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Sunday, July 24, 2011
The best Bigfoot documentary ever produced
Nat Geo's amazing documentary about Bigfoot featuring Dr. Jeff Meldrum. In our opinion, one of best, if not the best documentary on Sasquatch.
The show begins by telling us a story about a man named Patterson who took film footage of a Bigfoot in Northern California in the late '60s. Of course, debunkers immediately said it was a hoax -- just a guy in a suit. The show pretty well put the hoax claim to rest.
Without going into all of the details of each point, the main points were that Hollywood "creature suit makers" say the technology to make a suit look and act like the creature in the film did not exist in the late '60s and still doesn't. Anatomical experts say the proportions are wrong for a human and right for an ape. Finally, it is possible to calculate the actual height of something in an image if you know the distance from camera to subject, the size of the image on the frame of film and the focal length of the lens. The camera used at the time came with 15 and 25 mm lenses. The 15mm lens was in use and the distance was stated to be 100 feet by the guy with Patterson. Combined with image size in the frame (I think they said it was .44") this leads to a height of 7'6", give or take a bit. Further, the length of primate feet is generally about 15% of body height. Plaster casts of Patterson's Bigfoot footprints were measured at 14" and that comes out to about the same height. There aren't many 7'6" humans.
The show also mentioned the numerous blood and hair samples that have been collected over the years. They have found that some of the hair samples do not match the hair of any known forest animals like bears, elk, pumas, etc. These hair samples are from primates but are not from any known primates like humans, gorillas, chimps, orangutans, etc. The same holds true for some of the blood samples. Of course, in science, proving a sample isn't something does not prove it is something else but the process of elimination certainly leaves the question open.
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The documentary is compelling. I agree with Dr. Meldrum that the true "scientific" community should take a real and unbiased look at whether or not this creature exists. They owe it to the spirit of scientific thought to probe for the facts. If it is thoroughly investigated and found to be a hoax, great. To assume it is a hoax from the start and not bother to probe is foolishness.
ReplyDelete'Sqatch does not exist until you see one. After that, it is merely a fact. To me it is a fact. The idiot who claims to have killed two is likely telling the truth. He knew what it was, and he wanted to kill a human. Holding the young one in his arms while it died....tells more about the veracity of the incident than any other extranea from the report.
ReplyDeleteseriously? they are still analyzing this footage even after patterson admitted on his death bed that it was a hoax? furthermore, the person that wore the suit came forward like 15 years ago?? believe me, i am still thrilled by the possibility of bigfoot and love watching these documentaries; but if you don't have any new information, then quit putting out new documentaries that simply analyze old footage that has no credibility!
ReplyDeleteActually it was Pattersons grown children said it was a hoax, and true there have been alot of claims made by people who came forth and said they were the man/woman in the suit, but never showed any evidence of it. I.E the suit itself, the exact location, or anything that could prove they were the ones in the suit.
DeleteThings people should keep in mind. Here in Alaska, the natives, the early explores and prospectors have all reported for generations, that polar bears and grizzly bears mated and produced off spring. They also reported that grizzly bears will come out of their winter dens, sniff out, then dig out a black bear's den, then kill and eat the occupants and take over the black bears' den. All the experts, all the wildlife biologists and so called 'men of science' said, 'No, this can't be be true!" Well then, white scientists actually SAW grizzly bear/polar bear offspring. Hunters take the off spring occasionally here as well as Canada. And also,white scientists, Alaska Fish and Game Wildlife Biologists, actually witnessed for themselves, a grizz sniff out a black bear den, then witnessed it dig out the black bear, then watched it kill and eat it. This happened here in Alaska a couple winters ago.
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So, we may as well resign ourselves to the fact, until a white man of science witnesses and records a Bigfoot, there is NO possibility that Bigfoot can exist.
November 22 Dude; Patterson never admitted any such thing, quit lying okay, and get the facts. PGF's real and no hoax. This latest hunter's story, who knows, kinda hope not because getting proof this way's not right.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I would like to state the fact that there was a large sub-species of chimpanzee found in the early 2000's that the natives had been talking about for years, and scientists wrote it off as a legend because they had never seen any of these creatures, at least until they found them and had to base them as a factual creature. Also, look at how people took to the platypus. They thought that it was a elaborate hoax as well until a live specimen was brought back to England as proof. Long story short, large animals, especially intelligent ones can hide for ages, second, science should not write off what they can't explain until there is inexplicable proof that it is myth or truth.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I'm not the first to notice this, but I cannot help but point out that the figure in the Patterson footage, if it's real, is a female. Must be the use of the original film, not a copy, that made it so clear to me. When the right arm swings up, just as it turns to look back, there are breasts, that bounce up and down realistically. I am a woman and I hope this post does not come off as inappropriate. Again, Im sure I'm not the first to notice, but this is the first time it's been so clear to me!!! The narrator uses "she" a few times. That aspect is too realistic to be someone in a suit.
ReplyDeleteI'd just like to repete what
Deletei've been saying all along, There are many reports of them in the Bible and from what Joshua reports in the book of his name several tribes of humans lived in Caanan and these giants were one of them. Joshua thought that 'god' thhru Moses I suppose told him to go kill all the inhabitants and claim it for the Hebrews, just as the zionist Jews are doing to the Palistinians today. All Im have to say is 2000 years is a long time to claim absentee ownership, and ethnic cleansing is a crime as well as the sin of multiple murder. But Zumzim mim will survive as they learned early on to avoid us.
This is the most asinine post that I have seen on this blog to date. You managed to come on here and link Bigfoot to the lame crap that is going on in the mideast and then pitched an anti-ethnic cleansing add. WTF is wrong with you?
DeleteThis is a great documentary that proves that the film is real not a hoax. Now on to finding more proof with DNA once that’s completed there will be no doubt.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the cropping of the Patterson film that had taken place. Or the airbrushing of the lips, in one of the later recopying of the original film. Ask Bob Gimlin and watch his reactions! So much evidence points to there having been more than one bgft shot at Bluff Creek...
ReplyDeleteNot knowing, but I wonder how much actual in the field research Prof Meldrum has, or is his findings based on other's work or theory as yet unproven? He certainly is resistant to anyone else's approach or findings that do not co-incide with 'his'. hmmm
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