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Gimlin's Memory Intact

I am just off the telephone with Cheryl Schuchman, who I tracked down. She is the daughter of the late John Schuchman (see photo below in previous post). She tells me she met Roger Patterson ONE time, when he came to their 40 foot long trailer around 1964 with a Volkswagen bus with two horses in it. He was a "nice gentleman," "short" in size with a cowboy hat. Roger was there, by himself, to interview her dad about is sighting. Cheryl was "enamored" by the short horses.

She now has a copy of the Bigfoot Times, May 2007, with the story of Roger and Bob stopping by after the film was shot. She told me "I had to laugh," and that it is "pure fiction." "I was their only daughter and I was always with them, so if this happened [Roger and Bob stopping by for a shower after the film] I would have known about it." My only regret here is that I became aware of Cheryl Schuchman after we went to press.

She also stated that her dad "told it soooo many times [his sighting]" that she could remember it "verbatim." With that she told me that if Roger and Bob did stop by for a shower without her being present, that her dad would have told her. "I would have known about it..." Her dad was a Bigfoot "enthusiast" after his sighting.

The story supplied to the Australian Penthouse magazine by Tony Healy is without merit. When I talked with Bob Gimlin, in person, September 2003 (Willow Creek, California) and May/June 2005 (Bellingham, Washington) about this so-called shower, he told me, while shaking his head back and forth, he doesn't remember a John Schuchman or ever stopping by anyone's home so Roger could have a shower after they got their famous movie. So another test of Bob Gimlin's memory demonstrates his recollection of matters is very much intact.

It would be interesting indeed if the late Rene Dahinden or John Green has an audio tape of John Schuchman, and I am told that one might still exist.