New Discovery of Bigfoot Evidence From the 1930s

Press Release: September 4, 2001 Portland, Maine A startling new discovery concerning Bigfoot, 25 years before the first well-publicized encounters in 1958, has been made by Portland, Maine author, professor, and cryptozoologist. Loren Coleman, a leading Bigfoot researcher, has found a remarkable image of Bigfoot dating back to the 1930s. Coleman's in-depth report on this discovery will appear in the next print edition of The Anomalist, issue 10, due out by the end of the year. In August through October, 1958, a series of large footprints found by construction workers building a road at Bluff Creek, California, opened the modern era of Bigfoot studies. Church-going bulldozer operator Jerry Crew made a plaster cast of one footprint and took it to the local newspaper. The explosion of modern interest in Bigfoot can be dated to that single series of 1958 events. But, Coleman, author of Mysterious America and The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide, has found a 1930's image of Bigfoot, which he believes demonstrates there was common knowledge among Californians about the local hairy giants. Researchers have been befuddled by a gap in Bigfoot accounts that exists between 1900 and 1958. Before 1899, there were native traditions of Bigfoot-like creatures, and a few 19th century news accounts of "wildmen" match Bigfoot. Until Coleman's research, however, the gap before 1958, in California, seemed almost as much a mystery as Bigfoot. The image on the California Giant Brand Lettuce fruit label definitely shows a large hairy, hominid form. The label itself serves as a scale for how large this "Giant" is. The label is nine inches long in reality, and the artistic mirror image of the label itself is .75 inches in length. The image of the repeating "California Giant" label on the label tells us how big this creature is. Basically, the label shows items that are on a 1:12 scale. Therefore, we find that the hairy giant depicted is about 10 feet tall and has a foot that is approximately 20-24 inches long. The figure looks strong, well muscled, with brown, short hair all over the body but on the face. The neck is unusually solid looking and well defined. It is a rather typical image of a Bigfoot. These dimensions are comparable to Roger Patterson's "Giant Hairy Ape" which had humanlike footprints measuring 22 inches long, and was taller by several feet than the regular Bigfoot he had heard about. John Green also noted some reports from the 1950s and 1960s that told of hairy men with giant tracks almost two-feet long. Coleman's upcoming article for The Anomalist will relate this discovery to the "wildman" and "Green Man" artifacts from Europe's Middle Ages. Loren Coleman's website is http://www.lorencoleman.com