Did Bigfoot Stalk Loggers in the Pacific Northwest?

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Published 2024-02-23
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Bigfoot wasn't always a household name. Back in the 1950's, you were unlikely to hear the term anywhere outside of Northern California, Oregon, or Washington. But then, in 1958, a man by the name of Jerry Crew came forward with something truly fascinating: a plaster cast of an absolutely massive human footprint. It struck a chord with some locals, who could recall reports by miners of a similar set of tracks discovered at Ape Canyon in Washington back in 1924, while others told of old hunting stories or even other casts of prints (though they never called it "Bigfoot"). Local reporters even began to dig up old Native American legends to compare with the sightings. In1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin presented yet another shock to the world: a video tape allegedly depicting a female "Bigfoot" they called Patty walking through the Bluff Creek area, precisely where the tracks were found nine years earlier. The question is, was any of it actually real? Welcome back to The Lore Lodge...

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0:00 - Intro
4:00 - Aura Ad
6:12 - The Battle of Ape Canyon
13:54 - The Death Valley Mummies
19:24 - The Bluff Creek Incident
28:10 - The Patterson-Gimlin Film
42:25 - The Native American Bigfoot
50:21 - Primer for Episode II

All Comments (21)
  • @TheLoreLodge
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  • @gyver8448
    The fact that this story involves a dude named Hank Hill is the best part for me.
  • @jeezycreezy4220
    I am an adult. I am 38 years old. I laughed uncontrollably at "Big Fussy"
  • @megpie404
    I am an adult. I am 26 years old. I am not grown. 😂😂😂
  • @halg5867
    As a Pacific Northwesterner and a fellow Bigfoot I can honestly say yes. We're definitely stalking the Loggers up here.
  • @jakobbeelar
    My dad is a timber faller and has worked all over California since the mid 80s. He was raised in rural Montana, the eldest of 13, and very Christian. He doesn't believe in the paranormal or evolution, but he believes the Bigfoot exists. He has a few stories of encountering something in the woods, and he didn't believe it was Bigfoot until the Camp Sierra tapes (if I'm remembering correctly) came out and he heard the howling, or calls as my dad puts it. He said he had heard those same calls before, deep out in the mountains only a few times. He's spent a majority of the last 5 decades in the woods, and he's not a bullshitter. Makes me a bit more inclined to believe this stuff, but also I like the stories for what they are. Edit: My dad moved to California in the 80s but he would drive down from Montana with some of his brothers to fall trees during the winter, and one of those winters he heard the "calls" with my uncles. Then the camp Sierra Tapes came out and he said the sounds were exactly the same.
  • @T3nch1
    Every time someone mentions Giants I half expect Wendigoon to make a cameo appearance.
  • I'm gonna say definitely, I live In Port Angeles (born and raised) and I've heard a few stories from old loggers out in Joyce and I've seen and heard a few things that has me convinced. The woods can be a very strange place
  • @tonybell2801
    “He’s the anti-Jazzman of New Orleans” is perfect sentence.
  • @oliversolar3504
    a lore lodge upload is the only thing that gets me through the week
  • Another Port Angeles, Washington resident here🙋🏼‍♂️ All I know is that I grew up solo hiking the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years. Up here I refuse to go out on trail alone. Even with proper gear and properly armed. Even my dog, a white and beige pit bull, acts like he knows he’s being watched. Up here it’s well understood that something’s out there.
  • This was a welcome addition of content to feed my bigfoot addiction when I've already binged all of Bob Gymlan's videos twice over
  • @tailguner
    Jane Goodall believed the Patterson creature to be a real sasquatch. That's good enough for me.
  • @formanta.matmos
    Ya'll should be posting episode bibliographies. Not just to further legitimize your work, but to encourage peer research and review. Great work overall.
  • @williamdunhan341
    The Bob Gymlan YouTube channel has a GREAT video on the Ape Canyon Incident.
  • @prjndigo
    "mountain dew" actually refers to the condensate outside the apparatus that would commonly have pollen in it that was still collected and sold. It was smokey and lightly greenish.
  • @mattrogersftw
    I hiked Mt st Helen's solo a few years ago with a 2am start and that trek through the forest to treeline was the scariest forest I've ever been in. Complete silence and complete blackness and trunks rising into the dark. I thought I ran into bigfoot after seeing eyes behind me from behind a tree, but it was just an elk😂
  • I was a 10 year old, in my optometrist's office, when I saw an ARGOSY Magazine with Patterson's photo. My interest in cryptos started there, and remain. I lived and still live in Oregon. 1967 or '68.
  • @feetoorourke
    For part 2, please find some older Washington loggers, especially ones that cleaned up St Helens.