Tony Martin was digging in a clay bed beside Coos Canyon, rock hounding up the road in Byron, when he pulled a pair of odd-shaped stones from the muck.
Each weighed about 5 pounds, stretched 12 inches long. After a quick dunk in the Swift River, he saw what could pass for curved insteps and blunt heels.
His first thought: petrified Bigfoot tracks.
For the longest time, he didn’t tell anyone, in case the town tried to claim the incredible find.
That was 1975. Martin, now 83, emboldened by time, has shared them with more and more people, stuck to his theory- a Bigfoot walked through Coos Canyon and left prints that filled with mud and pebbles and gradually petrified - and gotten quite used to skeptics.Continue Reading »