1967/10/21 - Newspaper Article - Mrs. Bigfoot Is Filmed!

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The conventional wisdom states that after filming "Patty" sometime around 1:30 PM on October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson called a reporter at the Times-Standard, published in Eureka, California, "some eight hours" after the event (i.e., around 9:00 to 9:30 PM).  The phone call lasted until late that night, when Roger was anxious to get back to his horses.  The resulting story was purportedly published in the Times-Standard's morning edition on October 21, 1967. 

 

The October 21, 1967 edition of the Eureka Times-Standard is not available on Newspapers.com.  The only copy to be found on the internet appears to be on Bobbie Short's (RIP) Bigfoot Encounters website; this copy omits the paper's masthead on the first page or the header on the second page, thus, researchers do not know from the document what day it was published.  Nonetheless, Daniel Perez saw a microfiche copy of this article and has consistently stated that the article was published in the October 21, 1967 Times-Standard.  See Bigfoot at Bluff Creek: A Pictorial Discussion, p. 109.   

 

The Bigfoot Encounters copy of the article is on the Newspaper and Magazine Articles page at the very top http://www.bigfootencounters.com/; an updated post which includes images of the newspaper clippings (done the old-fashioned way) and a photograph of Roger Patterson with various casts is at http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/9-inch-track.htm.  Note that the Bigfoot Encounters website is different and does not link directly to some pages.  Click on the "Newspaper and Magazine Articles" tab; the Times Standard article is the very first one on the page.