New Series of BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT Videos. SQUATCHY HOLIDAYS to All!

BIGFOOT'S BLOG, MID-LATE DECEMBER 2010 EDITION

Christmas Sasquatch at the Willow Creek Bigfoot Motel

MERRY 
SQUATCHY 
CHRISTMAS 
Everyone!

This issue has yet even more
BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT 
videos for you, from our seemingly never-ending and ongoing series. You can view videos numbered Fourteen to Twenty-One here, of our studies into the true location and the history of the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film site.

Here you will see the second phase of our filming trips, with Robert Leiterman and Richard "Rip" Lyttle investigating the downstream "MK Davis Site," as well as the "Peter Byrne Site." After that you can sit with us a while at the famous Louse Camp as we discuss minutiae of the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film and the mysteries of Bluff Creek history. MORE are coming, so stay tuned. There will be nearly forty of these when all is said and done, and that is just from this year. We will do a whole new series next summer, and our conclusions and investigations will be much more advanced. New information has been pouring in from some very surprising sources. Bill Munns and Thomas Steenburg are among those who have suggested they'd like to join us then. Also, we're doing our best to get Daniel Perez up here again, on-site, for his rich opinions and information.

Have you seen the first eight???
WATCH PARTS ONE THROUGH THREE HERE ON BIGFOOT'S BLOG.
WATCH PARTS FOUR THROUGH EIGHT HERE.
WATCH PARTS NINE TO THIRTEEN HERE.
Click the links now or forever regret it.
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*NEW SERIES!* Here is PART FOURTEEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Herein you'll see our second filming trip up there, this one showing Robert Leiterman and Rip Lyttle exploring the OLD BLUFF CREEK ROAD, from Louse Camp up to the Bluff Creek Bridge.

Here is PART FIFTEEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Herein you'll see our second filming trip up there, this one showing Robert Leiterman exploring the MK DAVIS-proposed downstream film site location and looking for signs of the old creekside Bluff Creek Road.

Here is PART SIXTEEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Herein you'll see our second filming trip up there, this one showing Robert Leiterman and Rip Lyttle exploring down the creek to the MK DAVIS-proposed film site location looking for stumps, debris piles and old road cuts.

Here is PART SEVENTEEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Herein you'll see our second filming trip up there, this one showing day one with Robert Leiterman and Rip Lyttle exploring the MK DAVIS-proposed downstream film site location looking for old road cuts and stumps, and generally stomping around in the understory brush jungle getting close-up shots of leaves and branches.

Here is PART EIGHTEEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Herein you'll see our second filming trip up there, this one showing day one with Robert Leiterman and Rip Lyttle exploring the MK DAVIS-proposed downstream film site location again... more stumps, more sticks, more vine maples, more...

Here is PART NINETEEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Herein you'll see our second filming trip up there, this one showing day one with Robert Leiterman and Rip Lyttle exploring the PETER BYRNE-proposed film site location downstream from the General Consensus (Perez) Site. More tree trunks and stumps and footage of the understory, as well as an exploration up the hill where Byrne said the Big Tree is.

That completes Rip and Robert's investigations during the day before Ian and Yours Truly got up there. That night we all sat around the campfire at the Bigfoot Mecca, Louse Camp, site where the Pacific Northwest Expedition was based, and where so many other Bigfooters have camped. Here are two more videos of that, showing us planning our explorations of the day to follow.

*NEW PHASE!* Here is PART TWENTY of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Starting a new phase, here we have all four guys, Robert, Ian, Rip and Yours Truly, sitting around the campfire at Louse Camp discussing minutiae from the PGF history. We plan to hike up the creek the next day, and perhaps discover the original Patterson-Gimlin base camp. Filmed in night vision, yet no strange zombie creatures in there.

 Here is PART TWENTY-ONE of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Starting a new phase, here we have all four guys, Robert, Ian, Rip and Yours Truly, sitting around the campfire at Louse Camp discussing old maps and film site diagrams, hoping to discover where Patterson and Gimlin set up base camp, and what that tells us about the true film site location.

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If the above embedded video boxes don't pop up do check for them at BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Look in "Uploads" and then "See All." There's a lot of other cool stuff in there.
Or just click one of these links:

PART 14

Look closely in the background of our
campfire and you'll see THIS walk by!

PART 15
PART 16
PART 17
PART 18
PART 19
PART 20
PART 21

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HERE IS SOME MORE CHRISTMASY CHEER FOR YOU ALL....

FROM WIKIPEDIA: 
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a long-running Christmas television special produced in stop motion animation by Rankin/Bass. It first aired December 6, 1964, on the NBC television network in the USA, and was sponsored by General Electric under the umbrella title of The General Electric Fantasy Hour. It has been telecast every year since 1964, making it the longest running Christmas TV special.  

SUMMARY: After seeing his glowing nose, the other reindeer, Fireball included, start ridiculing Rudolph; Comet denies Rudolph from being with the other reindeer as a result. Clarice is the only reindeer who still likes Rudolph and tries to comfort him. However, their musings are interrupted by Clarice's father, who forbids Clarice from being around Rudolph. Feeling outcast, Rudolph runs away into the forest.While in the woods, Rudolph meets up with Hermey. The two bond after they discover they each have something that makes them unique. After deciding to be "independent" together, they set out to seek "Fame and Fortune." After the song ends, the Abominable Snow Monster, a carnivorous monster that hates Christmas and feeds on reindeer, chases them. The two manage to escape him.

Later, they meet a prospector named Yukon Cornelius who is obsessed with finding silver and gold. The trio manages to flee to the Island of Misfit Toys, ruled by a winged lion named King Moonracer. Because they are misfits but not toys, King Moonracer allows them to spend one night on his island. Rudolph leaves the island on his own, having realized that his nose is a danger to his friends. A few months later, Rudolph grows into a handsome young stag. He decides to return home despite being ridiculed. When Rudolph arrives back in his cave, he finds out that his parents are not there. He learns from Santa that they left to go looking for Rudolph, and Clarice went with them. Rudolph searches the North Pole and he finds his family and Clarice being held captive by the Abominable Snowman. Rudolph attempts to rescue them before Hermey and Yukon Cornelius find him and they try to help. They manage to knock out the Abominable while Hermey removes the monster's teeth, but Yukon knocks himself, his sled team, and the monster over a cliff when he stands up to the beast. The others return home, where they tell what happened to the others. Rudolph and Hermey stop being ridiculed, and the lead elf finally allows Hermey to open a dentist's office the week after Christmas. Yukon and the others, who survived, make a grand entrance with the Abominable, now reformed by Yukon. Everyone decides to keep the monster around because he can put a silver star on top of Christmas trees without a step-ladder. However, a strong blizzard is too much for Santa's team to handle, so Santa decides to cancel the Christmas Eve flight. But Rudolph's nose inspires him, and he asks Rudolph to lead his sleigh, which he agrees to. Rudolph leads the sleigh to the Island of Misfit Toys and takes the toys along the flight, where they are dropped off to their respective homes. With Rudolph leading the sleigh, it turns out to be a merry Christmas after all."

Did you know there is a brief second's view of two grey ALIENS
in the Rudolph special? They are hiding under the igloo that
gets blown away right at the start of the snowstorm.
(Thanks to Bryan Hart for the tip on this one! Photo by Bryan from TV.)

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Squatching!
Thanks to the Willow Creek Bigfoot Motel.
Photos by Steven Streufert.

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!

Me not real angry, hu-man. It Christmas, you say. Go be happy. Peace Out. Me in my cave, keep warm, sleep a lot. Me not Grinch, you know. Though me sure see hu-mans that are!

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All video shot and edited by Robert Leiterman. Copyrighted by him, with content from Steven Streufert and Ian (C.I.), and guest appearances by Richard "Rip" Lyttle, 2010. Film site images photographed on computer screens, from books, or on-site, as seen in the videos are used for research purposes only, and are seen being used as such. This blog is copyrighted too, by Steven Streufert and Bigfoot Books in its original content. You may borrow and quote for non-commercial purposes if full citation is given, preferably with notice to us and a kindly link to this blog. Thanks!

BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT, Another Update: EVEN MORE Videos Released; Bigfooters on Television; New Lenny Green

BIGFOOT'S BLOG EARLY DECEMBER, 2010 EDITION

Here are EVEN MORE! Videos Nine through Thirteen of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT have now been posted.

Have you seen the first eight??? WATCH PARTS ONE THROUGH THREE HERE ON BIGFOOT'S BLOG. Click the link now or forever regret it. WATCH PARTS FOUR THROUGH EIGHT HERE.
CLICK PLAYER BOXES BELOW TO VIEW YouTube WITHIN THIS PAGE.

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Here are more of the fruits of our summer's work, completing Robert Leiterman's footage and editing of our first exploratory filming trip to the Patterson-Gimlin Film site area. Here we explore, in the pouring rain, the main General Consensus Site, in areas identified by Peter Byrne, Christopher Murphy, Daniel Perez and Cliff Barackman (after Gimlin, who told it to Bobo). Later episodes will cover our more extensive second trip, where we hiked up the creek and located all potential sand and gravel bars, including some down below the area up in the more northern part of the creek, similar to the one described by Al Hodgson. We also explored the MK Davis-identified site, just a bit downstream from the area known mainly from Daniel Perez' booklet, BIGFOOT AT BLUFF CREEK We've received comments and some controversies have already arisen. Just today Al Hodgson was in our store, and insisted that the upstream consensus film site is not the true site, but that it is rather closer to the Bluff Creek Bridge, up from Louse Camp. It bucks against the opinion of nearly everyone, but just a week and two ago we received two anonymous commenter's views that the site is downstream from where most place it. One view goes as far as a mile and a half downstream, and claims to be based on the word of Rene Dahinden, just like Perez' site location does. These debates will be covered in future blog entries. So, stay tuned for more! Enjoy the latest finished videos for now.

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Here is PART NINE of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we're down in the gulch of the "general consensus site," looking at big trees and giant root balls and logjams.

Here is PART TEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we're down in the gulch of the "general consensus site," moving upstream. We see the "big bend" and tree root systems "as big as a room," just as Gimlin described them. Up from the Murphy site we move toward the Daniel Perez/Rene Dahinden arrow-marked spot.

Here is PART ELEVEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Over the creek and through the woods, to Barackman's site we go, onward through the rain....

Here is PART TWELVE of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Herein those intrepid explorers brave drenched hypothermia to get to the "bowling alley," and then up onto the sandbar to look at big trees on the Barackman-identified site.

Here is PART THIRTEEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Herein we look at a lot of big trees for THE Big Tree. This is the end of "Day One," with a bunch more videos of our second trip coming up.

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If the above embedded video boxes don't pop up do check for them at BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Look in "Uploads" and then "See All." There's a lot of other cool stuff in there.
Or just click one of these links:
PART NINE
PART TEN
PART ELEVEN
PART TWELVE
PART THIRTEEN
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BIGFOOTING NEWS!

Rip Lyttle with Real and Chance, Hip Hop Legend Hunters

Too many of our Bigfooting friends seem to be getting on TV these days! Well, good for them, though the results are often more humorous than seriously Squatchy.
Here are two that appeared recently. Click the links to view them online.

REAL AND CHANCE: LEGEND HUNTERS, EPISODE  6: BIGFOOT,
with our friend RIP LYTTLE. As Rip says, this is "How NOT to hunt for Bigfoot"... Hip Hop Bigfooters? This is very bizarre... watch the full 41-minute episode
Also:

James "Bobo" Fay on Strange Days

STRANGE DAYS WITH BOB SAGET: LET'S GO SQUATCHING (The Search for Bigfoot)
with our BFRO friends Bobo, Tom Yamarone, Mike Rugg, Matt Moneymaker, Paul Graves, Derek Randles, Bart Cutino, Cliff Barackman, and many others appearing or just slightly off camera. Watch the full 22-minute episode here, after you skip the commercials.

"Hell yeah they like beer!!!"
---Bobo

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LENNY GREEN, a Bigfoot bard who often sounds like a squatchy Johnny Cash, has released a bunch of new Bigfoot-themed songs on his web site. You can listen to them there, or look around and you'll find a link to obtain your own copy of a CD of his works to date for free or donation. You might remember Mr. Green as the fellow who performed during intermissions at this summer's Oregon Sasquatch Symposium (he's scheduled for next year's event, too), and as the author of classics such as "Piney Woods Wildman" and "Roger, Patty and Me."

Lenny Green, Bigfoot Bard

Just go to http://www.bigfootsong.com/.


New songs include the touching slow ballad of a lonely outdoorsman, "Waiting for a Bigfoot to Come By," the rousing "Bigfoot USA" and "You're a Witness Now!" One will also find a poem read by Green called "Hairy Man," and other songs like "Don't Pull That Trigger," "Where the Wild Things Go," "The Ballad of Ape Canyon," and "Running Bears."

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Sex and the Single Loren

Jason Valenti has recently posted LOREN COLEMAN'S classic lecture SEX AND THE SINGLE SASQUATCH from the 2005 Bellingham, WA Sasquatch Research Conference in video form. Check it out!!!

"I do not believe in Bigfoot. And I want to state that as my position right off the bat. I don't believe in Bigfoot any more than I believe in camels, or I believe in elephants. I think belief is the province of religion. ... I accept the reality of the possibility of a Bigfoot."

--Loren Coleman

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RECENT VISITORS TO BIGFOOT BOOKS:

Paul Graves, Richard "Rip" Lyttle, James "Bobo" Fay,
who arrived coincidentally on the same day.
Late summer, 2010.

Rip Lyttle, Nita and the sagely Larry Lund.
Thanks to Rip for arranging this great meet-up!

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!!!

Hu-man, how me tell you this? Me think me considerate me tell you, so I do. You smell bad. Me say, eat more garlic, roll in mud and forest leaves, not take bath in stinky soap. Me say you do better if you smell nature like. No fake stink under arm. No gut wrench flower smell on lady neither. Just be self, smell like self. I smell bottle in woods some litter-hu-man drop there. It say "Old Spice." Me sniff, me want puke. You sick hu-man. Jump in river get wet. That enough.

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All video shot and edited by Robert Leiterman. Copyrighted by him, with content from Steven Streufert and Ian (C.I.), 2010. Film site images photographed on computer screens, from books, or on-site, as seen in the videos are used for research purposes only, and are seen being used as such. This blog is copyrighted too, though you may borrow and quote if full citation is given, preferably with notice to us and a kindly link to this blog.

BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT Update: MORE Videos Released on YouTube..................... Plus Online Book: A HISTORY OF THE SIX RIVERS NATIONAL FOREST, Feisty JREFs

BIGFOOT'S BLOG, Another Special Notice, Late-November 2010

Here are SOME MORE!
Videos Four through Eight of our
BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT 
have now been posted.

Our summer's studies' results are finally coming forth. "C.I.," Robert Leiterman and Yours Truly set out to know Bluff Creek and its history better, especially as pertains to the Patterson-Gimlin Film. We sought to find the true site and track-way location, despite the fact that there are at least five different proposals from various researchers, and memories seem to have grown vague and as mysterious as the regrown forest now covering the once open sandbar where the famous Bigfoot film was shot. Here are the three introductory Bigfoot-nerd sessions trying to lay the preliminary foundations for our subsequent visits to the site area. Enjoy!

Earth Explorer Image centered on the general consensus PGF site area.

As Robert puts it on the YouTube pages: "Steven Streufert, Ian and Robert Leiterman are taking another look at the P-G Film site 43 years later. With conflicting thoughts as to exactly where the film site is today, they have decided to re-evaluate the facts, interview those in the know and spend some extensive leg work on the ground. They are trying to piece together what nature has spent the last 43 years turning back into a riparian forest. Part of an on going series."

Just a picture... links follow below.

Have you seen the first three??? WATCH PARTS ONE THROUGH THREE HERE ON BIGFOOT'S BLOG. Click the link now or forever regret it. CLICK PLAYER BOXES BELOW TO VIEW YouTube WITHIN THIS PAGE.

Here is PART FOUR of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT. Watch Robert Leiterman as he walks up the creek from the Bluff Creek Bridge to the Patterson-Gimlin Film site.

Here is PART FIVE of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT, wherein we hike down the dirt road above the site and observe the sand bar and creek canyon below, and finally reach the bat boxes landing on the creek.

Here is PART SIX of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT, wherein three Bigfooting nerds really geek out in the rain nitpicking over the details given us by Peter Byrne for his location of the Patterson-Gimlin Film site.

Here is PART SEVEN of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here at the "Peter Byrne Site" we compare old photos to new landscapes, stumble upon stumps, and dig in the sand searching for the very ground Patty walked upon in the PGF.

Here is PART EIGHT of our BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT on BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Here we bumble and wade up the creek, through the maze of fallen trees and wood debris, and come to the ostensible site as identified by Christopher Murphy in his book KNOW THE SASQUATCH/BIGFOOT. Still no conclusive proof of the PGF location.

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Go to bfro.net for more BF info.

If the above embedded video boxes don't pop up do check for them at BFRO-VIDEOS on YouTube. Look in "Uploads" and then "See All." There's a lot of other cool stuff in there.
Or just click one of these links:

PART FOUR,

PART FIVE,

PART SIX,

PART SEVEN,

PART EIGHT.

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We've been a little active on the JREF Forum lately. Click the name to view the thread about where we got started... or HERE, and HERE (these are pages 116-118 of the "Bigfoot: The Patterson Gimlin Film - Part 3" thread)... and you will see why we had to dive into it. Perhaps we'll always have to deal with this "Swastika Steve" business now. Oh well. Perhaps that is better than "BipolarBookBoy" or "Charlie Manson Eyes"!

History of Six Rivers National Forest book cover

You know what they say: If you can't beat them on the subject itself, attack the messenger. It is fun talking with skeptics! After all, we are one, too, in many ways; but we choose to leave Bigfoot out of that skepticism, and focus more on concepts of Bigfoot to be skeptical over. In fact, we are SKEPTICAL OF SKEPTICS. So there.

Anyway, thanks to one AlaskaBushPilot we got a tip on this fine book. It is available free online, so check it out. It is a US Government Printing Office/US Forest Service book,

A HISTORY OF THE SIX RIVERS NATIONAL FOREST... Commemorating the First 50 Years.
By Pamela A. Conners, Historian, Six Rivers National Forest.

This puts Bluff Creek and it's Bigfooting history into perspective. Check it out!

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Here are two recent photos from Willow Creek just for you. They were taken with an iPhone, not the greatest camera. Click to Enlarge....

So much for Bigfoot hunting in Bluff Creek for the year!
The G-O Road, near Bluff Creek and the "Bigfoot Lives" sign.

Reported Bigfoot track found at Big Rock, Willow Creek.
After Bobo and Richard drove all the way out from
Arcata we found out that it was a bear track!

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ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!
Hu-man! You get call say Bigfoot track on sand at Big Rock. You drive stinky truck all way from Arcata and look. You think you find bear track. Fool hu-man, me leave that track by go tip-toe. Me sure fool you! Ha ha. Me still LMAOROTFLOL, you so puny and have no fur.
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