ANOTHER BODY FOUND OF BIGFOOT --1962

 33. Columbus Day Storm Animal

(Gordon Paison)

(September 16, 2010)

Yes, I can recall all of that day. As you know we had a major windstorm that hit on October 12, 1962. This windstorm had wreaked havoc on standing timber from Northern California to southern Washington. Contracts were awarded to many logging companies to help with the massive cleanup of the roads under USFS jurisdictions. By November we had over 30 million feet of timber on the ground from wind damage.

Greyback was a major artery used from O’Brien to Happy Camp. This area was contracted by Griffy and Laird Co.  On a November day we were called to assist in the removal of the deceased remains of a victim of the windstorm from Greyback Road.

The body had been discovered by the clearing crew and reported to our field office in Medford. What the recovery team was soon to learn was the remains were not of a human. It was quite apparent that whatever this animal was it was not human or animal as we describe animals.

The body of this thing was in advanced decomposition but clearly showed it had two arms with hands and five fingers along with two legs and feet with five toes on each foot that were something of an apelike human-ape type.

Nobody in our group had ever seen such a thing before. As for the reported photos they were not supposed to ever be shown as we did not give permission for the thing to be photographed. But apparently before our arrival some pictures were taken by the crew and some local people.

These pictures were to be collected if possible because the case had not been classified as natural death yet. Though some photos were not found much of them were collected as ordered by the district manager of this region.

Like I said the thing was never classified as any known animal. It was thought that it was some type of unusual primate but was never classified as such. My memory is quite clear of that thing and when that film of the ’67 bigfoot came out I remembered this thing was very near it in looks. So my idea is it was a bigfoot not a ape-human.

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