# What Are Your Opinions of The Roger Patterson "Bigfoot" Film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-opinions-of-the-roger-patterson-bigfoot-film/281714 "2004-12-26T23:49:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-opinions-of-the-roger-patterson-bigfoot-film/281714/21 "2004-12-28T19:13:05Z")
[Found it](http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/articles/korff04.htm). I apologize if this article has already been posted. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-opinions-of-the-roger-patterson-bigfoot-film/281714/22 "2004-12-28T22:09:39Z")
> [@Neurotik](#): > > Well, it’s a good thing that other people have tested that hypothesis and found it lacking. Pretty much every real expert who has examined the video has found that the body and gait were all well within human proportions. I will have to track those studies down. Not, of course, that any anthropologist takes another’s conclusions at face value. Like, what fun is it if we can’t have pissing contests in letters section of _The American Anthropologist?_😉 ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2026, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-opinions-of-the-roger-patterson-bigfoot-film/281714/23 "2026-03-15T21:26:17Z")
An update to this thread 21 years later: **The Famed 1967 Bigfoot Film Was an ‘Incredible Hoax,’ Says the Director of a Groundbreaking New Documentary** : The new doc ‘Capturing Bigfoot’ offers up some startling new revelations behind the story of Sasquatch, thanks to film footage locked away in a safe for decades [https://people.com/famous-1967-bigfoot-film-was-staged-says-director-of-new-doc-11926085](https://people.com/famous-1967-bigfoot-film-was-staged-says-director-of-new-doc-11926085) > Evans had the 16mm film [which was sent to him] developed and days later found himself looking at a 40-second clip set in a location similar to the one in the 1967 movie, showing what appeared to be a slightly skinnier-looking Bigfoot walking into the woods.\*\* > > “It took me maybe nine months to realize what we really had,” says Evans, who was able to determine, by markings on the film, that the footage had been shot in 1966, roughly a year before the now-famous clip in the 59-second Bigfoot movie was allegedly shot. **“What we eventually found out is that [this new footage] represented a trial run, a rehearsal that was never discarded.”**\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-opinions-of-the-roger-patterson-bigfoot-film/281714/24 "2026-03-15T22:11:17Z")
You know, the forum has had a few threads discussing Bigfoot over the years, made difficult to search for because we have/had a member called Bigfoot… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-opinions-of-the-roger-patterson-bigfoot-film/281714/25 "2026-03-15T22:44:56Z")
There have been questions, if not outright allegations, of fraud for many years. Check out this Wiki Article: [Patterson–Gimlin film - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson%E2%80%93Gimlin_film) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-opinions-of-the-roger-patterson-bigfoot-film/281714/26 "2026-03-16T19:18:41Z")
It’s odd that no trailcams have caught the monster. I’m reminded of a coworker who swore to the existence of BF, because his son, who lived in Washington, said they were seen all the time. Also, he never understood that an admonition about hunting them which was printed on hunting licenses or driver’s licenses or something was in jest. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-opinions-of-the-roger-patterson-bigfoot-film/281714.md?page=1)