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February 11, 1996: Bigfoot - Stan Johnson & Linda Moulton Howe

Feb 11, 1996
1h 35m
Stan JohnsonLinda Moulton Howe
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Linda Moulton Howe opens this Dreamland broadcast with field reports from Puerto Rico on the chupacabras phenomenon. She presents recorded interviews with eyewitnesses in Canovanas who describe encountering a three-to-four-foot humanoid with large dark eyes, three-toed feet, and feathers on its back. A separate witness describes a different creature with non-reflective black skin and glowing red eyes that flew away from a tree branch. Howe also reports on pit bulls found with unexplained puncture wounds in their necks within a fully enclosed property.

Stan Johnson, an 80-year-old retired logger from Oakland, Oregon, claims a lifelong relationship with Sasquatch beings. Johnson says he first encountered a creature he calls the wild man as a child in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. He describes the Sasquatch as vegetarian, intelligent beings who get married, raise families, and communicate in any human language. Johnson says they travel between dimensions through vortexes, and he claims to have visited what he calls the fifth dimension himself.

Johnson states that he passed sodium pentothal tests and hypnotic regression sessions to verify his accounts. He connects Sasquatch to extraterrestrial origins, claiming they once had their own planet that was destroyed.

Key Moments

  1. Puerto Rico vet finds straw-width punctures and missing trachea: Howe quotes San Juan Star reporter Carl Ross's interview with veterinarian Carlos Feto: rabbits killed October 1995 had paired puncture wounds 'the diameter of a drinking straw' three to four inches deep, with one rabbit's trachea and esophagus removed despite an intact hide.

  2. Augusta family's 5-foot-jumping humanoid: Miguel and Madeline Augusta describe a 3-to-4-foot creature near their Canovanas, Puerto Rico home in August 1995 - crawling posture, jumped a five-foot chain-link fence from a standstill, three-toed muddy human-like feet, dark gray wet eyes, two-inch curved nails, feathers down its back.

  3. Juan Morati's red-eyed branch creature: Computer technician Juan Morati describes walking to his car in September 1995 at 5 p.m. when he saw a non-reflective black creature sitting upright on a dry branch, with eyes the size of a Coca-Cola can, glassy and red. It then flew off with a flapping sound.

  4. Johnson's 1923 Ozark introduction to the 'wild man': Stan Johnson recounts first meeting Bigfoot - locally called 'the wild man' - in 1923 in the Missouri Ozarks. By age seven or eight he was playing hickory-nut-throwing games with one he describes as seven-and-a-half feet tall, 325 pounds, very muscular.