Bigfoot: The Patterson Gimlin Film - Part 5

CORed said:
It wouldn't be totally unprecedented. IIRC, Wyoming declared the jackalope to be its official "mythical beast".


There is considerably more evidence for the existence of jackalopes than there is for bigfeets. Damn near every bar or touristy restaurant in the state has the head of one mounted on the wall.
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My ex-wife, a graduate from Yale no less, once took a trip out west and proudly brought back a jackalope postcard and told me she had viewed a stuffed jackalope at a gas station. She knew I would be excited since I was interested in cryptids. I replied by starting off with a snarky "You're a graduate of Yale, right?, and you think ....."
 
jerrywayne said:
My ex-wife, a graduate from Yale no less, once took a trip out west and proudly brought back a jackalope postcard and told me she had viewed a stuffed jackalope at a gas station. She knew I would be excited since I was interested in cryptids. I replied by starting off with a snarky "You're a graduate of Yale, right?, and you think ....."
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The Bigfoot version.....you graduated from grade school right?, and you think there's a giant monkey man roaming the U.S.?
 
jerrywayne said:
My ex-wife, a graduate from Yale no less, once took a trip out west and proudly brought back a jackalope postcard and told me she had viewed a stuffed jackalope at a gas station. She knew I would be excited since I was interested in cryptids. I replied by starting off with a snarky "You're a graduate of Yale, right?, and you think ....."
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Well, I think the rule for jackalopes is that none of the locals seriously believe they are real, but it is perfectly acceptable to try to convince gullible tourists that they are real.
 
CORed said:
Well, I think the rule for jackalopes is that none of the locals seriously believe they are real, but it is perfectly acceptable to try to convince gullible tourists that they are real.
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That is the rule for any folk-story.

Snipe hunt being the base-line. Gullible scouts go to summer camp for the first time, older scouts and adults convince the younger ones that the Snipe is a real creature, even to the point of getting the younger ones to carry a paper bag around to look for it.

Locals in Petoskey area of Michigan would tell people to beware of cougars in the area all the way back to the 70's, despite the complete lack of cougars in lower Michigan at that time.

Likewise in Petoskey area, locals would tell of Native Americans still living in the woods, bending trees. They even knew where to go to show you where the bent trees were.

Rochester Michigan in the 70's, at that time, it was suburb still being carved out of the woods, anyone who lived near the woods would try to convince the city folk that they could see Bigfoot walking along the edge of the tree line. First hand account of locals making fake bigfoot tracks in the woods.
 
Does anyone remember the link or article that broke down the Patterson tracks starting with the Shipton Print, talking about how Krantz made it into the Sasquatch, and Roger Patterson took it from there.

It was very detailed, and explained how the Yeti folklore came from Asia to the Western US.

It also was detailed about the british expeditions to the himalayas to search for the yeti.
 
Drewbot said:
Forget it, I found it
http://www.thebermudatriangle.org/html/gigantopithecus--_the_jury-rig.html

GIGANTOPITHECUS THE JURY RIGGED BIGFOOT
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I like reading Gian J. Quasar on Bigfoot. But beware. He replaces the standard Bigfootville narrative with his own even more fantastic ideas. He thinks Sasquatch is an anthropoid monkey. He links it to this hoax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Loys'_Ape

Quasar thinks the humanlike Bigfoot tracks are fakes, while the Ruby Creek tracks are real. He sees those tracks as monkey-like (although giant), even though when Green took a tracing of a track to a zoologist he was told it was bear. Gian argues that the De Loys monkey (not ape) migrated out of South America northward.

Quasar also toys with the idea that the more human-like Sasquatch reports are relict Neanderthals, so we have two types of Sasquatch.

He is rational about the nonsense of the standard Bigfoot is Giganto narrative, but red hot for his own made up bunkum. An interesting, one of a kind fella.
 
I read the first part of the book where he blames Titmus for making Green believe that the Chapman track tracing was congruent with the Crew cast...that is a little hard to believe since Green visited Crew shortly after the Bigfoot story broke. Green could and should have seen for himself that they were different. Of course Meldrum thinks the Wallace prints and the Patterson tracks are both real and from the same Bigfoot.
I then skimmed through the second half where he tries to make sense of the worlds hominid legends etc and comes up with the giant monkey from South America!?
 
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Richard Henry has died. He visited the film site with Jim McClarin a couple weeks after the claimed date of filming. In 2004 he visited Bluff Creek with Perez and drew a diagram of what he had seen in 1967. Oddly, Perez seems to have taken him to the wrong “film site,” a hundred or so yards downstream from the right spot.
 
William Parcher said:
Yeah, Roger said that they tracked Patty for 3.5 miles before losing her sign on pine needles. That would be a slow process to follow whatever sign was being left and might require dismounting numerous times or even doing the whole tracking event on foot while pulling your horse.

Maybe that lie was supposed to tie in with another lie told about Gimlin being a tracker with Indian ancestry. But then that partnership fell apart and the story didn't work out. The rather monumental tracking excursion bit got dumped from the already-inconsistent narrative. The timeline given doesn't even allow for the hours it would have taken to do the tracking trip and then still do everything else.
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My attention was diverted for some months and I missed this post, of keen interest to me.

This was my explanation for why they had to immediately leave Bluff Creek after telling their story. The tracks don't match up with the story. People can ask questions with the tracks right in front of them. The tracks are going to show a flim scene with an actor, with the tracks ending where the film clip ends.

There aren't going to be horse tracks following bigfoot tracks, not even ten feet from the end of the Pattywalk, let alone 3.5 miles, lol. Bob Heironimus says they did hoax tracks after filming the PGF, but my God 3.5 miles of them including horses, no way.

John Green is the most important immediate target of the PGF. Rene Dahinden is a close second. Then you have the Canadian bigfoot guide, leader of an expedition that never happened (Dahinden) and the writer/publisher, the peddler of bigfoot pulp fiction (Green). Those two have alredy been working together for many years.

Jim McLaren was at Humboldt State as a student and aspiring bigfoot hunter, and Dahinden had relocated to Willow Creek as a now international bigfoot hunter. Those two went together to see the PGF.

Isn't that amazing, that they got the very front-line people from the immediate vicinity more than a full day's drive away! Got the hunters out of the forest just in time.

Lyle Laverty, forest service worker, gets there three days after the hoax, and neither Patterson nor Gimlin are around needing to explain any tracks. He seems to have relished his role as first-responder and adds his own signature to the hoax, so to speak. The tracks will completely disappear, the first responder has quite a bit of street cred in bigfoot world. Big incentive to lie for bigfoot.

It's all such fascinating history.
 
I find it interesting that the PGF got very little interest from American and Canadian scientists, but that years later Dahinden was able to get up some interest in it in England and Russia.

First of all I don’t think the Russians had anything scientific to say. But it is my impression that Europeans have (in the past at least) had a rather romantic idea of North America, as a persistently wild and unexplored continent. This allows for the possibility of all sorts of large cryptids still undiscovered. In a way the same fantasy allows for the believers in this country to show aerial photos of trees as proof of Bigfoot habitat. So it is not so surprising to me that some English researchers decided to take the PGF seriously.

The elephant in the room for the believers of course is that every state and the feds have substantial wildlife departments whose job it is to find count track photograph protect and exploit animals, using every bit of scientific and tech equipment available. Not to mention our amazing universities and their faculties. Not to mention those who explore our lands for private commercial use and the immense amount of roadkill we generate.
 
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But it is my impression that Europeans have (in the past at least) had a rather romantic idea of North America, as a persistently wild and unexplored continent. This allows for the possibility of all sorts of large cryptids still undiscovered.. ...
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The major culprit in this later wave of evaluation was Don Grieve, who leaped to both a questionable opinion about Patty’s size and an untenable conclusion that Patty COULD NOT be a man in a suit if the frame speed was 16-18/sec. AND OF COURSE HE DIDNT SHOW HIS WORK on the latter. As a result his conclusions have been parroted by the rubes and con men for 40 some years. A RARE KUDO to Don Jeff for finally publishing enough information in SLMS to allow the less stupid to see what Grieve actually did.
 
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AlaskaBushPilot said:
My attention was diverted for some months and I missed this post, of keen interest to me.

This was my explanation for why they had to immediately leave Bluff Creek after telling their story. The tracks don't match up with the story. People can ask questions with the tracks right in front of them. The tracks are going to show a flim scene with an actor, with the tracks ending where the film clip ends.

There aren't going to be horse tracks following bigfoot tracks, not even ten feet from the end of the Pattywalk, let alone 3.5 miles, lol. Bob Heironimus says they did hoax tracks after filming the PGF, but my God 3.5 miles of them including horses, no way.

John Green is the most important immediate target of the PGF. Rene Dahinden is a close second. Then you have the Canadian bigfoot guide, leader of an expedition that never happened (Dahinden) and the writer/publisher, the peddler of bigfoot pulp fiction (Green). Those two have alredy been working together for many years.

Jim McLaren was at Humboldt State as a student and aspiring bigfoot hunter, and Dahinden had relocated to Willow Creek as a now international bigfoot hunter. Those two went together to see the PGF.

Isn't that amazing, that they got the very front-line people from the immediate vicinity more than a full day's drive away! Got the hunters out of the forest just in time.

Lyle Laverty, forest service worker, gets there three days after the hoax, and neither Patterson nor Gimlin are around needing to explain any tracks. He seems to have relished his role as first-responder and adds his own signature to the hoax, so to speak. The tracks will completely disappear, the first responder has quite a bit of street cred in bigfoot world. Big incentive to lie for bigfoot.

It's all such fascinating history.
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The most unusual thing to me is the lack of response to the site by the footers of the day.

Laverty just happened to be there, otherwise, basically no one went to the site to check out the story, or even just to document it, or to try to get on Patty's trail, etc.

If you believe the story, wouldn't you want to get out there pronto?

Titmus does get there, but not for a week or so, and he has trouble finding the exact spot. And he apparently doesn't bother to bring a camera, even though he's going to the holy grail site.

The site is basically ignored by footers, who had no problem getting out to see the movie Roger was showing.

Months go by before anyone tries to document the site properly.

It's a very ho-hum attitude, imo.

The only reason I can think for the behavior is that Roger was a known con-man, and the suspicion was too high for actual belief in Roger's story and movie.

Patterson and Gimlin show little interest in getting back to the area for another try.
 
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None of the footers doubted the story. They believed Patterson completely even before they saw the film. The only reason that Green went there and got the measurements the next year was to try to determine exactly how big Patty was. Dahinden and Byrne went there to get photos and measurements in the 7O’s only after the film was about to die for lack of interest. There was never an attempt to really investigate the film. What data they collected they were incompetent to analyze.
Still true 50 years later.
Rinse and repeat...
 
I don't know...

If I believed Bigfoot had just been seen and filmed, I think I'd go to the site as soon as I could, with a camera and casting supplies.

Even today if I heard that bigfoot had been seen and filmed nearby, I'd probably go and take a look at the area.
 
Dahinden somehow got from SF to Willow Creek in 12 hours at night without a car!!
He left Willow Creek when he had no way to get to the film site, didn’t know where it was, and Roger was leaving, promising him a look at the film in Yakima. McClarin went with him.
Green was hundreds of miles away and had no money or support and had already been to Bluff Creek twice that fall. Titmus was poorer than any of them and he was also in B.C. He came after going to the showing and almost couldn’t find the spot. McClarin came also a few days later. He was a penniless student without a vehicle.
The idea that measurements and photos might matter was beyond their pay grade. They “knew” Patterson already had the necessary data. Some didn’t even have cameras. Titmus did some casts. Looked around and pretended to be an expert tracker (which everyone knew he wasn’t) and brought in his nonexpert brother in law to walk up and down.
These people were dopes and committed cultists.
 
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