Dr. Jeff Meldrum: The Patterson Gimlin Film Fifty Years Later

Dr. Jeff Meldrum gives a presentation at the 2018 Texas Bigfoot Conference about the Patterson Gimlin Film Fifty Years Later.

[JaceBell]

This has got to be the most comprehensive analysis on Bigfoot anywhere. It is my favorite presentation because it has the best evidence.

[paulmachamer]

The second half of this lecture has re-convinced me that the PG film has a high probability of being authentic and not faked. It’s so good to hear a real scientist take an academic approach to this analysis.

[JohnKSedor]

Our 3 sightings were in Connecticut, 2 were in our kitchen window. My Father 82nd Airborne Paratrooper had a hose turned on and placed near the kitchen door after it scared my sister who was washing dishes when it first appeared. She screamed and was revolted at the same time. When it came back, my sister screamed again, this time my dad ran out of the house, grabbed the hose and sprayed it, causing it to lunge at him. After this, he bought a rifle and we kept it by the kitchen door that Summer. Although I was younger, he showed me where the box of ammo was kept and said it was for "just in case". On the other hand, my Mom was always the Peacemaker, and she started leaving fruit on a stump in the corner of our yard near the woods. These woods were near my Grandfather's farm and were about 2, 000 acres of protected Water Shed land. Here is where our 3rd sighting occurred. We would often camp in these woods & for firewood, we would break branches against trees to make smaller pieces. Completely unknown to us at the time, this apparently is a form of communication. During our evening campfire, we had rocks thrown into our campsite. Since we all brought our, (embarrassing to say), BB Guns with us, we all opened in that direction into the night. A short time later, one of our friends, started screaming and shaking really bad that he saw a monster come into the campfire light a little way off. But he was so shaken, he had to be taken home. We've had other instances such as urination on our tent in those woods, having something punch our house breaking the vinyl siding, trees pulled out of the ground and pushed back in upside down with the roots tangling in the air, something copying exactly my Father's whistle for me while I was in those woods and since it was mid day and I knew he was at work. It was so exact of a copy, I actually answered back, then thought, "Wait a minute, dad's at work", causing me to move quickly back to the house. These experiences occurred in southern New England, in Connecticut, which has a fairly well developed manufacturing and industrial base, yet is still considered 60% woodlands. Not in some far off land like Tibet, or other place, but in Connecticut.

[mikeweesner]

Imo...this & the Zapruder film are the most incredible film EVER...

[BrianRPaterson]

I think I first came across Bigfoot in the old Leonard Nimoy tv show, "In Search Of."
R.I.P. LN.

[BushyHairedStranger]

To Jeff Meldrum. I have the original North American Research Associations state registry documents that lay out the premise for what the business was designed to do. Those documents were given to me by Ron Olsen in 1983 in Eugene, Oregon. Same Ron Olsen who built the Sasquatch trap in southern Oregon. He gave me the manilla envelope which has a 6”x12” photograph still of Roger Patterson & Bob Gimlin’s Bluff Creek Sasquatch. I went to Willow Creek in summer 1983 and the woman at the grocery store near the post office had plaster of paris footprint casts from Bluff creek taken in 1964. My grandfather took pictures of me proudly holding up those casts in the parking lot. Anyway, Ron Olsen helped Ed & Roxy Ragazzino make that famous film-‘Sasquatch the Legend of Bigfoot’ Movie filmed outside Bend Oregon in 1976. My grade school teacher, Dick Lauthan knew Ron Olsen personally, and asked if Ron would come to school as a student in his 5th grade class was a Sasquatch aficionado, ..that kid was me.

[dt-wqql]

I've always felt the film was of a real creature .
Now with the scrutiny of the film I'm positive.

[Morrkevi]

A excellent analysis of a relic hominid species with her locomotion, foot morphology and muscle fluidity . She authenticated as a real living species !

[theartist]

Thanks for posting this! 
I think potentially one of Dr. Meldrum's key points might be at 49:02 and at 1:27:48 is pretty interesting, 1:30:34 is on Patty's monstrous trapezius muscle, 1:34:30 Bob Heronimous comparison.

[uncannyvalley]

This is simply amazing, it really is, thank you for posting this timeless lecture that ends the debate once and for all.

[MrDuffy]

Where is that interview with MK Davis you were talking about? Haven’t seen that yet. Did you get the interview or did you not like the footage or are you still processing it?

[jamesmacdougall]

Meldrum slayed that presentation, if you still believe its a man in a suit then you are incapable of facing facts . Too many details are dead on and no way two cowboys had the wherewithal or knowledge to fake that ! Obviously they caught a one in a million chance when they filmed Patty . She is HUGE ! I really enjoyed this thank you

[johnadams]

The costume that Jeff showed that Morris had is at the end of the video. We can see the wrinkles in the Costume. No way is that the same as the Big Foot in the Paterson-Gimlin firm.

[Tigger_]

MK Davis convinced me. Very in depth. I am scared of that vid now!!

[markmitchezee]

I have seen a Sasquatch VERY Up Close & VERY Personal.
Everytime someone asks me the typical ... "So where is the evidence ?" Question. Especially if they have that same cheesy half smirky-grin.
Before I say a word I always ask.
"Before I go any further .. is there ANYTHING I can show or tell you that will change your opinion of whether Bigfoot / Sasquatch exists ?"
Most of the time they will say ... "Not unless you can show me a Body"
Which is essentially then saying "NO ! My mind is already made up. So I won't believe or even consider a Damn thing your about to tell me."
Which saves me time because I NEVER go any further.
I used to but not anymore.

[fossilsfabe]

I have often thought that if the Patterson- Gimlin creature was faked they would have made a male costume. The female form is more difficult to copy and, being two men, I would have expected them to make a male Bigfoot. What do you think?

[gazf]

If you zoom into the face, really zoom up close, I want you to tell me which human has a nose that shape and size. Then I want you to study the lips. If this doesn't convince you, study the left eye. Then tell me which human has an eye that angled in comparison to the right eye.
Or you could just check out the hernia in the thigh.
Or where the knees bend.
Or how the hand clenches into a fist.
Or how deep and shaded the fur and hair is.
Or how the bald patches are everywhere we'd expect to see on a primate.
Or the muscle structure if you know your anatomy.
And if this all still fails to convince you:
You can look how effortlessly it walks over a rocky creek.
You can ask yourself why has a suit never been made to this quality since the 60s.
Why did the top costume designer in Hollywood at the time say if it's a suit it's the best one I've ever seen, they must've glued on every single hair individually.
Or you could just take reference points of the site today compared to the film to determine the creatures height.
How tall was it?
Much, much taller than Bob that's for sure.
How did they make the cone shaped head, with brow ridge and visible ears.
And why add breasts to a suit?

[creepyoldlady]

First convincing analysis of the Patterson Gimlin film I've seen.

[robertcoggeshall]

The patterson film creature is real- massive female. Nobody can duplicate this film, so patty lives!

[alexandrprilepkin]

There are three things you can look at forever: fire, water and Patterson Gimlin film.