Paul Freeman Home Video (1994) Part 1
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Paul Freeman
Historical witness profile documenting a reported encounter in Blue Mountains near Walla Walla, Washington during 1982-06, with source provenance and connected research records.
Blue Mountains near Walla Walla, Washington1982-06Provisional research profile
Location archiveWashington
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At a glance
Encounter period1982-06
RegionBlue Mountains near Walla Walla, Washington
Direct visualNot stated
Repeat / ongoingNot stated
Co-witness / corroborationNot stated
Primary sourceUPI — Forest Service employee Bigfoot report
Exact locators1
Media / transcript records1
Summary
Forest Service watershed rider Paul Freeman reported seeing a tall ape-like reddish-brown subject in a closed-access watershed. Forest Service personnel also documented associated footprints.
Background & context
contemporaneous UPI / Forest Service-mediated report. The profile preserves what the entered sources document and does not infer missing biographical or encounter details.
Only public, encounter-relevant context is shown. Private contact details and precise residential information are not published.
Events
Encounter record
1982-06 · Blue Mountains, Washington
Tiger Creek / Paul Freeman 1982
Forest Service employee sighting plus associated track documentation; testimony and physical-trace authenticity remain separate.
source-linked / evidence audit open
Open case →Reported observations
LOC-0019
Source-linked observations — LOC-0019
- reddish-brown hair
- face less hair-covered
- continuous bipedal walking
- rank odor
- 14 x 7 inch reported tracks
Media & source material
Watch, listen & read
Interviews, reports and transcripts are gathered at the research layer and displayed here when the source and rights state permit it. The original provider is always preserved.
1 source record1 playable here0 transcripts located
Video interviewJuly 30, 2013
Bigfoot Researcher Paul Freeman: His final interview
YouTube — Jack Barnes Jeff Andersen
Recovered video interview discussing Freeman film and Sasquatch research; useful historical media layer.
TranscriptNo transcript currently registered.
Research details
DisplayProvider player shown on this page
Rightsthird-party YouTube embed/link; no rehosting
LocatorExact claim-level locator pending
Statement historyhistorical later-source testimony; chronology layer
Indexed source passages
Concise research summaries point to exact source locations when available; long third-party transcript passages are not reproduced.
LOC-0019
UPI Archives — Forest Service employee reports tall reddish-brown creature
A Forest Service spokesman relays Freeman's report of an ape-like subject covered with reddish-brown hair except for the face, walking on its hind legs throughout, with a rank odor; associated tracks were reported as 14 by 7 inches.
Provenance
Source history
A chronological record of where this testimony appears. Media above is presented for reading or playback; this timeline preserves source order and provenance.
1982-06
Reported encounter period
Blue Mountains near Walla Walla, Washington. Forest Service watershed rider Paul Freeman reported seeing a tall ape-like reddish-brown subject in a closed-access watershed. Forest Service personnel also documented associated footprints.
Open source/record →Recovered source
UPI — Forest Service employee Bigfoot report
Source supporting this witness profile: UPI — Forest Service employee Bigfoot report
Open source/record ↗2013-07-30
Bigfoot Researcher Paul Freeman: His final interview
New media/source layer. Statement-history result: historical later-source testimony; chronology layer.
Open source/record ↗Consistency & changes over time
Stable / recurrent
- Broadly stable
Added later
- 2013-07-30: historical later-source testimony; chronology layer — Bigfoot Researcher Paul Freeman: His final interview
Changed / contradicted
None coded in the current record.
Unresolved
- Later evidence contested
- Audit 1982 vs later evidence separately
Controls
Corroboration & evidence
No independently recovered co-witness statement is currently linked at the profile level.
Research assessment
Documentary strengths
- Already qualified for the Observatory's public baseline witness corpus.
- Recoverable source URL is preserved.
- 1 exact source locator record(s) currently recovered.
Limitations / controls
- Current profile is primarily dependent on one entered source layer.
What would improve the record
- Search for earlier or independent firsthand source layers.
Research graph
Connections
Tiger Creek / Paul Freeman 1982Open connected record →LOC-0019 — exact source locatorOpen connected record →
Related reporting & research
No witness-specific analytical publication is linked yet.
This does not mean the witness is absent from future cross-era or trait analysis.
Public record reference
Record identifier
- Witness ID
- WIT-PUB-0018
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