Bigfoot Footprints!

The whole basis of the reality of the Bigfoot legend rests largely on the hundreds of footprint casts that have been made and collected. It would be foolish to assume that every footprint is genuine as the Bigfoot mystery is contaminated more than any other, by hoaxers. However it would be equally foolish to assume that every footprint is a hoax.

From Bigfoot-lives.com:

As John Napia puts it, the hoax argument would require “the existence of a conspiracy of mafia like ramifications with cells in practically every major township from San Francisco to Vancouver.”

Although sightings of Large manlike creatures in North America pre-date the arrival of Europeans, reports of footprints however are more recent and there is a mention of large tracks in the early 19th Century. An early settler by the name of David Thompson, crossed the Rockies near the present site of Jasper, Alberta in the winter of 1811. He mentions coming across the tracks of a large animal. The entry in his journal reads...

“Continuing our journey in the afternoon we came on the track of a large animal, the snow about six inches deep on the ice; I measured it; four large toes of four inches in length to each a short claw; the ball of the foot sunk three inches lower than the toes, the hinder part of the foot did not mark well, the length fourteen inches, by eight inches in breadth, walking from north to south, and having passed about six hours. We were in no humor to follow him.... its great size was not that of a bear.”

Footprints as significant evidence for the existence of Bigfoot really came to the fore during the 1950’s in the Bluff Creek area.

As soon as the area was opened up for logging, footprints were seen on a regular basis and it was a plaster cast made by logging forman Jerry Crew of one of these prints that led to the phrase ‘Bigfoot’ being used for the first time.

The late John Green has said that in 1980 he had over 200 track reports from Northern California alone, going back as far as 1870. The oldest was a picture of a track taken in 1947.“...footprints are the only available form of evidence on which objective judgments can be made. The reality of Bigfoot, in theory at any rate, stands or falls on the impressions that in its passage it has left on the skin of the earth. ”

Bob Titmus and Sly McCoy with three different bigfoot footprint casts. 17, 16, and 15 inches long.
Taken 60 miles south of Bluff Creek.

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