Aug 8, 2025 12:14 AM
(This post was last modified: Aug 8, 2025 03:36 AM by Magical Realist.)
Quote:"There's multiple accounts of the same thing," that this Bigfoot is a hoax.
Actually no. There's just two different guys claiming a gorilla suit was involved. And there's no evidence of any such suit existing. Attempts to duplicate the PG film in 1998 failed miserably as the gorilla suited human looked nothing like the original footage. It looked exactly like a man in a baggy gorilla suit. Imagine that!
With the PG film we have two eyewitnesses, compelling video evidence, and no motivation to lie. The mockery Patterson and Gimlin endured for decades speaks to this. Fortunately special effects experts and primate athropologists have confirmed the authenticity of the film since then, just as the video I posted shows. Bad news for the skeptic who can't accept the existence of what he doesn't want to believe in.
"And Bob (Gimlin) chafed at the mockery -- the constant mockery -- that seemed to follow him wherever he went.
He says people would occasionally screech into his driveway in the middle of the night and shout taunts about going Bigfoot hunting.
When the ridicule reached his wife at her bank job, that was a breaking point.
“They’d razz her about it where she was working, and she’d come home a bawlin' and saying, oh God Bob, I wish you had never went down there with Roger. I said I do, too.”
So Bob disowned Bigfoot. He stopped doing interviews and answering mail about it. He basically wouldn’t talk about it for nearly 35 years.
But then, in 2003, along came a Russian scientist named Dmitri Bayanov.
Bayonov has written about Sasquatch as well as what they call the Russian Snowman. He came to the US to attend a conference in California, and he convinced Bob Gimlin to go along with him.
Reluctantly, Bob agreed to tell the story of Willow Creek to a room of attendees. In a video of the talk, you can see Bob, his mustache not yet white, clearly unsure of what to expect. For decades his story had gotten nothing but ridicule.
He finished the story, stood for a moment in uncertain silence, and then it came: thunderous applause.
“It was like lifting a weight off my shoulders,” Bob said. “Here’s all these people just anxious to hear what went on, and believed in me. And when I walked in the room, standing ovation. And I thought, wait a minute, how did this turn around in a few days?”
Once again, Bigfoot had changed Bob’s life. He discovered that not only was he accepted by this community of believers, he was revered. In his 35 years of silence, the Patterson-Gimlin film became legendary among Bigfoot enthusiasts.
He started going to bigfoot conferences again, giving interviews and signing autographs.
Still, that wasn’t good news for everyone in Bob’s life.
“My wife allows it but she will not go to any of them with me because of the bad days that she had. She says I won’t allow anybody that has anything to do with it to come to my place to do any filming or any interviews. You do what you want to, but I’m not going to go do any of it.”
And that’s sort of the agreement Bob has made with the world, too. He knows what he saw. If you don’t believe him, fine. You’re the sucker.
“I strongly believe that if a real one walked in the house and sat down at a table -- or, the best it could -- they’d say no, it’s a fake. It’s somebody in a suit. That’s how naive they are,” said Bob. “So that’s just the way I’d tell them until the day they spank me in the face with dirt.”
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