Events
Metaline Falls Bigfoot Festival 2024
June 15 @ 8:00 am - June 16 @ 5:00 pm
Free
Visit Metaline Falls for the 2024 Metaline Falls Bigfoot Festival
As well as amazing presentations, come for the
The 5K Race
and
Bigfoot Presenters Dinner
Dine with the experts!
VIP holders will be able to sit at the table of the experts and feel free to ask what they want. This is a unique opportunity that doesn’t happen often. Only 45 seats available! $50 each
General admission will be allowed in the same room during social hour and dinner and sit at regular tables. Only 40 seats available! $35 each
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I live about 9 miles as the crow flies from Metaline Falls and have gone to two out of the last three Bigfoot festivals. They were great!
The following is a story I’d like to share that I hope will be read with interest by all Bigfoot enthusiasts.
In late 1970’s I was returning from a trip in Northern Nevada to the Northern California coast where I was stationed in the Coast Guard on a Search & Rescue ship. I have always loved the Trinity Alps, and so decided to make a little round trip detour up to the town of Yreka. There was a road that continued west from there and I took it as the country over that way looked interesting. It had rained very hard the night before and the air was clear and fresh.
I was driving next to a little creek — I think it was a tributary of the north fork of the Eel river — when I felt the need to get out and stretch my legs, so I parked the car and headed into the woods towards the creek.
When I got to the creek there was a long sandbar. Apparently, the rainstorm the night before had caused the creek to raise enough to cover the sandbar, for it was completely smooth and still wet. Smooth except for one thing — a set of bipedal tracks going across the sandbar for about 15 yards (45 feet or so).
No, they were not big tracks. They were only about eight or nine inches long, including the toes. Now, it is true that bears, on rare occasions, will walk upright for very short distances on their hind feet, though I have never known of one to go more than a yard or two. But these were not bear tracks.
I’m a bit of a Nature lover, and I know bear tracks. Now, while the front track of a bear looks pretty much like an ordinary animal track (kind of like a dog track but with the heel separated from the rest of the track due to an arch), the track of the rear paws can look somewhat human. Yet unlike human tracks, the rear tracks of a bear leave claw marks, the toes do not connect to the main body of the track, and the main body of the track narrows down considerably going from the front to the rear.
No, the tracks I was looking at were almost completely oval, or bathtub shaped, and there appeared to be little or no arch — very flat footed. And there were no claw marks, and the toes (longer than those of a bear) were connected to the main body of the track. They were neither bear nor human.
Yeah, I was a little scared, especially as I was only about thirty miles as the crow flies from where the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film was made on Bluff Creek in Autumn of 1967 — only ten years before. Forty years later the film still has not been disproven, while technology not available in 1967 supports the film’s validity.
I pondered if this could be some sort of hoax, but realized the chances were nil of someone getting to such an out of the way place, after the rain but before someone else got there, somehow managing to plant fake tracks without leaving any other sign way out in the middle of a wide sandbar, then depending on someone like me to stumble across them when there were literally hundreds of other places to pull off up and down the road.
I did not have a camera with me, nor did I want to go back to Yreka and get the sheriff since by then the tracks of my ‘Littlefoot’ were accompanied by my tracks I left next to them when looking at them, and I did not want to be accused of somehow making the Littlefoot tracks myself.
Well, there it is. I remembered the animal in the Patterson-Gimlin film was clearly a female (the movie showed the creature to have large, pendulous breasts) and so I have often wondered that, if there are adult male and female Bigfoots, shouldn’t there then be young ones too? And for all I knew, could my ‘Littlefoot’ even have been the offspring of the female Sasquatch filmed on Bluff Creek back in 1967? I will never know for sure.