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Sasquatch Chronicles

SC EP:1191 Remembering Dr. Jeff Meldrum Part II

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Join me this weekend as we celebrate the life of Dr. Jeff Meldrum and his impact on the subject of Sasquatch. I will be joined by many of his friends who come on to share their memories of him. This is part two.

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0:00.0

Here's to the crazy ones.

0:08.3

The misfits.

0:10.2

The rebels.

0:12.0

The troublemakers.

0:14.1

The round pegs in the square holes.

0:17.8

The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, you can quote them,

0:24.9

disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.

0:29.9

But the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things.

0:42.3

So I was a youngster 10 years old in 6th grade in Spokane, Washington. And in 1969, which the film was shot in late in October of 67, by early 69, this was March 1st at one of the first public showings of the film to a public venue.

1:00.4

The kids were all a buzz because there had been this newspaper advertisement for this upcoming showing on the next Saturday.

1:08.7

So this just captured my imagination.

1:12.5

I mean, I'd never heard of Bigfoot previously.

1:15.8

Convinced my dad we had to go see this.

1:18.8

He and I and my younger brother went to the Spokane Coliseum sitting on the third row.

1:24.3

You know, Roger comes out onto the stage and introduce himself and his documentary that

1:30.4

showcased that 60 seconds of film footage, which we saw over and over and over on a giant

1:36.4

screen, you know, in the auditorium there, uh, larger, much larger than life.

1:41.0

And wow, what an impression that made.

1:48.7

Rest in peace, Dr. dr meldorm you are missed and loved by so many you brought a credibility to a subject that would have never had it without your

1:56.6

presence presence. It looked like somebody was bent over and had their head in the window of the deer blind

2:11.9

and it either heard me or smelt me and he pulled his head out of the tent and stood straight up and

2:18.1

that that shocked me they don't make people that that big the way the way it moved almost as if it was gliding across the beach.

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