Bigfoot: The Patterson Gimlin Film - Part 5

William Parcher said:
From what I can tell, Patterson pretty much wore a plaid shirt and blue jeans in all filmed scenes no matter where he is or what he is doing. Sometimes he has a jacket over the plaid shirt. When he rides he wears chaps over the jeans.


You are right but Gimlin is wearing chaps in that riding scene.

Here is a comparison. Though the plaster stain is in about the same position I'm not sure that it's identical. Also the boots may be different. There seems to be either a dark strip at the jean hem or the boot is not his typical cowboy boot.
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Plaster stains in the jacket photo look more like the plaster stains in the jacket photo by the tree...
Right thigh area and lower left leg.
But it's hard to say what is what.
 
LTC8K6 said:
In the 1992 interview with Green, I note that Gimlin says he was supposed to be 1/3 partner.

1/3 partner in what? The bigfoot documentary? Why would he get 1/3 of that?

If he meant the PGF, such an arrangement would be unlikely to be made before there was anything to make money with.

So presumably this 1/3 deal was made after the film was developed and proved to be valuable?
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Roger's Modus Operandi, according to The Making of Bigfoot was to over-sell shares in everything he did, as per the comedy "The Producers".

He needed Heironimus for a one-shot deal, so he promised him cash, not a cut.

With Roger's would-be money-making books, documentaries, and ultimately the PGF, his strategy of luring longer term partners and investors was to promise shares. Like 200% shares, and what does it matter when Roger steals every penny of investor cash, club applicant's cash, store equipment, and etc. There are no profits to split.

Gimlin is there through the documentary, through the hoaxing runs, and he is seeing the whole sequence of trials with a gorilla suit they brought up from Hollywood, and the final version of Roger Patterson's modified suit from Philip Morris. He is there for the original filming, for the hoaxing on Oct 20th, for faking tracks and all - and he is promised a cut of whatever comes of it.

Remember that they have an entertainment industry guy in Yakima who built the western town site. The site didn't pan out but he was a legitimate connection to producers so one possible outcome of the hoax was selling film rights to documentaries, which they ended up doing. But for ten grand at a time, not a million dollars.

Gimlin, like just about everyone but Al DeAtley, got screwed. On the PGF tour, they had a fake indian. A fake Bob Gimlin. Talk about a humiliation.
 
51 years ago today Patterson announced the filming of the Paddy Bigfoot hoax.
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All hail Paddy and not a single lick of comparable evidence ;) in more than half a century.
 
DennyT said:
Comment on the article:

Debunking the PGF will probably reduce Bigfoot to the Nessie class ( i.e. comic-con) of imaginary monsters but certainly will not dissuade the thousands if not millions who have had “encounters” with the beast/good con men.
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In talking with believers, I am impressed by the flimsy nature of what they consider to be Bigfoot encounters. “Eye-shine” is quite popular, as are “bipedal” sounds and various grunts. Somehow I expected better stories/lies. These folks are easily swayed by the cultists and professionals, who turn these sorts of everyday phenomena into glorious tales to be told and retold by the new converts, who experience a sense of community within the cult.
 
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What is Bigfoot's theoretical diet? Enormous omnivores require enormous calories.
Bipeds are too slow to catch game. Fish runs are confined to well traversed shallows with frequent bears. That's a lot of frigg'n blackberries?
 
Mr Salk said:
What is Bigfoot's theoretical diet? Enormous omnivores require enormous calories.
Bipeds are too slow to catch game. Fish runs are confined to well traversed shallows with frequent bears. That's a lot of frigg'n blackberries?
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Here ya go
https://bigfootforums.com/topic/62220-my-perspective-and-questions-for-you-all/
BFF (Bigfooty Fantasyland w/Friends) is a great place to explore how a myth is perpetually reinforced with delusion thinking and fabrication parading as fact.
I've by no means read the whole 18 pages, but having been a member there, I've heard every conceivable distorted, non-reality based answer to your question, it's a weird display of some sort of confirmation bias, mixed with Internet fantasy role playing....interesting group for sure.
 
Lots of Carrion, Coyotes hunt rabbits for them, Stealing beans from rural cabins, Dumpster Diving, Wild Pig tossing into trees, then eating their entrails and liver, Hickory Nuts crushed on a nut-crushing station...

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Salmon runs

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But their #1 source of calories is Bait-food left out by Bigfooters.

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Heck don't forget pine bark......we have a member on this site claiming to have seen a Bigfoot eating it "like it was cotton candy".
 
The Bigfoot diet is whatever is in the surroundings. Of course we don’t know they actually eat it it. A trout stream means Bigfoot eats trout. A pine forest means Bigfoot eats pine. In Arizona Bigfoot eats rocks and sand.
Of course Bigfoot eats without needing saliva and always cleans up his plate, as no Bigfoot DNA has ever been found on a partially consumed meal.
One of the prominent Bigfoot myths is that bigfoots herd deer, as humans herd cows. Bigfoots kill deer by grabbing them by a leg and breaking it. A number of deer carcasses with broken legs have been found.
Just pretend deer don’t get hit by vehicles and limp off with broken legs.

Bigfoot has the most awesome digestive tract. Everything it eats is broken down and absorbed...I say that because no Bigfoot poop has ever been identified.
 
I should have noted in the first place that we don’t really know that Bigfoot eats anything...reports of Bigfoot eating something are vanishingly rare.

In sum, as far as we know Bigfoot doesn’t eat or poop (or have sex). However you rank the pleasures of these three functions, life would be pretty dark without them. Instead, they have wood-knocking, standing in bushes next to roads at night, and yelling.
Pity the bigfoots.
 
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DennyT said:
I should have noted in the first place that we don’t really know that Bigfoot eats anything...reports of Bigfoot eating something are vanishingly rare.

In sum, as far as we know Bigfoot doesn’t eat or poop (or have sex). However you rank the pleasures of these three functions, life would be pretty dark without them. Instead, they have wood-knocking, standing in bushes next to roads at night, and yelling.
Pity the bigfoots.
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If bigfoots don't have sex, how do they make more bigfoots?

OTOH, since we've never found a dead one, maybe they're immortal and don't need to reproduce.
 
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