In 1967, he set out to make a film documentary about the bigfoot phenomenon, using a rented 16mm film camera. The most famous recording of an alleged bigfoot is a short film shot in 1967. Join a team of more in 1967, roger patterson claimed he captured bigfoot on film. Roger went on the talk show circuit promoting the and his until his dying day, roger never deviated from. Its worth noting that the original evidence that launched the bigfoot crazea trail of oversized footprints discovered in the same region in 1958was revealed. Complete reel of film shot by roger patterson in and around bluff creek, ca, in 1967 addeddate 20170811 16.
The show was yet another fake documentary created for entertainment purposes. Lost tapes the patterson film and bigfoot lost tapes. This website is dedicated to a logical debate of whether or not this was a genuine sighting of an unknown beast, or an elaborate hoax involving a man in a costume. Legends of large, apelike beasts can be found all over the world. Roger patterson and bob gimlin had their encounter with bigfoot a.
Running neck and neck with the zapruder film, in terms of endless analysis, is a 60second piece of 16mm footage that has come to be known as the patterson gimlin film. There are two bigfoot in the patterson gimlin film. Several university based studies and professional evaluations have concluded the subject can not possibly be a man in an. After a bigfoot hunter claims to possess the body of a dead sasquatch, a disgraced investigative journalist stakes his comeback and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving the find to be a hoax. But does the evidence point toward a giant ape or a man in an ape suit. Fairfield writer explores history of 1967 bigfoot film connecticut post. The documentary worlds greatest hoaxes from 1998 stated that it has to be a hoax because there is a fur line down the back which they claim does not occur in real primates. He has 45 years of experience and is an authority in the field. These creatures exist but i do fear they are fast becoming extinct. The copy was much longer and showed eight men killing a family of bigfoot. The footage is one of best pieces of bigfoot evidence in existence and has been examined by many researchers. The international bigfoot conference writes bob gimlin, the man, the myth, the legend has an incredible story to tell.
Roger patterson was no ordinary filmmaker, he managed to film a shaky 60 second film of a bigfoot the creature that the native americans call sasquatch. Shot in northern californias bluff creek in october 1967 by roger patterson and robert gimlin, the short film shows what appears to be a female bigfoot walking briskly across a sandbar in the middle of the afternoon. M k davis discusses the best images from the patterson film. Nov 02, 2018 movie podcast host and author phil hall joined george noory to discuss the history of the patterson gimlin bigfoot film and examine it as a work of cinema. It is the weirdest film ever made, hall said, noting how unusual it was the two men actually happened upon the elusive beast, as well as the strangeness of the creature itself. The group had been rather awfully assembled to see this bit of film.
My feeling has always been that the patterson film is the real deal. The pattersongimlin film 50th anniversary celebration. The film profiles a world renowned taxidermist named ken walker, who lives on the eastern slopes of the canadian rockies. Filmed in bluff creek, california, it shows a large, manlike creature striding through a clearing. Bigfoot creature pattersongimlin footage of the mysterious beast as it lumbers along a northern california river bank. The patterson film, pattersongimlin film of bigfoot sasquatch. Sep 26, 2014 bigfoot evidence has the scoop and a word from davis. Since the 1950s, the united states version of this has been bigfoot. Oct 2, 2016 bigfoot videos from all over the globe. Beginners guide to the pattersongimlin film and the. Aug, 20 whether or not bigfoot exists is one question the answer to which has not exactly whitened the knuckles of science but the authenticity of the pattersongimlin film is something else.
Rare patterson gimlin bigfoot film screen captures, the bbc xcreatures documentary, and the leap of skepticism. What other evidence is there that bigfoot s walk with a compliant gait. The pattersongimlin film of sasquatchbigfoot, made in. Dec 05, 2017 the paterson bigfoot film analysed the best documentary ever. He organzied some people in yakima for some stock scenes on horseback for his film. A former rodeo rider, and author of a paperback book entitled do abominable snowmen of america really exist.
Along with roger patterson, bob gimlin is best known for his involvement in the pattersongimlin film a. If you were to ask roger patterson who filmed his now infamous bigfoot film on october 20, 1967, he will naturally reply in the affirmative as he has been doing exactly that since the day the film was shot until his death due to cancer in 1972. High adventure 2014 2014 tv episode the crew goes rafting with bigfoot rafting company, who got their name from the famous patterson gimlin film shot nearby in the willow creek area. The patterson film records a dark, bipedal figure striding across a northern california creek bed. Over 30 years after the alleged bigfoot encounter on bluff creek, this was the supposedly similarlylooking suit revealed as proof the original creature could be faked by clever costume designers. The patterson gimlin film has yet to be proven not true because its all true. Davis discusses a possible second sasquatch in the patterson film and other anomalies. See more ideas about bigfoot video, bigfoot and bigfoot sightings. Along with roger patterson, bob gimlin is best known for his involvement in the patterson gimlin film a.
Patterson gimlin film also known as the patterson film or the pgf is an american short motion picture of an unidentified subject which the filmmakers have said was a bigfoot. The patterson gimlin film also known as the patterson film or the pgf is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the filmmakers said was a bigfoot. John greens 1968 recreation of the pgf onsite at bluff creek, featuring jim mcclarin walking in more or less the same trackway as the bigfoot patterson gimlin film subject. Patterson hits up wallace who gave him or sold him a pair of his bigfoot shoes now it explains why pattys feet dont match left to right, the wallace prints dont either, and more so, the picture of patterson holding an alleged patty print and the picture of crews holding wallace made prints they are a match, perhaps pattersons smug grin is the. Sorry but the only away for patterson to film this bigfoot and with john g. You can watch the entire documentary by clicking the. Many people believe the bigfoot creature in the pattersongimlin film was a costumed. Why the pattersongimlin bigfoot film should concern scholars. Another documentary from around that time, i dont remember the name, had a guy dress up in a completely different looking for some reason bigfoot suit and walk across. The patterson gimlin pg film used a 16mm kodak cine 100 camera. Skeptics claim patty was a man in a suit, but we all know that there was no such suit back 1967. Analysis of the patterson gimlin film by bill munns bill is a specialized makeup artist who does prosthetic and special effects makeup, including creature body suits.
The making of bigfoot is a good read and well worth picking up just to glean the details of how the famous film was shot using a camera and film that wereof coursenever paid for. His latest challenge is completing a seven feet tall taxidermy bigfoot. Pattersongimlin film is an american short motion picture of an unidentified subject which the filmmakers have said was a bigfoot. It is alleged to be genuine footage of a bigfoot taken on october 20, 1967. Patterson was a rodeo rider from yakima, washington. Nov 23, 2017 the subject in question is a 16mm motion picture film, taken in the woodlands of northern california in 1967, famously referred to as the pattersongimlin film or pgf in recognition of the two men who were present, one man filming and the other man witnessing the event, but it is informally known as the bigfoot film in recognition of. Pattersongimlin film also known as the patterson film or the pgf is an american short motion picture of an unidentified subject which the filmmakers have said was a bigfoot. The 2005 documentary on the national geographic channel was titled bigfoot. The paterson bigfoot film analysed the best documentary ever. The footage was shot in 1967, and has since been subjected to many attempts to authenticate or debunk it. His proponents, like the anthropologist grover krantz, believe. Stack the pancakes as high as you want, but the patterson gimlin film can never be accepted as anything other than inconclusive evidence for the existence of bigfoot. Under the heading exposing roger patterson s 1967 bigfoot film hoax the enquirer has opened its columns to kal korff, one of the people involved with the making of bigfoot, so that he can try to halt the books slide towards the remainder bins and revive his hopes of financing for a tv documentary. In 1967, roger patterson claimed he captured bigfoot on film.
Here is my new webpage about the patterson gimlin bigfoot and why i believe it to be a real. A short film of what appears to be the first captured footage of bigfoot. Pattersongimlin bigfoot video gets makeover unexplained. Patterson was trying to film a bigfoot documentary at the time, so there would have been nothing incriminating about him buying a gorilla suit to use in recreating incidents that witnesses had described, which is fairly standard practice with bigfoot documentaries. Lacking a real cooperative bigfoot, patterson and gimlin would have needed a costume to present a reasonable representation of the creature supposedly encountered. Dec 24, 2014 national geographic animals 2014 bigfoot the definitive guide full documentary hd youtube. Filmed in 1967 in northern california, the patterson gimlin film has long remained the most hotly debated and tantalizing piece of footage ever recorded in relation to the bigfoot phenomenon.
Fairfield writer explores history of 1967 bigfoot film. Running neck and neck with the zapruder film, in terms of endless analysis, is a 60second piece of 16mm footage that has come to be known. Grover krantz washington state university offered a good analysis of the film in the documentary bigfoot. Talks about 1967 bluff creek bigfoot film by jack barnes jeff andersen. Wbtc supports the legal efforts of california resident claudia ackley and documentary filmmaker todd standing to force california to legally recognize that bigfoot or sasquatch aka yeti is real and very alive in california. It was strongly rumored that special makeup effects wizard john chambers created a suit that was used in this film, as part of an elaborate hoax. The evidence within the pattersongimlin bigfoot incident. All these years of enhancing and deburring each frame from the pattersongimlin footage has yielded something so definitive that its mind blowing. This movie makes me think of, should i spend the night in a bigfoot hot spot just to get the evidence. The patterson gimlin film is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified bipedal creature that is said to have been filmed on october 20, 1967, by roger patterson and robert gimlin on the klamath river outside of orleans, california. Larry battson gives lecture on bigfoot, patterson gimlin film analysis usfws duration.
Film introducing bigfoot to world still mysterious 50 years. No, a bigfoot creature was not captured in a history channel program. Since the film was to be a pseudo documentary patterson and gimlin would have needed actors. According to the story, the film starts off shaky and three sasquatch are seen entering the picture. If bigfoot were known to be a real animal, an investigation into the authenticity of the film would make sense. Patterson gimlin bigfoot film 1967, the best stabilization of all 5 parts of the film. The pattersongimlin film is a short motion picture of an unidentified subject filmed on october 20, 1967 by roger patterson and bob gimlin. Patterson had been wanting to film a low budget documentary about the subject.
If the creature in the film had walked differently, then that is the gait that people would associate with bigfoot. After all, it was only a year after the patterson gimlin footage was shot that the iconic 1968 film planet of the apes came onto the screen. The second russian report on the 1967 bigfoot film footage by dr. If patty is some man in a suit, then that is one highly sophisticated and priceless body. Even though the hieronimous story is bogus, many people will claim they heard the patterson footage was proven to be a hoax for years to come because of him and that 2005 nat geo documentary. The patterson film the bigfoot wiki fandom powered by.
These bits were meant to be used as stock footage in a documentary film idea on which patterson was working. As of 2015 no one has successfully produced a duplicated version of the patterson gimlin film. Film introducing bigfoot to world still mysterious 50 years later opb. Patterson, who was working on a documentary about bigfoot, heard the roumors and set out to find the creature who had left the tracks. Presuming that the pattersongimlin film is fake, do you. They shot the footage off the banks of bluff creek in northern california. Nov 22, 2019 the public fascination of bigfoot increased in 1967 when roger patterson and bob gimlin filmed a few seconds of a large hairy creature walking on two legs in bluff creek, which ultimately became. As the massacre theory goes, in 2006, a new version of the patterson gimlin film emerged. He was trying to make a documentary about the bigfoot mystery when he went down to northern california with a rental 16mm movie camera after hearing about numerous tracks in the valley around bluff creek.
From the patterson gimlin film and other sightings to known hoaxes and bigfoot hunters, this documentary delves deep into the mythology, sightings. Oct 25, 2017 discovering bigfoot is a bigfoot documentary made by a bigfoot. Pattersongimlin film 1967 bigfoot original title 1min documentary, short, mystery. Jan 22, 2020 since the 1950s, the united states version of this has been bigfoot. The legend of the patterson film according to roger patterson, who died of cancer in 1972, he and a companion, bob gimlin, were riding their horses on october 20, 1967, in bluff creek, california, when they suddenly encountered a bigfoot. Caught on film over 40 years ago, the patterson gimlin footage is the most important piece of evidence of bigfoot in history. The tale of a taxidermy bigfoot in documentary film big. Patterson gimlin bigfoot footage finding bigfoot animal. The video, which offers a clear view of a large bipedal apelike creature walking along the creek bed, soon became worldfamous and has attracted the. Discovering bigfoot is a bigfoot documentary made by a.
It was taken by roger patterson, a bigfoot hunter, who, along with another man, happened onto the creature on october 20, 1967. It was gimlin, 86, who, as a younger man, accompanied fellow rodeo man roger patterson on safari in northern california where the latter captured film footage of patty, an alleged bigfoot. Although its been decades since the pattersongimlin film turned a northwest legend, bigfoot, into a household name, the footage and stories behind it still remain fascinating 50 years later. Analysis of the pattersongimlin film by bill munns bill is a specialized makeup artist who does prosthetic and special effects makeup, including creature body suits.
The iconic frame 352 still of the patterson gilmlin film, which allegedly depicts a female bigfoot looking back at roger patterson and bob gimlin. Patterson, in fact, was promptly arrested for grand larceny for stealing the very camera he used at bluff creek. The patterson film is still by far the best all around evidence of a sasquatch creature to date. The strange pattersongimlin massacre story strange. The only reason compliant gaits are associated with bigfoot are because of the patterson gimlin film.
The original 16mm kodak cine100 home movie camera that patterson used was a rental so it was never be examined and tested. From the patterson gimlin film and other sightings to known hoaxes and bigfoot hunters, this documentary delves deep into the mythology, sightings and people who search out these mysterious beings. The 1967 patterson gimlin film taken in humboldt county in northern calif. Shooting bigfoot documentary by the bbc has john green showing his film roll containing roger pattersons bluff creek pgf footage. This makes the patterson footage a bit unique and out of the ordinary. The two men involved were roger patterson and bob gimlin. There is overwhelming evidence that the film we all know as the patterson film, alleged to be 900 some odd continuous frames, is made up from several. The apparent animal was filmed, and analyses of this footage by americans, canadians, russians, and others verify this was an authentic, probable unknown living primate. Patterson film has withstood microscopic digitial scrutiny and still most who take the time to scientifically investigate the film come away with the same opinionno way could that have been a suitjust not possible in that time.
Forrest is speaking with me about the patterson gimlin film, the infamous piece of footage many believe to showcase a real, live bigfoot. Shot with a 16mm cine kodak k100 with a mobilgrip handle. In 1957, a group of construction workers working near bluff creek noticed large human like footprints left in a remote area surrounded by wilderness. During the 1960s he developed an interest in the bigfoot an unknown creature seen for years in california, orgeon and washington, writing a small. Bob hieronimous was apparently one of those people, but that appears to be the extend of his assocation with roger.