The Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film

[Stillill]

I just came across this YouTube video which was posted 3 years ago. This guy is analyzing Bob Gimlin's body language as he is telling his story in front of a camera. The results are very interesting - and it is fair to say that Mr. Gimlin doesn't come out too well:

I don’t really think reading body language helps. It has shown to be unreliable and people react differently. It certainly isn’t an exact science we can rely on.

 

[Analogue Boy]

I don’t really think reading body language helps. It has shown to be unreliable and people react differently. It certainly isn’t an exact science we can rely on.

Very relevant to the body language displayed by a ‘Bigfoot’ in a few frames of film.

 

[Kingsize Wombat]

I don’t really think reading body language helps. It has shown to be unreliable and people react differently. It certainly isn’t an exact science we can rely on.

Is anything relating to "Bigfoot" in general and the PGF specifically backed up by "exact science"? If yes, please demonstrate.

 

[Paul_Exeter]

Out of interest has any of Bigfoot expedition been undertaken on horseback this century or last? I ask because most of what I see online is driving out along logging roads in huge SUVs, lighting fires and using torches etc and surely this must frighten of any wildlife of any description to be honest, the only convincing counterargument to "Where is all the other unambiguous Bigfoot footage?" is that they approached on horseback and caught the creature unawares. That or they caught smallpox or whatever from us as new expanded into their ranges and died out/retreated into the deepest wilderness.

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

I don’t really think reading body language helps. It has shown to be unreliable and people react differently. It certainly isn’t an exact science we can rely on.

Fair point.
I am aware that body language can be learnt (actors and actresses study it as a matter of course) just as there are ways to fool a polygraph test.
That said though, Gimlin was no professional actor, so any quirks in his body language hinting at deception are interesting, but not conclusive.

 

[Stillill]

Is anything relating to "Bigfoot" in general and the PGF specifically backed up by "exact science"? If yes, please demonstrate.

No it isn’t but guessing whether someone is lying by their body language is utterly pointless. It proves nothing and one ‘expert’ in body language may come to a different conclusion to another’expert.

 

[Stillill]

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Very relevant to the body language displayed by a ‘Bigfoot’ in a few frames of film.

Possibly,I have no firm conclusions on the Gimlin footage.

 

[Tunn11]

Anything I've seen written about Gimlin rate him as an honest person, even if opinions about Patterson display some misgivings. lately he has been interiewed as a "bigfoot expert" something I don't think he originally claimed to be. Maybe as he's getting on a bit, being offered money to be interviewed as an expert is attractive but he isn't that comfortable with it?

I've not heard of any horseback expeditions and the point that the horse smell masks the human smell may be important. If thir sense of smell is highly developed then the scent of humans or artefacts left by them may be enough to warn them off. Leaping about the forest, shining torches, yelping and banging on trees may well be the best way not to see a bigfoot.

 

[Druk]

Out of interest has any of Bigfoot expedition been undertaken on horseback this century or last?

Plenty of american/Canadian hunts are horseback going out to spike camps way beyond roads and vehicle access,a hunter would consider a Squatch the golden fleece of trophies,but never heard of hunting guides seeing one and they spend the entire hunting season in the boonies.

 

[Druk]

Plenty of american/Canadian hunts are horseback going out to spike camps way beyond roads and vehicle access,a hunter would consider a Squatch the golden fleece of trophies,but never heard of hunting guides seeing one and they spend the entire hunting season in the boonies.

Also things like spot and stalk grizzly hunts,fly somewhere really remote in a STOL aircraft,get up high on a ridge,sometimes for a week just glassing with a spotter scope so you have minimal impact and leave no scent at all to warn whatever your hunting,these are the people who would see/photograph something but never any reports of seeing a bigfoot,I have seen clear pics taken of moose from half a mile with an i-phone stuck on a spotting scope,I have spoken to a first nation guy who describes bigfoot as the forest people,not of this world.

 

[Paul_Exeter]

Anything I've seen written about Gimlin rate him as an honest person, even if opinions about Patterson display some misgivings. lately he has been interiewed as a "bigfoot expert" something I don't think he originally claimed to be. Maybe as he's getting on a bit, being offered money to be interviewed as an expert is attractive but he isn't that comfortable with it?

I've not heard of any horseback expeditions and the point that the horse smell masks the human smell may be important. If thir sense of smell is highly developed then the scent of humans or artefacts left by them may be enough to warn them off. Leaping about the forest, shining torches, yelping and banging on trees may well be the best way not to see a bigfoot.

... and what an irony if the famous wood knocks are in fact how Bigfoots warn each other that humans are around and to get the hell away.