June 9, 2011

Bigfoot Wood Knocking: 1959

In Dr. Jeff Meldrum’s Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (New York: Forge Books/Macmillan, 2006), one of the earliest uses of wood knocking to communicate with a Bigfoot/Sasquatch, is cited. According to Meldrum, the original source is contained in a letter from John Green.

The early non-Native wood knocking incident involved Bob Titmus in the Bluff Creek area in 1959. This would have been during his Tom Slick-sponsored work in the area, no doubt, because Art Long was also present.

Below is page 185, from Meldrum’s book, with the specific passage in question:

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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