Original famed Bigfoot footage exposed as hoax after rehearsal clip unearthed in new film

A new documentary is blowing the lid off history’s most famous Bigfoot sighting, exposing the legendary footage as a hoax with a newly unearthed “rehearsal” reel.The film, “Capturing Bigfoot,” which hits theaters and Prime Video on Oct.20, features a top-secret canister of 16mm film stashed away in a safe for decades, showing a “test run” clip of the hairy guy, purportedly shot in 1966 — exactly one year before Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin’s famous film tricked the world.The shaky footage is 40-seconds long and shows a Bigfoot walking through the woods and looking over its right shoulder in a very similar manner to Patterson-Gimlin’s footage, which they said was taken in Bluff Creek, Calif., on Oct.

20, 1967.The 1967 footage is widely considered by enthusiasts and researchers as the definitive evidence of the creature’s existence.The new footage is shot in a lush forest with a more svelte, ape-like creature retreating into the woods slowly, distinct from the Patterson-Gimlin film, which showed the Bigfoot stalking through leafless stretch of woods.“This is like the Holy Grail or something.This is going to change everything about my dad’s film,” Roger Patterson’s son Clint says in “Capturing Bigfoot.”Both films were shot on the same K-100 Kodak film camera, which left a unique edge, numbers and geometric designs date codes on the film itself.“That’s the answer we’ve been looking for, for years.

That’s definitely faked and that’s definitely rehearsed,” said Larry Lund, known as the “Sasquatch Sleuth,” after being shown the film.“So uncannily like the ’67 film.To me it’s a practice,” said Greg Long, author of “The Making of Bigfoot.”“It’s a smoking gun, and thank God someone’s found it,” he added.The bombshell reel was discovered in 2017 by Teresa Brooks, the daughter of Norm Johnson, who worked in the film department of Boeing in the 1960s.

Brooks, a professor at Olympic College in Washington s...