Another Confession Of Fakery
Ray L. Wallace, who sparked a great interest in the Bigfoot legend & myth when he "found" a set of 16" footprints in Humboldt County, California in 1958, has died at the age of 84 (Nov. 26, 2002). With his death comes the revelation, by his own family, that the entire footprint finding was a hoax concocted and executed by Ray, his brother Wibur, and a friend using carved wooden "feet". The Patterson film was also mentioned as a hoax:
{from Yahoo! News/ U.S. National AP}
{Wallace said he told Patterson where to spot a Bigfoot near Bluff Creek, Calif., Chorvinsky recalled. "Ray told me that the Patterson film was a hoax, and he knew who was in the suit."
Michael Wallace said his father called the Patterson film "a fake" but claimed he'd had nothing to do with it. But he said his mother admitted she had been photographed in a Bigfoot suit, and that his father "had several people he used in his movies."}
Wallace also made several films, photographs & even sound recordings which are now admitted fakes. Tsk Tsk. :^(