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Here at Estonishing Legends, we sometimes present a story so obscure you've never heard of it.

Other times, we'll share one you've heard of, but don't find personally intriguing.

And sometimes, when things work out just right, you might get sucked into a story that's a combination

of both. Simultaneously obscure, and also seemingly mundane. But then that story surprises you,

with the depths to which it unfolds. There are other kinds of legends, of course.

Once that we tackle less often because they're so well known, legends that have been covered by

every other show and every format a thousand times. We tend to stay away from those,

unless, well, unless we feel we can bring a new perspective to them.

Tonight's episode represents the first part of a series with that exact goal in mind.

On October 20th of 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin were in the Six Rivers National

Forest in California. The experienced cowboys and amateur rodeo men were on horseback in the

Forest's bluff creek stream bed when their paths took them past a large pile of trees that had

been down in a flood a few years prior. As they emerged around the log jam, they were

startled by the sight of a six and a half to seven foot tall. Over 500 pound, hairy bipedal

creature walking away from them on the other side of the creek bed. Their horses became agitated,

and Patterson actually fell off of his. But having rodeo experience, he managed to collect a

16 millimeter film camera he had with him as he came down. He yelled for Gimlin to cover him,

and began running, stumbling at least once before he could steady the camera on a log.

He attempted to film the creature the entire time. That creature, which was clearly female,

has since become known to the world as patty. In the ensuing 50 plus years,

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