As of 2015 no one has successfully produced a duplicated version of the pattersongimlin film. The most famous image of a bigfoot is from a film taken in 1967 by roger patterson and bob gimlin in bluff creek, california. Still stalking bigfoot 50 years after film of beast went. Film introducing bigfoot to world still mysterious 50 years later opb. The following is a partial transcript of a radio interview done at vancouver, canada, approximately november, 1967, by openline host jack webster with roger patterson and bob gimlin, just after the first showing of the film to scientists, from the university of b. The motion picture film of an alleged bigfoot taken by roger patterson and bob gimlin in october 1967 is examined and data are provided on the movement and stature of the bigfoot. The famous lookback frame of an alleged female bigfoot from the 1967 film produced by roger patterson and bob gimlin. Patterson gimlin bigfoot film 1967, the best stabilization of all 5 parts of the film. A brief history on october 20, 1967, roger patterson shot his famous footage of a bigfoot at bluff creek, california.
The pattersongimlin film part 2 astonishing legends. The second part of the video is zoomed and stabilized, to give a clearer vision of the creatures movement. Roger patterson and bob gimlin had their encounter with bigfoot a. Since its filming by roger patterson and bob gimlin in northern california in october of 1967, it has remained a complete mystery, far beyond any rational explanation. Skeptics claim patty was a man in a suit, but we all know that there was no such suit back 1967. In that iconic picture, the thing bigfoot was turning back to look at was bob gimlin. Roger patterson made a controversial and iconic contribution to bigfoot investigation in 1967 with his and bob gimlins muchparsed bluff creek bigfoot film. The authenticity of this footage is still debated today. In the nine years between the widely publicized jerry crew tracks in october, 1958, and the pattersongimlin footage in october, 1967, several people in the northwest had the idea of making a documentary about the bigfoot mystery, but only a few actually made progress in that direction. The footage was obtained in a remote mountainous area in northern california in 1967. Is there anyone left who still believes the 1967 bigfoot.
Although the footage was never validated to be proven conclusive evidence of bigfoots existence. The infamous footage shot by robert patterson and robert gimlin on october 29th 1967 in califonia. This week marks the 50th anniversary of some of the most compelling proof of a mythical creature. The bigfoot film controversy presents the complete text of roger pattersons landmark book do abominable snowmen of america really exist. Bob gimlin was a small town cowboy when his friend coaxed him into hunting the famous mythical creature 50 years ago.
Clearest bigfoot sighting yet as famous 1967 patterson. The patterson film, pattersongimlin film of bigfoot sasquatch. Here is my new webpage about the patterson gimlin bigfoot and why i believe it to be a real sasquatch, with several analytical videos, enjoy. Roger patterson and bob gimlin had their encounter with bigfoot on october 20, 1967. 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. 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. Man who captured the infamous 1967 footage of bigfoot. Believers trek to the forest where sasquatch hunters shot the 1967 footage that made bigfoot americas most popular cryptid. Is it just that the debunking stories dont get told as often because they arent nearly as. Cowboy behind legendary pattersongimlin bigfoot film marks 50th. This famous image is frame 352 of a 16mm silent color film shot in 1967 in northern california by rancher roger patterson, accompanied by his friend, bob gimlin.
Recently i saw a social media post touting a newly stabilized version of the infamous 1967 pattersongimlin film of bigfoot. To the untrained eye, bigfoot 1967 may simply appear to show a man in a particularly wellconstructed apeman suit traipsing through the forest, but those with experience can tell you better it surely depicts a large, hairy bipedal apelike figure, a species unknown to science, which had momentarily emerged from its wilderness paradise to oversee the filming of roger patterson and robert gimlins bigfoot documentary. Digging deeper patterson was someone who might be considered an amateur bigfoot hunter. See why the mysterious mountain lion is the bigfoot of big cats. At the international cryptozoology museum over the weekend, i was talking to a genetic scientist from harvard, and shared with him my notion that there is not. Researchers have relocated the site where roger patterson and bob gimlin had their encounter with patty the sasquatch, on the banks of bluff creek around 1. A short film of what appears to be the first captured footage of bigfoot. The two men involved were roger patterson and bob gimlin. It shows a huge dark, mansized and manshaped figure lumbering. 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.
Roger clarence patterson 19331972 find a grave memorial. The impact that this film has had on bigfoot mythology is inestimable. On october 20, 1967, exrodeo cowboy roger patterson and partner bob gimlin filmed what appears to be a female sasquatch traversing a sand bar in bluff creek. The pattersongimlin film is widely regarded as one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the existence of sasquatches. On october 20th of that year, they captured the image of a terrifying manbeast, in which to this day still enthralls, enchants, and bewilders both scientist and laymen alike. During the 1960s he developed an interest in the bigfoot an unknown creature seen for years in california, orgeon and washington, writing a small. Bigfoot caught on tape patterson footage stabilized. The pattersongimlin film is a movie of a bigfoot creature taken.
The footage was shot in 1967 in northern california, and has since been subjected to many attempts to authenticate or debunk it. The pattersongimlin pg film used a 16mm kodak cine 100 camera. Pattersongimlin bigfoot video gets makeover unexplained. Pattersongimlin film is an american short motion picture of an unidentified subject which the filmmakers have said was a bigfoot. Together with robert bob gimlin, a rancher and horse trainer who acted as a guide, he setread more. Roger pattersons claim to fame was his 1967 filming of a supposed bigfoot sasquatch near bluff creek in northern california. Was the pattersongimlin film ever proven to be a hoax. This film, taken on october 20, 1967 has become the most famous bigfoot film footage ever captured, and the subject in the film, looking back at the camera while walking away, has become the iconic photo people around the world now associate with the very word bigfoot. The pattersongimlin film or simply the patterson film is a short motion picture of an unidentified subject walking across a clearing filmed on october 20, 1967 by roger patterson and robert gimlin who claimed the motion picture was a genuine recording of a living breathing female bigfoot. Bluff creek is a tributary of the klamath river, about 25 loggingroad miles northwest of the town of orleans, in del norte county california. All these years of enhancing and deburring each frame from the pattersongimlin footage has yielded something so definitive that its mind blowing. Gimlin, along with roger patterson, gathered their famous film footage in northern california in 1967. In 1967, nine years after the term bigfoot was coined in response to large, manlike footprints found in northern california, the late roger patterson exposed 29 feet of 16mm color motion picture film.
This is the original pattersongimlin footage of bigfoot, take in 1967. Fifty years later people still pore over it, debating its authenticity and speculating on how it may have been faked. 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 year was 1967, and two cowboys from washingtons apple country were deep in the forest of northern california in search of a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid known as. 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. Film introducing bigfoot to world still mysterious 50.
Join a team of detectives as they revisit the ageold mystery. Roger patterson and bob gimlin went looking for, and found a bigfoot. In 1967, roger patterson claimed he captured bigfoot on film. Exposing roger pattersons 1967 bigfoot film hoax the x. On the film is the image of a large, heavyset, hairy hominid. Patterson gimlin film is an american short motion picture of an unidentified subject which the filmmakers have said was a bigfoot. They shot the footage off the banks of bluff creek in northern california. I was astounded to find that this footage, which i assumed everyone knew had been debunked, was still making the rounds for folks wanting to believe. Pattersongimlin film 1967 this footage shot by bob gimlin and roger patterson is perhaps the most famous amateur footage every recorded next to the john f. Bigfoot ruined this mans life, then gave him a fresh.
The pattersongimlin film is a famous shot of something resembling the famous creature known as bigfoot or sasquatch. The evidence within the pattersongimlin bigfoot incident. The pattersongimlin film some noteworthy insights christopher murphy vancouver, b. Roger patterson bob gimlin a 4k remaster of the infamous footage, which is alleged to show a live bigfoot, has been posted online. The footage was shot in 1967 in northern california, and has. In 1967 roger patterson and bob gimlin set out to film the unknown. Still stalking bigfoot 50 years after the beast went big. But does the evidence point toward a giant ape or a man in an ape suit. These 39 seconds have been debates endlessly for decades and the debate only continues to grow with each passing year. Filmed in 1967 in northern california, the pattersongimlin film has long remained the most hotly debated and tantalizing piece of footage ever recorded in relation to the bigfoot phenomenon. Bigfoot evidence has the scoop and a word from davis. The creature was later determined to be female and became known as patty. Patterson was, apparently, the only one among them who was.
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