Catching Up

So apparently there really ARE people who read the Utah Bigfoot blog. For those of you who just can't get enough of things 'Bigfoot', here is an update to what has been going on since August.

A LOT.

Here are some highlights:

-Had dinner with Dr. Jeff Meldrum before his presentation at Utah Valley University on November 11th.

-Have been out photographing at least a dozen times in new locations with new stories. I have not processed any of the film yet. There is too much dust in my home while we are finishing the basement to let film dry. Dust is bad for film-based photography, so I have a back-log of about 75 negatives to process.

-I purchased a very big enlarger for use on my Bigfoot project. It is a Durst L184 and can print negatives up to 10x10 inches. The enlarger is over 9-feet tall and weighs over 400 pounds. Seems appropriate for this project I think. The largest camera I have is an 8x10, so this will enlarge those negatives very well. For the Utah Bigfoot project I am shooting 4x10 negatives and I will use this enlarger to make prints that will start at 8x20 inches and get larger. I need a big enlarger to make big prints for my Bigfoot project. I have tentatively named the enlarger 'Patty'.

-Last night (November 25th), the crew from Animal Planet came to Logan to hold a town hall style meeting. The gang from 'Finding Bigfoot' was in town filming an episode and locals were coming out of the woodwork to meet Bobo and friends. About 50-60 people were there and I counted 18 hands raised when the group was asked who has had a visual sighting of Bigfoot.

Each of those people was allowed to stand and relate their story for the camera. A few of the stories I had heard, but most I had not. We got e-mail addresses and phone numbers for many of these individuals to follow up on later. I also met Dr. Lynn McNeill, a professor of folklore at Utah State University in Logan. She has a large archive of local folklore brought in by students, a significant and regularly occuring portion of which are stories of Bigfoot. I am sure I will get more story locations when I get a chance to visit the collection on campus.

For those of you who have requested to see the finished footage of the two interviews we did back in August, I am sorry to have to say that we are going to sit on it for now. We have a larger project in mind and we are not ready to make the complete interviews available. Sorry to be such a tease...