Bigfoot PLN

Link To Article Number 1

Link To Article Number 2

Link To PGF

As a lone shape meandered across the screen you start to wonder what is that? Then you think, maybe it's Bigfoot? Or is it? This is reviewed in a paper that was written by Dr. Jeff Meldrum, and Bill Munns on the topic of the Patterson Gimlin film taken in Bluff Creek California. The aforementioned film is one of the most famous films of Bigfoot. Is it really what people say it is? To start of the paper reviews the technical side of the 8 millimeter film to describe and show that there are no signs of tampering to the film. This is basically the entire paper as a whole. The paper goes over the technical side of the PGF (Patterson Gimlin Film), because of this I decided to pull in another paper. This was more of a breakdown of the circumstantial evidence around the event.  Like the cast process that Patterson took.

First off, I personally think that the PGF is a hoax. I know from my personal knowledge that there was a lot of things that happened the day of the filming that discredit the validity of the video. Earlier that day, Patterson went and took a walk without Gimlin toward a road that they had used to get into the area. I think that while he was gone he was in contact with another person. He told where to go and gave him the suit and told him to weight by the creek shown in the video. There was a background with Patterson building things. When he was younger he did build alot of tiny stage coaches (yah I know that sounds crazy) and he sold them to people. I do not feel that him alone made the suit but he was a part of it.

Next I will talk about the article on the state of the film. I first have to point out that the two authors are very outspoken about how 100% sure they are of the existence of Bigfoot. Dr. Meldrum is a doctor in the field of biology. He is a self proclaimed “expert” in the pseudo science of  cryptozoology, the study of mythical animals such as Bigfoot and The Loch Ness Monster. Bill Munns is a costume designer for Universal Studios. I thought that Dr. Meldrum did not deserve to have his name on the project. What he contributed was virtually nothing but name recognition. This leads me to believe that the paper should have just been Bill Munns paper.