About William Jevning And The Hunt For Bigfoot
Bigfoot Researcher. Author. Expert.
Hello, my name is William Jevning and for nearly 50 years I have been involved in research and documentation
of the elusive creature known as Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, in North America. Welcome to the website and blog,
I hope you enjoy…
My Story.
My involvement in the subject of the Sasquatch began in mid-December 1972.
A friend and I came across dozens of footprints of three distinct individuals in the snow during a walk we were making to another of our friend's home. This was the first time I heard the word “Bigfoot” used in conjunction with such creatures.
Prior to that day I had no idea such things existed.
I saw no further evidence of the creatures, and thought no more of them until one evening during the fall of 1974. My dog alerted me that something was inside the nearby tree line, and I went to investigate thinking it was a raccoon or skunk. Upon pushing my way through low hanging tree boughs, I confronted a huge manlike creature less than fifteen in front of me.
I soon realized this had to be one of the creatures that made the footprints we had seen almost two years previous. I shot my .22 rifle in the air to see what the creature would do, and a second one emerged from behind some brush to my right rear!
This second creature walked past me and stopped near the first, both glaring angrily at me! The first creature was approximately eight feet in height and my estimate was it weighed a minimum of eight hundred pounds. The second creature was a head shorter than the first and I estimated about two hundred pounds less than the first. I quickly ran from the location to my home!
My friends and I tracked the two creatures the following morning at sunrise; heavy frost the previous night enabled us to follow clear footprints of the creatures more than a mile before the sun melted the trail.
Without my knowledge, a friend of mine wrote to world famous Sasquatch hunters in British Columbia, John Green and Rene’ Dahinden, telling them of my encounter.
The following summer of 1975, Green and Dahinden mounted a small expedition to Puyallup Washington where the famous “Puyallup Screamer” events were happening, (I lived seven miles south of the activity there.) Rene’ Dahinden and Dennis Gates came to interview me concerning my experiences with the creatures.
Dahinden asked me if I would like to come to their camp and meet Green and various other investigators, and I accepted his invitation. I spent several days joining in the “hunt,” when they prepared to return to Canada, I exchanged contact information with both Green and Dahinden, and this began my serious involvement in the search for the Sasquatch, and Rene’ Dahinden training me to be an investigator and Sasquatch hunter.
My close friendship and work with Dahinden continued for the next 25 years until Dahinden’s death in 2001.
After I began helping both Green and Dahinden, I came to know other prominent Sasquatch hunters such as Bob Titmus
and anthropologist Grover Krantz. I became acquainted with many people over the years all over the world who were
involved in the subject, gaining valuable experience and knowledge from these people.
I moved to Vancouver Washington in 1986, where I began exploring the south Mt. St. Helens region and picking up the quest for Sasquatches in that region, last hunted by Roger Patterson who filmed a Sasquatch in 1967 in Northern California.
I spent 12 years and documented between one and two thousand hours in the field annually in field work mainly in Clark and Skamania Counties.
During my work in this region, I identified individuals by footprint size, shape and determined their monthly movement
patterns of family/breeding groupings. As a pattern emerged, I was able to predict within a thirty day window where, in
a “range” occupied by the creatures they would be living and feeding.
This pattern held year after year, and would vary primarily based on human activity within any given area; this would alter where the creatures would be. I was able to find the new feeding “route” and continue tracking the creature’s movements.
Ranges vary with region and individuals, and depending on the human population near said ranges. A range may contain hundreds of square miles of forest, and the creatures alternate foraging routes often, likely to throw any potential threats/predators off. This alternating foraging route also serves to keep feeding areas replenished to avoid overfeeding.
I returned to the South Puget Sound region to help care for my elderly father in 1998, and I began working field areas from northern Canada to California. To date, I have identified more than fifteen Sasquatch ranges in the Pacific Northwest alone, with average groups comprised of four to six individuals.
Bob Titmus was likely the world’s finest Sasquatch hunter and collector of evidence in the early days of the search for the creatures. Titmus and I became friends, and he taught me about valuable things such as identifying territorial markings, tracking details, and Sasquatch scat. I since have found considerable evidence, and have expanded upon what Titmus taught me.
After Rene; Dahinden’s death in 2001, friends urged me to write books based on my extensive knowledge, and to date,
my books in print are:
1. Notes From the Field, Tracking North America’s Sasquatch
2. In Search of the Unknown
3. Haunted Valley
3. Bigfoot Field Work 101 The Complete Guide
4. The Minnesota Iceman
5. Witness of the Unknown, Volume One
6. Witness of the Unknown, Volume Two
7. Bigfoot Evidence A case for the existence of the Sasquatch
I have been on the History channel show “America’s Book of Secrets, the Mystery of Bigfoot” as well as many podcasts and radio shows.
Thank you,
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Matah Kagmi is the name for Bigfoot by the Modoc, Klamath and Yahooskin Tribes.
... Deep in chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior.
Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.
- Stuart Kauffman