raymond l wallace NUMBER bigfoot story teller NUMBER NUMBER ray wallace a controversial figure involved in NUMBER years of bigfoot related events died november NUMBER NUMBER in toledo washington the washington state construction tycoon had been ill for some time living in a toledo rest home it was at bluff creek california in NUMBER which found ray wallace¹s company building a new road through the northern california forest in august through october wallace construction company s employee jerry crew found tracks of a huge humanlike foot thanks to instructions from taxidermist bob titmus crew made the first plaster casts of a footprint from this hairy upright creature his fellow workers called ³bigfoot ² crew took the cast to town to quiet local ridicule and showed it to a humboldt county newspaper editor the photograph of jerry crew with the giant plaster of paris foot imprint went out over the newswires it produced a revolutionary shift from small regional stories of sasquatch to today¹s global awareness of bigfoot soon after the publicized crew finds wallace and his brother claimed other bigfoot activity around the construction site wallace said he found tracks and droppings of bigfoot wallace was to be involved with the local tales of hairy giants for the rest of his life allegedly in the later in the NUMBERs for example wallace offered to sell texas millionaire tom slick a captured bigfoot wallace failed to produce the creature when slick came up with an offer down through the years wallace would carry on pranks be tied to carved fake sasquatch feet and produce and try to sell dubious photographs and films he was a great letter writer and would pen long passages to magazine editors about this photographs or telling of how he knew a bigfoot was nearby guarding a mine full of gold after awhile most bigfoot hunters and researchers took wallace as merely a spinner of fanciful tall tales through his contributions to strange magazine the track record and indirectly to fate magazine wallace relished keeping his name in the limelight of the bigfoot mystery in march NUMBER ray wallace offered a million dollars to the first person who could bring him a live baby bigfoot saying he had tracked bigfoot for forty years wallace claimed he wanted to raise a young sasquatch to adulthood wallace told reporters he planned to raise a baby bigfoot with ³care and respect² and would like to train the creature to ride around with him in his pickup truck and help out with chores around his ranch no one came forth with a baby bigfoot ray wallace added an intriguing mostly harmless story telling element to the otherwise often serious pursuit of bigfoot that various friends of his such as ray crowe director of the international bigfoot society enjoyed ray wallace was interred at the lone hill cemetery in toledo washington state on november NUMBER NUMBER loren coleman NUMBER URL to unsubscribe from this group send an email to forteana unsubscribe URL your use of yahoo groups is subject to URL 