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