Roger patterson biography

Roger Patterson made a controversial and iconic contribution to Bigfoot investigation in with his and Bob Gimlin’s much-parsed Bluff Creek Bigfoot film.

Deaths on February Death Feb, Roger Patterson, American bass player b. The footage was shot in in Northern California, and has since been subjected to many attempts to authenticate or debunk it. The film site is roughly 38 miles 60 km south of Oregon and 18 miles 30 km east of the Pacific Ocean. For decades, the exact location of the site was lost, primarily because of re-growth of foliage in the streambed after the flood of It was rediscovered in It is just south of a north-running segment of the creek informally known as "the bowling alley".

Patterson died of cancer in and "maintained right to the end that the creature on the film was real". Patterson's friend, Gimlin, has always denied being involved in any part of a hoax with Patterson. Gimlin mostly avoided publicly discussing the subject from at least the early s until about except for three appearances , when he began giving interviews and appearing at Bigfoot conferences.

Roger Patterson, American bass player (b.

The film is If the film was shot at 18 fps, as Grover Krantz believed, the event lasted 53 seconds. The date was October 20, , according to the filmmakers, although some critics believe it was shot earlier. References Roger Patterson.