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John Bindernagel, writing in his excellent book, North Americas Great Ape: the Sasquatch, makes the important point that “ a sasquatch track is not merely the track of an enlarged human foot. A closer look reveals that they are considerably wider than human feet of the same length.”4
The late Grover Krants, one of the four hoursemen of sasquatchery, noted in his book Big footprints, that Bigfoot tracks are approximately 30% wider than human footprints. One would have assumed that if someone wanted to perpetrate a Footprint hoax, they would have merely used a template of an enlarged human foot.
The late Grover Krants, one of the four hoursemen of sasquatchery, noted in his book Big footprints, that Bigfoot tracks are approximately 30% wider than human footprints. One would have assumed that if someone wanted to perpetrate a Footprint hoax, they would have merely used a template of an enlarged human foot.
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The question ultimately arises, can the Bossburg footprints be hoaxes. Both Prof. Grover Krantz of Washington State University and John Napier, a British primatologist, have studied these tracks and have come to the conclusion that they could not have been faked. The tracks crossed railroad tracks, a highway, up a steep hill, and stepped over a 43 inch fence.
Why would anyone go to so much trouble to create over a 1000 tracks over uneven terrain and create an anatomically correct foot deformity. As Napier puts it “It is very difficult to conceive of a hoaxer so subtle, so knowledgeable-and so sick-who would deliberately fake a footprint of this nature. I suppose it is possible, but it is so unlikely that I am prepared to discount it.“9.
Why would anyone go to so much trouble to create over a 1000 tracks over uneven terrain and create an anatomically correct foot deformity. As Napier puts it “It is very difficult to conceive of a hoaxer so subtle, so knowledgeable-and so sick-who would deliberately fake a footprint of this nature. I suppose it is possible, but it is so unlikely that I am prepared to discount it.“9.
The Patterson-Gimlin film (also referred to as simply the Patterson 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 (February 14, 1926 – January 15, 1972) and Robert Gimlin (October 18, 1931) on the Klamath Riveroutside of Orleans, California. The film has been subjected to many attempts both to debunk and authenticate it. Skeptics have judged the film a hoax with a man in an ape suit, but theorists contend the film depicts a cryptid, a creature unknown to science.[citation needed]
Both Patterson and Gimlin have consistently dismissed allegations that they had hoaxed the footage by filming a man wearing a costume. Patterson died of cancer in 1972. Patterson's friend and business associate, Gimlin, has always denied being involved in any part of a possible hoax with Patterson and claims that he and his partner had encountered a real Bigfoot. Gimlin avoided publicly discussing the subject from at least the early 1970s until about the year 2000 when he began giving interviews and making appearances at Bigfoot conferences.
Both Patterson and Gimlin have consistently dismissed allegations that they had hoaxed the footage by filming a man wearing a costume. Patterson died of cancer in 1972. Patterson's friend and business associate, Gimlin, has always denied being involved in any part of a possible hoax with Patterson and claims that he and his partner had encountered a real Bigfoot. Gimlin avoided publicly discussing the subject from at least the early 1970s until about the year 2000 when he began giving interviews and making appearances at Bigfoot conferences.