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5 min readIn the early 1960s, Roger Patterson built a tower on his property in Tampico, Washington, climbed to the top, and started yelling into the woods to see if anything would yell back. He was trying to replicate long, drawn-out vocalizations witnesses had described, and he sometimes used a recording of his own voice ringing into a church bell as a model. Patterson never gets credit for inventing call blasting, but he was doing it years before anyone else. This is the kind of overlooked contribution that Cliff and Bobo spend the episode excavating: the researchers who shaped the field of Sasquatchery without necessarily becoming household names.
The Four Horsemen and the Case for Patterson
The conversation starts with the canonical "four horsemen of Sasquatchery," a term that originated in the documentary Sasquatch Odyssey and refers to John Green, Grover Krantz, René Dahinden, and Peter Byrne. Cliff and Bobo playfully assign them the apocalyptic archetypes of conquest, war, famine, and death—Byrne gets conquest, Dahinden gets war, the skinny John Green gets famine, and Krantz, who left his body to science to study decomposition and donated his skeleton to the Smithsonian, gets death. But the real debate is about who is missing from this original lineup.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:31) **Introduction & The Four Horsemen of Sasquatry** - Cliff and Bobo introduce the episode's topic: unsung heroes and the "horsefolk" who deserve recognition alongside the classic Four Horsemen of Sasquatry.
- 2 (06:05) **Roger Patterson: The Unsung Father of Call Blasting** - Bobo argues Roger Patterson deserves a horseman's seat for far more than the famous 1967 film.
- 3 (14:28) **The Bay Area Group: Archie Buckley, Warren Thompson, and George Haas** - The conversation shifts to the highly influential San Francisco Bay Area Bigfoot Research Group from the 1970s.
- 4 (21:42) **Jim Huckin & Jack Sullivan: The Colton Trackway Story** - Cliff details his personal quest to track down the original casts from a 1986 footprint find in Oregon.
- 5 (28:55) **The 1970s-1980s Horsefolk: Keating, Morehead, Greenwell & Coleman** - The hosts nominate key figures from the second generation of Bigfoot research.
- 6 (33:04) **The 1990s-2000s: Moneymaker, Dennis Pfohl & The BFRO Era** - The conversation moves to the modern era, starting with the founding of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO).
- 7 (39:30) **The 2010s to Present: The "Finding Bigfoot" Effect & Darrell Collier** - The hosts discuss the massive cultural shift caused by their own TV show and other modern researchers.
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Show Notes
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Here's the list of people mentioned in the episode:
1.0 (1950s-1960s): Roger Patterson, Bob Titmus
2.0 (1970s-1980s): The Bay Area Group, Jim Hewkin, Don Keating, Ron Morehead, Richard Greenwell, Loren Coleman
3.0 (1990s-2000s): Matt Moneymaker, Doug Hajicek, Jeff Meldrum, John Bindernagel, Henner Fahrenbach, Derek Randles
4.0 (2010s-2020s): Clobo, Daryl Colyer, The Olympic Project, Small Town Monsters
Unsung Heroes: Dennis Jensen, Dennis Pfohl, Wally Hersom, Thom Shay, Wes Summerlin, Vance Orchard, Will Duncan, JDL, Tal H. Branco, Erwin Supple, Jim McClarin
International Horsefolk: Dimitri Bayanov, Marie-Jeanne Koffmann, Jordi Magraner, Dean Harrison
Honorable Mentions: Tom Yamarone, Betty Allen, Jerry Crew, Daniel Perez, Todd Prescott, Tom Steenburg
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