These rumors have been a catastrophic handicap to do Bigfoot research under. It would seem the Chambers fabrication and rumors like it have left the Bigfoot community reeling, skeptical of everything that moves in the forest, skeptical of our own peers, their photographs and articles and worst of all we criticize and tear apart almost everything that has been presented across the board since 1967 without due process and examination. What we need is a clean slate. A renewal, a freshness of mind, perhaps even a bill of divorcement and a dissociation from this hoax thing that continually clouds every substantial lead we are offered. It's time for a new generation of Bigfooters to re-evaluate what we know about the Patterson film, take control and leave these veiled rumors where they belong.
Lets move on.
If you've learned anything from my words, leave us pay tribute to the memory of Roger Patterson and salute the courage of Bob Gimlin. I stand applauding these gentlemen for their individual contributions to Bigfoot history. With grateful appreciation to Loren Coleman for encouragement and his own article in the February l998 Fortean Times. Issue NASI Newsletter.