Sasquatch is a native term for a huge humanoid creature that has been sighted, primarily in the northwest United States and southwest Canada since the 18th century. Caucasian records of Sasquatch date from 1811 when a trapper in the northwest sighted huge footprints and recorded them in his diary. Interest in the mysterious creature heightened with a film taken by Roger Patterson near Bluff Lake in northern California in 1967. Yet this was not the first evidence of Sasquatch in northern California. A construction worker had made casts of footprints after spotting them at a site where he was working, in 1958. The term Bigfoot dates to this incident and also some later footprints that were discovered by Jerry Crew, the construction worker, near the first ones. From his discovery an article entitled Bigfoot was published in the Humboldt County Times, written by Andrew Genzoli.
