Christopher Noël

Oh boy here we go with more Bigfoot images. Supposedly taken in Michigan. Thoughts on this?

It was known at the time, and since that time in the late 1960's that Roger Patterson was trying to make a documentary about the Bigfoot/Sasquatch mystery when he and Bob Gimlin obtained their famous footage in 1967. They were from Washington State. The famous 1967 Patterson footage was shot in northern California. Most of the other stock footage was shot in Washington State. As with EVERY OTHER documentary and TV show about the Bigfoot subject, Roger's wanted to dramatize some bigfoot encounters using a man in cheap costume. His wife Patricia recalls the use of a cheap costume for this purpose. The "long lost reel" that is being touted by these sleazy producers at South by Southwest is just footage of them using this costume which bigfoot researchers have known about for years. What this reel shows is obviously a cheap ape costume -- nothing like the actual creature they got on camera in California. Because of that stark difference these sleazy producers are trying to spin this cheap costume for dramatizations as a "trial run" for the eventual 1967 costume. The simple fact that no one has ever been able to duplicate the "costume" from the 1967 footage, with all its anatomical peculiarites and massive size, has shown sensible people for more than 50 years that it is not a costume. There have been several well funded and well staffed attempts to similate what you see in the footage. All of those efforts failed quite clearly. National Geographic at one time touted the bogus Hieronymous costume story (he claims he was the man in the costume), then years later aired an episode where the footage was examined with the most modern techniques and computer enhancement and measurement analysis. That subsequent Nat Geo program revealed a foot anatomy on the Patterson creature that is plainly impossible to fake with a man in a costume. This latest film festival entry called "Capturing Bigfoot" is just one more ploy in a long parade of sleazy deceptive productions since the 1990's that have repeated and repackaged long-debunked claims because the ploy will still get some cultural traction, riding on the enduring popularity of the bigfoot mystery. It is just a cinematic form of clickbait.