Peter Byrne

An Irish Bigfoot researcher, Peter Byrne wanted evidence before belief. October 1970. Ivan Marx phoned Dahinden claiming a film of the Bossburg "Cripple Foot" creature, and a bidding war began. Byrne checked the filming site. It did not match Marx's account, and shifting shadows showed more time had passed between shots than claimed. Belief in the film evaporated. The Crate's Point sightings are said to have drawn him to The Dalles, where a World Bigfoot Center took shape. In 1976 he sent hair samples from the center to the FBI. The 1977 verdict was deer family origin.

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Albert Ostman's claimed abduction by a Sasquatch family, Toba Inlet, British Columbia (1924)

1924 · Inland from the head of Toba Inlet, British Columbia

Canada

Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources

15Thinly documented

Bigfoot researcher who wanted more evidence

The Bossburg "Cripple Foot" Sasquatch Trackway

November 24, 1969 · Bossburg, Stevens County, Washington

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources

31Partially documented

Researcher who exposed Marx's 1970 "Cripple Foot" film as faked

Pro early

The Dalles "Overgrown Ape" Sightings at Pinewood Mobile Manor

June 1971 · Pinewood Mobile Manor (Pinewood Trailer Court), Crate's Point, The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources

19Thinly documented

Irish Bigfoot researcher who set up a World Bigfoot Center in The Dalles