RENE DAHINDEN Rene came to Canada from Switzerland in the 1950’s and went to work in a dairy farm in Alberta. Inspired by the 1953 "Daily Mail News Expedition" to find the Yeti (Abominable Snowman) in Nepal, Rene came to the Pacific Northwest in search of the Sasquatch. As one of the organizers of the Harrison Hot Springs B.C. Centennial celebrations, he soon found himself at the forefront of a hunt for Bigfoot and the beginning of a worldwide fascination with this elusive hairy giant. Befriending another Bigfoot enthusiast, local newspaper man John Green (see below), the two were among the first to investigate the appearance of giant footprints in Bluff Creek, California in 1958. Not one to tolerate fools or charlatans, Rene continued his investigations through the sixties culminating in the release of the 1967 Roger Patterson film of the female Bigfoot walking into the woods. Today Rene owns 51% of the rights to that film, which along with footprint casts, remains as the best evidence supporting the existence of the creature. Some have called Rene a investigator of "people who study Bigfoot", rather than of Bigfoot himself. Yet, his collection of eyewitness reports from North America to Russia make Rene one of the leading authorities on the Bigfoot mystery. Rene Dahinden passed away last year, and will be missed by all of us that had the pleasure of working with this incredible man "I was crushed to hear of Rene's recent death.  Your documentary was the first opportunity I had to see him and hear what he had to say on the Sasquatch subject.  So, I felt fortunate about that."........ Dr. Travis McHenry, PhD