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had seen the "Patterson Film", (See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson-Gimlin_film) that's the one, I guess you could say,
started it all, well it started way before that
but that was the pivotal film, a fella named
Rodger Patterson and his partner Robert
Gimlin were riding on horseback in an area of
California [on the Klamath River outside of
Orleans, California] Patterson had with him a
16mm film camera to create a documentary
on the Bigfoot phenomena. There had been a
lot of footprints found, and sightings so at the
time it was already quite the phenomena. Paterson had done a lot of reading and studying
on it and got very interested in it and wanted
to do a documentary. They were riding down
[the river] when they came up to a bend in it
when all of a sudden there was one of these
creatures they were looking for, it took them
buy surprise. They were expecting it but not
really expecting it I guess. Patterson's horse
stumbled and threw him. Patterson managed
to retrieve his camera and in the next 60 seconds created that immortal footage of film
known as the "Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot
Film".
Robb: That was probably the first "viral
video" in the world really. Long before the internet. A lot of people have seen that
footage.
Steve: That was the first real pictures of it.
There have been lots of pictures of it even
some videos but none of them usually very
high quality. Usually when you look at one of
these photos you see what we researchers
call a "Blobsquatch". Just a fuzzy looking figure out there in the bushes somewhere or
maybe something that's on the run and kind
of blurred but through the years we've
learned it's extremely difficult to get good
photographic images of them.
Robb: Are there any other photos or videos
as clear or as famous as that Patterson film?
Steve: There have been a few, there were
some clearer pictures of it that were made by
a fella named Todd Standing but those are
generally believed to have been faked. As far
as good reliable photos of a very clear, definitive nature, none of them that I'm aware of,
at least that have come out in print... I've
heard down through the grapevine from
some of these other organizations or individuals that in the course of their research they
have acquired some rather good images of
Bigfoot but they haven't released them yet
for reasons of their own... probably waiting
for the release of some book that they're
preparing or maybe some film or big expose
but anyway these highly definitive photos of
Bigfoot have not yet been released to the
public.
Robb: What's the difference between
Sasquatch and a Yeti? Are they all "Bigfoot"?
Same creature?
Steve: It's the same type of creature. In
other words, ape-like, human-like primate
that walks on two legs covered profusely with
hair. The Yeti was probably the original
Sasquatch as far as the phenomena goes, it
was back in the early 1950s, maybe before,
that some explorers attempting to climb
Mount Everest came across some trac