Two guys on horseback running across a lone Sasquatch in the wash of Bluff Creek, Ca., east of Eureka, Ca. does push the bounds of believability past the breaking point. However (and there is always a however) Patterson was up there sniffing around because a logging company construction crew in the area were reporting odd occurrences around the construction site. The 52 gallon drums of diesel were being found down the side of the hill in the mornings, with "large" footprints all over the place.
I guess if a couple of lunatics decided to put footprints around a construction site, push around a bunch of oil drums weighing at least 440 lbs out in the middle of nowhere. Then there was the 700 lb. grader tire they found over in a ditch one morning.
I've been up there a few times. It's very sparsely populated, steep mountainous country that people drive thru, not a destination of any kind. All these events took place several miles up a logging access road off the two-lane highway. People who lived up there had better things to do, like make a living - especially in 1958.
Interesting this thread came up. My son is a cop and ran into a National Park Ranger yesterday and had an interesting conversation. My house is located at the boundary of a National Park and we have had all kinds of wildlife my son has seen in the yard through the years.
Anyway they started talking and the subject of Mountain Lions came up in Kentucky and the ranger didn’t think they were present in our park and my son said I have to disagree having seen them multiple times in twenty years about the property. Then the ranger said there are some strange things in this park and my son said like what? The ranger finally said I think there are Sasquatch in this park. Really my son said based on what? He said the ranger was careful with what he said, but there are lots of sounds, smells and other things that cannot be explained by the animals in this part of the country. My son told him nothing of some of the strange things that have happened in the woods around my house over the years. I’m not saying there are boogers having never seen one but there are strange things we can’t logically explain that have happened over the years about the place.