The most famous Bigfoot footage ever shot may have just been debunked by more footage. “Capturing Bigfoot,” a new documentary now streaming on Amazon Prime, says it found previously unseen film that reveals the iconic 1967 Patterson-Gimlin video was a hoax all along.
The original film, shot by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin at Bluff Creek in Northern California, runs less than a minute: a tall, hairy figure strides through a dry creek bed, swings its arms, and looks back at the camera once before disappearing into the trees. For almost 60 years it has been the one piece of footage believers point to, and the one skeptics have never fully killed. Here it is, stabilized:
According to the filmmakers, the unseen footage shows Patterson riding out to the site and filming the “creature” making the same walk in what looks like a staged second take, and the documentary features family members describing the whole thing as a hoax built around a costume. Bob Heironimus has claimed for years that he was the man in that suit. The film gives his version its biggest platform yet.
Believers are not conceding anything, and this argument is not ending either way. But if the new footage is what the filmmakers say it is, the most famous monster video in history is a man in a costume, and it fooled everybody for two generations.
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