On January 21, 2021, State Rep. Justin Humphrey Bill filed a bill that would open a “Bigfoot Hunting Season.”

On the same day, Rep. Humphrey issued the following press release:

OKLAHOMA CITY – State Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, this week filed legislation that would establish a Bigfoot hunting season.

House Bill 1648 would direct the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Division to promulgate rules establishing the annual dates of the season and creating any necessary specific hunting licenses and fees.

“Tourism is one of the biggest attractions we have in my House district,” Humphrey said. “Establishing an actual hunting season and issuing licenses for people who want to hunt Bigfoot will just draw more people to our already beautiful part of the state. It will be a great way for people to enjoy our area and to have some fun.”

Humphrey said he doesn’t want people to actually kill Bigfoot, so he will be working with the state wildlife and tourism departments to craft final language for his bill that specifies only the trapping of Bigfoot. He also hopes to secure at least $25,000 that can be used as a bounty for the first person to trap the creature.

“A lot of people don’t believe in Bigfoot, but a lot of people do,” Humphrey said. “Just like some people like to go deer hunting, while some don’t.”

Humphrey said he’s filed numerous pieces of legislation this year on more serious matters, such as censorship, protecting the beef industry and others. But to him, tourism is just as important to his House district for the amount of dollars it draws. HB 1648 has the potential to increase that presence and the resulting dollars to boost the local economy, he said.

Humphrey said the town of Honobia, OK, already has an annual Bigfoot festival each October, so the hunting season ideally would coincide with that.

“Having a license and a tag would give people a way to prove they participated in the hunt,” Humphrey said. “Again, the overall goal is to get people to our area to enjoy the natural beauty and to have a great time, and if they find Bigfoot while they’re at it, well hey, that’s just an even bigger prize.”

You can find the text of the bill originally submitted, below.

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Bill Text

STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 1648 By: Humphrey

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to game and fish; directing the
Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission to
establish a big foot hunting season; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 5-603 of Title 29, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission shall promulgate
rules establishing a big foot hunting season. The Commission shall
set annual season dates and create any necessary specific hunting
licenses and fees.

SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-5153 AMM 01/05/21

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Background

by John Greenewald, Jr.

I never thought I would find official government records on Bigfoot, but I am glad I sought them out.

In 2017 (and 2018) I was proud to have been asked to speak at the Mile High Mystery Conference, hosted by David Paulides, Jim Myers and Dennis Pfohl (along with a list of other amazing people who made the experience one of my favorites while speaking).  At this conference, I was introduced to the “Bigfoot” and “Sasquatch” research arena, because by my own admission, I really did not know much about it, but I watched the presentations from the real experts in that field.  I was amazed at the research that has been done, and collected, and the people who were on the forefront of it had amazing backgrounds and experiences to tell.  They were credible, down to earth, had fun with it, but they took it serious and have obtained amazing results.

I still am the kind of person that needs to “see to believe” but I was intrigued by what I heard.  David had asked me to speak at the 2018 Mile High Mystery Conference (which told me my first speech went well enough to be asked back) so I gladly agreed.  He then asked, “Do you have any government documents on Bigfoot?”  I didn’t — and I even wrongfully assumed there would be none to find — but that did not stop me from trying at that point.

I quickly began researching, and found that in 1975, the Army Corps of Engineers actually published an Atlas for Washington State, which mentioned Bigfoot. Although they played it like a “legend,” the Atlas said something I did not expect. It  recounts an FBI analysis of Sasquatch hair that came to the following conclusion, “… no such hair exists on any human or presently-known animal for which such data are available.”  I did not think when I found this document online, it was genuine, but alas through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I confirmed that it was very real, and Sasquatch was definitely mentioned.

This gave me the ammunition I needed to fire off another FOIA request to the FBI for that analysis referenced, along with anything else they may have. It took months, and sadly, I did not get the files for my 2018 appearance at the Mile High Mystery Conference.

But they finally have arrived.

The FBI does have a Bigfoot file. Sadly, however, the test results referenced in the 1975 Washington Atlas have yet to be discovered, and the FBI claims to have misplaced them or found no reference to them.

What is interesting, however, is the fact that they did take in hair samples from another organization, though the results of those specimens showed they were simply part of the “deer family.”

Despite the let down of not finding the results for the analysis that the Washington Atlas mentioned, which concluded, “no such hair exists on any human or presently-known animal,” it did illustrate how the FBI entertained the idea of testing on Bigfoot hair.  The question was, were those results accurate?  Did the “deer family” analysis conclude a specific species of deer, or did the FBI find similarities, and just think, “close enough!”

It should be noted that this analysis as well was not included in this release, but the FBI told me there may be additional records, which I had requested. Their response to that, was that I was given everything. So, according to the FBI, the below is the entire file.

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 FBI Files: Bigfoot & Sasquatch [24 Pages, 14.3MB]

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