I was uptrack in the mountains and I found these tracks: they look much like human footprints but they were eighteen inches long, six and a half across the ball of the foot, five and a half at the heel. Legend of Bigfoot, 1976
Bigfoot fever peeked in the early ’70s after the release of sixteen seconds of footage shot by Roger Patterson in northern California. W5: There’s Something Out There, CTV 2007
There stood a big hairy human-like creature. It appeared to be between six and seven feet tall. The creature looked at us for a few seconds, turned and walked slowly away. It was in a kind of loamy type soil; left good footprints. It walked directly away from us at just a slow stroll. Bob Gimlin, televised interview
I first saw that clip about thirty years ago and I thought it was a hoax then and I think it’s a hoax now. It looks very much to me like a man in a monkey suit ... The most convincing thing was the way the coat ripples – it is not attached as it were to the underlying flesh. Professor Michael Day, Natural History Museum
The most curious thing that I’ve found is in the leg proportions themselves. We have a very long upper leg and a very short lower leg by comparison. This particular configuration is exceedingly rare on human beings. The anatomical proportions of the body are extremely unusual, and suggest to me that it would be very very hard to find a human being who has the appropriate anatomy to wear a suit even if you made one. All of these add up to something that in my mind is biologically real, and not a human in any type of costume. Bill Munns, film researcher/graphic artist, given access to the Gimlin/Patterson film
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It just strikes me as unlikely that after all of these years there would be no concrete evidence of this extremely large primate, if it really existed. David Begun, University of Toronto
If there were large-bodied apes living in places that people frequent we would find bones; we would find fossils. David Begun
Essentially this is a dietary wasteland for an ape. The circumstantial evidence would indicate that Bigfoot simply could not exist. Apes are relatively big-bodied creatures for the most part. But more importantly they have big brains. And in order to supply those big brains with energy, apes have to eat quite energy-rich foods. How can these animals live in an environment that is so poor in high-quality foods? Large animals or large apes [that] live in a forest routinely make night nests in which to sleep and to be secure. We have never in the areas in which Bigfoot is said have lived ever found anything like a night nest. No primate that we know of has the ability of hibernate. Now this is a real problem. If you can’t hibernate, you can’t get away from the lack of food, you’re going to get very very very thin in a hurry or you’re going to die. So I think Bigfoot – the idea of it – becomes a physiological impossibility. Professor Nina Jablonski, Primate specialist Pennsylvania State University
There’s no doubt in my mind that the Patterson film is a hoax. It is a human being in a fur suit ... There is no primate on the Earth that has a fur-line going down its spine; it doesn’t fit. Karl Korff, CEO TotalReseach
This Bigfoot film has been shown all over the world. It rather galls me because of the simple fact that it is one of the worst frauds perpetrated against the American public. Clyde Reinke, former ANE executive
Rancher and businessman Clyde Reinke makes this accusation after living with these secrets for almost fifty years: he has inside knowledge of the Bigfoot film hoax. In the early ’70s Reinke worked for American National Enterprises or ANE, a film-distribution company in Salt Lake City. He claims that Roger Patterson also worked for the company. The World’s Greatest Hoaxes, Yesterday 2016
Take a look at this photo shot at Lake Champlain in 1977. The creature now known as Champ remains elusive. The photo has been declared genuine by some experts, and to date no scientist has ever discredited it. ibid.
What you are now seeing could be the most provocative video tape ever shot of a similar creature. It was recorded in California this year [1998]. The large scaly snake-like animal was captured by two amateur photographers: one on shore and the other on a boat ... It’s our hoax: designed to show you how easy it is to create your own sea-serpent video. ibid.
The footage [in 1936] was shot by a start-up news-reel company hoping to create a monthly series for use in movie theatres. They needed publicity and might have been inspired by the public reaction to this incredible picture shot two years earlier in 1934. Attributed to a respected surgeon it was considered proof for sixty years that a monster inhabited the murky waters of Loch Ness. But in 1994 that photo was ultimately revealed as a hoax in a stunning death-bed confession by one of those responsible. ibid.
I could distinctly see three large black figures. I would estimate the largest one to be between eight and nine feet. I could very plainly see they were upright on two legs. Todd Neiss, interview Unsolved Mysteries
I thought at first I had triggered an avalanche of some type until I saw a big black hairy mask behind all of those rocks and twigs. Elmer Skip Frombach, interview Unsolved Mysteries
The facial area wasn’t really covered with a lot of hair; eyes seemed normal ... Seven maybe seven and a half feet tall ... Maybe three hundred and fifty pounds. Sergeant Larry Gamache
I could see his arms, the shape of everything ... The whole world slowed down when I saw this. Just disbelief. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. Tim Martindale, British Columbia
That’s when we’ve seen he wasn’t human. He was a Sasquatch. Edeas Felix, Norwegian fisherman
There’s no question that eye-witness accounts are not the most reliable form of data. But one has to take into account though the remarkable consistency and the pervasiveness of this experience that is shared by so many people. Professor Jeffrey Meldrum, Idaho State University
We have very compelling evidence in the form of multiple samples – fifteen-plus samples – which defy identification, which cannot be attributed to any known animal. And yet show primate characteristics. Jeffrey Meldrum
He’s tall. He’s dark. And he’s been spotted everywhere from Australia to the Himalayas. Exactly who or what is the wild man of mystery we call Bigfoot? And does he exist outside our imaginations? Paranormal? Bigfoot
1967: Two cowboys, avowed Bigfoot fans, went in search of the creature and apparently captured it on film. They recorded a giant hairy female in full stride, a creature that was to become the poster child of the Bigfoot movement. ibid.
Hundreds maybe even thousands of giant footprint plaster casts have been taken over the years in an effort to prove the existence of Bigfoot. ibid.
The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster occurred in the sixth century ... But it wasn’t until the string of sightings in the 1930s that Nessie hunting began in earnest. Paranormal? Lake Monsters
In 1970 came the American invasion led by Dr Robert Rines and a team of scientists from the Academy of Applied Science. Using new side-scan sonar technology they reported readings which indicated underwater life-forms ten to fifty times bigger than any known fish in the Loch. Rines would also release these contentious computer-enhanced photos. ibid.
Then came the confession that shocked the lake-monster world. For sixty years the Surgeon’s photo of the Loch Ness monster had stood the test of time. Then in 1992 a man named Christian Spurling made a shocking revelation. ibid.
Worldwide people report seeing a strange creature. Bigfoot Encounters: Paranatural, National Geographic 2013
But most in the scientific community do not believe this creature exists. ibid.
Sasquatch and Bigfoot sightings almost always occur in or near bear habitats. ibid.
I don’t think Bigfoot is a biological problem. Dr David Daegling, anthropologist University of Florida
I’m amazed through all the years various people that have been hunting Sasquatch, though the years have not really found any what we call bone or dental evidence of the creature. That to me would be very satisfying. Dr Darus R Swindler, Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington
Prince of Wales Island off the coast of Alaska: for centuries the native American community here has reported regular encounters with a tall hairy beast. Finding Bigfoot I, Animal Planet 2011
The team and I are entering into North Carolina’s expanse of fifty thousand acre Uwharrie National Forests ... A goldmine of Sasquatch reports. Finding Bigfoot II
In Florida some people believe that their swamps and forests conceal a mysterious and malodorous monster. Finding Bigfoot III: Swamp Ape
The forests of Oregon are another place where unverifiable stories and vague fuzzy pictures get labelled as definitive proof of the existence of Bigfoot. Finding Bigfoot IV: Fishing For Bigfoot in Oregon
The rugged wilderness of south-western Washington ... Recently a hiker captured a photo of a lone creature on a mountaintop. Finding Bigfoot V: Frozen Bigfoot