Author: Siggy Shade

Fifty-nine seconds at Bluff Creek On 20 October 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin rode on horseback into the Bluff Creek drainage in northern California, a place already famous for giant footprints, and came out with the most contested minute of film ever shot. Patterson’s rented 16mm Kodak camera caught a dark, heavy-shouldered figure walking […]

Bigfoot: the legend that refuses to leave the woods In August 1958, a bulldozer operator named Jerry Crew walked into a newspaper office in Eureka, California, carrying a plaster cast. He had found enormous, human-like footprints around his logging site in the Bluff Creek valley, and the crew had taken to calling whatever made them […]