SMOKEY CRABTREE’S OPINION ON “IS BIGFOOT REALLY
DEAD”
DECEMBER 8, 2002
I’m sure more than one Bigfoot creature has died.The question is when Bigfoot died.Since rumors are running wild on the subject of bigfoot’s
existence, Smokey Crabtree, author of two books on the Fouke Monster
subject wants to express his personal opinion on the bigfoot story Ray
Wallace’s family released in early December 2002, stating that Ray
Wallace, his father, had passed away on 11/26/02, which we are all sorry
to hear and my condolences go out to his family and loved ones.
The article stated that Ray Wallace was the man who
designed and manufactured the fake feet used to create the Bigfoot tracks
that in turn created thousands of stories about Bigfoot existing in the
Northwest.Opinion is that
Ray Wallace did actually create those tracks for a hoax and kept it to
himself all these years.I’m
sure he did not want it revealed or he would have revealed the fact
himself.If my father had
participated in a hoax I would have let the story go to the grave with
him.I’m sure the set of
feet they boast of having are not the first set created to mislead people
and won’t be the last ones either.
The story was released to ruin the dreams of
thousands of good hearted believers in the facts that there are strange
creatures out in the wilderness that are very hard to believe even after
you have had the pleasure to witness them.I would have never exposed my dead father and his secrets for what
the Wallace family could ever get out of releasing the story.The story couldn’t possibly have been referring to the Fouke
Monster because the Fouke Monster was spotted in Fouke, Arkansas long
before Mr. Wallace’s tracks were fabricated.
Neither I nor any one else that I know in the Fouke
area had heard of the Bigfoot of the Northwest.Until the moviemakers of “The Legend of Boggy Creek” stormed in
on us, wanting to film on my family and me no one tied the Fouke monster
in with the Sasquatch of the Northwest.The moviemakers are the ones who wanted to tie the Fouke Monster to
the Northwestern Sasquatch.
To separate the two species I would like to say that
it was strictly impossible for the Ray Wallace fabricated, wooden
footprints to have made the thousands of three-toed tracks found here in
the southern part of Arkansas and Texas.So, who’s Bigfoot died?Some
disbelievers in this world have never stopped saying that Jesus is dead,
or trying to prove He never existed.Well, I wish to let the readers know that those disbelievers have
never convinced we believers that Jesus or Bigfoot is dead.
I am thoroughly convinced, through research, and
being raised in the wilderness, that there is definitely things out in the
woods that just simply are not supposed to be out there.All my work and research has been to convince myself that at times
there is a creature out there, not in trying to convince some city
slicker, non-believers that there is a creature in the woods that simply
shouldn’t be there.There
is something strange out there in the woods and I could care less what a
non-believer thinks.
If people who would create a wooden foot print to
fool the general public really want to know what is out there in the
woods, let them go out there among the snakes, ticks, chiggers, rabid
skunks, raccoons and such, and find out for themselves what is really out
there.The negative publicity will always get the front page when it
comes to something being published.It’s
books, like mine, about the truth and facts that will very seldom ever be
mentioned because it’s much easier to sit in an air-conditioned office
and elaborate on a hoax or make up a false story than it is to go out in
the woods and wilderness and gather information and facts.
