August 6, 2007
Rob McConnell, host of the X-Zone Radio Show, will interview Bob Heironimus tonight. Listen live tonight.
10:00 pm – 12:00 am Eastern / 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Pacific
BOB HEIRONIMUS – The Man Who Says He Was Bigfoot – The Patterson-Gimlin film, also referred to as simply the Patterson Film, is a short motion picture of an unidentified subject allegedly filmed on October 20, 1967 by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin who claimed the film was a genuine recording of a Bigfoot. It has generally been thought of as a hoax, but has been hailed by some as genuine evidence for Bigfoot. The film has been subjected to many attempts both to debunk and to authenticate. The majority of experts have declared the film a hoax, showing a man in an ape suit. But some, such as physical anthropologist Grover Krantz, say the film depicts a genuine unknown creature. Others, such as ecologist Robert Michael Pyle, refuse to endorse the film as genuine, but Pyle also admitted that it “has never been convincingly debunked.” (Pyle, 208) Critics say that a stabilized enhancement of the film, released in late 2005, clearly shows the subject in the film to have human-like rather than ape-like movement, though it is worth noting that the creator of the stabilized film argues just the contrary. Many skeptics also turn to the testimony of one Bob Heironimus, who recently claimed to have been the person inside the suit. Patterson died in 1972 of cancer. Gimlin is alive and has recently begun making appearances at Bigfoot conferences. Previously he kept out of the public eye and had little contact with those who believe that Bigfoot is a real entity. Both men dismissed allegations that they had faked the film, and Patterson was firm in his insistence that they had encountered and filmed an animal unknown to science. Gimlin too maintains he did not falsify the film, but in a 1999 telephone interview with television producer Chris Packham, he said that for some time, “I was totally convinced no one could fool me. And of course I’m an older man now … and I think there could have been the possibility [of a hoax]. But it would have to be really well planned by Roger [Patterson].” (Long, 166)The ‘X’ Zone
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
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