Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot (2005) Revisited

"On November 17, 2005, I was looking to the south from the summit of Silver Star Mountain. On the ridge across from me I saw something I thought looked a little strange, so I got out my camera and took some pictures. Right after I took the first shot it moved or stood up, and I took another picture. It then moved toward the south, away from me. I had to readjust because the wind was so strong, and it was difficult to move because the snow was waist deep. I got closer to a rock to steady myself and took another picture. By then it was moving down the hill. I don’t think it was another backpacker or snowshoer."

On November 17, 2005, Randee Chase (left), from Vancouver, Washington, took a series of three photographs on Silver Star Mountain in Gifford Pinchot National Forest. After reviewing the photographs Chase was unsure of what he captured.
A week later Chase was interviewed by John Callender of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) who found Chase to be "honest and credible" whose interest in hiking put him in the position to take those photographs without any hint of hoaxing.

John Callender hails from Mississippi where he received a BA degree in Accounting from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). He now resides south of Seattle, WA and he works as a pilot for a major airline. John has done extensive field work in the Pacific Northwest, as well as Mississippi.

Callender found the photographs to be "inconclusive" but "potentially relevant" in that the figure could be a Sasquatch.
"There's no lines indicating clothing or a pack. The lump on the neck could easily be a clump of hair," said the BFRO investigator. "Most snowshoers or backpackers in these conditions would look different than this silhouette."

In September, 2008, Bigfoot-researcher and blogger, "escAPEe", constructed these comparisons (left and below)which features the figure from one of Chase's original photographs over the same scene from August 2008 which shows the original figure to be huge in comparison to the human hikers.

My degree is in management, but my education is weighted heavily toward mathematics, economics, the natural sciences and technology. Fresh out of college, I worked as a technical writer, trainer, project manager and corporate officer of a company which performed non-invasive testing and inspection services using thermal infrared imaging equipment-- travelling from the Midwest to locations in New Jersey to Texas to California. Trying to find answers to odd observations which only occured in a certain vicinity where my family hikes has turned into investigating anomalous wildlife-- studying creatures that weren't supposed to exist.

The Silver Star Mountain "Bigfoot" featured in episode 5, season 1, of the television series Finding Bigfoot (2011). Having gone to Silver Star Mountain with Randee Chase three times, Cliff Barackman describes Chase as his friend and, perhaps more importantly, as being a "friend of the ‘squatch".

"The more I look into his photographs, the more I am convinced that they indeed show a bigfoot. These same photos where the subject of my presentation at the 2010 Oregon Sasquatch Symposium" gushes Barackman who also sells DVDs of his presentation here.

Since then Barackman claims to have taken more accurate measurements of the Silver Star Mountain site which reduces the size of the unknown figure but he remains firm that Chase's photographs do show a Sasquatch. As for Randee Chase, he still honestly doesn't know what to think.

Veteran Bigfoot-researcher and editor of the monthly newsletter Bigfoot Times, Daniel Perez, also investigated the case and in his self-publish book Bigfoot: Encounters Past to Present (2012) opined that "there could be no mistaking this for a man in a heavy black jacket" and "I think Randee may have snapped pictures of Bigfoot."

Yowieocalypse & The Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot

I came across the images of the Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot on May 1, 2014, while looking through a 2008 discussion entitled Bigfoot? on The Science Forum. After reading up on the available evidence it seemed the experts were unanimous - all agreed that it was likely that Randee Chase had indeed captured photographic evidence of Sasquatch\Bigfoot. Everyone except Randee Chase who didn't think it was another hiker but neither did he think it was the legendary Bigfoot.

There is no doubt that chase comes across as honest and genuinely curious about the figure he had photographed in the snow. The Bigfoot experts who personally investigated this case are pushing the Bigfoot angle but is it the most likely proposition?