- The 59-second 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, seen by billions of people over the decades, is often cited by proponents as proof that the giant, hairy creature exists
- A new documentary — Capturing Bigfoot — uses recently unearthed footage to prove that the 1967 film was an “incredible hoax,” says director Marq Evans
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"After her father’s death,” says Evans, 43, “she’d found a canister of 16mm film that had been sealed away for over half a century. She needed help getting it developed and wondered if I might be interested in doing something with it.”
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Not long after receiving Brooks’ email, Evans had the 16mm film developed and days later found himself looking at a 40-second clip set in a location similar to the one in the 1967 movie, showing what appeared to be a slightly skinnier-looking Bigfoot walking into the woods.
“It took me maybe nine months to realize what we really had,” says Evans, who was able to determine, by markings on the film, that the footage had been shot in 1966, roughly a year before the now-famous clip in the 59-second Bigfoot movie was allegedly shot. “What we eventually found out is that [this new footage] represented a trial run, a rehearsal that was never discarded.”
Realizing he had physical evidence that finally put to rest the question of whether Patterson’s creation was a hoax, Evans knew he had the makings for an explosive documentary. He quickly went to work, he says, “connecting the dots” behind the making of the 1967 film and interviewing the cast of characters in Patterson’s hometown of Yakima, Wash., who were involved with its creation, including 80-something-year-old Bob Heironimus, who confessed to being the individual wearing the fake Bigfoot suit in the film.
Btw, personally, I am a bit bomb shelled at this news.
If you are into bigfoot, or just cryptozoology in general, you know Patterson-Gimlin is a big thing. Bigfoot basically falls and rises with the legitimacy of the Patterson-Gimlin footage. It remains the only bigfoot evidence, that has continued to evade clear debunking, for decades even, fueling the little bit of professional attention that bigfoot receives. If you are aware that “Bigfooters” and the bigfoot hunting community exists, this will likely be the biggest bombshell that has EVER hit the bigfoot community besides the Patterson-Gimlin footage itself.
lol what?
uh. If you seriously have seen a stabilized version of the footage and can’t tell it’s a human walking, I don’t know what to tell you.
I have read many articles by professional zoologists and otherwise diehard cryptid skeptics, and many agree that the costume is exceptionally well made. See: Darren Naish
I’ve mentioned this before, but my grandmother fully believes in Bigfoot, and claims there are sub-species of Sasquatch that she’s personally seen throughout the US. Debunking this movie won’t matter to her, I doubt she’d even consider for a moment that the footage is fake.
I’ll never understand this. If you spend any time in nature you’ll come across carcasses and bones from all kinds of animals yet not one Bigfoot skeleton has ever been found. Maybe aliens land and scoop up the evidence and take it back to their secret base on the moon or something.
She believes in aliens too, but not in the sense of little green men. She claims that they are prophets from the old testament that time travel, she always mentioned that passage in Kings with a burning chariot in the sky when she was talking about aliens. She gave me a book about it once, I kind of wish I had held on to it for the laughs.
So, she’s crazy. Got it.
Does she call you “My Child”?
I wish I could get her to watch ds9 with me, I imagine Vic Fontaine would be her favorite character though
A lot of the bigfoot people i’ve met are into astral/dimensional/dream bigfoot - bigfoots that don’t rely on a physical presence to be real.
I don’t think it will make a huge difference. Just like UAPs there’s so much additional evidence that’s ignored. Those who want to deny it will continue to do so. Those who want to believe it will continue to do so. And those who are open minded without attachment to the outcome, will continue to be curious about the world. My personal view is shaped by seeing a triangular craft when I was a young child. Hard to close your mind to possibilities when you’ve seen the unexplained.