John Willison Green

 (born February 12, 1927)

John Green is a retired Canadian journalist and a leading researcher into the Bigfoot phenomenon. He is a graduate of both the University of British Columbia and Columbia University and has collected more than 3000 sighting reports, leading some, most notably his friends and supporters, to affectionately refer to him as "Mr. Sasquatch".

Green first began investigating Sasquatch sightings and track finds for the Canadian press in the late 1940s. In 1956 Green met René Dhahinden and the two researchers collaborated in interviewing witnesses and sharing information of alleged sightings. A year later Green's curiosity grew into fascination while he was still the owner and publisher of the Agassiz-Harrison Advance newspaper. Since then Green has spent more than 38 years investigating the phenomena, and is still one of the most active researchers, frequently being called upon whenever another track is discovered. Green is also the only surviving person to have investigated the original Sasquatch tracks reported in Bluff Creek, California in the summer of 1958.

As a renowned authority in the field, Green has appeared as a guest speaker at all three of the major scientific Sasquatch symposiums held so far. Green has authored several Sasquatch books, including On the Track of the Sasquatch, Encounters with Bigfoot, and most notably Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, the latter still being widely regarded by many as the single best book yet written on the subject.

The character played by Don Ameche in the 1987 motion picture Harry and the Hendersons is loosely modeled after Green.

Green currently resides in Harrison Hot springs, British Columbia

(Taken from www.wikipedia.org)