Paul Freeman

It's very large.

In May of 1993, Paul Freeman followed a line of Sasquatch footprints to a sandy bank along Dry Creek.

where the trackmaker sat down and left an impression of its rear end, which Freeman cast.

Though this artifact nearly always evokes a giggle, the appropriate anatomy is visible in the cast.

Worth a glance before we wave goodbye.

It comes in the form of a handheld video, a 1990s VH version of the Patterson Gimlin film, a cryptid camera clip known as the Freeman footage.

Have any of you guys ever heard about the Freeman footage before this episode? No.

Nope.

This is like a Bigfoot video and one that I think had like a big kind of a big impact and seems to have still to this day a bit of a legacy.

Now, and that's a lot of things I could say about things that we talk on this show, but we'll get into it.

So the primary sources for this segment of High Strangeness are Bigfoot, The Life and Times of a Legend by Joshua Blobus, The Locals by Tom Powell, Where Bigfoot Walks, Crossing the Dark Divide by Robert Michael Pyle, and Michael R. Dennett from The Skeptical Inquirer.

Now to understand the Freeman footage, we must first learn a little about the backstory of Paul Freeman, one of the few men alive who have claimed to have captured Sasquatch on camera and his place in Bigfoot history.

There are some answers in these historical records.

Case in point is that video I put out this week on the NABC thing, that 1986 segment on Paul Freeman, right? You and I were talking about that off air, that in that particular little news item that was from the Tri-Cities area published in 1986, there's actually footage of the 1986 handprint in the ground drawing with plaster in it.

I didn't know that existed, and I think I'm a fairly well-schooled subject of the Freeman evidence, you know? So the historical records, it's not just ancient history.

They can open a lot of doors and answer a lot of questions about what we're currently talking about, whether it's the Patterson-Giblin film, the mystery footage, or God knows what.

There is something bigger than you.

And somewhere out here in the Mill Creek watershed, a Forest Service patrolman named Paul Freeman is about to say the words that will launch one of the strangest, most argued over pieces of Bigfoot evidence ever collected.

And I know what you're thinking.

A blurry photo? Nope.

Let's discuss this case.

This is the, this is known as the Mill Creek case tracks of Walla Walla County in Washington in 1982, June of 1982.

And I'd like to introduce you to Paul Freeman.

He's a forest service watershed patrolman.