The footage is grainy and it runs for just under a minute. And yet, in the world of cryptozoological ethnography, it’s one of the most significant videos ever taken. Captured in 1967, the Patterson-Gimlin clip is considered the first hard evidence of Bigfoot, the famous cryptid located in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. There’s something about the sasquatch, as a creature that hasn’t been proven to exist by human standards, and our current age of hyper-surveillance. Even for nonbelievers, there’s a mythic allure to the mysterious creature that taps into our very human desire to uncover hidden truths.
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