Sunday, November 23, 2008
Editorial: Last word on the M.K. Davis Controversy (Re: The Massacre)
For the last nearly 6 weeks, one controversial theory has divided the Bigfoot Community into different factions, with the majority of the Community seeming to react with vitriol and venom to one particular individual in the Bigfoot Community, the man who is considered by some to be the authority on the Patterson/Gimlin Movie, and that is M.K. Davis. The theory? Well, M.K. proposed a speculative theory regarding a possible shooting and, well, for lack of a better word, a massacre of several Bigfoot individuals. This took flight especially after a certain filmmaker decided to release it to Cryptomundo, and the snowball rolled from there. This prompted a whole series of misunderstandings, including the fantastic claim that M.K. had said Gimlin shot Patty, which those who heard M.K. speak at the Ohio Bigfoot Conference know that he said nothing of the sort, and never so much as implied it. But because of one filmmaker, all of a sudden, M.K. was accused of saying that Gimlin shot Patty, and this caused M.K. to be a pariah to most of the Bigfoot Community, merely for expressing a theory, which M.K. told me personally was only one of a dozen possibilities. He never expressed the Massacre Theory as absolute fact, and some took it as that he did express it as fact, mainly because some parties in the Bigfoot Community were against M.K. and his theories from the very beginning and reacted as such. This whole controversy has caused so much venom and vitriol and nastiness that M.K. is getting out of Bigfooting. He is tired of all the BS and drama, which this author does not personally blame him for. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with someone over their theories or doing a peer review, but if you are going to devote the majority of a radio show to it for weeks and weeks on end merely to bash an individual, or use your blog as a platform to continue to bash an individual for a theory, that is going a bit too far. This will be the last word from yours truly on this whole controversy, because quite frankly, I am ready to move on from it all, and I hope everyone else is too.
E-Book Review: The Bigfoot Film Journal by Chris Murphy
This e-book, the first from Hancock House, is a terrific one, dealing exclusively with the Patterson/Gimlin Movie, and it's a good one. It deals with the timeline issue surrounding the filming and the controversies surrounding that, as well as speculating in favor of the film's authenticity. It also deals very fairly with both sides of the issue, pro and con, and Murphy even uses information from Greg Long and his book The Making Of Bigfoot. Of course, the efforts of those past and present are highlighted-notables such as Grover Krantz, John Green, Rene Dahinden, Peter Byrne, Patterson and Gimlin themselves, M.K. Davis, Jeff Glickman and the work NASI did, the Russian scientists, such as Dmitri Bayanov, Igor Bourtsev and Dmitri Donskoy and the British scientists, such as Don Grieve and John Napier. The book is illustrated profusely throughout with illustrations, mainly by Brenden Bannon, as well as photos and papers and other items scattered throughout. There are also links to items online which correspond to the subject matter which can be perused. When this is made available widely, I do recommend getting it. Probably the most important book on the film since Bigfoot At Bluff Creek and America's Bigfoot: Fact, Not Fiction.
Links on Bob Gimlin
Bigfoot: John Greens Interview with Bob Gimlin... 1992
The following interview is Bob Gimlin’s account as told to John Green about the events that led up to and exactly how the Roger Patterson Bigfoot film was ...
www.bigfootencounters.com/interviews/john.htm • Found on Google, Windows Live, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com
Bigfoot: Roger Patterson-Bob Gimlin Interview addendum
Bigfoot Encounters Radio Interview Transcript With Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin. November, 1967. The following is a partial transcript of a radio ...
www.bigfootencounters.com/interviews/radiopatterso... • Found on Google, Windows Live, Yahoo! Search
Gimlin Bigfoot: Gimlin gives talk about Bigfoot
Bob Gimlin of the famous Patterson/Gimlin Bigfoot film which started the Bigfoot ... Bigfoot researchers cite the 1967 Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin famous Bigfoot ...
www.ourbigfoot.com/gimlin_bigfoot.html • Found on Yahoo! Search
Bob Gimlin
... Bigfoot (1967) ... Find where Bob Gimlin is credited alongside another name ... You may report errors and omissions on this page to ...
Cryptomundo.com » Bob Gimlin Sighting
Cryptomundo.com » Bob Gimlin Sighting ... Sarah Utter doesn’t say much about what happened at the Bigfoot gathering, but does report she had a Bob Gimlin sighting in her town.
Wednesday Night on Television: Bob Gimlin Interviewed
Bob Gimlin was Roger Patterson's riding partner when Roger filmed the sasquatch ... died in the 1970's and Bob Gimlin hasn't given interviews in years, until ...
YouTube - Mysterious World: Bigfoot Footage
Footage of the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film from Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. ... Bullshit, you saw ONE programme but no proof, it's no limp it's their normal walk and ...
youtube.com/watch?v=_8tS6Izy_W0 • Found on Windows Live, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com
Saturday, November 22, 2008
41 Years Ago Today...
The Patterson/Gimlin Movie was shot. Roger Patterson, unfortunately, went to that great hunting ground in the sky over 35 years ago, but Bob Gimlin is still living in Yakima, Washington. We celebrate this extraordinary piece of footage today and every day.
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WFAE.org - Charlotte,NC,USA
And that's how founder Philip Morris says he ended up making the costume that would launch the Bigfoot craze in 1967. "I received this telephone call and ...
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