Oregon Bigfoot Blog

This is the second in a series of three personal encounters shared by eyewitness Thom Cantrall. His articulate and humorous writing style, as well as his knowledge of the woods of the Pacific Northwest as a long-time Forest Engineer, make his firsthand accounts an enjoyable read.

Thom has written a fiction novel, Ghosts of Ruby Ridge, available here.

Thank you for sharing your encounters with us, Thom!

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Winter’s Wonderland

By Thom Cantrall

Hoko River on the Olympic Peninsula – 1970

For those of you who understood that the title “professional suicide” was tongue-in-cheek and said simply to make the point that there would be those who would consider it such, that I am not “leaving the bigfoot community” but simply changing my focus, that I’ve stayed quietly in my little corner of the world for years and have only come forward now because I believe in this, that my intent was to present a powerful message in support of witnesses, that the frustration you heard simply echoes that of dozens of witnesses I’ve spoken with over the years – a frustration that I have shared – that I was not intending to attack the peers who have been my friends for years but rather present a challenge to those particular researchers who found something in there that hit home enough to irritate them, and that none of this is done lightly, or as a means of “creating hype” for a book that isn’t even finished yet (because what’s occurring at this very moment is relative to and part of the story) or for the purpose of marketing or profiteering, but was an attempt to put into context what I am about to share with you…

Or are these the most extensive recordings of Sasquatch screams ever? In today’s blog, I’m taking you on an extensive journey to determine whether the sounds we’re calling “sasquatch” are those of an unknown primate – or simply misidentified coyote calls.

Christmas Eve 2009 Recordings – Pierce County, Washington

Oregon Bigfoot investigator Troy Chaffee sent me the following on 12/24/2009:

Autumn-

I have 28 minutes of audio recording I made this morning at my place.

Believing in Bigfoot

by Richard Creecy

Sasquatch draws a metaphorical line in the sand and, like other “monster” sightings, beckons the masses to cross the line and assert their belief or stand in opposition to it. Upon reading the word “Bigfoot” most people automatically kick into one of two modes: rabid believer or dismissive. [more...]

Wash. bigfoot hunter says fossil proves creature’s existence

by Bryan Johnson

He found footprints on Mount Rainier in 1990. He found them near the Sauk River in Arlington. But he now has new proof: an imprint of a fossil from the Jurassic age he found on a river bed in Texas. [more...]

Yesterday, I posed a question and asked all of you for feedback. I got it in spades, and I want to thank each and every one of you for your thought-provoking replies and the time it took to craft them.

The question was this:

Would you still want [information that would help explain the nature of Bigfoot], knowing that I will NOT provide you with anything that will constitute “proof”, because I’m afraid of what would happen if I did? Will you allow me to appease your curiosity while protecting the subject of your interest?

Time crunched today, so please forgive the brevity of this update.

Upright? Yes. Hunched? Yes. Hunkering. Yup. Human? Yup. Appears so.

I got this email from a reader today:

“After reading your blog on this, I purchased the Blu-Ray version of “Great North” to see the footage on my large screen HDTV.
I hate to say it, but on the Blu-Ray, you can clearly see that it’s a person, presumably a member of the crew, and he clearly has a backpack on.

Sincerely,
Robert”