Bigfoot's Many Faces
There are a few people who have done extraordinary work in Bigfoot's field. Probably because they have been trying to solve the mystery of Bigfoot for over 30 years. Although these men are growing old (and one has recently passed away), the remaining three continue to work on the case.
Dr. Grover Krantz
Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University
The
only true scientist to throw his hat in the ring in the early 1970’s, Grover has
dozens of plaster footprints which he says are real. Working out of his offices
at Washington State University, Krantz’s office are filled with casts, drawings,
gorilla skulls and various pieces of primate anatomy. At odds with Dahinden (who
has no patience for academics), Dr. Krantz believes that Sasquatch/Bigfoot is
actually a prehistoric giant ape- Gigantopithecus Blacki which came over the
icebridge 10,000 years ago. Krantz figures there are roughly 2000 Bigfoots
roaming the vast wilderness between northern California and British Columbia.
Shunned by most academics, Krantz nevertheless soldiers on, clinging to his
plaster casts, lecturing at Bigfoot conventions, determined to make believers
out of the skeptics.
Peter Byrne
Veteran Bigfoot and Yeti Tracker

Peter Byrne came to work on a tea plantation in Northern India in the late 1940’s, after a stint in the Royal Airforce in WWII. He opened Nepal’s first tiger hunting concession (today he helps protect them) and soon found himself face to face with stories about the "abominable snowman" or yeti. Funded by a Texas oilman, with the unlikely name of Tom Slick, he began a three year mission to hunt and track down the Yeti. They found footprints and a mummified hand in a monastery, but the creature remained shrouded in the blowing Himalayan snow. Hearing of the discovery of big footprints in California, Slick asked Byrne to head up a "Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Expedition" in 1960, which for a short time included Rene Dahinden and Peter Byrne. Renowned for his abilities to raise millions of dollars in the name of Bigfoot research, in the 1990’s Byrne undertook a full-scale monster search, complete with helicopters, infra-red sensors and 1-800-BIGFOOT phone number. Today, Byrne is semi-retired in the Bigfoot field and continues his tourist/adventure work around the world.