John Willison Green (February 12, 1927 – May 28, 2016) was a Canadian journalist and a leading researcher of the Bigfoot phenomenon. He was a graduate of both the University of British Columbia and Columbia University and compiled a database of more than 3,000 sighting and track reports.
Sasquatch investigation work
Green first began investigating Sasquatch sightings and track finds in 1957 after meeting René Dahinden and the two researchers collaborated in interviewing witnesses and sharing information of alleged sightings. A year later, Green was shown a series of 15" tracks crossing a sandbar beside Bluff Creek in California so deeply impressed as to indicate a weight many times that of any potential hoaxer. He had been trying ever since to establish what it is that makes the tracks. Green also investigated the Sasquatch tracks reported in Bluff Creek, California, in the summer of 1958.
As a renowned authority in the field, Green appeared as a keynote speaker at three of the major scientific Sasquatch symposia beginning with the May 1978 Anthropology of the Unknown: Sasquatch and Similar Phenomena conference at the University of British Columbia. Green authored several Sasquatch books, including Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us (1978), regarded by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization as the "best written book on the subject". It has been re-issued in more recent times (2006), along with On the Track of the Sasquatch (1968) and Encounters with Bigfoot (1980) as combined reprints with an update under the new title of The Best of Sasquatch Bigfoot (2004).
Green was featured in Sasquatch Odyssey, a documentary film by Peter von Puttkamer profiling the then four leading sasquatch researchers.
A tribute event to John Green was held in Harrison Hot Springs from April 8–10, 2011.
He, Peter Byrne, René Dahinden, and Grover Krantz have been dubbed the “Four Horsemen of Sasquatchery”.
Personal life
John Willison Green, was born on February 12, 1927, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, died May 28, 2016, in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, at the age 89.
A graduate of UBC, Green received his master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York at age 20 (1947).