The Willow Creek - China Flat Museum
The Willow Creek – China Flat Museum, located in Willow Creek, CA, has an annex dedicated to bigfoot. The exhibits feature, along with other items, the Bob Titmus collection of casts.
The Willow Creek – China Flat Museum highlights the history of logging in and around Willow Creek, and is perhaps best known for its collection of materials on Bigfoot!
Take a sentimental journey back to the days of the early pioneers of this beautiful mountain community as you browse through the museum’s wonderful collection of things from the past. A part of the permanent collection is a complete replication of a miner’s cabin.
Then head on over to the Big Foot Exhibit. The Bigfoot exhibit has pictures, newspaper articles, maps of sightings , Bigfoot casts, which have been made with a plaster like material to replicate the foot prints that have been collected over the years and donated to the museum. Come… see our collection and read all about Bigfoot!
The lower photo shows long-time Willow Creek resident Al Hodgson, taken in September 2003 during the International Bigfoot Symposium. Seen in the foreground is the Skookum Cast, which was on temporary exhibit during the course of the symposium.
Willow Creek is a small community nestled in the lush, mountainous northwest corner of California. The Willow Creek – China Flat Museum maintains an interesting collection of historical artifacts from this community and surrounding areas. In late 1998 the museum added a new wing to house the collection of bigfoot/sasquatch research material donated by the estate of the late Bob Titmus.
Bob Titmus began his lifelong inquiry into the bigfoot mystery in late 1958. Through his taxidermy shop in Anderson, California, he had heard the stories of giant manlike tracks occasionally found in remote sections of northern California and other areas of the Pacific Northwest. Titmus was skeptical about these stories until his good friend, Jerry Crew, approached him in August of 1958 asking for advice about preserving some odd animal tracks found around his work site. Crew, a logging road tractor operator, told Titmus how these large tracks were found every so often by construction workers returning to a work site deep in the Six Rivers National Forest. The enormous manlike tracks matched the general description of tracks found in other remote areas — tracks that local native American tribes attributed to the legendary, shy, hairy giants that were occasionally seen and heard in the steep, misty mountain rainforests of the Six Rivers region.