Peter C. Byrne
Peter C. Byrne | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 August 1925 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 28 July 2023 (aged 97) Tillamook, Oregon, United States |
| Occupations | Explorer, writer, media personality, and cryptozoologist |
| Years active | 1950–2023 |
Peter Cyril Byrne (22 August 1925 – 28 July 2023) was an Irish-American explorer, writer, media personality, and cryptozoologist, probably best known as a Bigfoot investigator.[1][2][3][4] He has been dubbed one of the "Four Horsemen of Sasquatchery", along with René Dahinden, John Green, and Grover Krantz.[5]
Filmography
A partial list of film and series credits:
- A Flash of Beauty: Bigfoot Revealed (2022)
- Unexplained Mysteries (series) (2004)
- Sasquatch Odyssey: The Hunt for Bigfoot (1999)
- Shaawanoki: The Mystery of the Swamp Apes (1998)
- Ancient Mysteries (series) (1997)
- Sightings (series) (1994–1995)
- In Search of... (series) (1977, 1978, 1979)
- Manbeast! Myth or Monster? (1978)
- The Force Beyond (1977)
- The Mysterious Monsters (1975)
Bibliography
- Peter C. Byrne (2016). The Hunt for Bigfoot (2nd ed.). ISBN 978-1-5233-6545-6.
References
- ↑ Peter Cyril Byrne, 2023, retrieved 2 November 2023
- ↑ Tarica, A. (1994). "In the Land of the Bigfoot Believers / The Sasquatch legend is alive and well in the Pacific Northwest". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ↑ Mangan, D. (2019), He got the FBI to test "Bigfoot" hair in the 1970s — and this 93-year-old man is still searching for Sasquatch, retrieved 2 November 2023
- ↑ Thebault, R. (2019), "He asked the FBI to analyze 'Bigfoot' hair 40 years ago and never heard back. Until now.", The Washington Post, retrieved 2 November 2023
- ↑ Coleman, Loren (2015). "John Willison Green" (PDF). The Relict Hominoid Inquiry (4): 3. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
Further reading
- Britschgi, Christian (5 June 2019), "Newly Released Files Document the FBI's Participation in the Hunt for Bigfoot", Reason Magazine, retrieved 8 November 2023
- Coleman, L., "Yeti and Bigfoot Seeker Peter Byrne Dies", CryptoZoo News, retrieved 8 November 2023
- Eberhart, George M. (2002). Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-283-5. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- Hill, Matthew (27 December 2011). "Tracing the origins of a 'yeti's finger'". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
- Letzter, R. (6 June 2019), "Bigfoot's FBI File Reveals Strange Story of a Monster Hunter and 15 Mysterious Hairs", Live Science, retrieved 8 November 2023
- Williams, Austin (7 June 2019), "Man who sent FBI physical evidence of 'Bigfoot' waited 43 years to learn they took him seriously", Queen City News, retrieved 8 November 2023
External links
- Peter Byrne homepage
- "OBITUARY: Peter C. Byrne – August 22, 1925 – July 28, 2023", Tillamook County Pioneer, August 4, 2023, retrieved 8 November 2023
- The Bigfoot Information Center, United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Peter C. Byrne at IMDb
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