California 1976 - Bigfoot Kidnapping? Call Peter Byrnes

[Trogluddite]

I find it odd that the San Francisco (CA) Chronicle has more detailed reports on some stories than local papers do.  While this this incident has been covered before, this article published on May 25, 1976 provides a detailed description of the original "kidnapping" and the search efforts.  It also includes a supplemental article which indicates that Peter Byrnes sent two assistants to assist in the search, and to investigate the claim. 

 

To top it all off, this article includes the only report that I've found about California's Attorney-General giving an oral advisory opinion regarding ownership of a captured Bigfoot.

 

UPDATE: I found a 1960s clipping about the California AG's letter and was going to post it, but guess who found it first - that's right, Tirademan.  He appears to have found the same AP wire story in a different paper and Gigantor archived it at https://bigfootforums.com/topic/42489-california-1960-abonimable-snow-man-in-california/.

 

Edited December 6, 2025 by Trogluddite