiens females and an unknown Hominid, which would have occurred some 15,000 years ago. Her website is the Sasquatch Genome Project.
David Paulides
He is an American former police officer and Sasquatch researcher. He is also the founder of Missing 411 and has published numerous books and films about missing persons in National Parks, across North America and worldwide. He founded the North American Bigfoot Search (NABS), who have sent Sasquatch hairs for fibre analysis and DNA extraction.
Harvey Pratt
David Paulides has employed Oklahoma forensic sketch artist Harvey Pratt to draw sketches of Sasquatch portraits with witnesses.
Thom Powell
American Sasquatch researcher and author, and former field investigator for the BFRO. Powell wrote the book The Locals.
Scott Nelson
American US Navy veteran, Sasquatch researcher and cryptolinguist. He analyzed the Sasquatch recordings from Al Berry and Ron Morehead’s Sierra Sounds and has decoded language patterns.
Jerry Crew
The logger who found large footprints with his construction group in Bluff Creek, Humboldt County in 1958. He took a cast measuring 17 by 6 inches and brought it to the Humboldt Times office.
Andrew Genzoli
Journalist in Humboldt County, California. He published the story ‘Giant footprints puzzle residents along Trinity River’ in The Humboldt Times, in October 1958. The article states that Jerry Crew found Sasquatch footprints in Bluff Creek. The article made the first mention of the term ‘Bigfoot’.
Shout out to all the men and women who have helped develop Sasquatch research and awareness over the past decades.
Thank you.
Eastern Canada Sasquatch Organization
2024
