Hoax, Pranks, the full bit.

In the book The Life and Times of a Legend BIGFOOT written by Joshua Blu Buhs, he discusses in the Bigfoot chapter about a man of the name Crew who lived in Salyer, California. On August 27, 1958, he went to work doing road service. crew parked by his bulldozer and noticed a few footprints in the leveled earth but didn't think much about them. Once he got into the bulldozer and looked down he realized the prints were big and manlike. When he discussed this prints to Shorty a fellow worker they discussed that it may be responsible for other disturbances. The summer before a 450 pound drum of diesel fuel was missed placed and a 700 pound spare tire found its way into a ditch. But in this area there is history of practical jokes, stories of giant turtles and panthers, and even sea serpents. Someone even made the comment that Crew's mysterious tracks were left by Paul Bunyan's two year old son. The new went on the write a story that the footprints may be from a gigantic, retarded Indian. The Indian was said to have run away from a camp. Or of a boy whose parents tied him to a tree, entirely naked except for a wide leather belt. He was over six feet and weighed about 250. He had rather long hair all over his body. Many of these tales were versions of older legends told and passed down.


The stories upon stories told in this chapter are insane. They all sound like a small town trying to make a name on the map. A bunch of old men with nothing better to do with there time. All the stories were pranks and set up for a good paper. Everything was published to the papers. And even int his chapter they discussed a contest where you could send in the funniest practical joke and get a reward. The whole chapter was exciting to read to just think about the imaginations these men have.

Blu Buhs, Joshua. The Life and Times of a Legend BIGFOOT. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. 66-87. Print.