April 7, 2007
Can we learn new things about old cases? Possibly so.
I get all kinds of emails and letters. People, for example, read Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, and write me with their personal stories, insights, and criticisms. I appreciate them all.
Today, I received an intriguing typed letter from a man who lives deep in the woods of northern California, who had recently read Bigfoot!. He wanted to set me straight on some details of what really happened at Bluff Creek in 1958.
After opening the missive by telling me a bit about himself, the letter writer shared some specific information he learned directly about what took place in 1958, where it all started. His uncle, it turns out, was “one of the 15 or so loggers that quit their job because of the bigfoot attack” at Bluff Creek. The Native writer said the newspapers didn’t get it right, and only the authorities and the people involved knew the truth.
Yes, he said, there was a “later hoax” (at the Bluff Creek worksite in 1958, the writer says, in an attempt to get more workers), but intially what came first was the real Bigfoot attack incident.
Does this person have long hidden information on what actually took place at Bluff Creek in 1958? Perhaps he give clues to new avenues to be explored and researched in this important case. You be the judge. Here’s what he wrote:
What had happened the day the loggers quit? Upon arriving at the logging site early in the morning, the crew found the spare tractor wheels and all the fuel drums had been thrown down the hill. One of the trucks had been pushed a few yards, and about 10-12 bigfoots were on the hill above the camp throwing rocks, tree branches, and logs down at the loggers. You can guess what happened – the loggers scattered like ants on fire, jumping into their vehicles and fleeing the forest like frightened children, never to return. Until now, only the police and the loggers knew the truth about the Bluff Creek incident. Now you know the secret that the newspaper didn’t report. Bad for the forest economy.Nocona Comanche Shaman;
name on file, withheld for privacy reasons
Has anyone heard about this angle of Bluff Creek, California’s Bigfoot incidents of August-October, 1958?
Does this new info give a hint to a deeper story behind what we did hear about?
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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