Discovering Bigfoot: October 2012

Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the Patterson

Gimlin Film at Bigfoot Discovery Day V

If you missed Bigfoot Discovery Day V last Saturday October 20th in Felton California please enjoy the event pictures and video of the Round Table Discussion with Mike Rugg, Kathy Strain (Anthropologist and author of Giants, Cannibals & Monsters: Bigfoot in Native Culture), Dr. Jeff Meldrum (The Relict Hominoid Inquiry | Idaho State University), Bill Munns (Film and Costume Expert), Daniel Perez (The Bigfoot Times), and Bart Cutino (Sierras Evidence Initiative).

A DVD of the evenings presentations including the newly unearthed Roger Patterson "Big Reel One", which was recently bequeathed to the Museum and had not been shown publicly for 40 years, will be available for purchase soon!

This 40 minute film was used by Roger and his brother-in-law Al DeAtley to introduce the Bigfoot film containing "Patty" as they toured the country in the late 1960's and early '70's to raise funds by selling memberships to their North American Research Organization. An organization that Dr. Meldrum shared his childhood memory of joining when he introduced the film last Saturday night. This film has pictures of Roger casting footprints, Roger and Bob and other expedition members riding horseback in Washington State, footage of Bob Gimlin dressed in a wig to portray an Indian Tracker for Roger's documentary that he was filming before he got the footage of Patty, interviews with early witnesses from the Pacific Northwest, talks by Al DeAtley and John Napier of the Smithsonian Institution, and lot of other cool stuff!

Mike Rugg talked about Greg Long's book The making of Bigfoot in which he claims that the Patterson Gimlin Film Footage was faked using Bob Heirmonimus in a suit, amongst other assertions, and why his conclusions were wrong.

Bart Cutino also presented his new Thermal Video footage taken at the Sierra Evidence Site last August. This was the first public disclosure of his footage and the experiences there and you can read more about it at his website The Sierras Evidence Initiative!

And look for my write up of the work Bill Munns presented debunking once and for all the claim of Bob Heironimus that he was Patty inside a "suit". He has recreated the suit exactly according to Bob's description and shown indisputably that it could not be responsible for the footage. He has also been working with female models in body paint in order to closely examine all the possible criteria and morphology of Patty's breasts. Stay tuned for pictures of the breast reenactments in my next blog post!

Nadia Moore

Bigfoot Discovery Days V Round Table Discussion courtesy of Museum Member Michael Shaw:

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