Old Willow Creek Stories Surface
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 10th, 2011
In 2009, I mentioned the death of early Bigfooter Ed Patrick.
November 1959, first day of the Pacific Northwest Expedition, Bluff Creek, California: Pictured are the original personnel, from left to right, Ed Patrick, Tom Slick (co-sponsor), René Dahinden, Kirk Johnson, Jr. (co-sponsor), Bob Titmus, and Tom’s secretary, Gerri Walsh. Behind the camera, and also at the campsite as a member, was John Green.
One of the founding fathers in Bigfootry, Ed Patrick formally of Redding and Hoopa, California, passed away on June 19, 2009.
Edward Richard Patrick, September 2003, Willow Creek Bigfoot Symposium, California. Photo courtesy and copyright Daniel Perez.
Now comes word of an early record of these times being re-discovered.
Steven Streufert of the Bigfoot Books blog passes along the news that a “new, unpublished, local Willow Creek account of Ed Patrick has surfaced.” You can read it here.
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When I visited John Green at his home in1998, he was gracious enough to spend hours with me, recounting stories of the so-called Pacific Northwest Expedition. Not to be a wet blanket, but John said the whole business wasn’t much of an expedition, and wasn’t organized or frankly all that impressive. Some of the stories he recounted were hysterical, and better left to an adult-rated website.
Hey Loren, thanks for saving me the time of posting this!
Yes, the stories of the PNW are often quite odd, including Titmus raiding rest stop rest rooms for used tampons to hang in trees as bait, as well as presenting some moose poop samples to Tom Slick at the Bigfoot Motel as “evidence” (bait for expedition funding, that is).
Rene Dahinden was there for some nine days. John Green didn’t last that much longer. And Peter Byrne basically scared all the rest away when he was brought in. I have some unpublished (unpublishable) stuff from John Green on these matters that would astonish.
Steve
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