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About Robert W. Morgan...
In 1956 and while serving as a 2nd Class Petty Officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Princeton, Robert W. Morgan had an encounter with what is now commonly termed a Sasquatch or Bigfoot. While hunting in the mountains of Mason County, Washington, he responded to the sounds of rustling in the brush uphill and behind him. There he spotted patches of blackish hair moving away quickly through the brush. Naturally, he assumed it was a bear. However, when it paused in a small opening, he found himself facing a large bipedal hominoid
This entity stood erect the entire time expressing surprise, indignation and curiosity - but not anger. Morgan himself felt amazed yet not threatened. After several moments of exchanging stares, Morgan chose to leave the area. As a young man from a steel town in Ohio, he had not yet heard of the Sasquatch or the Bigfoot. His attempt to report to local law enforcement his encounter with “an escaped gorilla” was not taken seriously. Worse, when he tried to share his story with his shipmates they also assumed he was joking. He angrily vowed to return to that area to repeat his encounter. It was those intelligent eyes that most intrigued him.
It was while reading adventure magazines that he learned that he had come face-to-face with a legend. He began collecting Indian legends, frontier folk tales and made a detailed list of sightings that included times, dates, longitudes, latitudes, and basic terrain characteristics.
Following his discharge from the Navy, Morgan amassed over 5,600 classroom hours in the study of advanced electronics. He quickly rose to a GS-11 position with the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, DC. When the FAA began integrating computers to handle the increasing air traffic load, Morgan was appointed a systems certifying engineer using the UNIVAC FILE II and the IBM 9020 systems. On off-hours, he wrote a computer program that created a statistical probability chart that further fueled his interest in the Sasquatch. Indeed, a pattern of activity within definite parameters had appeared.
Ill-suited to the constraints of government service, Morgan resigned his position. Taking up residence in Miami, Florida, he cobbled together his first exploratory expedition in the early spring of 1969 to the snowbound southern slopes of Mt. Adams in the State of Washington. He and his team quickly encountered two separate strings of huge barefooted-bipedal tracks in fresh wilderness snow. The strides far exceeded those of the tallest human. The team was also startled awake one night by “snuffling, snorting sounds” that came from a newly melting stream. The following morning they discovered barefoot bipedal tracks that had briefly left that stream close to their camp. They would learn too that a sighting of a Bigfoot was made at the mouth of that same stream within 48 hours.
In the following week and while visiting Skamania County in the wake of a fresh sighting of an FG crossing the road near Bonneville, he met and became friends with publisher Roy Craft and Skamania County Commissioner Conrad Lundy. Morgan urged them to create the first County Ordinance to protect the Bigfoot from “wanton slaying.” This act would set the precedent for other such laws that hampered those who were willing to murder one to prove their point. Rene Dahinden, the Canadian researcher, threatened to "shoot that damned conservationist Morgan if he ever comes between me and a Bigfoot.”
Morgan then formed Vanguard Research Corporation to conduct more expeditions; two sponsored through the National Wildlife Magazine. He also recruited and chaired a Science Advisory Board that listed 17 men and women, most of whom had doctorates in a variety of complementary sciences. They would include Drs. Grover S. Krantz, George Agogino, Director of the Paleo-Indian Institute, S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary of the Smithsonian, J. Schoneberg Setzer, theologian, Captain E. E. Helblom, MD, USN, Mary Jo Florey, microbiologist, among others.
A 1971 feature article written by Managing Editor George Harrison would describe how Morgan had located fresh tracks in Harrison’s presence under circumstances that could not have allowed fakery. This article became the most requested repeat in NWM's history.
In 1974, Morgan co-founded The American Anthropological Research Foundation (AARF) with his friend and attorney, W. Ted Ernst. This Florida not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation is a continuing force to this day not only in the research in what Morgan has termed “Cryptoanthropology,” but also in other fields.
Morgan and his teams have appeared in the landmark Smithsonian TV Series, Monsters: Myth or Mystery, and the feature-length documentary film The Search for Bigfoot was made about their 1974 expedition that had fielded multiple scientists including biologists, botanists, archaeologists, trackers, and anthropologists. He and field researcher Eliza Moorman had reported the longest string of bipedal hominid tracks (161) complete with distinct human characteristics ever authenticated in North America by Dr. Grover Krantz.
Robert also worked for years in the motion picture business first as a screenwriter and later as a producer and a director. He was involved in various levels with William Shatner’s film Impulse, and he had presented the concept to the TV series, In Search Of . . . along with other feature film productions such as Lucky Lady, with Burt Reynolds. His Bloodstalkers horror film became such a classic that it is being revived into two modern sequels beginning in mid-2008.
In 1991, he traveled to Moscow and to Leningrad with the Save the Children Foundation. He was given an award of achievement by the Soviet Film Commission for his efforts to create, write, and direct what was intended to be the first feature film to be co-produced between the Soviet Union and the USA. This project was set aside after the Gorbachev coup.
In April, 2008, Pine Winds, an imprint of Idyll Arbor Press, shall publish his nonfiction work The Soul Snatchers. This work deals with his personal work mainly among the Native Americans regarding the Forest Giants, but it also reports an encounter in Moscow, Russia, with a refugee Tibetan lama that brought all the “mysteries” into sharp focus. It is a “must read:” for anyone seriously interested in understanding why this research is often stymied by governments. It also will predictably leave egg on the faces of his detractors. He is professionally represented by Stephanne Dennis, the president of The Authors Literary Agency.
Following his discharge from the Navy, Morgan amassed over 5,600 classroom hours in the study of advanced electronics. He quickly rose to a GS-11 position with the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, DC. When the FAA began integrating computers to handle the increasing air traffic load, Morgan was appointed a systems certifying engineer using the UNIVAC FILE II and the IBM 9020 systems. On off-hours, he wrote a computer program that created a statistical probability chart that further fueled his interest in the Sasquatch. Indeed, a pattern of activity within definite parameters had appeared.
Ill-suited to the constraints of government service, Morgan resigned his position. Taking up residence in Miami, Florida, he cobbled together his first exploratory expedition in the early spring of 1969 to the snowbound southern slopes of Mt. Adams in the State of Washington. He and his team quickly encountered two separate strings of huge barefooted-bipedal tracks in fresh wilderness snow. The strides far exceeded those of the tallest human. The team was also startled awake one night by “snuffling, snorting sounds” that came from a newly melting stream. The following morning they discovered barefoot bipedal tracks that had briefly left that stream close to their camp. They would learn too that a sighting of a Bigfoot was made at the mouth of that same stream within 48 hours.
In the following week and while visiting Skamania County in the wake of a fresh sighting of an FG crossing the road near Bonneville, he met and became friends with publisher Roy Craft and Skamania County Commissioner Conrad Lundy. Morgan urged them to create the first County Ordinance to protect the Bigfoot from “wanton slaying.” This act would set the precedent for other such laws that hampered those who were willing to murder one to prove their point. Rene Dahinden, the Canadian researcher, threatened to "shoot that damned conservationist Morgan if he ever comes between me and a Bigfoot.”
Morgan then formed Vanguard Research Corporation to conduct more expeditions; two sponsored through the National Wildlife Magazine. He also recruited and chaired a Science Advisory Board that listed 17 men and women, most of whom had doctorates in a variety of complementary sciences. They would include Drs. Grover S. Krantz, George Agogino, Director of the Paleo-Indian Institute, S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary of the Smithsonian, J. Schoneberg Setzer, theologian, Captain E. E. Helblom, MD, USN, Mary Jo Florey, microbiologist, among others.
A 1971 feature article written by Managing Editor George Harrison would describe how Morgan had located fresh tracks in Harrison’s presence under circumstances that could not have allowed fakery. This article became the most requested repeat in NWM's history.
In 1974, Morgan co-founded The American Anthropological Research Foundation (AARF) with his friend and attorney, W. Ted Ernst. This Florida not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation is a continuing force to this day not only in the research in what Morgan has termed “Cryptoanthropology,” but also in other fields.
Morgan and his teams have appeared in the landmark Smithsonian TV Series, Monsters: Myth or Mystery, and the feature-length documentary film The Search for Bigfoot was made about their 1974 expedition that had fielded multiple scientists including biologists, botanists, archaeologists, trackers, and anthropologists. He and field researcher Eliza Moorman had reported the longest string of bipedal hominid tracks (161) complete with distinct human characteristics ever authenticated in North America by Dr. Grover Krantz.
Robert also worked for years in the motion picture business first as a screenwriter and later as a producer and a director. He was involved in various levels with William Shatner’s film Impulse, and he had presented the concept to the TV series, In Search Of . . . along with other feature film productions such as Lucky Lady, with Burt Reynolds. His Bloodstalkers horror film became such a classic that it is being revived into two modern sequels beginning in mid-2008.
In 1991, he traveled to Moscow and to Leningrad with the Save the Children Foundation. He was given an award of achievement by the Soviet Film Commission for his efforts to create, write, and direct what was intended to be the first feature film to be co-produced between the Soviet Union and the USA. This project was set aside after the Gorbachev coup.
In April, 2008, Pine Winds, an imprint of Idyll Arbor Press, shall publish his nonfiction work The Soul Snatchers. This work deals with his personal work mainly among the Native Americans regarding the Forest Giants, but it also reports an encounter in Moscow, Russia, with a refugee Tibetan lama that brought all the “mysteries” into sharp focus. It is a “must read:” for anyone seriously interested in understanding why this research is often stymied by governments. It also will predictably leave egg on the faces of his detractors. He is professionally represented by Stephanne Dennis, the president of The Authors Literary Agency.