It puzzles me, that after all these years of media coverage, both fringe and mainstream, that there are those who still scoff at the notion, when the subject of Bigfoot/Sasquatch is brought up.

Recently, I posted a meme on my Facebook wall, with a still from the infamous if not legendary Patterson-Gimlin 8mm film, of 1967. Upon seeing it, a poet friend laughed and replied, “Yeah, guy in a monkey suit.”

Right! A guy just happens to be wandering around in the middle of nowhere, dressed in a gorilla costume, and Patterson/Gimlin bump into him.

The film has since been analyzed to death, amid cries of “Hoax!” including digitally, with the conclusion being that the movement of the subject’s muscles as captured, could not have been duplicated in a suit, especially with the material available at the time. The closest thing would have been the Planet of the Apes costumes. The movie however only came out the following year, 1968, and the makeup took hours to apply.





As in everything, you have to follow your gut instinct. With the huge amount of anecdotal evidence accumulated, recent and historical, hundreds of plaster foot print casts, and now a growing volume of video footage taken over the past 40 years, much of it from reliable sources, including police and military. Draw your own conclusions.

Yes, some of that footage is pretty grainy, but an awful lot of it isn’t. Has there been fakery? Of course there has, and unfortunately, there will probably be more.

Personally, I take all of this paranormal stuff with a grain of salt, because it always contains a kernel of truth. And to quote a familiar poster hanging in FBI agent Fox Mulder’s office on the X Files series, “The truth is out there.”






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Top photo: Still from Patterson-Gimlin film (1967), Northern California, courtesy of Wikipedia
Middle photo: Official Canadian postage stamp (1990), courtesy of the Net
Bottom poster: Courtesy of Canadian Things, Facebook (unable to verify original source and authenticity)


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Author's Note: For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson%E2%80%93Gimlin_film

Posted on 05/21/2024
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