Snow Woman Returns

January 17, 1968, The News

Frederick, Md. USA

VANCOUVER, B.C. (AP) -- John Green, a weekly newspaper editor, and Rene Dahinden, a lead salvager, said Thursday they have bought the Canadian rights of a 30-second film clip said to show an abominable snow woman, or sasquatch.

They said they bought the film, which Roger Patterson of Yakima, Wash, said he made in Northern California last fall, for $1,500.

The pair said they intended to use the film in a one-hour movie they are making in hopes of proving sasquatches

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Weekend Briefs

January 16, 1968

Lethbridge, Canada

MAYBE THE MISSING LINK has been found. Or maybe two Americans have been carried away into believing one of our favorite myths. They claim to have seen the Sasquatch, the hairy,part-human creature that's supposed to roam the Pacific northwest. They even have a film as proof, together with plaster casts of huge footprints. Naturalist Dave Hancock investigates for Weekend Magazine whether this is a great discovery or a big hoax. Now. if we only knew how to catch a Sasquatch. . IN YOUR LETHBRIDGE HERALD WEEKEND