neatly tied up in cheesecloth...

"Park staff had no such records..."

A fox helps itself to a banana.

A deer shows up late to the banquet.

The haunted forest at night.

Not the weapons of choice.

The author and his game-cam. The trap is set.

Bigfoot’s habitat: Humboldt County’s Redwood National and State Park.

A still frame, featuring “Patty,” from the infamous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Film.

Illustration of “The Old Man” — over 8 feet tall, 800 pounds — from Roger Patterson’s 1966 book Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist? Drawn one year prior to shooting his famous footage.

6:07 p.m.—no chicken, slight jostling and possibly a shoulder leaving the picture (squint and look real hard) in the last frame.

Game-cam test shot. Is this thing on?

...and bungee-corded to trees.

Illustration of “The Old Lady” — 7 feet tall, 600 pounds — from Roger Patterson’s 1966 book Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist? Drawn one year prior to shooting his famous footage.