Man or Monster?

October 1967.  Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin set out on horseback along the Bluff Creek drainage north of Eureka, California on a mission to capture images of Bigfoot on film.  As luck would have it, they found him or, er, her.  Forty-three years later, the short film captured by Roger Patterson remains some of the most controversial film footage ever produced.  Among those who have claimed the film is a fake -- a man in an ape suit -- no one has been able to reproduce the realism in the Patterson film.  Personally, I'm a believer.  Have you ever seen any movies made in the 1960's that included a gorilla or other monster that looked this real?  Personally, I'm hard pressed to believe that a couple of goofs with a rented 16 mm movie camera could have put together a gorilla suit that looked more realistic than what Hollywood was producing at the time.

Patterson went to his deathbed asserting that the film shows a real Bigfoot and, even today, Bob Gimlin claims that although it is possible that Patterson fooled him, he was never part of any hoax.

- Charlie