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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. Bigfoot Has Just Died The man responsible for the Bigfoot mystery has died aged 84 and so has the legend behind the hoax. Ray L Wallace is said to have used 16 inch feet-shaped carvings to make tracks in the snow. In August 1958 a bulldozer operator, working for Wallace's Construction Company in Humbolt County, California found the huge footprints circling and leading away from his rig kicking off the myth of Bigfoot. The rest is history. A front page story led by The Humbolt Times in Eureka coined the term, Bigfoot and America of the time fascinated by the Himalayan stories of the Abominable Snowman latched on to the thought of a similar beast wandering the immense forests of the area. It became a worldwide phenomena of great discussion for years to come. "The fact is there was no Bigfoot in popular consciousness before 1958. America got its own monster, its own Abominable Snowman, thanks to Ray Wallace," Mark Chorvinsky, editor of Strange magazine, told The Seattle Times. Wallace went as far as to cut a record of Bigfoot sounds, he printed posters showing a Bigfoot languishing with other animals, there were photos and films produced, showing the creature 'eating frogs and elk', Chorvinsky added in his commentary of Wallace. Chorvinsky believes Wallace's family's admission sheds great doubt on proof of Bigfoot's existence, blighting the Patterson film, its grainy images of an erect beast striding away from camera, filmed by rodeo rider Roger Patterson in 1967. Wallace said he told Patterson where to spot a Bigfoot by Bluff Creek, California. Chorvinsky is reported as saying, “Ray told me that the Patterson film was a hoax, and he knew who was in the suit." Michael Wallace said his father had called the Patterson film a fake but stated he'd had nothing to do with it. Michael also admitted his mother wore a Bigfoot suit and was photographed in it, that his father used several people in his movies. The argument of authenticity continues in Wallace's case, yet anthropologist Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University, swears he has 40 to 50 casts of footprints made by real unknown primates. "To suggest all these are explained by simple carved feet strapped to boots just doesn't wash," Meldrum said, referring to 19th century accounts of such a creature. Chorvinsky regards those earlier reports as mistakes, myths or hoaxes. However, in the words of Ray L Wallace's son, Michael, and of the passing of his father, “The reality is, Bigfoot just died.” Bigfoot Has Just Died written by Bill Barber |
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