Was it a sighting? Was it a documentary? A book? For me it was all the above. The Legend Of Boggy Creek was as important to me as anything else, really. In Search Of and all of the other 70's documentaries were also instrumental in fueling my interest on the subject. How about the rest of you?

The same as you. TLBC, The Mysterious Monsters, In Search Of........................ These and others sparked an interest that has lasted a lifetime.

For me it was seeing stills from the PGF and then my grandfather reading to me out of John Green's books "The Year of the Sasquatch" and "On the Track of the Sasquatch". Seeing those stills was absolutely mindblowing to my little 7 or 8 yr old brain.

On The Track Of Sasquatch, is that the one with th light blue cover? If it is it also made a big impact on me. I read that when I was 6 or 7 yrs. old! Creature From Black Lake, although fiction, also scared the poop out of me when I was little!

A Book in a Library in deepest darkest London Town when i was a little Boy that had a Picture of Patty on the front..

I ended up not giving the Book back ( Mum still reminds me of my badness ), a couple of years later Harry hit the screens & the rest, as they say, is History...

MonsterQuest in general + Small interest entire life in the subject

gbone, nope the two that he had and I inherited have a red cover(year of the sasquatch) and a yellow cover(on the track of the sasquatch). Which means the blue cover must be from "Encounters With Sasquatch". I may be wrong though.

Boggy creek scared me out of my wits as a child, also Arthur C Clark's Mysterious World series on UK TV, both are responsible for my initial interest in Bigfoot.

great new thread but i hope hollywood filmakers do another boggy creek or something similer to it. opinions... bill

A high budget BF movie, done right, would be very scary. I think interest would be fairly high, but 'Harry' kind of did that in, though. In this day of people downloading movies before they even hit theaters, it would be hard to get producers to take a chance on it.

What got me first interested in Bigfoot.........seeing my grandfather walk out the backyard with only a towel on and it fell off when I was about 5yrs old...he had hair all over his back and bum and legs, with a big beer gut...I immediately pointed to him and said..Mum...Bigfoot?

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The search for Bigfoot by Peter Bryne. Creature from Black Lake in the theater as a kid.
AlbertaSas is this the cover you talking about? Only with Sasquatch changed to Bigfoot.Click to view attachment

For me it all started when I went to see the Mysterious Monsters movie with my older sister. I believe The Legend of Boggy Creek was also playing and I saw both. It sure freaked me out when I saw Sasquatch on the big screen there.

Too bad the sequels to Legend were so bad. Anyone see The Shreiking?

Sitting in the Junior High library(1973) thumbing through a copy of Readers Digest from 1968 or 69, not sure which. By the way, does anyone have a copy in their collection of Bigfoot related materials?

My interest began as a kid in a movie theater in 1977, watching this movie:

Had to be "The Legend of Boggy Creek". It had alot of people arond here talking. Always been curious and then I found BFF and the interest started growing again. I would really like to see one for myself.

Too bad the sequels to Legend were so bad
I only ever saw "Return to Boggy Creek" - wow, what a terrible waste of time. I heard the first movie grossed over $20 million...in the 70's. Wasn't "Return to..." kind of a knock off, as well as precluding the original director?

well everyone i still hope hollywood decides to another new boggy creek movie or something similer to it. interesting above replys indeed

Two sequels to The Legend Of Boggy Creek One was 'Return' that you saw and the other was Boggy Creek 2 The only one really worth watching was the first one IMO. You should be able to find it pretty easily. I found it on accident at Wal-Mart on DVD.

Yes but I believe it has a different cover.

When I was around 13, I saw the first 20 minutes of Bigfoot: Man or Beast? as a short featurette before a film called African Safari. I was riveted by the PGF. A few years later, Boggy Creek came out. The 70s were the paranormal decade in this country, with In Search Of... on TV every week and all kinds of UFO, Bermuda Triangle books, etc.

I miss the 70s. Maybe the zeitgeist of that period was a tad silly, but it beats the crap out of the cynicism and conspiracy BS everybody thrives on today.

When I first went to see the "Legend Of Boggy Creek". It was playing as a double feature with I believe "Planet Of The Apes" at the local drive-in. I first looked at the movie poster (which I now own) I thought "What In the world is this movie about". I had not heard anything about this movie prior to this. Then the movie started with the first thing on " This Is A True Story" and I started thinking about the movie poster and then the movie starts with the little boy running across the field and it scream from the wood line. That sent shivers up my spine. I remember thinking "Oh My God that thing is out there waiting for that little boy. I was hoping that at the end the movie, the Foulke monster would die like all monsters did back then. Well that didn't happen and as we drove home my dad commented that he had heard about it while he was growing up and how I just happen to resemble the little boy at the beginning of the movie. We got home and first thing my dad told me was to take the dog outside to go to the bathroom (70's talk). I thought to my 10 year old self that it is really dark outside and the Foulke Monster has probably left Arkansas and is now waiting in the wood line in my backyard, waiting for me to come out there because I look like that little boy. So I went and got my little brother to come outside with me." No" I didn't tell him that I was scared, I lied to him. The way I figured it, I was a faster runner than him and if in fact the Foulk Monster was in my back yard, I could get away first and it would grab my brother as I went told my parents. I know what you think "What a lousy big brother!". Yes, I was and I did not want my hide ripped off me like that guy said happen to his dog. "Hey" my folks were still young , they could have more kids. Well, The conclusion of this story is that the Foulke monster was not in my backyard and my little brother lived. It might have something to do with the fact that I lived in the middle of town with houses all around ours, but who knows, maybe the Foulke monster wanted to try city food. Next morning after looking out my window all night, I went and bragged to my friends about the scary movie I watched the following night. Of course that is when my life long fascination for cyptozoology started.

When I was in the 8th grade, one of the boys brought in the 'Argosy' magazine that featured the story about the 'Minnasota Iceman'. He was telling one of the other boys about it and I asked if I could also read it. I was hooked!! After that I couldn't get enough of the Documentaries and movies.

Now, I have curved it down a little and don't really get into most of the b movies out now on the big guy, a waste!! I would think someone would have made a more serious movie having to do with true accounts. Like a trilogy of the most famous top three or something like that. Would be great!

To be honest, I can't remember when I first became interested. I remember watching the Six Million Dollar Man episodes when I was 4 or 5, but I think I was aware of bf before that.

For me it was seeing a movie with the PG film in 1967 or 1968. I don't remember the film's name, but I think it was a true, nature film. I can still remember my feeling in seeing patty for the first time. It creeped me out, and as I said in another post, my mind told me I was looking at a real creature.

I never noticed it was a she sas, until years later when the breasts were discussed in a tv show.

I don't remember what I saw first I think it was PGF on TV and I just thought it must be real.
A friend was always into it more than me and I would hear stories from him but then I helped him with his own Bigfoot conference here in Pocatello. I really just thought I was helping with the planning so it would be a good time for all and maybe he wouldn't lose too much on it. Then the speakers started and I was there so I listened and WOW several of them were very convincing and Dr. Meldrum going through the PGF and foot information was really convincing. During this I went to dinner with some people who had they own sighting and seemed to saw what they saw.

After that I really became interested and read several books and went to the mountains a few times and found that I think Bigfoot could be out there.

Around 1979 or '80 I was 9 or 10 yo and stumbled on 2 sets of tracks with a friend, 1 set the "cripple foot" and another much larger set in about 1 inch of snow.

I started talking to people and found out that I lived in the heart of sasquatch country so I had the good fortune of meeting, talking to, and hunting with some really great people in sasquatch hunting history. It didnt hurt that I was a kid either, people will go above and beyond for kids.

I lost intrest for many years, even when finding tracks and such I and my wife would say, "huh, a bf print", and move on.

I dont remember why, but a couple years ago I became interested again, (now wishing I had takin photos and did some research on the past tracks and activities, oh well)

I dug out my old sasquatch briefcase with my autographed books and letters ant tapes and such and just thought, "we still live in the same place, why not start hittin the mountains again with a tape measure and camera"?

Except for gas last summer, its cheap entertainment.

Sammy

This is hard for me to answer. I mean I took interest in the Yeti in Bugs Bunny and Rudolph, as a child. I thought they were just fictional though. I think it wasn't til around 3rd or 4rth grade that I learned that there are people claiming Bigfoot is real, and either a lot of hoaxing going on, or evidence for it's existence. I think it was due to a book in school. We were forced to check out books, and I wasn't interested in %99.999999 of the crap in the school library. See Spot Run, YAWN..... Luckily I found a book dealin with the "paranormal" and Bigfoot was in there. I checked that book out nearly every week til the librarian biched me out for it. She told me to get another book. I was like, why? I won't read it.

This got me interested in bigfoot... but not until many years later... as odd as that sounds: Hunter has early morning sighting near Challis

In my highschool library, I was wandering through and became rivetted by some big pamphlets (for lack of a better word) by John Green.
They were large, like maybe 8 1/2 by 11. One war a hot color, and the other blue, I think. One had a sketch of a sasquatch, and the other I believe had a sketch like the Haida Mask, but I think it was altered to seem like it was looking sidelong at you. That's my impression of the moment, which could be wrong with the years.

Before that I'd heard the word sasquatch, only because people said a local guy knew of such things, and many other things besides. Even 'little people' who lived in the woods. I never did go to talk to him about any of it, but when I saw those things in the library, I started researching, and heavily. Reading wise anyway. I saw the Patterson film, but never the boggy creek thing.
The someone made a horror film about bigfoot. I saw the advertisement, and recall a guy sitting on the can, when a big hairy arm smashes right through the wall knocking him to the ground, and trying to grab him. I thought, 'Yeah right! LIke I'm going to watch that crap!'
It pissed me off actually, as that was a totally different animal from the things I was reading about.
And when I saw 'Steve Austin meets Bigfoot, I just turned away shaking my head.

So the books were the thing for me.


BB

I have both of those books! The blue one is "The Sasquatch File" printed in 1973 and the red one is called "Year of the Sasquatch" printed in 1970.

I thought they were autographed by Green but I just looked and unfortunately these were only autographed by my mother, sigh. I do have others that are autographed though. These books also were some of my first introduction to bf.

Sammy

My youngest and I will put in Boggy Creek on nights that nothing good is on TV (about 2 or 3 times a year)we just love that thing.

My interest started about 40 years ago. One of my uncles had a sighting and while telling people they would laugh at him. I said hum I need to look into this and see what it is all about. Still here all these years later. Well now that I think about it maybe it was 38 years ago I was in the 1st grade if I remember right.

Well,being born in 66,I am one of the legion of researcher/enthusiasts that were permanently hooked on bigfoot by the great films,documentaries and docu-dramas of the late 60's and early 70's. All mentioned in this thread helped to grab hold of me and never let go. Sasquatch:The Legend of Bigfoot(not the Marx hoax film)was probably my favorite along with Bigfoot Man or Beast? In Search Of,Boggy Creek,Black Lake and even the Yeti films of the 50's(think maybe Hammer films did one)all did their part in sending me on a life-long path of both frustration and enjoyment. It would be hard to find anyone from the age of 37-50 that wasnt a fan of these films and I bet 90 percent will site them as the reason they first become interested in the subject. Take care my fellow squatchers!

All the greats. I would like to see all of thos 70's documentaries back to back some time.

I was about 8 years old living near Sawyers Bar, Ca. when a good friend of my father one day told my father about the strange things that were going on at Bluff Creek. He was a logging truck driver and had seen the tracks on the road and landings and also saw the barrels of oil that had been thrown from the edge of the landing down the hill. I remember that he said that the rumor was that it was some wild large Indian that was doing it. I remember him saying the tracks were very large. I remember my dad totally laughing the whole thing off but his friend Bill was very serious about it. That was the first time I had ever heard about Bigfoot but I remember it very well and then when all of the stuff years later happened I realized that Bill was telling the truth.

Loved to watch "The Legend of Bigfoot" picked it up at Walmart for $1.

I became interested after a sighting as a child in Northern Michigan. I then saw legend of boggy creek at some point and that scared the hell out of me. For me it wasn't just a movie it validated the existence in my head. It cured me of being afraid of Frankenstein.

~A

Watching Harry and the Hendersons is what sparked my interest in Sasquatch. The fact that it was filmed close to home (Port Angeles, Washington) really added to the overall enthusiasm.

Be sure to check out the Feb 18th "Swamp Stalker" episode of MonsterQuest. It was filmed in the same location as the Legend of Boggy Creek.

Here's an aerial photo I took of the location.

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The "Six Million Dollar Man" bigfoot episodes was my first exposure to the phenomena. And then that "In Search of" episode really got me interested. Leonard Nimoy is the man. I was still really little when I saw those programs. The clincher was watching "Bigfoot: The Legend of Sasquatch" one Saturday afternoon on my local TV station's creature feature. Also I can remember watching "Snow Beast". That movie really scared the crap outta me. Once years ago when I was still a pre-teen I took a wrong turn on a ski trail at Steamboats Springs and got lost. I was totally convinced that the "Snow Beast" was going to get me. It doesn't matter whether Bigfoot is real or not, I'm still a big fan.

Hi

I doubt you could find a lonelier spookier place than Boggy Creek, It twists and winds it's way through the Fouke countryside widening and narrowing sheltering between it's banks a multitude of creatures that run, fly, swim, creep, crawl

Peace
Tim

Hey Travis Crabtree

When I was about 10, I read The Secret Of The Himalayas by Hal George Evarts. It's a fictional kids' tale about a boy lucky enough to go on a Yeti hunt but most of his adventures are escaping from Communist soldiers.
Evarts also wrote the script for The Big Trail which was John Wayne's first starring role.

I first seen the Patterson/Gimlin film when my science teacher show us(the class) the clip
and we started a unit on ancient man and the possiblity that bigfoot could be a decendant,

I came to find out later that the Teacher was fascinated w/ sasquatch so another classmate and I
approached our teacher for more material on the topic. To our surprise he had Patterson's
book and info on where to find more.

Been hooked ever since....

I always knew that there was something out there. I could feel it. I actually saw it one night when I was about five years old and got up to go to the bathroom which entailed walking past a big glass door with a Biggie on the other side.

I saw a few more as a teenager growing up. Young ones. Small ones that ran like dogs and then would get up on the rear legs and run like heck.

Then I saw one with a friend driving a car and with another friend while in a car.

They were all monsters. Demons. I knew that they did not fit into any known creature and that they couldn't be real.

I had heard about BF...... but that was not around here in the Colorado Rockies, it just couldn't be real. Those things were monsters and there couldn't be more than one right?

It was when the tracks were discovered in Eagle and Gypsum that I started to figure out what they were. That this thing that I kept seeing was a BF. and that is when I started to surf the net and get into reading about everybodies stories. I started to seek out what they really are, where they come from and what they are all about.

Co incidentally I spent a lot of time at a friends house in the area of the Gypsum tracks and was able to have many more sightings and to observe a whole group of them for several summers. I have learned a lot about them. They are sneaky and stealthy and they are absolutley silent when they want to be. There is a difference between male and female. They are so intellegent. They seem to know and once you have looked into those eyes you do not walk away feeling like they are animals.

I have had many many encounters and because of this anomally I am lambabsted in the BF comunnity. Even the experts only get one shot. I have heard. Or so on and so forth. So that is why I believe. I believe because I have seen them Many of them. Many different times in several different places. And another note to those that may want me to go out into the woods with them..... They scare the blank out of me. and there is no way that I will.

There are certain ones that I would feel calmer around, but when it is that big and that powerful and that unknown. I am not ignorant enough to believe that they could not or would not carry me off. As funny as that sounds. That is how I feel. For those of you that have not seen one, I wish sometimes that I could be you. But I count my blessings and if they keep presenting themselves to me then I maybe should do something more to understand why. So my ambition is to get a track and a picture of atleast one.

Between the ages of 8 and 11, I found a book at my school library with stills from the PG footage. I was amazed and couldn't get enough ever since. LOL I even remember being absolutley astounded when I learned that there was more than one bigfoot. I guess I figured Patty and Nessie we both one of kind animals.

I admitt it was probably a funny scene, a 10 year old boy telling his classmates and teachers his theories on how these creatures have evaded science. I'm glad I don't recall those "theories". I can imagine them being pretty rediculous! LOL

For me it was Leonard Nimoy's 'In Search Of' but for my 6 year old niece who was staying over and couldn't sleep it was 'Sasquatch' with Lance Hendrikson. I'm sure it will all come out with her therapist one day.

when I was little I was scared of werewolves, while my sister was scared of BF!