Green’s Public Statement: The Tennessee Bigfoot Affair

Information on Jan Carter
December 21 2007 at 5:43 PM

To all bigfoot researchers worldwide:

I have been thinking about posting my specific reasons for disassociating myself from Janice Carter and anything to do with her except for the book we published as co-authors.

I am also currently debating whether or not to make public the many video recordings of personal interviews with Janice and Lyla Carter made during the year of 2002. There are a few chapters in “50 Years with Bigfoot” that contain verbatim the recorded interviews (word for word). I also have many video cassettes of these very same video recordings of the interviews plus some cassette tapes only of other interviews with her by me.

Since Janice Carter has begun to make certain claims that make it look like I have done her wrong in the writing of the book and caused her problems with it, or even possibly made mistatements or mistakes on it, I feel like it may be necessary for me to make these public statements. Be it known that Janice issued her half of the book which four editors had worked on for months, correctly her spelling errors several times during the year of writing it. On the night before the publication was due at the printers in the morning. She sent another draft that Henner Fahrenbach had asked her to re-write. I told her I could not at this late date make many changes over several chapters and I would not do so again. She grew angry and cried and said that she would not allow the book to be published unless I let her put in all new chapters. I relented on the request and told her if she was willing that what she had sent me to be printed remain unedited, I would simply replace the entire half of her book at her request, but be it known that I would not be responsible for any errors it contained. I was extremely tired and exhausted from the entire matter. Thus her portions of the book in the end went exactly as she wished and she used statements exactly as she wished to use them. I am not responsible for her portion of the book that she had written herself.

However, the time and cost of making DVD’s of these said interviews would be great. They are on Hi-8 film. Therefore, I am deciding how to go about it. It would certainly not be feasible for me to go to all of this work and just send them to everyone inerested in proving her case right or wrong, just as I have been. I would have to charge for DVD’s and make them available to those who are truly interested in the charges of plaigarism on the Word list. I still have copies of the lists of words that were presented to me as authentic bigfoot words IN JANICE’S OWN HANDWRITING and the editor of these words were given in a wildly random order, but the editor finally managed to put them in as much order as was possible.

I am not responsible for Janice’s misrepresentation of any of these words, if in fact, she has done so. I also have a huge library of e-mails from Janice upon which I can verify all that was said in her case is backed up by her own words and confessions and in hours of interviews. These have been kept in a safe place for such an event as has been going on this past year.

My first concerns began right after the book was published in Dec. 2002, and many good bigfoot researchers wondered about the inconsisencies in it. I did purposefully leave them in as the words were used exactly the way Janice Carter used them in her interviews, telephone interviews, and numerous e-mails. Janice often explained that she was confused on dates.

I did also repeatedly ask Janice Carter for the name of the young teenager (this is on film) and her parents, where they lived, who the boys were that were accused, etc.) whom Janice said was raped and exasperatingly, Janice consistently refused to give them to me for my files. She gave every imaginable excuse, especially that the boys accussed of the rape would sue her if she did so, that Moccasin Bend would also sue us too if we published this in the book.

Janice gave every imaginable excuse there was for not doing so. There was always excuses why she could not provide pictures of Fox and/or his family and the constant excuse that she was a dummy with a camera, but I grew weary of hearing it.

Her husband at that time, (2002-??) pawned equipment that I gave Janice to help her with our investigation and Janice also misused funds she received from me and others saying their family did not have anything to eat, etc. So these were the first things evident in this case of a possible misleading on the facts. I often explained to Janice Carter, in the beginning, that we needed to write about her grandfathers success with the bigfoot and it ended up being nothing about his work with the bigfoot on his farm but what Janice saw and knew about them. It was my true aim to learn what she knew about her Grandfather and honor his years of work with the bigfoot as he so rightly deserved if such was the case. There was nothing to do but to continue the book and provide the information Janice gave me on what happened there at their farm for so many years. There began to be so many excuses about facts I needed to complete the book, medical records, names, dates, etc, that I decided to publish as it was. It was a totally honest effort by me to get to the truth of the matter. A huge amount of work done by me was to seek the truth in this case.

Next, Janice’s lie to Dr. Henner Fahrenbach about the Sierra Sound recordings, that she did not recognize any of these words and then suddenly knew EVERY word they said on them, let me know she had been very dishonest to Dr. Fahrenbach and other researchers in on her case. Janice’s lies about some physical evidence that was found in the past year where I actually caught her hoaxing evidence disturbed me tremendously and at that point, I pulled away from Janice and all concerning her, at her great wroth over the fact that I did. At this time she had associated herself with a man from California who was her mentor and financial supporter.

In 2002, before I started writing this book called 50 Years with Bigfoot, I did promise the bigfoot research world that if I found any inconsistencies or lies, of which I told Janice also, that I would do if this occurred, was to publicly present any lies for consideration. I had by this time, become totally weary with trying to help Janice Carter prove her case and I do (feel l(ike she has taken advantage of many (financially) in this field, lied to them while doing so, all of which is which is only my own opinion.

There are a few other minor points, but I felt like I needed to publish what is the truth and to present it publicly as soon as possible. I do not wish to see any others harmed by Janice Carter’s most unusual claims. I do believe she may be mentally troubled and as a result could possibly be a pathological liar, but that is yet to be proven. I feel like she should submit herself to a psychiatrist for a full evaluation. I do not wish to see her publicly ridiculed as people like this desperately need professional help if this is the case. I don’t know if I will ever know myself, but I gave my all in trying to find the answers. I have failed in some ways, but have succeeded in others. One thing I do honestly know, that Janice did lie to me on several occasions over the past two years and as the evidence stacked up, I found it necessary to post publicly these findings.Mary Green

These are my own personal statements and I do have all that is necessary to back up what I am saying.