Willow Creek Page #2

- Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm.

- Is if, um, his...

Yeah? Please, finish your thought.

I was going to say that

it's a good thing,

um, his feet are his most

prominent attribute.

Or else, we could be eating

really big weeners right now.

- That's a whole other restaurant, honey.

- Hmm-hmm.

- I'll take you there...

- Mmm.

...some other time.

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

Mmm.

- How is it?

- Wow, this...

It's actually really good.

- It's pretty sweet.

- Hmm-hmm.

Mmm.

Mmm.

- Well, look at this, babe.

- Oh, yeah.

What is that?

What?

Wow.

It's a Bigfoot mural.

Is that a van Gogh or

what do you think it is?

Yeah.

He's pushing a wheelbarrow

and hoeing a garden.

And, very, he seems clinically..

- depressed actually.

- Yeah.

"Bigfoot sad.

Bigfoot no want to work in garden."

Why are they forcing him

to do all this work?

I don't know. What the f*** is this?

Like, they got him as a

day laborer or something.

"Bigfoot help you put

up house for berries."

I would avoid man, too,

if I had to do all of this sh*t.

Yeah, no sh*t.

Maybe he just doesn't want to work,

- that's why they can't find him.

- Yeah.

"Bigfoot tired of working."

All right. Let's get out of here.

This is so great.

Is this... so, this is the town?

This is it.

- Oh, there. Bigfoot.

- Yeah.

He's all over the place.

Oh, there he is.

- Hey, buddy.

- Chubby guy.

Oh, I got to get this.

Bigfoot Avenue.

This must be where he lives.

Yeah.

Is that where we're staying?

Oh, yeah. Bigfoot Motel.

Oh, great.

Yeah.

This place is heaven, babe.

This is the great O'Mah

statue carved by Jim McClarin

out of one giant piece of redwood

right around the same time

Patterson shot his famed footage.

I like his bangs.

- You do?

- Hmm-hmm.

They have the whole

flippy thing going on?

Well, he didn't.

He wished he could have re-carved him

after he heard Albert Ostman's account.

You're really making me horny.

Go up there and stand next to it.

Why?

For a scale. Go on.

How come people don't know

how big I am? I could be huge.

Check that out.

Get closer.

He's a nice-looking guy,

kind of cute.

Don't do that, baby.

Baby, just don't do that. Seriously.

May I help you?

- He's lonely.

- May I help you?

Yeah. Do you mind

if we interview you?

I told you I was new at this.

OK. Here we go.

Hi. Are we going?

Hi, I'm here with Nita Rowley,

who's worked at the Willow

Creek Visitor Center

for the last 20 years.

How are you, Nita?

I'm doing well. Thank you.

Well, good.

I have a question for you.

Do you know of anyone or

do you know personally

the exact site of the

Patterson-Gimlin?

Uh, no, I do not.

And, um, has there been any

recent sightings of Bigfoot

or Sasquatch in the area?

No, not to my knowledge.

Are you a believer?

Not at all.

No, huh?

OK.

Is it safe to camp here?

Uh, you have to be on the lookout,

uh, for bear, mountain

lions, rattle snakes,

um, but it's, it's safe,

I mean, you take your chances.

Have you ever heard of

anyone being attacked

by a mountain lion

or a bear out here?

Uh, yes.

I haven't heard the,

uh, bear attacks.

Uh, basically, they

get into the garbage,

uh, and come in to steal your food.

The mountain lions, uh, will attack.

What would you do if you

saw Big Foot, Nita?

I don't expect to see one.

Um, I, I really wouldn't

be surprised, um,

because I just don't believe in it.

We're rolling.

I got really lucky.

Um, we're here at Bigfoot

Books with the owner,

Steve Streufert.

What's up, Steve?

The usual thing,

Bigfoot every day out

here in Willow Creek.

Yeah, nice.

I heard you had a little, uh,

you were just out there.

Yeah, we were out of Bluff Creek.

Yeah, Bluff Creek.

Uh, it is about 29

miles north of here,

you come to the bottom

of Bluff Creek there.

Hmm-hmm.

And that was where the

Patterson film was shot.

Yes, of course.

Also, these, uh,

footprints that you,

uh, may have seen before...

Yeah.

These were cast out in

Bluff Creek in 1958.

Sure.

Wow. So, these are

the Jerry Crew cast?

That is from the

same track way of...

Yeah.

...the famous Jerry Crew

track was taken from.

That's incredible.

And that's where,

obviously, you know,

they coined the name Bigfoot...

Yeah.

The contractors on the road

building project out there

and the loggers, um,

had very strange activity

going on out there.

Yeah.

They were cutting a new

road into this virgin timber,

so, um, they started

finding these footprints

out on the dusty plowed road

and they called it, "Bigfoot."

Apparently, there were

some that saw it out there,

so, uh, you know,

the big feet were connected

- with a creature that was...

- I didn't realize that.

...that was also throwing a

big 55 gallon fuel drums and,

uh, spools of metal logging

wire down into the creek,

uh, vandalizing their

camp, in general.

So, that's where that

name came from in 1958.

Right.

This is the model that was

used by Roger Patterson.

He rented this and

came out here and,

- you know, it's very heavy.

- Yeah.

He, he, this is what he used

to film while running across a,

- a regular gravel bar and rocks in the...

- Yeah.

...in the creek.

They were also used for, uh,

making home movies and,

uh, amateur films like pornos.

Oh, that's awesome.

Wow, that's so heavy.

Tell me a little bit about, um,

the Patterson-Gimlin site

and just how to get there, man.

Oh, well, um, you

can take this road,

I can show on the map,

and you go down that road.

- It's probably easier that way.

- That would be great.

You come down to the bottom and

there's an old camp site there,

you know, and, uh, when

you're at that camp site,

you basically just take a right.

You have to bushwhack and

go through the forest.

- My girlfriend is OK with that.

- But it's not... you won't get lost.

Just follow the sound of

the creek on your left

and look at the hill on your right.

You just keep going straight between

those until you come to a big gulch

and you'll see it all

blasted out with rocks

and log debris and, uh,

- that's the bottom of the film site area.

- Wow.

So, you go, you're going to

have to go down in the creek.

Be careful not to twist

your ankle, you know.

Just getting to the site,

is it kind of dangerous

or would you...?

Uh, well, there is

the thing we called,

"The Curse of Bluff Creek."

What's that?

Uh, wait, that's sort of related

to The Curse of Bigfoot, but...

The Curse of Bigfoot

usually means that,

you know, like you're

going to get divorced,

your friends will all

think you're crazy,

uh, you'll be, uh, impecunious

and you'll spend all of your days

searching for something

that you never find.

Um, that's kind of a classic thing

with the old researchers, you know.

Hmm-hmm.

But, um, that's sort of a joke.

The, the, um, the real truth

of it is that you're out

in the middle of nowhere, you know,

so you, you don't

really want to, uh,

just go out there

unprepared, you know.

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