SC EP:90 Interview with Bob Gimlin

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🗓️ 28 March 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Patterson–Gimlin film is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a "Bigfoot", that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson and Robert "Bob" Gimlin on Bluff Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River about 25 road miles north-west of Orleans, California. The film has been subjected to many attempts both to debunk and authenticate it.

Both Patterson and Gimlin have always insisted they encountered and filmed a real Bigfoot, not a man in a costume. Patterson died of cancer in 1972. Patterson's friend, Gimlin, has always denied being involved in any part of a hoax with Patterson. Gimlin mostly avoided publicly discussing the subject from at least the early 1970s until about 2003. Tonight we will discuss the events around the film and what lead up to the famous encounter.

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0:00.0	The creature first made national news in 1958. When construction work at Jerry
0:12.4	Crew found in cast footprints measuring 17 and a half inches long near Bluff Creek
0:18.0	California located 86 miles from Eureka. Locals nicknamed the creature Bigfoot
0:24.5	and the name stuck. Over the next decade national interest in the story
0:30.6	mostly faded until October 20, 1967 when Roger Patterson and amateur filmmaker
0:37.8	set out to Bluff Creek to do a documentary on a recent footprint discovery.
0:44.1	But what Patterson found shot the world. He shot 953 frames of film that many
0:51.2	believe is the best evidence of Bigfoot. Patterson passed away in 1972 never
0:57.4	wavering from the story but he was not alone on that fateful day. A massive
1:03.2	bicep in the arm was you know wide like that and as it moved you could see the
1:08.2	muscles ripping in the thighs. In the arms even underneath that hair you could
1:15.1	see the difference in the in the you know in the movement. Bob Gimlin was with
1:19.5	Roger Patterson that day.
1:39.1	When I had come down this hill I had seen this creature cross the road.
1:45.8	It would have ripped my lock door from my truck, extracted me from my vehicle and
1:53.8	there wasn't a damn thing I could have done about it.
2:01.8	This thing I got to notice it's eyes. It's eyes are real real evil. It'll sense to
2:08.6	look at it. Look at the skeleton.
2:16.6	Check what you're putting.
2:18.6	He's quite deep.
2:20.6	Sure? See ya.
2:22.6	Hello? Get somebody out here.
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