Ray Wallace, one of the first Bigfoot researchers, died of
heart failure on November 26 at age 84, and his family now
says he created the Bigfoot prints he claimed to have
discovered in 1958. "Ray L. Wallace was Bigfoot. The reality
is, Bigfoot just died," says son Michael Wallace.
"He did it just for the joke and then he was afraid to tell
anybody because they'd be so mad at him," says nephew
Dale Lee Wallace, who says he still has the carved antler feet
that he says Wallace used to make the prints. He says
Wallace asked a friend to carve the 16-inch-long feet and he
and his brother Wilbur wore them to create the tracks.
In August 1958, bulldozer operator Jerry Crew, who worked
for Wallace's construction company in California, found huge
footprints circling and then leading away from his rig. The
Humboldt Times in Eureka, California called the mysterious
creature "Bigfoot." However, stories about the Sasquatch and
Abominable Snowman existed long before 1958, in countries
far away from the U.S. And crytozoologist Loren Coleman
says the carved feet don?t match casts taken of the tracks
that circled Crew?s dozer.
"The Abominable Snowman was appropriated by Ray Wallace.
It got into the press, took on a life of its own and next thing
you know there's a Bigfoot, one of the most popular monsters
in the world," says Mark Chorvinsky, editor of Strange
magazine. He claims Wallace also made a recording of
supposed Bigfoot sounds, and also made films and took
photos of the creature. He thinks the family's statements
raise serious doubts about the film taken by Roger Patterson
in 1967, which shows an erect, apelike creature walking away
from the camera. He says, "Ray told me that the Patterson
film was a hoax, and he knew who was in the suit."
Loren Coleman, who?s appeared twice on Dreamland, says, ?In
1999, three separate theorists appeared with notions about
why the Patterson-Gimlin film was a fake and spoke to the
media of the demise of Bigfoot. And yet, the next year, more
sightings of and positive press about Bigfoot occurred than in
recent memory.
?The cable news networks, newspapers, and radio talk shows
are declaring that Bigfoot is dead. Well, Ray Wallace did die
on November 26th. Now comes the Wallace
family's ?confession?? Never mind that the original Jerry Crew
cast doesn?t match the Wallace fake foot. Never mind that
we all knew Wallace was a prankster. Never mind that
Wallace wasn?t able to put one over on any of us in 44 years.
??Why is the testimony of an admitted liar, now being feted?
as the truth, having the newspapers believe it all??
How can we find out the truth if scientists aren?t willing to
face the facts? Rupert Sheldrake says he knows of
Seven Experiments That
Could Change the World. Read his book and see if you agree!
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