#gimlin

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adam yates after crashing in the 2014 vuelta

[be-gay-find-cryptids]

Patterson and Gimlin meet Patty, 1967 (Colorized)

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Shitpost by me :)

[the-paradigm-web]

Not many question the Patterson-Gimlin footage these days..

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[principiumindividuationis777]

[nowheresville-dakota]

[archivist-crow]

On this day:

THE PATTERSON-GIMLIN FILM

On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin rode their horses along the partially dried Bluff Creek in Northern California, examining the ground as they went. The two men were in search of tracks that would prove the existence of sasquatch. On this day, they rounded a substantial stack of timber that had tumbled together and inadvertently surprised a large hairy creature crouched by a stream. Both horses reared in fright, tossing their riders. Patterson quickly recovered and grabbed his hand-held 16-mm cinecamera. The sasquatch stood and, arms swinging, walked calmly, but quickly into the forest. Patterson ran after the creature.

Gimlin followed at a safe distance, gun at the ready, in case his friend should be attacked. At 80 feet from the animal, Patterson stopped running and began to film. Before the creature completely disappeared, Patterson got a clear look at its conical head, dark fur, and large breasts. The fernale sasquatch was about seven feet tall, had a three-foot shoulder span, and a heavy brow ridge over the eyes of an otherwise flat face. Her weight was calculated to be 700 pounds. The two men took photos and made casts of her 14½-by-6-inch footprints.

Shortly after, Canadian taxidermist Bob Titmus followed the tracks and plotted their route, comparing it to the sasquatch's movements in Patterson's film. He discovered that at one point, the creature sat on a hillside, possibly watching Patterson and Gimlin catch their horses. The Six Rivers National Forest had begun to be a known point of Bigfoot activity after road construction opened up the area ten years earlier. Road workers had noticed a variety of large, humanlike footprints, between twelve and seventeen inches long, in the impressionable ground, and when the newspapers carried a story about the prints, the word bigfoot was coined.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violini, published by Weiser Books, 2009

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On February 9, 1975, Bigfoot: Man or Beast? debuted in the United States.

[drivemysoul]

it’s such a pity the majority of attack on titan fans are the way that they are because every single character in attack on titan is transgender

[bignaz8]

Bluff Creek

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[redfish-blu]

You think they’ll let my boy slide or what

[kimwexlers-brownhair]

Logan and Connor bond over being bigfoot truthers, and the Old Guard have worked their whole careers on keeping that fact under wraps.

[leasthaunted]

Not just that the origins were fake but also the Patterson-Gimlin film is too. Episode 100 of Least Haunted goes into the origins but also the film too.

The funniest thing about all the speculation regarding the origins of the Bigfoot myth is that we know where it came from. It was a prank carried out by a guy named Ray Wallace who vandalised a couple of logging camps in California in 1958 while wearing fake feet to conceal his identity. They literally found his collection of giant wooden feet in his basement after he died in 2002, his involvement has been corroborated by multiple accomplices, and the timing of the incidents precisely lines up with when interest in Bigfoot exploded in American popular culture. We've known all this for twenty years, and everybody just quietly ignores it because it's no fun, I guess.

[archivist-crow]

CRYPTIDS VS MUSICIANS: THE SHOWDOWN!!!

Who will reign supreme in the battle for the soul of a blog to which no one is really paying much attention?!?!?

Most of my posts here are about either music or the paranormal. Of the paranormal posts, the cryptids are by far the most popular. Of my top ten posts, four are about music, four are cryptids, one is about the Kentucky Meat Shower, and the top post is a piece of Japanese art, and the eight music and cryptid posts in pairs are running neck-and-neck.

Which got me thinking: who does tumblr like more, cryptids or musicians?

SHOWDOWN ONE: BIGFOOT VS PJ HARVEY

Arguably, the 1993 Tonight Show audience was just as confused and frightened by PJ’s solo performance as they would have been by the appearance of a giant hairy human-like beast.

The Patterson-Gimlin Film: 85 notes

PJ Harvey - “Rid of Me”: 84 notes