(Historic) Western Bigfoot Society meeting report of March 3rd, 2012

The Saturday meeting opened with guest speaker Henry Franzoni of Deer Island, Oregon, telling of his association with the Four Tribes Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and a reference to his published book “In the Spirit of Seatco” (see Amazon).

There were about 30 people that attended, a welcome relief from the 90+ SRO mob of the previous month with Cliff Barackman. Have changed the order of Henry’s presentation a bit to make this summary easier to follow from my notes.

Henry went on to tell of developing in 1993 the first website dedicated to Bigfoot for the Western Bigfoot Society (WBS). At the time, there were only 500 websites in the whole world, and the WBS database site even predated that of the famous BFRO.

As the topic of Henry’s talk was to be “The Area Between the Normal and the Paranormal Bigfoot,” he addressed the normal in that “people try to make him (BF) scientific, but can’t. He’s intelligent…there is logical explanation (for sightings) but you don’t know what it is.” People who have seen a Bigfoot and try to explain it to others are often confronted with a great deal of grief; probably they were telling the truth but were thought by others to have made a story up.

Belief in Bigfoot is hard on relationships. “Friends have dropped me, even good ones, though I got to understand them (BF) finally.” The best advice to have a Bigfoot experience is to go into the mountains and spend a night. If they want to interface with you, they will…or not. “You gotta’ go your own way to learn about Bigfoot.”

Because their superior technology (mental and physical) is more advanced than we think, it appears as if “magic” is being preformed (a radio would be magic to some jungle natives). Because of this, your travels in the pursuit of knowledge would find no satisfaction when trying to prove Bigfoot’s existence.

And as an example, Henry cited the common crow. They all look alike, but the crows know one human from another…those who are friendly, those who are not. The same is true with the Seatco (Forest Friends in Chinook Jargon). A recent Internet reference to this fact was illustrated at a habituated site where the Bigfoots knew what cars were coming and going. They would come out if a friend, or stay reclusive if a strange car appeared.

Henry next spoke of the Native American traditions, some from his close associations with the Four Tribes. First was a reference to a VillageIsland of the Kwakiutl (NE coast Vancouver Island) near the mouth of the NimpkishRiver. Here, natives while fishing would put in at a hundred year old abandoned village, the source of extensive tribal lore concerning the Wildman, Dzunaqua (sex sensitive), said to be the Doorman of the Gods; the Bok-Bok Walla-Siway.

Through the auspices of Dr. John Bindernagel Henry was introduced to Tom Sewid, the hereditary chief of the Hamas Clan of the Kwakiutl. He said they (BF) live in the high mountains in invisible houses. “He who lives at the mouths of rivers and devours humans…a cannibal god.”

The Elders of the Four Tribes can confirm that the Indians know a lot and they are not much interested in sharing with the white egocentric civilization. They know the Bigfeet are another tribe of Indians. There is a spiritual side to Bigfoot, but those of them (BF), like all rank-and-file animals have to have food also…something to eat.

Then Henry wanted to examine the paranormal aspects of the Seatco. He started by referring to an early spring field trip in April 1994 with the WBS to a Coast Range area where there had been some ten reported sightings in the Track Record. We were exploring the lower NehalemRiver near the NehalemFalls. Henry and Pam (later his wife), once a law enforcement officer in Alaska, were offended by one of the Gung-ho Bigfoot investigators that had came armed, and they returned to their vehicle. (Pam couldn’t attend the meeting as she was in Moscow, Russia judging a cat show…just in time for their election, Putin suspected to win).

Henry then heard from some 30 feet away, and coming seemingly from behind a 30 foot tall bush what sounded like a deep laughter. The laughing sound reminded him of a Hollywood gorilla with deep lungs. He wondered at the time if it was a Bigfoot and it was laughing at them at the speed of thought. He and Pam examined the bush, and there was no trace of anything; no bent leaves or tracks.

Henry went on to explain that the Seatco is usually underestimated and that it can teleport, is telepathic, becomes invisible, and can project its voice with ventriloquism; exactly like many Native American stories you often read about.

Contuinuing, he says that not only can the Seatco see into the future, they speak to you in your head in a language you can understand; if your French, the languages is French, if Italian then in Italian. This has all led to clues that have individually meant something to Henry and led him to become a conservationist for the Four Tribes.

In summary, Henry told of a peculiar experience while drumming at home in Linnton, Oregon (he once for a TV documentary drummed in the woods to get a reaction…there was none). He has made 18 recordings while drumming, and thinks Bigfoot communicates by music. He received a telepathic message he thought was beamed at him by a Bigfoot…it said, “All good bands play Bolero. He puzzled over it for some time and much later received some bootleg music that he had ordered over the Internet. The first song on the record was, “Bolero.”

The Bolero is a genre of slow tempo Latin music invented in 1780 by Dancer Sebastiano Carezo in Spain, Wikipedia. Franzoni at XXXX@critfc.org

There were many high-profile guests at the meeting. One, Thom Cantrall, author of “Ghosts of Ruby Ridge,” spoke briefly on his upcoming conference of the International Society for primal People in Richland, WA, May 4-6, 2012. The meeting will be held at the Shiloh Inn and there will be a field trip to the Blue Mountains. There are 15 speakers invited including Bob Gimlin, Melba Ketchum, Scott Nelson, and Derek Randles. Details call XXX-XXX-XXXX or www.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com/Sasquatch/

Toby Johnson of the Bigfoot Breakfast Club brought a cast of the recent Bigfoot track find from London, Oregon. 122 tracks were counted and many plaster casted by Cliff Barackman, Thom Powell (also brought a cast), and Toby. Also on scene, among others (12 Bigfooters and several laymen), were Beth Heikkinen, Max Roy, Chris Minniear, Guy Edwards, Joe Beelart, Thom Cantrall, Autumn Williams (found some impressions coming down a bank) and her mother Sali Shepard-Wolford. The tracks were probably made on Feb. 11th by two individual Bigfoot, and discovered by a man walking his dog on the 12th along a logging road outside of town where he found three17 inch tracks. Further examination revealed the long trackways in a clay-mixed substrate near the shoreline of a lake. The tracks there were 14 inches with a ball width of six inches and a heel width of four inches. “The step (not stride, which would be two steps) was right around 41-42 inchs each time,” Barackman said (he cast 72 that he took home). A regular circus said Toby, adding, “There were toe prints all over the place. Toby at: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX@gmail.com

Beth Heikkinenm independent Bigfoot researcher (though once associated with the Olympic Project), was present from Tacoma. She will be our next speaker for April 7th, at the Home Base Cafe. Beth will cover her sighting of Bigfoot, investigations into the mystery, and even a comment or two about her grandchildren. She was instrumental in helping Toby with the London tracks. XXXXXXXXXXXX@gmail.

Larry Sanders and Mark Johnson are producing a low-budget movie, “Encountering Bigfoot.” They will be seeking witness interviews. Check out XXXXXXXX@hoodoomovie to be aired in the fall of 2012.

Thanks to you that have purchased a copy of “Shaman from the East.” Please do a review for Amazon.com. Thanks again.

– Ray Crowe

A letter to Ray…

Hi Ray,

Great meeting Saturday. At the meeting you wanted to know what I’ve been doing and I said I’d drop you a line. After like 18 years of almost always going to the same ole places (and having wonderful mutual positive contact experiences) I have branched out and have been seeking peaceful contact with new clans in several new areas in the Oregon coast range.

I have been exploring a new area that is quite rugged and far into the mountains, but worth the effort. I first found this location when I went out target practice shooting and 4-wheeling with my nephew and family. After I found the place I then started taking a girlfriend out with me to this place which has a very wide muddy bank with all sorts of animal tracks which we followed. Then we came upon where apparently a little baby sasquatch and it’s siblings were going along the muddy bank and digging for turtles and frogs. The tracks are in a very long line and every like 10 or 15’ there is a big dug out spot in the bank as if they squatted down and smelled something then dug it out…very fun. The baby tracks and it’s sibling are lower along the water and I found a few larger tracks which paralleled them above like the parent was walking along above keeping watch over them while they were busy digging for turtles, frogs or whatever else is in the mud in winter. They also were perhaps catching crawdads (we found lots of crawfish shells too). We know it’s a sasquatch baby and young ones and not humans making the tracks as they go down way too deep in the mud and we have seen them multiple times in the same place…I’ve even tried jumping up and down barefoot when the bank is muddy and I can’t make my tracks go down but a very tiny bit. The stride is also a bit too long for my comfort. But we know they are sasquatch and we had gone back every week or 2 weeks up until the snows came up there and each time we had seen the tracks and we are so thrilled that they are fresh each time we go out…they seem to pick up that we are coming out and they know we will keep the location to ourselves and they trust us so it seems they treat us to their tracks each time we go out. We never make it scary for the babies in case they are watching and we treat them with the utmost family oriented love and respect…and we are women and non-threatening.

The above attached pics are from a different outing area. This outing I took my step father and another friend. We hiked up a hill off a forest road and have coined it “Sas Snap Hill” because we arrived one mid-morning to find three young doug firs in a row had been twisted and snapped (3.5-4” diameter thick tree tops) and left bent over…AND we found some sasquatch tracks at the base of the trees and a very good one lower down the mountain. Also on the tree tops you can see where the hands were on the bark above the snaps where it gripped above to make the twist the bark was rubbed off. Very fun. I go when I can and take them organic fruit and other goodies and I play my flute for them which they seem to like.

My method is no “gear” required for contact…and in my opinion the more gear the less contact. You just need a kind heart, your own voice to talk to them, and perhaps a flute! And think “offering” not “bait”…”people” not animal.

Anyway, enjoy and I’ll keep you posted. (You are OK to use this and/or my pics if you want). I have the meetings on my calendar and will try to make all of them!

Leann McCoy/Beaverton, Oregon