So, we sat down in the lounge area there and he
(Roger) told me about bigfoot which, uh, in
scientific terms is called sasquatch which is the
same thing as a yeti over there in – where is
that? – Tahiti or someplace in the mountains
over there. (Note: Tibet was obviously the
country he was trying to think of…) And it’s the
same thing as the Abominable Snowman but
over here he’s called bigfoot or sasquatch. And
Roger Patterson was just totally taken with this
thing. And Roger owned a large ranch quite
aways out of town and he says sasquatch is on
his ranch! And I said, “Hah! I got to see this!”
(chuckles) So, one Sunday Roger come rolling
in and he had a little Volkswagen Bug van and
he had this horse Peanut in it. It was a small
horse, but it was in his damn van! And he
brought over, Bob Gimlin, he brought over a
truck with three other horses in it, in this big
truck and we commenced to go look for
sasquatch. We was headed out of Yakima into
the Cascade Mountains….
(edited for brevity)
We climbed on these horses and we were going
to go out there all day and stay – it was
Sunday; we had Sunday off and we didn’t have
to go to work until Monday night…we didn’t
have a matinee on Monday – so, I thought
we’re going to be out here riding these horses
all day Sunday and all night and all day
Monday. So, I just decided to enjoy a good
horse ride, you know, but he (Roger) was hellbent
to catch sasquatch ‘cause he had a gun
there that shot a net thing out on this saddle and
he carried it right behind his saddle. And it shot
a net out there and he was going to capture a
damn sasquatch.
And he showed me before we went, he showed
me this film that you’ve seen a thousand times
on television of this female sasquatch walking
along and stepping over a log and turning
around and looking and you see these breasts
sticking out there, so you know it’s a female,
you know. He took an 8 mm picture of this
thing just when he was out hunting one time
and, uh, he never thought about shooting it
‘cause he didn’t know if it was a human
dressed up like that and he said, “Shooting it
never crossed my mind.” So, he said, “I
grabbed my camera.” He had his camera with
him and he took about 13 to 14 minutes of the
sasquatch walking around this little horse-shoe
curve and it disappeared in the woods, you
know.
(Note: We all know the Patterson-Gimlin
footage is just under a minute long with the
classic 12 stable seconds somewhere in the
middle of it…perhaps Roger was showing a
loop of the footage or Buddy watched it for
what seemed like “13 to 14 minutes.” Doesn’t
matter. What does matter is that he got to
experience the bigfooting world of Roger and
Bob sometime after the film was taken!)
And we rode up to this log and I saw the
sasquatch step over this log like it was a little
stump, and this damn log was this high! (I
assume he’s pointing somewhere chest high
or above.) There was no way in the world I
could hardly even jump over it, you know, so
the sucker had to be 7 or 8 feet tall – had to be!
