John Willison Green
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John Willison Green (born February 12, 1927) is a retired Canadian journalist and a leading researcher into the Bigfoot phenomenon. He is a graduate of both the University of British Columbia and Columbia University and has a database of more than 3000 sighting and track reports, leading some to affectionately refer to him as "Mr. Sasquatch".
Green first began investigating Sasquatch sightings and track finds in 1957 after meeting René Dahinden and the two researchers collaborated in interviewing witnesses and sharing information of alleged sightings. A year later Green was shown a series of 15" tracks crossing a sandbar beside Bluff Creek in California so deeply impressed as to indicate a weight many times that of any potential hoaxer. He has been trying ever since to establish what it is that makes the tracks. Green is also the only surviving person to have investigated the original Sasquatch tracks reported in Bluff Creek, California in the summer of 1958.
As a renowned authority in the field, Green has appeared as a keynote speaker at all three of the major scientific Sasquatch symposia held so far. Green has authored several Sasquatch books, including On the Track of the Sasquatch (ISBN 0-88839-341-5), Encounters with Bigfoot (ISBN 0-88839-340-7), and most notably Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us (ISBN 0-88839-018-1). The last-named, still widely regarded by many as the single best book yet written on the subject, has recently been re-issued, along with an updated combination of the two earlier books, entitled The Best of Sasquatch Bigfoot (ISBN 0-88839-546-9).
The character played by Don Ameche in the 1987 motion picture Harry and the Hendersons is loosely modeled after Green.
Green currently resides in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia.
