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The Famed 1967 Bigfoot Film Was an 'Incredible Hoax,' Says the Director of a Groundbreaking New Documentary

Shot by a former rodeo star named Roger Patterson and his pal Robert Gimlin, the Patterson-Gimlin film had, for decades, been scrutinized by biologists, anthropologists and even Hollywood costume examiners looking to debunk its authenticity. Over the years, no one had been able to definitively prove that the 16mm movie was staged.

All that began to change in June 2024 when Evans, who has directed a handful of critically acclaimed documentaries, received an email from a part-time instructor named Teresa Brooks at Olympic College, where he teaches courses in documentary filmmaking.

Not long after receiving Brooks’ email, Evans had the 16mm film 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.”

Realizing he had physical evidence that finally put to rest the question of whether Patterson’s creation was a hoax, Evans knew he had the makings for an explosive documentary. He quickly went to work, he says, “connecting the dots” behind the making of the 1967 film and interviewing the cast of characters in Patterson’s hometown of Yakima, Wash., who were involved with its creation, including 80-something-year-old Bob Heironimus, who confessed to being the individual wearing the fake Bigfoot suit in the film.

Evans, whose father had grown up in Yakima and had heard plenty of gossip among locals about the film's authenticity, assumed that the family of Roger Patterson — who died of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1972 — would, as they always had, refuse to speak about the film, which had generated millions of dollars in licensing fees over the years. But once Evans showed the new footage to Patterson’s oldest son, Clint, a 66-year-old Montana rancher, he was eager to talk.

“He’d learned the film was a fake from his mother years earlier and had been wanting to come out and tell this story,” says Evans. “The lie had been really hard on him, and he was ready and wanting to get out from under it.”

What makes the story even more complicated and tragic, says Evans, is that Patterson, who by all accounts truly believed in Bigfoot’s existence, knew that he was dying in 1967 when he made and released his film. “He knew he didn’t have long to live and that he was going to be leaving his wife with three young kids to take care of,” Evans says. “So he took a shot at leaving them some sort of legacy [that could possibly help pay the bills].”

The only piece of the mystery still unresolved is what happened to the Bigfoot suit that Patterson had painstakingly created. “Clint told me that he actually saw his dad burn the suit out behind the family house one night in a big barrel,” says Evans. “He basically spent about 30 minutes tossing it into the fire, piece by piece.”

https://people.com/famous-1967-bigfoot-f...c-11926085


So, which excuse will the believers in Bigfoot invent to preserve their belief in Bigfoot?

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In Today’s Conspiracy Theories, the Lack of Evidence Is the Evidence

In Nick Shirley’s mega-viral YouTube videos alleging social-services fraud in Minnesota, the important piece of evidence was — in a literal sense — the absence of evidence. Shirley and his crew drove around Minneapolis pulling up to Somali-American-owned day cares that had received state funds and knocked to request entry. Notionally, they were trying to see if there were legit child care businesses inside. They were denied entry; what day care, after all, would let a camera-brandishing crew of YouTubers inside?

Once a door was shut in their face, all they could film was the building’s facade. Brick. Covered windows. And crucially, no children: a fact they latched onto with great energy. “Where are the kids?” they asked. “The children are missing!” They took what could easily be viewed as banal — a nondescript business — and transfigured it into evidence of something nefarious. At one point, Shirley even pointed to a lack of footprints in the snow outside a day care as evidence that something was off.

As Shirley’s footage became an online sensation, helped along by posts on X by JD Vance and others, it spawned a wave of imitations: copycat influencers nationwide started filming their own “investigations” of social services. Much of the footage they produced was like Shirley’s, with the everydayness of business exteriors presented as a potential sign of wrongdoing, often underlined by some variation on the same observation: Something’s wrong here; something’s missing.

Whether imitating Shirley or not, Mehmet Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, made a similar contribution, posting a video in which he drove around a Los Angeles neighborhood that has a high density of Armenian-American-owned hospice care agencies. Gazing skeptically at their storefronts, he suggested that the lack of visible activity was a sign of possible fraud. “I don’t know how many patients are getting care,” he said. “There are either a lot of people dying here or you’ve got a lot of fraudulent activity.”

This new aesthetic seems to have come of age in the hothouse conditions of the Covid pandemic. As the virus spread worldwide, skeptics who didn’t believe that it was actually having the effects claimed by journalists and public health officials began sharing footage of empty hospital parking lots and waiting rooms, often tagging the posts with #FilmYourHospital. If things were really so bad, these videos suggested, then where were all the patients? Rather than elaborate a grand theory of the deceiving parties and their motives, these videos simply let the eerily quiet footage speak for itself.

In retrospect, #FilmYourHospital feels like the progenitor of the still-mutating genre of videos in which an image of a bare shelf in a grocery store is presented as straightforward evidence of, well, whatever you want to see: the dire effects of Covid-era policies on food-supply chains; the foolishness of Trump’s tariffs; an imminent economic collapse coordinated by global elites. Since Covid, videos of cargo ships at sea — apparently sitting still — have been posted as evidence of coordinated supply-chain shenanigans. The clips ask: Why? What explains the absence of motion? Who is keeping the ship still? During a recent government shutdown, chemtrail theorists posted pictures of empty skies, as if they proved that chemtrails were, in fact, a government op.

The political scientists Russel Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum have a neat term for this mode: “conspiracy without the theory”: conspiratorial content that traffics less in spiraling explanations and more in vague assertion and coy insinuation about what, exactly, is being argued by whom (“a lot of people are saying”). This new mode dovetails neatly with the incentives of the online video economy: assembling an elaborate account of how the Illuminati actually control the world takes work — you have to write out your argument. Posting, say, an empty grocery store shelf captioned by a raised-eyebrows emoji or a simple semi-assertion — “more fraud?” — takes just a couple of minutes, and gives the viewer the satisfaction of having something mind-bogglingly complex reduced to a single potent image that appears to say it all. Much easier to hit your weekly upload quota and stay on schedule. “Nothing” — a blank facade, an empty street — is easier to track down than anything resembling actual evidence; nothing is everywhere, and fits perfectly into short clips.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/magaz...clues.html

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The Famed 1967 Bigfoot Film Was an 'Incredible Hoax,' Says the Director of a Groundbreaking New Documentary

Shot by a former rodeo star named Roger Patterson and his pal Robert Gimlin, the Patterson-Gimlin film had, for decades, been scrutinized by biologists, anthropologists and even Hollywood costume examiners looking to debunk its authenticity. Over the years, no one had been able to definitively prove that the 16mm movie was staged.

All that began to change in June 2024 when Evans, who has directed a handful of critically acclaimed documentaries, received an email from a part-time instructor named Teresa Brooks at Olympic College, where he teaches courses in documentary filmmaking.

Not long after receiving Brooks’ email, Evans had the 16mm film 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.”

Realizing he had physical evidence that finally put to rest the question of whether Patterson’s creation was a hoax, Evans knew he had the makings for an explosive documentary. He quickly went to work, he says, “connecting the dots” behind the making of the 1967 film and interviewing the cast of characters in Patterson’s hometown of Yakima, Wash., who were involved with its creation, including 80-something-year-old Bob Heironimus, who confessed to being the individual wearing the fake Bigfoot suit in the film.

Evans, whose father had grown up in Yakima and had heard plenty of gossip among locals about the film's authenticity, assumed that the family of Roger Patterson — who died of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1972 — would, as they always had, refuse to speak about the film, which had generated millions of dollars in licensing fees over the years. But once Evans showed the new footage to Patterson’s oldest son, Clint, a 66-year-old Montana rancher, he was eager to talk.

“He’d learned the film was a fake from his mother years earlier and had been wanting to come out and tell this story,” says Evans. “The lie had been really hard on him, and he was ready and wanting to get out from under it.”

What makes the story even more complicated and tragic, says Evans, is that Patterson, who by all accounts truly believed in Bigfoot’s existence, knew that he was dying in 1967 when he made and released his film. “He knew he didn’t have long to live and that he was going to be leaving his wife with three young kids to take care of,” Evans says. “So he took a shot at leaving them some sort of legacy [that could possibly help pay the bills].”

The only piece of the mystery still unresolved is what happened to the Bigfoot suit that Patterson had painstakingly created. “Clint told me that he actually saw his dad burn the suit out behind the family house one night in a big barrel,” says Evans. “He basically spent about 30 minutes tossing it into the fire, piece by piece.”

https://people.com/famous-1967-bigfoot-f...c-11926085


So, which excuse will the believers in Bigfoot invent to preserve their belief in Bigfoot?

 
The excuse:

‘Simply because that particular film was a hoax doesn’t mean that Bigfeet aren’t real.’

Boru

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Is something big coming?: US buys 'aliens. gov' domain sparking UFO speculation and conspiracy theories

The White House has quietly registered the domain 'aliens. gov' under the Executive Office of the President, a verifiable federal asset sitting in the same official .gov registry as whitehouse. gov and cia. gov. No website is active at the address, and no explanation has been offered. But the timing has set off an explosion of speculation. The registration arrives just weeks after President Donald Trump publicly directed the Pentagon to begin releasing classified files on UFOs, UAPs, and extraterrestrial life, and for millions of people, the two developments are anything but unrelated.

The discovery quickly spread across platforms like X and prediction markets such as Polymarket, where bets on US confirmation of alien life before 2027 rose to around 16 percent, with trading volumes exceeding $17 million. While UFO enthusiasts have linked the move to recent calls for declassification of UAP-related files, others argue it may simply be a routine step to secure sensitive government domains. With no official comment from the White House, its purpose remains unclear.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl...665531.cms

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‘I’m Not Jeffrey Epstein’: Who is ‘Palm Beach Pete’? Florida Man Speaks Out After Viral Lookalike Video Sparks Conspiracy Theories

A viral video from Florida has reignited internet conspiracy theories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. The clip, showing a man casually driving a convertible, quickly caught attention due to his striking resemblance to Epstein. Within hours, social media users began speculating whether the disgraced financier, whose death in 2019 was officially ruled a suicide, could still be alive. However, the man at the centre of the viral storm has now spoken out, setting the record straight.

The individual seen in the video has identified himself as “Palm Beach Pete,” a resident of South Florida who unexpectedly became an internet sensation.

Responding to the viral claims, he firmly denied being Epstein and clarified his identity. “I’m not Jeffrey Epstein, I’m Palm Beach, Pete.”

Because of his resemblance to Epstein, many users began questioning whether the financier had somehow survived. Some posts even suggested elaborate theories, despite a lack of evidence.

Others dismissed the claims, pointing out that viral misinformation often spreads quickly when visuals seem convincing.

“This whole thing is phenomenal. I’m driving down I-95, minding my own business, and some knucklehead films me, and the next thing I know, my phone is blowing up.”

Multiple fact-checks have also concluded that the man in the viral video is simply a lookalike and not Epstein. Similar conspiracy theories have surfaced in the past, including viral images falsely claiming to show him abroad, which were later debunked as digitally altered or AI-generated.

https://sundayguardianlive.com/world/im-...es-177769/