patterson gimlin film

[Batman]

Why is "Patty" covered in a light brownish fur, when most ape suits are black? Why does "she" lack the laughably fake hard "hairless chest plate" seen in movie ape suits?

Pat D.

As said previously, 2001: A Space Oddessey made the year after the P-G film has apes so realistic as to make Bob... err I mean 'Patty' ... well fake. I mean, show me an ape photograph at a distance where the eye have what looks like two big holes cut out around them.

Also it looks nothing like having ape hair. Its more like old worn brown carpet.

[Jonathan H]

Plus modern technology has exposed the zipper up the back ...

[Steadmund Brand]

The Legend of Bigfoot was on the other night.....and it's funny how to this day I have seen people fight over that film.. some insisting it's real and the best documentary ever in the subject and still others insisting it's a pseudo-documentary and totally fake....I wish I could give my opinion on it.. truth is I have tried watching it at least 5 times and fall asleep each time... do we need that much rambling narration.. really

My question about Finding Bigfoot is...how many season of a show called "Finding Bigfoot" last without FINDING BIGFOOT....or any of the other dozens of " monster hunters" series.. where anyone with a night vision camera can find absolutely nothing and get their own TV show....if Bigfoot is real then he is the world’s greatest Hide and Seek player... funny that all these people all see bigfoot when they don't have their cameras...but alas.. the beast is so camera shy they never see him with their cameras.....plus.. EVERYONE IN THE WORLD has a camera on their cell phone now... you can't sneezy without someone filming it for YouTube.. and yet still.... nobody can seem to find him...makes you wonder...

Steadmund Brand

[Pcdunn]

Steadmund: we are addicted to another show of this entertainment-reality type called "Mountain Monsters", about a group of West Virginian men who look into reports of weird critters. They all look as if they hail from the Hatfield and McCoy era, yet they use a laptop and a night vision camera, and their witnesses always pull out a cell-phone or tablet to show the photo or video of the beast. Trust me, this show won't put you to sleep!
They did catch a few wild dogs and a hog of unusual size in two different episodes, so they might be the ones who bring down poor Bigfoot, lol. Or maybe not....

[kensei]

Been away for a while, thought I'd respond to the last several posts.

"The Legend of Bigfoot" was not a true documentary since practically nothing in it is true. It was a promotional piece about the late Ivan Marx who hoaxed many Bigfoot films/photos from the late 60s to the early 80s, and the voice you hear him narrating in isn't even really his own, it is dubbed (since his real voice had quite an unsophisticated drawl). It gives a completely imagined history of the Bigfoot phenomenon and makes Marx out to be the only person ever to have investigated it.

"Finding Bigfoot," meanwhile- well, it's not surprising that they never actually find it because if they did the show would be over. No matter how good the evidence they find in a given area, they never decide to stay and follow up but are always on to the next area for the next episode. It's showbusiness. But they do feature many good sighting reports. They did an episode in my home state that inspired me to go to that area and do my own investigation where I met some of the people involved and got inside info on how they manipulate some of the facts to make them more sensational. The stories were solid, but were "tweaked" for t.v.

I've heard the argument many times about how many cameras are out there as opposed to the low number of Bigfoot photos and films. Actually there are many other than the Patterson film but none are of good enough quality to act as proof and in the YouTube era there are now more hoax films than ever. Any real ones that might exist have a harder time than ever now to shine through.

Modern technology has not revealed a zipper in the "suit." It is just the spine. It has also not proven eyeholes in the "mask." If it seems to look that way it is only an illusion of shadows. And I don't know why there is a perception that "Patty" has brown hair instead of black. She IS black, with gray skin underneath the hair. (Though Bigfoot creatures have been seen with pretty much the full range of hair colors that humans have, but with dark brown and black being by far the most common.)

Pcdunn- many thanks for the compliment and encouragement.