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Andrew Genzoli (1914-1984) http://tinyurl.com/Genzoli Click the below to hear radio segment.
Bigfoot
From Humboldt Times, 1958. Reader: Daniel Maloney


"Patterson-Gimlin film," frame 352, taken at Bluff Creek, 1967. Larger.
Across the globe, sightings of Sasquatch, Yeti, and the Abominable Snowman continue to make headlines. But who knew that California's hairy cryptid has a story all its own.

Andrew Genzoli, a longtime news columnist and historian in Humboldt County, was the first writer to pin down a legendary character using its most visible calling card.
There is a mystery in the mountains of Humboldt County, waiting for a solution...

Who is making the huge 16-inch tracks in the vicinity of Bluff Creek? Are the tracks a human hoax? Or, are they actual tracks of a huge but harmless wild-man, traveling through the wilderness? Can this be some legendary sized animal?

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Jerry Crew, a cat-skinner for the Granite Logging Company, working on excavation, brushing and pioneering for the new road, came to Eureka yesterday, bringing with him a plaster-of-paris cast he had made of the big track. The cast had been poured into a soft spot with a two or three inch depression, but the major features of the foot were well defined.

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Crew said the men refer to the creature as "Big Foot."
For over 30 years, Andrew Genzoli wrote for Eureka newspapers the Humboldt Times and The Times-Standard. This excerpt comes from his 1958 article, "Giant Footprints Puzzle Residents Along Trinity River."

–Contributed by Alicia K. Gonzales.