Raymond L. Wallace
Raymond L. "Ray" Wallace (April 21, 1918 − November 26, 2002) was an American Bigfoot researcher.
Wallace was born in Clarksdale, Missouri. He worked as a logger for much of his life, but also in road construction throughout much of Washington, Oregon and California. He served in the Army during World War II as an aircraft gunner. Wallace finally settled in Toledo, Washington in 1961.
In August 1958, the Humboldt Times of Eureka, California, was the first to use the term "Bigfoot" in their story about huge footprints found by a worker of Wallace's Humboldt County construction company.
Wallace also claimed to have helped in the Patterson-Gimlin film of Bigfoot[citation needed].
Upon Wallace's death, his son Michael revealed that Wallace was in possession of large wooden feet. It was suggested by Wallace's family that Wallace used these wooden feet to stamp imprints around northern California as a prank.
Wallace died in a Centralia, Washington nursing home at the age of 84.
[edit] References
- Bigfoot hoaxer dies - legacy lives on
- Debunking theories of the Wallace family
- Egan, Timothy (2003-01-03) "Search for Bigfoot Outlives The Man Who Created Him", New York Times
