The only way you would know the truth about the Patterson-Gimlin footage is if you’ve spoken with Bob Gimlin in person. Fortunately many people have been able to do that ever since he began speaking publicly in 2003, at a conference in Willow Creek that I helped organize. He has probably spoken directly with a few thousand people around the country since then. The Patterson footage was definitely not a hoax, and Bob is far more credible and genuine than a couple of sleazy documentary producers. Patterson’s son, who was just a child at the time, has spent years trying to find a way to cash in on his family connection to the footage.

Chris Noel in Vermont has done a great analysis of the "found footage" in "Capturing Bigfoot" documentary, weaving in scientific gait analysis that Thinker-Thunker showed graphically years ago about Patty (the Patterson creature). The whole narative of Capturing Bigfoot ... that the Patterson footage is a hoax ... is based on the premise that the "found footage" shows a "rehearsal" for the Patterson footage, shot beforehand, rather than an awkward replica of it after the fact. In the later case, the "found footage" becomes relatively unimportant, and their documentary narative becomes worthless and misleading. The false timeline of this found footage is what they used to persuade people like Jeff Meldrum and old Patricia Patterson that her husband's film reel from 1967 was fake. It was a scam to hoodwink those two about the found footage in a controlled interview situation then sell their shock reactions as "confessions" and "official confirmation". Sleazy. youtu.be/nkQgWmAGu5s?si=-VTn…

People will gradually come to understand the deceptive manipulations of the documentary claiming the Patterson footage was a hoax. The documentary reveals its own narrative deceptions, while newer credible film clips will show the same type of creatures in other parts of the country. For years skeptics claimed that many people should be getting videos of Patterson-like creatures if they really exist, because most people are carrying smartphones nowadays. The absence of many similar clips from witness smartphones and trail cameras kinda proves, in their minds, that the Patterson footage is not real. Of course, because they’re skeptics, they’re totally unaware of how many smartphone and trailcam clips are out there showing figures similar to the Patterson creature. The TV show “Finding Bigfoot” examined several clips from smartphones and trail cams, over the course of 100 episodes — credible footage and photos showing similar figures, just not at the same clarity level as the Patterson footage, due to the direct sunlight and close range when then Patterson creature was filmed. Here is an investigation of one of the more recent credible clips of a Patterson-type creature. This one is from East Texas. As more non-hoax clips like this one come forward down the line, it will become increasingly clear that Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed a real creature in 1967. It was not a hoax and neither is this one. Notice the similarities. youtu.be/hbSxZRji8gQ?si=w0y0…

Sharing some OG wisdom before I forget it ... An effective way to avoid the some of the hardships of old age these days: For those of you who spend a lot of time typing or doom scrolling on your phone, or both ... You are going to steadily distort your back and neck posture. That is going to mess with you a lot as time goes on. Much better to do that at horizon level so you can keep your neck and back upright and balanced. In a car you can rest your phone on your steering wheel so you look straight ahead, but you can't type that way. So it is best to do as much typing work as possible at a desk with adjustable height. Be able to push a button to smoothly adjust the height for sitting or standing (most of the time you will be sitting). Stack milk crates if you can't afford a mechanical desk ($113 -- mine came from Wayfair). If you raise the desk surface up to chest height while sitting, you can lean on the desk so it carries the weight of your arms while you type for hours. Do whatever it takes such that the screen you stare at for hours is not something for which you have to look downward for extended periods. You do not have to cut yourself off from the world, you just have adapt to it better.

ATTN Washington State >> 20 Miles west of Port Angeles >> August 2006 >> This credible Class A sighting is not recent but the location is important for future bigfoot research: The rainforest area behind Lake Crescent Lodge. This lodge is a set of structures on the edge of Lake Crescent -- in the middle of nowhere on the wild and wet Olympic Peninsula. These structures are completely surrounded by thick rainforest for miles. The witness was 21 years old in 2006 when this occurred. She was a seasonal worker at the lodge. She worked as a server in the restaurant. The lodge provides housing to its seasonal workers. It was her day off. She was behind one of the employee housing buildings talking on the phone to her mother. She saw the bigfoot walking through the woods at 40 yards away. It was dusk. The light was fading but she got a good at look at it. It terrified her so much that she ran away crying. Dusk sightings often indicate areas where the bigfoot was hunkered down and staying hidden during the day. It emerges at dusk to go looking for deer. They may return to the same day "nest" for a few weeks at a time. The full report mentions that we have had our own experiences over the years on a different part Lake Crescent. Here is the full report: bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp… This 2006 report is important because it MAY point to a relatively convenient spot on the Olympic Peninsula within walking distance of where one or two bigfoots may hunker down during the day, perhaps seasonally. The ultimate score in bigfoot research filmography would be something like a "nest cam" for a bigfoot nest -- a fixed camera angle showing a bigfoot(s) laying down during the day. There might be a spot like this in the gnarly rainforest not far from the lodge. See the aerial image of the lodge. It makes sense that a bigfoot would prefer that old growth forest between the lake edge and steep slopes. Among other things, there are a few trailhead parking lots within a mile, which often attract deer because tourists and hikers often toss food to them. This section of Olympic National Park is particularly well protected from hunting and poaching. Animals behave differently wherever that is the case

The photos of the Syracuse Figure (photos shot on Aug 10, 2026) have now been in the news and seen by a large number of people in Onondaga County New York, but no one has come forward to say they have seen this “old man” before. A homeless hermit in a rural area would be seen by even more people than someone who is not homeless. This figure stands about 4 foot 9 inches tall, which would make him even more distinctive than an average size man. Read the full report to see how its height was approximated, and how difficult it would be for even a young fit person to go wading in this swampy pond. We don’t think it’s a Bigfoot, but we think it might not be a human. So what else? Here is the link to the Facebook post about it. Below that is the link to the full investigation report with comparative image of a six foot tall person standing at the same spot, photographed from same position with same camera. m.facebook.com/groups/BFRO.g… bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp…

FYI >>> the BFRO web site and internal database (FLATS) are up and running again. Log in any time if you are a BFRO investigator.

ATTN South Carolina >> Expedition announced for November 2026. This expediton is open to non-members. The intrepid trio of Rick Reles, Marsha Clarke and Steve Lamb say they have a very good spot in the hilly western part of the state. One of the best BFRO expeditions ever was in this part of South Carolina, where a large number of attendees had visual observations after dark in more than one hollow on the same night -- unusually bold approaches by 1-3 sasquatches at a time, approaches and extended paralleling that were clearly prompted by our well coordinated loud sound enticements that echoed well through the hollows. Unfortunately this was back when handheld thermal monoculars were uncommon because they were so expensive ($9,000 vs. $1,000 today) and could not record internally anyway. There is more than one sasquatch in the hills of western South Carolina, many more. They are spread out in the many marshy hollows, but often in a nearby hollows. They find eachother with sounds at late at night in these unpopulated forest zones. Not surprisingly, in many parts of western South Carolina there are so many deer that it is hazardous to drive the back roads at night. The sasquatches in those hills have an inexhaustible food supply. To attend this BFRO expedition see: bfro.net/news/roundup/scarol…

Yeah baby ! Same thing for Tyrus' podcast and also Bigfoot and Beyond podcast -- my episode had highest views on both.

Podcast interview with me and Tyrus of Fox News (Greg Gutfeld show). He and his producers want to get some real Bigfoot action if it can happen within easy driving range of NYC. radio.foxnews.com/2026/08/11…

One of the misleading aspects of this Boston.com article is it explains that "belief" in the Bigfoot phenomena is likely due to peoples' "need" for something extraordinary or mysterious in our lives. That is quite misleading because it might only help explain the widespread INTEREST in the sightings afterward, but the people who have the sightings usually had no interest in the subject, not pre-existing "belief" that would cause them to have a sighting or encounter. The psycological explaination only explains why the stories receive widespread attention, including from media sources like Boston.com that capitalizes on the sighting reports they try to write off as psychological phenomena.

BFRO site has all the details about the Sasquatch sighting incident in COLORADO on July 28, 2026 described in this video with the eyewitness. youtu.be/UIeemwcMlNc?feature…