Historical Witness

Paul Freeman

Blue Mountains near Walla Walla, Washington1982-06
Location archiveWashington
Profile overview

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
Encounter & observations

The encounter

Context

contemporaneous UPI / Forest Service-mediated report.

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.

Open case →

What the witness reported

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

Original source ↗ Open locator →

Media

Watch, listen & read

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.

Transcript
Open original source ↗
Sources & changes

Key source passages

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.

Exact locator → Original source ↗

Source chronology

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 ↗

Changes over time

Added later

  • 2013-07-30: historical later-source testimony; chronology layer — Bigfoot Researcher Paul Freeman: His final interview

Unresolved

  • Later evidence contested
  • Audit 1982 vs later evidence separately
Research assessment

Research assessment

Corroboration & evidence

Independent corroboration not established in this profile

No independently recovered co-witness statement is currently linked at the profile level.

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.
Source-linked testimony

Witness dossier

Only explicitly recorded relationships appear here. Links and recordings document attributed material; they do not independently corroborate an encounter.

Documentation at a glance

Linked media records
4
Named media providers
4
Associated case records
1

Multiple linked media records make this dossier more extensively documented. They do not establish independent sources or verify the underlying encounter.

Associated cases

Testimony and related media

Source-backed account summaries

No source-verified narrative summaries are currently available for the linked media. Witness claims will not be reconstructed from titles or search snippets.

Media source audit

Paul Freeman Home Video (1994) Part 1
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗
Paul Freeman · Tiger Creek / Paul Freeman 1982 — Upi source document
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗
Paul Freeman — video source
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗
The Paul Freeman Bigfoot Video
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗

Documented source chronology

No exact publication dates are established in the currently linked canonical media. The chronology remains unresolved rather than inferred.

Research limits

Chronology, verification and source interpretation remain governed by each canonical record. No additional claim is inferred from the relationship graph.