Raymond L. Wallace (April 21, 1918 − November 26, 2002) was an American amateur Bigfoot hoaxer.
He served in the United States Army during World War II as an aircraft gunner.
[1] Ray Wallace also created hair and feces samples which the family left in the woods for Bigfoot researchers to find.
[2] However, Chris Murphy notes that Ed Schillinger, "who is the only living witness from the Bluff Creek job" and "who considers himself almost an adopted son of the man [Ray]," strongly disputes the family's allegations.
[7] Regarding Wallace's claim to have told Roger Patterson where to go to shoot the Patterson film, Jeffrey Meldrum writes, "... but it was clear from later interviews that he possessed little knowledge of the specific area ...."[8] Wallace died in a Centralia, Washington nursing home at the age of 84.