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THE OLDEST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF BIGFOOT THE OLDEST KNOWN by Lyle Billett of Victoria, Canada. face is hairy but not very detailed. PHOTOGRAPH OF BIGFOOT Fellow Cryptomundo blogger Loren Snowshoes can be seen at the left by David Hatcher Childress © 2012 Coleman found the photo on edge of the photo. There seems to Woolheater's website and posted it bea fence and a building on the right The discovery of an 1894 photograph of again, where | saw it. The photo also _ side, just beneath the crack. The feet a large, hairy, ape-like creature has appears in the updated version of the of the dead sasquatch are not seen, prompted speculation that the Hudson’s 1982 book The Bigfoot Casebook by Janet cropped out of the right side of the Bay Company was actively suppressing and Colin Bord (Bigfoot Casebook photo. evidence for the existence of the Updated: Sightings and Encounters from The story that this photo tells us is sasquatch. But is there an even bigger 1818 to 2004, Pine Winds Press, that in 1894, in the wilds of western conspiracy afoot? Washington, USA, 2005). Canada, some trappers and It is said that a picture tells a mountain men encountered a Bigfoot n my book Yetis, Sasquatch & Hairy ousand words, and this photo says and shot him. It may have happened | sien (2010), | was able to a lot. It does not seem to be a fake. near their cabin. They took a include a number of previously The photo is cracked from a fold on photograph of it. But there is more: unpublished photographs of e upper quarter. A sasquatch is the photo had some writing on the Bigfoot, including a photo taken in lying on snow with its arms in front, back of it, maybe in the hand of Lyle the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s so the hairy hands can be seen. The Billett. The text is as follows: Wan unusual photo. but not very [YEAR 1894 ’ YALIKOM RIVER sharp, and I said that it was the . AROUND LILLIOTT B.C. orgest Known photo of Bigfoot. | FORESTRY - HUDSONBAY CO. ’ 8. THEY TOOK THE PICTURE AND THE GUY THAT WAS IN THE PICTURE There is an astonishing photo from | Went g STOLE THEM BACK FROM THE FORESTRY RECORDS Canada taken in 1894 which would seem to be the oldest known (HUDSONBAY CO.) . A | BELIEVE HIS LAST NAME WAS HALIDAY (DON'T KNOW THE FIRST photograph of Bigfoot. Craig NAME) Woolheater posted the photo on his | ever TOOK ALL PICTURES (ONLY ONE) AND TOOK PICTURES OF blog at Cryptomundo.com on 16 THE REST November 2006. The photo had originally been sent to Tom Biscardi (GLASS PLATE PHOTOGRAPHY) some Giants (2010), | was able to include a number of previously unpublished photographs of Bigfoot, including a photo taken in the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s by a man named Joseph Roberts. It is an unusual photo, but not very sharp, and I said that it was the oldest known photo of Bigfoot. Well, | was wrong. There is an astonishing photo from Canada taken in 1894 which would seem to be the oldest known photograph of Bigfoot. Craig Woolheater posted the photo on his blog at Cryptomundo.com on 16 November 2006. The photo had originally been sent to Tom Biscardi [: my book Yetis, Sasquatch & Hairy 66 * NEXUS by David Hatcher Childress © 2012 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com