Comments on: Olaf, Grover Krantz and Bigfoot

By: Doug Tarrant

Doug Tarrant — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:55:17 +0000

Geez, Doug Higley… Never saw it.
How did I ever miss that?
There was a steak house on the south side of the street (Calif. side) almost on the corner at the traffic light that WAS the state-line.
So much has changed in that area today.
l993 was a few too many years back.
I reside in Virginia City, on this mountain range now. Back then I was in Reno.

By: Doug Higley

Doug Higley — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:22:00 +0000

Well, if you consider right next door to the casinos at Stateline an obscure location! haha.

My Museum was on the California side, on the same side of Hwy 50 as Harvey’s. Actually it was right across 50 from Cecils and the Crecent V Center area. I had a huge beautiful sign (broke the ordinance too by a few inches.) I’m not surprised you didn’t know it was there, nobody did really. I had ads in the paper, was featured on Reno TV and Sacramento TV etc. Did everything I could to no avail.

Still a trauma thought when I have to discuss it. But yes, Doug, it was there. Sorry you (and everyone else) missed it.

By: Doug Tarrant

Doug Tarrant — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:19:27 +0000

Loren, does anyone know the location of the “True Wonders” museum at Lake Tahoe in l993?

I was at the north end of the Lake at Incline Village, doing gunfighting reenactments at the “Ponderosa Ranch” where TV’s “Bonanza” was filmed. It’s was a big tourist attraction that was in full swing then, but is closed now.

I had never heard of such a museum, back then, unless it was in some obscure off-the-beaten-path section.

The Lake is devided. Half is California and the other half is Nevada. The Casinos are on the Nevada half. North and south ends only.

The Lake rim was about 72 miles all around the water’s edge. The two areas were either Emerald Bay at the north end, or Stateline, south end.
Both are on the Nevada (Gambling) side of the entire lake.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:54:03 +0000

Update

Images sent in to Cryptomundo of Olaf the Giant will be placed here.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:22:08 +0000

Whereabouts unknown.

By: Doug Higley

Doug Higley — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:07:38 +0000

I would think, through this piece on such a popular blog ‘Olaf’ will turn up again. It would be hard to believe such a spectacular exhibit would be put away in some storage unit. Once the Museum closed, I have no idea where he went (he had been on loan) but I assumed he was either taken back to Oregon or to Yakima, Washington where there was another ‘Fantastic Museum’. Soon as I get a new scanner I’ll dig through some old boxes and find a photo or two. I might mention that the ‘owner’ of Olaf also believed it was real at the time (maybe still does) and paid a fortune to get it.

By: fredfacker

fredfacker — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:06:27 +0000

Are the current whereabouts of Olaf unknown?

By: DWA

DWA — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:19:03 +0000

A laugh for sure!

Guys, I think field research will stand a better chance of getting to the bottom of this.

By: peterbernard

peterbernard — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:13:38 +0000

That’s an excellent, really funny article.

By: J.Vac

J.Vac — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:59:35 +0000

I’m sure the pictures would be cool to see. But even if there was evidence of a real “Olaf,” I can’t really see how that would have anything to do with Bigfoot research.