An Oregon man intent on proving the existence of the mythical creatures known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Abominable Snowman and Yeti in managed to get the FBI to test hair and tissue samples that he believed might help his case, according to newly released records. On Wednesday, the same man who spurred that analysis, year-old Peter Byrne, told CNBC that he still hasn't given up hope of proving that Bigfoot is a real — if exceedingly rare — creature.
Byrne's web page says that he "has always had an interest in the unknown and the mysterious" since his father used to tell him bedtime stories about the Yeti of the Himalayas.
The page says his "first opportunity to go looking for the Yeti occurred in , when he was still in the British Royal Air Force in Bombay, India. A photo on that page shows him "with the famous Yeti scalp" at a temple in the Himalayas in Nepal in His desire to see a Yeti for himself led him to launch three extensive expeditions searching for the Yeti in Nepal in the late s.
Byrne said that in the past 50 years he had found two or three sets of possible Yeti footprints, with five toes on each foot, left in tracks in the Himalayas, at altitudes of 15, feet. But he conceded Wednesday that those prints could have been left by Hindu holy men, or sadhus, whom he has seen walking barefoot in the snows at such heights. After moving to the U.
On Aug. Jerry Crew was clearing away brush and stumps near Bluff Creek, about miles north of San Francisco, when he found enormous, manlike footprints in the mud. Shocked, he relayed the news — and discovered his colleagues had also spotted mammoth tracks several times. News of their sighting was published in the local Humboldt Times. Was the story true? After Crew's co-worker Ray Wallace died at 84 in , his children revealed a secret Wallace had concealed for decades: He'd made the prints by stomping in the mud with carved wooden feet.
It was all "just a joke," they said. News of Wallace's hoax, however, barely registered with Bigfoot believers. Today, "interest in the existence of the creature is at an all-time high," said paleontologist Darren Naish.
In May, thousands of believers will attend one of the largest-ever Bigfoot conferences, in Ohio, where, organizers say, "speakers from across the Bigfoot community Is Bigfoot a purely American phenomenon?
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Native Americans in Oregon have increasingly situated Bigfoot within traditional belief systems as beings with deeply rooted cultural significance. Sightings and stories continue on reservations today, representing a spiritual connection to the pre-contact past and the resilience of Indigenous cultural heritage. It has also been playfully promoted in state legislation and celebrations.
A number of prominent writers have reflected thoughtfully on the tradition in literature that explores changing attitudes toward the natural world.
In The Klamath Knot , for example, natural historian David Rains Wallace uses Bigfoot to discuss relict species, mythic themes, and evolutionary narratives in his portrait of the Klamath Mountains. Portland-based novelist Molly Gloss borrows from both Native American traditions and the legacy of feminist primatology in Wild Life , an elegant fiction of ecological sensibilities and zoological mystery on the lower Columbia River in the early twentieth century.
Like salmon, Bigfoot has become an important symbolic resource through which many Oregonians and Northwest residents have defined their identities and considered their place in the natural world. A plaster cast of a footprint of an "abominable snow lady" that Roger Patterson claimed he filmed in Northern California.
Randall V. Mills Archives, Oregon Folklife Alliance coll.
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