On October 20, 1967, two men rode into the wilderness of Northern California searching for something most people didn't believe existed. They came back with 59.5 seconds of film that would become the most famous piece of evidence in the history of Bigfoot.
Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin were riding along Bluff Creek when they encountered something standing on the opposite side of a creek bed. Patterson's horse went down, he grabbed his camera, and what happened next would spark nearly six decades of controversy.
But who were the men behind the camera? What brought them to Bluff Creek? And what exactly happened during those few moments that changed the Bigfoot phenomenon forever?
In Part One of our multi-part investigation into the Patterson-Gimlin Film, we're going back to October 1967 to tell the story of the encounter itself. From Patterson's obsession with finding Sasquatch to the journey into the California wilderness, the unexpected appearance on the sandbar, and the frantic moments when the camera finally started rolling.
We're not here to prove the footage is real or declare it a hoax. Not yet. First, we need to understand what happened that afternoon.
Because almost 60 years later, we're still arguing about those 59 seconds.
And as we'll discover in the episodes ahead, the controversy surrounding the Patterson-Gimlin Film may be just as fascinating as the footage itself.
This is Paranormal Directive 13. And this is the story of the Patterson-Gimlin Film.
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