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Article: Bigfoot, 1958-2002.(Editorials)(Yet he's sure to prove immortal)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 13, 2002
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Ray L. Wallace died in Centralia, Wash., recently, and with him perished a decades-long conspiracy of silence. Wallace's family has announced to the world that it was he who gave life to the legend of Bigfoot. Yet the legend has acquired a life of its own, and is sure to persist despite the posthumous revelation of Wallace's simple but effective hoax.
Wallace was a life-long practical joker who in the late '50s worked as a logger and road-builder in Humboldt County, Calif. - wild country now, and even wilder back then. In 1958 Wallace asked a friend to carve a pair of 16-inch-long feet from blocks of alder, then strapped them ...