Case file · Cryptid
Rant Mullens reveals the carved feet
In 1982 retired forester Rant Mullens said that in the 1930s he and fellow foresters around Toledo, Washington, had carved large wooden feet to make 'Bigfoot' tracks and scare huckleberry pickers in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
1982 CE · 46.44, -122.85 · status: hoax
The account
Mullens's group called themselves the St. Helens Apes and also claimed responsibility for the 1924 Ape Canyon incident. Ray Wallace, also from Toledo, knew Mullens and later said he got carved feet from him; Wallace's family revealed his own set in 2002.
The sceptical view
An admitted hoax that showed how easily convincing tracks can be made, though believers argue it cannot explain every print.