A U.S. Forest Service Patrolman’s Two Shocking Bigfoot Encounters
Walla Walla Union-BulletinThe Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reporting on Paul Freeman’s bizarre 1982 Bigfoot encounter.
Paul Freeman was an experienced former U.S. Forest Service patrolman, and he was also an ardent cryptozoologist. Perhaps that’s why some have been skeptical of his shocking Bigfoot encounter from 1982.
Freeman knew his way around the woodlands in America’s Washington state where, that year, the seasoned woodsman purportedly spotted massive hand and footprints around the Blue Mountains near Walla Walla.
With no camera by his side, he took plaster casts of the prints instead. Though the prints have since been the subject of much debate, Washington State University’s Grover Krantz thinks they might be the real deal. Krantz noted that the casts contained imprints of dermal ridges and skin whorls. These nuanced anatomical details made it seem unlikely that Freeman had forged them.
But then more than a decade later, Freeman made his most intriguing find. During a routine walk through the same forested region in 1994, he encountered what appeared to be two Bigfoots tending to their young. This time, he had a camera with him.
Despite the grainy image quality and general shakiness of the recording, it appears to be no fake, but skeptics have pointed to Freeman’s history as a self-made cryptozoologist nonetheless. For others, the Freeman footage of 1994 trails behind only the historic Patterson-Gimlin film recorded nearly half a century before.
Unbelievable as Freeman’s discovery may sound, some estimate that anywhere between 50 and 75 Bigfoot tracks were spotted in the Blue Mountains between 1982 and 2000.
