Case file · Cryptid
Ray Wallace's carved feet revealed
After logging contractor Ray Wallace died in November 2002, his family showed reporters the carved wooden feet they said he had used to make the 1958 Bluff Creek tracks that gave 'Bigfoot' its name.
2002 CE · 41.24, -123.65 · status: hoax
The account
Wallace had worked the Bluff Creek road where Jerry Crew cast the famous prints. Bigfoot researchers replied that tracks were reported before and far from his operations.
The sceptical view
The family's account explains the 1958 Bluff Creek prints but not all later reports.
Connections in the atlas
- Bob Heironimus: 'I was the man in the suit'
- Rant Mullens reveals the carved feet
- Ape Cave, Mount St. Helens
- Patterson–Gimlin film (Bigfoot)
- Bigfoot (Sasquatch)