Bigfoot is Real…6 Reasons the Patterson-Gimlin Film is Authentic

In this video I explore the logical reasons that support the authenticity of the iconic Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film. I’ll delve into the details that skeptics often overlook, including the biomechanics and gait of the Bigfoot creature's movement, muscle movements beneath the skin, scientific analysis and opinions, the many failed attempts to debunk the film and more. Whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, this analysis aims to provide insight into why the Patterson-Gimlin film remains a significant piece of evidence in the search for Sasquatch.

[daleburton]

In July 2023 I was camping in Kananaskis Country, in the middle of nowhere. At around 3-am a biped was walking around my tent. There were dried pine needles everywhere. It was the crushing under foot that I and my dog heard. Her movement awoke me. I scrambled around for the bear spray and whatever was outside the tent must of heard me as it stopped moving. By now I was fully awake. I distinctly heard the person or creature walk on two legs and leave the location. I compared this to a moose that walked by my tent, the breathing and gait were completely different.

[leewm.gaudry]

I was blessed to have seen a first generation print of this film and the actual foot casts. The footcasts have toe print ridges on the toes. Impossible to fake in 1967.

[blackholeentry]

I, at now 84, so do remember when this all happened....and, had my own experience in 1980 at the totally deserted Trinity Lake in northern CA. The reason I recall the date so well is because the day prior, I had celebrated my 40th birthday. I certainly thought this phenomena would have been concluded long before now, but here it is over 40 years later still with both believers and nonbelievers.

[degrelleholt]

I remember in a TV show about this film an interesting fact. The creature in the film, much like almost all early hominids has no neck, and cannot look over its shoulders the way a human can. It must turn it's body partially in order to see anything passed 45 degrees from center.

[johntaylor]

Hi. This creature is fluid, stable and it's feet are flexing due to great weight. I've studied this film film for years, it's too good for 1967.🤗

[Demonizer]

As someone else pointed out, the rippling shockwave of the muscles in the leg and she stamps her foot down is the most compelling part of this footage. It is undeniably real just based on that.

[northumbriabushcraft]

I believe the footage is real. I thought stuff like bigfoot was made up when i was a kid, but when i was 13 i saw a black panther in the woods. This is in England, where a unidentified large black cat is a cryptid. After that experience (it was 20 feet away) i became fascinated with cryptozoology

[thegigglystinkfinger]

This video is what 60 years old an with all the advancements in technology it's done nothing but reveal more details that weren't possible at the time ...60 years this video deserves its credit .

[orinhickman]

7. Why would anyone go through the trouble of making a suit so realistic that it could fool a Hollywood makeup artist if they were only going to use it once in an unstable, one-minute-long video?

[spiritualarchitect]

Lets address Roger getting "Lucky".
Some people complain that there is no way that Patterson just took a movie camera and went out and found Bigfoot, and that in itself makes the film fake. But this film was no overnight success. It took Patterson nearly 6 years of searching to see a Bigfoot, and he was out looking for them. Patterson lived in a Bigfoot hotspot. Why would he drive across 2 states to fake a Bigfoot film that he could have faked in his backyard?

It’s because Patterson knew where to look. Bluff Creek had hundreds of Bigfoot tracks along it for 9 years before Patty got her picture taken. And Roger had taken a photograph of a track cast that was “17 inches long and 7 1/2 inches across the ball” in that vicinity on October 21, 1964. This time Roger went to Bluff Creek to film recent tracks left by a family of 3. Before he filmed Patty they had been riding the creek for weeks. He used all of that film roll filming their ride, except for the last 59 seconds. So we are lucky we even have that.

[gordonduke]

The one argument against this films authenticity that just drives me insane goes something like this. "You know its fake". How do you know it's fake?, "Because bigfoot isn't real, so it has to be fake." I don't know if the film is authentic or not, but if you are going to opine about it, please do a little research. I have, for years, and I have not found any credible evidence that debunks it. And don't come at me with Bob Hieronimus, his story changed every time he told it. if anyone has a credible source for a credible debunking I'll happily check it out.

[LarsonFamilyFarm-LLC]

Thank you...finally someone that understands what only a few of us do. So many have dismissed the film as fake...yet they cannot see what we see. In my opinion, people that were born and raised in the country...near woods, walked in woods themselves...can see and understand what they are looking at, that the film as authentic...I found people that lived in the towns and big cities always thought it was a fake. I've always known this film was real when i first saw it in 1971 when i was a 8 year old boy...reasoning, We didn't make costumes with "breasts", wide hips...costumes for female anatomy were not done in the 1960's...plus she has "no neck"...her head turns with her shoulders turning (much like apes). I still concur with my 8 year old self at 62.

[JamesFunke-sr]

I experienced an encounter back in 1998 while driving home. In a area of low land on the Meremac River. There was an area that backed to the woods. I was driving around 10mph and spotted it about a 100 yards away and it started to run at me, I accelerated and it ran directly behind my car and ran into the woods across the road. The next day I was discussing this with a buddy of mine I worked with. He was behind me and saw it as well. It smelled like a skunk, the next day I stopped where it happened. For a wooded area there was no sound and smelled heavy of skunky wet fur. Within a week several spotting occurred in the same area.

[spiritualarchitect]

A short history list I compiled of the Bluff Creek tracks:

August 1958. Road builders Ray Wallace and Jerry Crew find 16-inch BF tracks all around a parked Caterpillar Tractor 20 miles south of Bluff Creek. The tracks reappear a month later and plaster casts are taken. Weekly thereafter, Jerry sees Bigfoot tracks going from Northwest to Southeast on the same logging road. Ray Wallace finds human-like droppings the size of those a 1200 pound horse would make. Wilbur Wallace, Ray's brother, finds a full 55 gallon oil drum carried to the edge of the road and thrown down the hill. He also finds a 20 foot length of 18" culvert carried some distance away and a 700 pound tire & wheel for a "carry all" which had been rolled for a quarter mile and hurled into a ravine.

Fall, 1958. Editor Andrew Genzoli and the senior staff photographer of the Times-Standard see Bigfoot tracks and droppings of monumental proportions like those of a "2 ton bear with chronic constipation."

September, 1958. Bigfoot tracks are seen 4 different times on Bluff Creek Road.

October 1, 1958. Jerry Crew finds a quarter mile of BF tracks on Bluff Creek Road and makes casts.

October 12, 1958. Ray Kerr and Leslie Breazeale see a BF cross a 20' road in 2 strides and find tracks several miles south of where they are usually seen on Bluff Creek Road. Hired by Ray Wallace to track BF, they redouble their hunting effort but their dogs disappear a few days later and are never seen again.

Mid October, 1958. BF tracks are seen again near Bluff Creek.

October 23, 1958. BF tracks are seen on Bluff Creek Road once again.

October 28, 1958. 2 miles of 16" BF tracks are seen on Bluff Creek Road.

October 30, 1958. BF tracks are seen going down a hill from Bluff Creek Road.

November 2, 1958. Bob Titmus and Ed Patrick find BF tracks on a Bluff Creek Sandbar.

December 18. 1958. Betty Allen finds 6 miles of BF tracks on Bluff Creek Road, expressed fear in her articles.

1959. A husband and wife flying a private plane over Bluff Creek see and follow BF tracks until they pass over the BF making them.

August 16, 1959. Bob Titmus finds 300 yards of BF tracks along Bluff Creek Sandbar.

August 30, 1959. Bob Titmus finds more BF tracks at Bluff Creek Sandbar.
November 1, 1959. Bob Titmus finds even more BF tracks at Bluff Creek Sandbar, discovery was 8 years before Patterson filmed the BF in roughly the same location.

November 2, 1959. Betty Allen finds BF tracks coming down a canyon and along Bluff Creek.

January 30, 1960. Betty Allen finds BF tracks around a shovel loader on Humboldt Fir logging road at Bluff Creek.

June 19, 1960. Dr. Charles Johnson and his family find BF tracks on both sides of the Klamath River a half mile west of Bluff Creek.

[johnschall]

Let's not forget the footprint evidence. The footprints have dermal ridges, the bone structure is different from humans and they walk around the Forrest barefoot.

[michaeloeser]

Maybe one day Bigfoot will hold a press conference and settle all of this for us.

Until then, and in lieu of more concrete and comprehensive evidence, I remain open minded yet unconvinced.

Really rooting for that press conference though. It would be spectacular television.

[rafaellorentz]

If this was a fake, they deserve an Oscar. The greatest thing about this movie is that no one, up until this day, we’re able to replicate it with the same quality. Not even with today’s practical effects tech.

[Alexander-kmes]

The fact that all the scientists backing this film being real are not big foot researchers means this film isn't fake

[davidpotter]

I don't understand why people think this is somehow impossible. As if there aren't many types and sizes of monkeys, apes, chimps, baboons etc. all over the world. Especially with different Indian tribes having old oral traditions of them. Even modern Indians seeing them, as my old friend told me about many years ago. They also have oral traditions of mammoth hunting that the same sceptics said was impossible. And lo and behold....

[comfortablynumb]

I just noticed how the hand swings back on the wrist as the arm goes from backwards to forward. It looks very natural.