Do You Remember When the Bigfoot Body was Found in '62?

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Guest Editor-Blogger: Dale Saxton

Yes, Linda, I do remember when it was found in '62. No, I never saw the photo but do know quite well one of the men who found it. He is in a retirement home. It was told to me in 1965. I think about the creature being found dead; at that time, I wasn't too much into Bigfoot. I'm going to go to Brookings next week and I will stop to see him. He may or may not remember anymore than we do at this point as he is around 87 now. Thanks for showing the pictures to all.

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The above post is in regard to Brandy's post of January 22, 2010. Here it is in part.

...By the way, my boss was telling me back in Oct. of 1962 a great storm hit Oregon, called The Columbus Day Storm. Anyway, he said that some men who were clearing wind felled trees off a logging road found a Bigfoot dead under a downed tree. He said it was decomposed to the point where they first thought it was a mutated bear, until they saw hands on it instead of paws. This thing was much larger than a bear and had a face of a human and ape. He said the Smithsonian Institute has it. Have you ever heard of it?

And post from Greg:

There was an unknown type of animal found by a Griffy and Laird crew on 11/'62, while removing wind blown trees from a Greyback spur road. If I remember right they shipped it off to the Department of Interior for autopsy. The animal was badly decomposed at the time. It was said it was much too big for a bear. Also, the report stated that it had hands and feet resembling a humans but of a larger size. You could get this information under The Freedom of Information Act. I do not have any photos of it anymore as they were sent with the report to DOI. As I remember the photos were not all that good. The animal had been dead for a month at the time of discovery.

And this post, here in part, from Milred:

...When the Columbus Day Storm hit, my husband and I lived in Kerby, Oregon. We are positive there was a picture of that hairy ape-like thing on the wall in the Junction Cafe in Cave Junction. I wonder if the cafe is still there. It was truly a sight to see. It showed the hands, feet and fingers of it and the face was not that of a bear. It was quite ugly it seems. The huge fir tree that fell on it didn't do it any good.

The Cafe has burned and does not exist anymore.

Dale Saxton Voices His Opinion on Bigfoot

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Guest Editor-Blogger: Dale Saxton

Bigfoot is a very elusive animal. Over the years, I have tried to rack my brain on how this animal has evaded the general public for so long. Many things point to the fact that people who get a look at it are just in the right place at the right time.

I have worked in the forest all my life and have only seen a few tracks in the 40 plus years that I was building timber access roads. This animal has to be intelligent to the point of hiding so well. Many people think the Bigfoot is a human gone wild.

I have to disagree with that because there is no evidence that they cook or use any kind of tools that were used by prehistoric man. People need to know these creatures can be extremely dangerous if cornered. Many speak of a shy acting Bigfoot, yet others tell of very aggressive behavior by them.

Some of the damage left behind shows the shear strength of them. The animal would be difficult to capture because of the size involved. There is no doubt the creature will be recognized by the general public in the near future as a real living animal or missing link to man. There are a lot of very good people in the field now trying to prove Bigfoot is real with very good high tech equipment.

Linda is assuming this is Julie Walton

Guest Editor-Blogger: Julie Walton

The local USFS rangers around here know Dale through years of working with him and have a common trust with him. He has never tried to charge anybody for his research or supplies or the use of his trailers, pickups etc. He has never went on TV or radio to talk about Bigfoot. As one of the volumteers that spent two weeks up there, I have to say we couldn't have been with better company. He's a down to

earth type of guy.

As a wildlife biologist, I feel Dale is excellent at looking at all the possibilitites. This study is not being financed by USFS. Nobody other than the four of us are looking  into this strange case. Many calls have come into our ranger district office on what is going on up there and Sasquatch hunters demanding that they have access to the lake. This kind of in-fighting is not from any kind of professionals that I'd want to be with.

I feel that we will conclude this mystery in the foreseeable future.

Guest Editor-Blogger: FS Field

Today, Sunday the 24th, Paul and Dale of the research team went into Squaw Lake to check cameras but were unable to reach them. The snow is over 3 feet in there now and snowing hard. Snowmobiles were used but still couldn't reach them as they are on very steep ground.