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Patterson/Gimlin Controversy - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 4/11/26

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

Society & Culture, News, Science

4.12.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Connie Willis and tribal elder Mel Skahan discuss new doubts being raised regarding the infamous Bigfoot film. 

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0:00.0

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0:02.5

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0:04.4

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0:08.9

So besides, you know, the big controversial part of it,

0:12.8

you just mentioned that there was new footage of the actual event.

0:17.5

Is that what you said?

0:18.9

Yes, yes, I did.

0:31.9

The film, the documentary, which debuted at South by Southwest on March 12, 2026 is called Capturing Bigfoot.

0:47.9

And this documentary is about exposing the Patterson Gimbled film as a hoax because of this latest film that was found.

1:07.6

And so it's a 40 it's a 40 second uh old 12 millimeter uh codec uh film reel that was found uh in a safe uh and the name of the person that held onto this for so long, his name was Norm Johnston.

1:13.1

And apparently he had done some stuff with Roger Patterson and Bob Giblin back around 1967.

1:24.3

And so he, for some reason, held on to this footage and put it in his safe and then he passed away

1:34.9

and his daughter was the one that found this real her name is Teresa Brooks and didn't know what it was. And so she, she is herself a,

1:51.4

a student or a teacher at this film college and knew somebody, a friend of her as a colleague named Mark Evans,

2:05.5

who teaches the filmmaking at Olympic College in Washington State.

2:10.6

And so he took it and digitized it, looked at what was on the reel and didn't quite understand what was going

2:21.5

on. He saw, he saw, you know, four, five different men in this reel. And then also somebody that

2:28.8

looked like they were dressed in a gorilla or ape suit. And so he started uh you know his uh quest then to to find out more

2:40.6

what was what this real was all about another gorilla suit thing uh yes that's what it sounds like to a lot of people.

2:53.3

I mean, we all know, you know, the 1967 footage of Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin

3:00.8

going down to Buff Creek in October of 1967 come along right up on a female Bigfoot that is walking in the Bluff Creek area.

3:14.9

And they capture, you know, right around a minute of footage and very shaky, grainy.

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