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5 min readThe 1991 Mill Creek Trackway and the Paul Freeman Legacy
When Paul Freeman and his wife stopped for breakfast at the Flying J truck stop in Walla Walla, Washington on January 14, 1991, they overheard a nearby table of men talking about bear tracks they had seen off Mill Creek Road. Freeman thought it was too early in the year for bears to be active, but his friend West Summerlin reminded him the winter had been mild and a warm spell was passing through. So Freeman, Summerlin, and journalist Vance Orchard drove out to investigate. What they found became what Michael Freeman—Paul's son and this episode's guest—calls "the most impressive thing that my father ever came across."
The Seven-Mile Trackway
The Mill Creek trackway began on Seven Mile Road near a Seven Mile bridge and, coincidentally, stretched for approximately seven miles. Greg May, a professional tracker and former special forces survival instructor sent down by researcher Grover Krantz, followed the tracks for an estimated six to eight miles before turning back due to dangerous terrain and weather. May estimated the animal left roughly 10,000 individual footprints. The trackway remains the longest continuous Sasquatch trackway ever documented.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:27) **Welcome & Introduction** - Cliff opens the episode solo, explains Bobo's absence, and introduces returning guest Michael Freeman to discuss his father Paul Freeman's legacy and the Blue Mountain evidence.
- 2 (02:47) **Book Reception & Correcting Misinformation** - Michael discusses the positive reception of his book, "The Freeman Files," and how it has changed some skeptics' views about his father.
- 3 (06:44) **The Value of Audio Artifacts** - Cliff and Michael reflect on the emotional significance of having audio recordings of Paul Freeman's voice, which Cliff has been digitizing from the Dr. Meldrum collection.
- 4 (10:24) **Paul Freeman's Literacy & The Hoax Accusation** - Cliff introduces the topic of Paul Freeman's struggles with reading and writing, and how skeptics use this to argue he couldn't have hoaxed sophisticated footprints.
- 5 (16:42) **The 1991 Mill Creek Trackway: Discovery** - Cliff introduces the 1991 Mill Creek Trackway (also called the seven-mile trackway) as one of the strongest cases in the Blue Mountain evidence.
- 6 (20:14) **The Longest Sasquatch Trackway** - Cliff and Michael discuss the unprecedented length and significance of the seven-mile trackway, which Matt Pruit confirms is the longest continuous Bigfoot trackway he has ever heard of.
- 7 (26:20) **Paul Freeman's Foot Injury** - Michael reveals his father's debilitating foot injury, which made him physically incapable of walking long distances, further undermining the hoax theory.
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Show Notes
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