John Willison Green (born February 12, 1927) is a retired Canadian journalist and a leading researcher into the
BigfootBigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is an alleged ape-like creature purportedly inhabiting forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid....
phenomenon. He is a graduate of both the
University of British ColumbiaThe University of British Columbia is a Canadian public research university with campuses in the Greater Vancouver area and in Kelowna, British Columbia...
and
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and has a database of more than 3000 sighting and track reports, leading some to affectionately refer to him as "Mr. Sasquatch".
Green first began investigating Sasquatch sightings and track finds in 1957 after meeting
René DahindenRené Dahinden was a well-known Bigfoot researcher.Dahinden was born in Switzerland but moved to Canada in 1953, where he would live for the rest of his life...
and the two researchers collaborated in interviewing witnesses and sharing information of alleged sightings.
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John Willison Green (born February 12, 1927) is a retired Canadian journalist and a leading researcher into the
BigfootBigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is an alleged ape-like creature purportedly inhabiting forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid....
phenomenon. He is a graduate of both the
University of British ColumbiaThe University of British Columbia is a Canadian public research university with campuses in the Greater Vancouver area and in Kelowna, British Columbia...
and
Columbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City...
and has a database of more than 3000 sighting and track reports, leading some to affectionately refer to him as "Mr. Sasquatch".
Sasquatch Investigation work
Green first began investigating Sasquatch sightings and track finds in 1957 after meeting
René DahindenRené Dahinden was a well-known Bigfoot researcher.Dahinden was born in Switzerland but moved to Canada in 1953, where he would live for the rest of his life...
and the two researchers collaborated in interviewing witnesses and sharing information of alleged sightings. A year later Green was shown a series of 15" tracks crossing a sandbar beside Bluff Creek in California so deeply impressed as to indicate a weight many times that of any potential hoaxer. He has been trying ever since to establish what it is that makes the tracks. Green is also the only surviving person to have investigated the original Sasquatch tracks reported in Bluff Creek, California in the summer of 1958.
As a renowned authority in the field, Green has appeared as a keynote speaker at all three of the major scientific Sasquatch
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held so far. Green has authored several Sasquatch books, including
Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, still widely regarded by many as the single best book yet written on the subject. It has recently been re-issued, along with an updated combination of the two earlier books and is entitled
The Best of Sasquatch Bigfoot.
Books
- On the Track of the Sasquatch (ISBN 0-88839-341-5)
- Encounters with Bigfoot (ISBN 0-88839-340-7)
- Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us (ISBN 0-88839-018-1)
- The Best of Sasquatch Bigfoot (ISBN 0-88839-546-9)