• cvr-animals4
    Then, what the …???!!?
  • cvr-partsisparts1
    Bigfoot’s favorite: raw organic free-range chicken…
  • cvr-animals1
    Another trap is set… with mixed results
  • cvr-vanishing_chicken1
    3:07 p.m.— chicken on trees.
  • cvr-partsisparts2
    neatly tied up in cheesecloth…
  • cvr-6_rivers_foia_
    “Park staff had no such records…”
  • cvr-animals2
    A fox helps itself to a banana.
  • cvr-animals3
    A deer shows up late to the banquet.
  • cvr-camera_check3
    The haunted forest at night.
  • cvr-laptop_
    Not the weapons of choice.
  • cvr-camera_check1
    The author and his game-cam. The trap is set.
  • cvr-state-park-vista_
    Bigfoot’s habitat: Humboldt County’s Redwood National and State Park.
  • cvr-patterson_bigfoot_
    A still frame, featuring “Patty,” from the infamous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Film.
  • cvr-mrbigfoot_
    Illustration of “The Old Man” — over 8 feet tall, 800 pounds — from Roger Patterson’s 1966 book Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist? Drawn one year prior to shooting his famous footage.
  • cvr-vanishing_chicken2
    6:07 p.m.—no chicken, slight jostling and possibly a shoulder leaving the picture (squint and look real hard) in the last frame.
  • cvr-camera_check2
    Game-cam test shot. Is this thing on?
  • cvr-partsisparts3
    …and bungee-corded to trees.
  • cvr-mrsbigfoot_
    Illustration of “The Old Lady” — 7 feet tall, 600 pounds — from Roger Patterson’s 1966 book Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist? Drawn one year prior to shooting his famous footage.