Raymond L. Wallace
Ray Wallace | |
|---|---|
| Born | Raymond L. Wallace April 21, 1918 Clarksdale, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | November 26, 2002 (aged 84) Centralia, Washington, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Bigfoot hoaxing |
Raymond L. Wallace (April 21, 1918 − November 26, 2002) was an American amateur Bigfoot hoaxer.
Wallace was born in
Bigfoot
In August 1958, the Humboldt Times of Eureka, California, was the first to use the term "Bigfoot" in their story about huge footprints found by a worker of Wallace's Humboldt County construction company.[1]
Upon Wallace's death, his son Michael revealed that Wallace was in possession of large, poorly crafted, obviously fake wooden feet.[1] According to Wallace's family, Ray's brother Wilbur Wallace and nephew Mack McKinley used these wooden feet to stamp imprints around northern California as a prank.[1] Ray Wallace also created hair and feces samples which the family left in the woods for Bigfoot researchers to find. He created the hair samples by processing hair from the bison he kept on his wild animal farm near Toledo.[2] However, Chris Murphy notes that Ed Schillinger, "who is the only living witness from the Bluff Creek job" and "who considers himself almost an adopted son of the man [Ray]," strongly disputes the family's allegations.[3]
Regarding Wallace's claim to have told Roger Patterson where to go to shoot the
Death
Wallace died in a Centralia, Washington nursing home at the age of 84.[1]
See also
References
- ^ OCLC 1645522. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
- ^ "Wallace Hoax Behind Bigfoot?". BFRO.net. Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
- ^ Murphy (2009), 146
- ^ "The Real Bigfoot and Genuine Bigfoot Tracks," in Wonders, 7 (1): 99–125 in annual compilation, December 2002
- ^ "The Bigfoot Community's Wallace Problem," in Wonders, 8 (2): 44–53 in annual compilation, June 2003
- ^ "October 1958 in the History of Bigfoot," in Wonders, 9 (3): 85–96 in annual compilation, September 2005
- ^ "Early Footprint Observations & Hoax Considerations," in Chris Murphy's Know the Bigfoot/Sasquatch," pp. 143–46.
- ^ Meldrum, 274; see also 242
Other reading
- Buhs, Joshua Blu (August 1, 2009). Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend. University of Chicago Press. pp. 73, 76, 82–86, 105–06, 209, 241–42, 248, 251–52. ISBN 978-0-226-50215-1.
- Coleman, Loren (2003). Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America. Paraview Pocket Books. pp. 67–80, 222. ISBN 0-7434-6975-5.
- Daegling, David J. (2004). Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend. Altamira Press. pp. 35, 73–76, 99n36, 117, 180–82, 256–58. ISBN 0-7591-0539-1.
- ]
- ISBN 978-0-231-15320-1.
- ISBN 978-0-520-25571-5.
- ISBN 978-0765312174.
- Christopher Murphy (2009). Know the Sasquatch/Bigfoot: Sequel and Update to Meet the Sasquatch. Hancock House. pp. 100, 125–26, 141–46, 228, 243, 267. ISBN 978-0-88839-689-1.
- Place, Marian (1974). On the Track of Bigfoot. Dodd, Mead. pp. 28–34, 39–40, 55. ISBN 0-396-06883-9.
- ISBN 0-395-44114-5.
- ISBN 978-1137349439.
- ISBN 978-1605203331.