John Newland is back with yet another “true” story designed to take us One Step Beyond. In this episode, a young boy named Dewey goes missing but then shows back up and says that he’s been hanging out with a Bigfoot-like monster.
This episode first aired on October 20th, 1959.
Through the Shattered Lens 
Wow – a Bigfootish (Sasquatchish? story on a TV show from 1959.
That was very good. We never really saw anything (except footprints) in this presentation, but it was engrossing, with a menacing undertone, throughout. Maybe a lesson there for contemporary movie makers.
Don’t know how much truth there is to that story, but as told, it makes you feel sorry for the apparently friendly “monster”, who took care of the boy, and just wanted a friend. I liked the wisdom in John Newland’s commentary about the tendency of people to attack and destroy that which they don’t understand, and therefore fear.
That little kid was a good actor.
I also found this story interesting because the plot involves a documented phenomenon involving people disappearing from National Parks. The occurrences involving small children are especially puzzling. In some cases in which the child is found, the circumstances are very similar to those in which Davy was discovered. The child is unharmed, not dehydrated or malnourished, and in some cases, found in a remote location, up on a mountain or ledge, often miles from the last place they were seen. How did they end up in a place and at a distance they could not have possibly gotten to on their own? These children often are too young to articulate their experiences clearly, and/or don’t seem to have a clear recollection or comprehension of what happened. There is even a series of books on the subject, written by a former police detective (“Missing 411”). But I digress (again).
It is interesting that all of these things – Bigfoot and the mysterious disappearances/returns in the woods – were elements of this story, told in 1959. I am impressed with this program. It’s a cool concept, and the host’s narration doesn’t oversell it. He is reasonable and pragmatic, but open-minded.
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This episode scared me as a child. When I was a kid in the 1960s a man our family knew named John used to visit my grandmother. He kept a large bulldozer on our property and we knew him well. My grandmother made him tea when he visited and they talked for hours. We lived in a rural area on the east coast. He had money and had traveled to many places. He made many trips out west and had hiked and camped in the Rockies with his brother and nephew. He told us about one trip when they stayed in a friend’s cabin and heard loud roars off and on through the night which started around 11:00 o’cloack and seemed to die down as sunrise got closer. They had a rifle with them and decided to stay through the night but they didn’t get much sleep. The next day when they left they found two huge footprints near their truck. He said whatever it was must have had gigantic feet. John said they never went back to that area after seeing those prints.
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This individual has the child’s name wrong. It’s Davy Morris not Dewey.
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