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The Patterson-Gimlin Trackway Rocks

 

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Images courtesy and copyright Daniel Perez.

People seek and gather a wide variety of collectible items that have historical and intrinsic value to them and others. Within the study of Bigfoot, collectibles are often the souvenirs, casts, and autographed books of authors writing about Sasquatch/Bigfoot. Sometimes, however, the objects of interest are literally parts of the landscape of a Bigfoot event.

These more physical memorabilia can, for example, be the soil or sand from a sighting or trackway site. They are often gathered, labeled, sometimes bottled, and kept in museums and other collections.

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Rocks from the Patterson-Gimlin filmsite trackway, formerly owned by George Haas (above) are such collectibles. They are in the possession of Daniel Perez, and this is the story behind how he obtained them.

Perez writes:

These rocks, shown here, were collected on June 23, 1968 by
the late George Haas as a “souvenir” from the P-G filmsite. George
pulled them out of a footprint where Patty walked.  Patty literally
walked on these rocks on her walk away from Roger’s camera.

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After George died in 1978, his collection was secured by Warren Thompson.

Then, Warren Thompson died recently. Perez obtained a rental trailer, loaded all of Thompson’s materials, and brought them to Perez’s place. But Perez, who knew about the rocks, figured that someone would have thrown them away years ago, thinking they were insignificant.

Perez writes:
One thing I thought I never would find were the rocks from the Patty
trackway that George brought home (I never met George) and Warren
talked about. [Then] LO AND BEHOLD, when Cliff Barackman was here for
Christmas eve, we just started looking at some smaller boxes and there
they were!
These rocks are exactly the kind of items that are cherished by the likes of California’s China Flats-Willow Creek  Museum and Mike Rugg’s Bigfoot Discovery Center, as well as Portland, Maine’s International Cryptozoology Museum.  Such artifacts exist throughout the fieldwork and research world of Bigfoot investigations. Within the museum exhibition realm, we enjoy sharing such collectibles with the general public.
For these rocks, they remain out of museum visitors’ view in Daniel Perez’s private collection, hidden from the Bigfoot research community, but thankfully saved for the future.
This article about the Patterson-Gimlin Trackway rocks is the first time their images have ever been published. Thanks to Daniel Perez for sharing them here.

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John Green and Jim McClarin examining the remaining trackway.

 

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Image of Daniel Perez, foreground, Bobo, background, exactly 50 feet from the camera (tape measure on the ground). The camera is a K-100 16mm with turret lense (three lenses). The photograph was taken in the Summer of 2012, by Rowdy Kelly. Note how heavily overgrown the filmsite is today. Daniel Perez ©2012, permission granted for reproduction.
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by Loren Coleman on May 21, 2013 in Artifacts, Bigfoot, Breaking News, CryptoZoo News, Sasquatch | Tagged Daniel Perez, George Haas, Patterson-Gimlin, Rocks, Trackway, Warren Thompson
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