>>2857136So lets recap:
Patterson had the camera for a couple months.
He claims he only used it on one outing.
They planned to produce a "re-enactment bigfoot documentary" with costumed actors.
Patterson was facing bankruptcy.
They got caught lying about when the film was recorded.
There's other elements but let's focus on these points.
Now let's make some educated guesses of what actually happened.
>Patterson and Gimlin run a screen test to see how the bigfoot costume looks on film (with Gimlin in the costume).>Patterson gets the film developed and upon reviewing it thinks "wow, this looks real".>now Patterson gets an idea of staging a hoax to reinvigorate public interest in bigfoot, partially to save his financial situation.I honestly think Patterson believed bigfoot was real and given enough time and money he would eventually find one thus his hoax wouldnt matter in the end.
The simple issue of when the film was actually developed proves the encounter did not happen as they claimed. So why lie if it happened a week or a month earlier?
Because Patterson thought public disclosure would be suspect unless it was immediate.
But now everything took time to stage.
They had to develop the film.
Then Patterson got the idea of a hoax.
Had to convince Gimlin to go along with it.
Had to have this verifiable excursion into the mountains (rented horse).
Had to have fair weather that matched the previously recorded film.
Had to make foot print casts.
>this is why the camera was overdue for return.Thw story falls apart when all the facts are laid out.
