A figure walks across Bluff Creek.

It turns its head, looks back, and disappears into the trees.

More than half a century later, those few seconds of film remain one of the most debated pieces of evidence in cryptozoology.

In this second part of Haunted UK Podcast’s Bigfoot special, Steve examines the Patterson-Gimlin film — the famous 1967 footage said to show a real Sasquatch moving through the forests of Northern California.

The episode follows Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin as they ride into the Six Rivers National Forest, hoping to capture evidence of the creature that had obsessed Patterson for years. What they claimed to encounter near Bluff Creek would become the defining image of Bigfoot: a large, hair-covered, female creature walking away from the creek before looking back over her shoulder.

Steve explores the events surrounding the filming, the footprints left behind, the plaster casts, the fallout between Patterson and Gimlin, and the later attempts to analyse, debunk, defend, and recreate the footage. From Disney animators and Hollywood special effects artists to researchers such as Bill Munns, Jeff Meldrum, Grover Krantz, Cliff Barackman, John Green, and Peter Byrne, the film has been pulled apart frame by frame for decades.

The episode also looks at the competing hoax claims, including Bob Heironimus and Philip Morris, alongside arguments about muscle movement, gait, limb proportion, costume technology, footprint pressure ridges, and the possibility that Bigfoot could be linked to ancient ape or hominid species such as Gigantopithecus or Homo heidelbergensis.

Detailed, curious, and atmospheric, this chapter sits at the centre of the Bigfoot mystery: one short film, two witnesses, no body, countless questions — and a creature that still refuses to be explained.

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