John Green (right) interviews Albert Ostman about Ostman’s 1924 Sasquatch abduction incident in British Columbia.

As a newspaper man from Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, John Green began investigating Sasquatch reports in 1957, at the age of 30, interviewing witnesses and conducting on-site inquiries. He published several monographs and then a book on the subject, Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us in 1975.

Today, turning 80 years old in 2007, John Green is one of North America’s foremost Bigfoot researchers and enjoying the new reprint of his bible of the field, Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us. This recent printing of his book sports a colorful new cover, with the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot proudly there on the front (see below).

Green writes to me on December 5, 2006, so I can pass on his reflections on M. K. Davis’ recent statements (see What’s Being Said?) about the Roger Patterson-Bob Gimlin Bigfoot footage and the Sasquatch captured within that film.

Green notes that regarding the

…missing frames from the copy of the film used for LMS (Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science), I don’t see how there could be any. René [Dahinden] and I had the original film, from which a master copy was made directly and then work prints such as the one I loaned for LMS made directly from that, all on the same day.

As to the creature carrying a stick, nonsense! And as you point out it would mean nothing if it were, since other apes do the same.

For more on “Bigfoot With A Stick?,” please click here.

For other recent postings on M. K. Davis’s statements and nearly two hundred interesting comments by Cryptomundo readers, see the following blogs: 1, 2, 3, and 4.