The Legend of Bigfoot: Hunting for Evidence of the Sasquatch

Discover the mystery of Bigfoot - a large, hairy, ape-like creature living in forested areas. Learn about sightings, encounters, and the most famous footage of this elusive creature, the Patterson-Gimlin film.
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[@lulujanuary]

I was raised by sasquatchies until the age of 9. They treated me as one of their own. Our days were spent casually striding around, and our nights were spent screaming into the darkness. Between all the striding and screaming, they still took the time to teach me how to appear blurry in photos. Good times

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

You see, Simon... here's fooking proof!! Lulu was actually raised by actual Squatches!! This should put the matter to rest!

[@scottbubb2946]

Hey there, I was curious, I'm pretty good at striding, but I have to admit, my screaming into the darkness game is pretty weak. Are there any tips you could give me for this? I would especially welcome any suggestions on getting the most volume out of my screams. TYIA

[@sunnydalton2994]

😂😂😂

[@sunnydalton2994]

I'm pretty sure there are no sasquatches in my backyard 😕

[@sunnydalton2994]

​@scott bubb, what is all the screaming about?

[@CatherineInRock]

"Where it's all cold and Canadian" has to be my favourite description of a geographical area 😂

[@MySundin13]

I live in Canada.....summers in Ontario are hellish hot.

[@nicholeayt509]

While also describing one of our warmest provinces. 😂

[@Kiefsti]

North(ish) Alberta here, very apt description 😂

[@rdspam]

… and stuff”. The best part!

[@dillongage]

Sounds like the rest of American descrubing Minnesota. "Whats it like up there?" "Idk, all cold and canadian."

[@kendraspenard8792]

I love your skepticism and practicality, Simon. It actually makes some shows all the more thrilling when you are ‘interested’ by a piece of evidence. I can trust you aren’t just a sensationalist, because you and your team are so thoughtful. Great show as always to you and the team!

[@sajidt.chowdhury726]

Simon's digressions are even more enjoyable than the script itself.

[@Rick_Riff]

No way if I want to hear someone rambling I'll go to the local bar. My ADD is bad enough I need a flow. He does have some funny jokes here and there, they work.

[@jugglajj]

Simon on black coffee is basically a given Brain Blaze regardless of the channel it's on. The bear screaming part had me losing it.

[@SissysMa]

Hahahaha yes me too 🤣

[@Kevan808]

I can already feel Simon's skepticism before I even watch this 😂

[@Loralanthalas]

And I'm here for it ❤

[@DerptyDerptyDUM]

You can almost taste it....

[@golferorb]

Wish he would do more videos about legitimate mysteries and conspiracies because these videos aren't really "decoding the unknown". Simon doesn't believe it, and most of these are pretty unrealistic.

[@SkunkApe407]

Don't mind me. Just passing through.

[@Gos1234567]

@@golferorb yea I liked his one about JFK as he said himself he is a skeptic but there are too many sketchy things about it.

[@amandakozeniewski1226]

As an ADHD-er who was cryptid-obsessed as a kid & is also currently completely jacked on caffeine, this is basically a dream episode! Fantastic job to the team on this! The description of their possible lairs is taking me right to the Bigfoot filmstrip on 'Futurama'. "They typically dwell just behind rocks but are also also sometimes playful, bounding into thick fogs & out-of-focus areas."😂

[@discojelly]

Close. They actually inhabit remote areas where most of us humans don't spend time at. That includes large expansions of fenced farm land in rural areas. Their "lairs" re the wilderness.

[@amandakozeniewski1226]

@@discojelly Close. You’re trying to fact check a quote from a cartoon.

[@cherbearian]

The bear scream killed me. I'm dead.

[@dominicparkes6373]

“I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. ” - Mitch Hedberg

[@thepartysjustbegun5557]

Mitch was the best RIP 💖

[@badman5852]

Not blurry. The Bigfeets are extradimensional. They are here and there but also somewhere else that is neither.

[@thepartysjustbegun5557]

@@badman5852 It was a quote. From the best comedian ever Mitch Hedburg 😐

[@badman5852]

@@thepartysjustbegun5557 no shit? I was confused by the words in quotes followed by a name.

[@mikeday2393]

RIP

[@brianpembrook9164]

My favorite part of the "finding bigfoot" show was, after spending a portion of the episode talking about how Bigfoot hunts, when possibly spotting Bigfoot the leading researcher takes off after it. Let that sink in. Bigfoot hunts deer by running up and snapping its leg to keep it from running. That guy was running after a predator that was as big as a bear (or bigger), faster than a bear, more stealthy than a bear. He was basically going to run down a wookie and... what? What was the game plan there!? Talk about no self preservation instincts!

[@whom382]

The best part of "Finding Bigfoot" was when those guys appeared on the Soup (google it). Might be my favorite Internet video ever.

[@Ab-d9]

My favorite part is end of the intro, moneymaker says “there’s something on the hill!” (In his nasally,kinda annoying voice) And then a cheesy Bigfoot roar…lol…had me and my 5 year old at the time dying laughing.

[@davedavidson8208]

He wanted his arms ripped off.

[@melodo80]

Chasing down a wookie... 👍

[@castleultra1082]

What I never understood about that show was they always said Bigfoot’s are nocturnal creatures so they always searched at night. But why is it that almost every single Bigfoot video they saw as credible was filmed during the day? Always wondered that haha

[@Ali-in-Wonderland.]

I love going from Simons 'seriousness in Biographics & Geographics to the jolly, casual Simon. Hes such a vibe 😅 Also- i cannot get the visual of a giant grizzly bear straight up SCREAMING.... hes so right- i think id be more scared by far

[@danielreuben1058]

When I was around six - eight years old (1978-1980), I believed in Bigfoot after learning about it from those Life Magazine books they used to print. My friends and I would go off in search of Bigfoot on weekends because I lived in a heavily wooded and rural place in Maryland. Saw lots of cool animals like deer, foxes, snakes, etc, but never Bigfoot. They are fond memories, and we weren't too sad about not finding Bigfoot because we were just having fun in the woods.

[@hannahsolo27]

The multiple tangents about blade legs and shoe sizes and dentist trips before we’ve even hit the 15-minute mark have me absolutely dying 😂

[@theConquerersMama]

Must have more over caffeinated Simon episodes!

[@stinky92607]

I hit the 14:32 min mark, had to stop to see if anyone else had the same thoughts. I was laughing so hard I couldn't hear the show. 😂

[@chuthedrunkenfist9663]

I love every DTU episode but this one seems especially entertaining. I’m getting some OG business blaze vibes from this I absolutely love it

[@OnAcidTripping]

I listened to the podcast while riding to work and I laughed multiple times with Simons tangents 😂

[@LordHades800BC]

Another great episode Simon. Many people over the years have claimed that the creature shown in the Patterson film was just a man in a costume. However, several years ago, special effects artist Bill Munns reviewed the film, from an FX and photographic position. He was able to see the "camera original" film, which was still owned privately by Patterson's widow. Bill Munns was also given access to the actual camera used. He scanned every frame, and created a digital copy in order to stabilize the image. He was also able to take measurements based on the film size, known scale of numerous artifacts in the scene (detailed measurements were done in 1967 by investigators who were taken back to the site shortly after the film was developed) the camera settings and the distance Patterson was away from the creature (all of which were also recorded at the time) and was able to calculate that the creature seen in the film was between 7 and 8 feet tall. Bill Munns also took measurements of the creature's proportions and compared them to an average human. They did not line up. Bill Munns commented that he had made a career of putting humans in FX costumes, and stated that a human could not fit into a costume built to the proportions of this creature, and show the range of motion and articulation that the creature displays. The FX technology was just not there at the time. Planet of The Apes looked good, but those costumes were really only masks, hands and feet, with the rest being the character's clothing. Munns also reviewed and verified that working with the camera original, the various muscle groups can be seen moving under the fur, another thing that could not be achieved with the FX technology of the time. The man who, for many years, claimed to be the one who wore the costume, Bob Heironimus, was not even 6 feet tall, and was not big enough to be the creature, based on the original film/camera measurements. Bob Heironimus was not even able to take reporters/investigators to the site of the 1967 filming.

[@valolafson6035]

It's not that great of footage though. How are they seeing muscle groups?

[@cotati76]

@@valolafson6035exactly. It’s a bunch of people with a vested interest in the video being Bigfoot. In order for there to be Bigfoot in the wild there would have to be a lot of them. Otherwise inbreeding would have wiped them out years ago if they exist. So there would have to be hundreds to thousands of them to keep the species going. Not just a small handful.

[@ninjakitty4228]

Harry and the Hendersons is one of my all time favourite movies. I friggen' LOVED that movie as a little kid, and I still love it as a 38 year old big kid.

[@isaackolman2861]

Always brightens up my day when I see a decoding the unknown episode, especially when it pertains to the region I live in. I'm sure it will be great as per usual Simon and crew!

[@davidt3563]

Same! No matter what I'm watching on KZbin. If a new Decoding video pops up I instantly switch over.

[@kevinfoster1138]

I too enjoy when his stories are from the PNW on any of Simon's channels

[@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567]

Have you also seen The Big Foot

[@Khrysalis01]

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 Well, if you count the people pretending to be Bigfoot, then yes, I’ve met them. 😉

[@badgercrafts2915]

One whole hour of a very hyper Simon ragging on cryptids, ghost, and all things paranormal. It's going to be a good time :)

[@Bob-Jenkins]

I've noticed recently that the more caffeinated Simon gets, the more sweary he becomes. I'm always amused by that because it's KZbin, and if getting a tad nasty in the comments makes KZbin cry then having the host effing this and that should make it go thermonuclear. Maybe during the upload process Simon gets an email with "🚫 no soup for you 🚫, sincerely KZbin🖕". That is how it works.... Right?

[@elisabethverte7061]

I cackled out loud at work due to Jen's excellent editing of Simon's impressive tanget at the beginning- cheers!

[@Bethgael]

"He's gone, hasn't he?" absolutely did me in. Stellar editing this episode. :D

[@JenFoxworth]

I vote for Simon to do a vid with just his tangents while he's hopped up on the caff. It would be EXTREMELY entertaining.

[@michaelmayhem350]

Jen he has an entire channel for this, it was called business blaze but it was all tangents and no business so now it's called brain blaze.

[@JenFoxworth]

@@michaelmayhem350 ohhhhh so THAT'S what happened to it XD Thanks

[@danelynch7171]

@@michaelmayhem350 hahaha it was kinda sorta semi business adjacent when he first started it... He did like, the Enron scandal, I think he did the hot McDonald's coffee lady... But yeah. It's all tangents. 😂

[@Kiefsti]

@@danelynch7171 And ranting about Danny writing too long of intro's, before going into another rant 😂

[@LastMineCrafterz]

I'm a scientist and skeptic but I enjoy this stuff. Should definitely do an episode on the Nahanni Valley and the Headless Valley, always found that one intriguing due to all of the journals by surveyors and scientists who were out on expeditions.

[@SkunkApe407]

I'm a Land Surveyor and Archaeological Surveyor. My time in the wilderness is what led me to believe that they did exist at one point. The First Nations lore has to come from somewhere, but I firmly believe that they have been extinct for at least a couple of centuries.

[@elchapito4580]

A scientist and sceptic? If you're the former it seems to go without saying that you're also the latter.

[@michaelfox2433]

@@SkunkApe407 The lore does not by any stretch of the imagination require anything resembling truth to exist. Minotaurs,...Satyrs,...Gorgons,...Dragons,...Gods,...Wildmen,...just a short list of completely made up out of thin air entities that have absolutely no basis in reality. Every culture since the beginning of time invent nonsense to explain the unknown reality of their time.

[@duncancurtis5108]

Tintin in Tibet Changs back story about the Yeti always moved me to tears. 😢

[@MrDragon7742]

Seconding this!

[@raiwenduravwin3166]

Hyperactive Simon is literally the best! Thank you for this video, it was amazing

[@elmartell5724]

Petition to force Simon to chug coffee before these episodes, forever.

[@genxmum5569]

I love the idea that there are groups of bigfoot hunters out there calling and tree knocking to each other😂

[@jbird7782]

I think that's all that's happening out there

[@nicholasbucicchia9599]

Simon when Siri fails to answer his question: "God dammit Siri!.." Simon when ChatGPT also fails to answer the same question: "Wow! Apple should buy this and put it into Siri."

[@storkbomb7417]

Considering how Siris whole point is to be a hands free digital assistant, having her respond with "I don't know, but here's a relevant/similar piece of information" like ChatGPT did is far better than just loading up Google, imo.

[@theConquerersMama]

Pipe down. That's quite enough now. 😅

[@nicholasbucicchia9599]

@@storkbomb7417 if we're taking my comment seriously, then whether Siri fails to answer your question as is, or fails to answer your question with a new ChatGPT function, the question is still not being answered. Which is the whole point of Siri and and big part of the function of ChatGPT.

[@Mhidraum]

I make theater costumes for a living, and someone at my skill level (or above) could make a costume like that without too much trouble. The basic tools for sewing hasn't really changed much since the sewing machine started getting popular in the 1860s (most of our tools hasn't changed much for 1000+ years). A costume shop specializing in ape suits could easily make a suit like the one in the film in the 1960s. I actually think it would be easier because there was a larger selection of fur available back then (including ones from rare animals that would be illegal today).

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

Really you think it's all sewing? That's interesting I would have assumed it had to be a plaster cast of a whole person's body and then that mold used to make a latex suit. I'd like to see what someone actually could make not using any of that stuff at all. I dunno what you'd use but your post made me think of other possibilities and the logistics of it all. Like how heavy would the suit have to have been for the man to still be able to move, how long would it take for them to get in the suit, how fast could it be taken off for the person not to pass out. How many takes would it have taken for it to look just right, even if you're in a suit like that it would be very cumbersome to walk on the ground and not fall over, you're in a Riverbed afterall in the woods, yet the creature doesn't look down when it's walking so they were clearly comfortable enough in it to not stumble around. All of that has to be taken into account when making a costume so I wonder what they used as well to tick off all those boxes. And why if they made so much money didn't they do it again, at that point they were being paid for it, why not make more? not a lot of the story makes any sense

[@caradanellemcclintock8178]

I mean Iv been to comic con it's amazing what you can do with a long pile fir and a hot glue gun

[@Mhidraum]

​@@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit I've also made a few fat suits. Bulking up a costume like that isn't hard. I don't think the person in the video moves inhumanly at all. He moves exactly like I would expect from a guy in a heavy fur costume to move. I've seen first hand how actors and dancers completely transform their body language when they put on a costume. Even the first time they put a new costume on, they start practicing how it feels right to move in it.

[@57strub]

Ya? So why has no one reproduced this easily made costume in the last 50 years since the video? It's easy to say you could do it. Let's see it.

[@TheLithp]

​@@57strubHow? It's so grainy we don't even know what it looks like.

[@MFitz12]

If only we lived in an age where everyone carried a high definition camera on them at all times.

[@Balrog-tf3bg]

There’s a “theory” that Bigfoot causes some sorta distortion and that’s why he’s never clearly seen

[@M_Alexander]

I dunno I have a hard time getting clear pictures of my cats and they live with me

[@iainherridge6253]

​@@M_Alexanderwhat scientific proof do you have?

[@M_Alexander]

@@iainherridge6253 are you asking for pictures of my cats? Cause I'm happy to show off my babies even if some of the pictures are blurry

[@TheLithp]

​@@M_AlexanderSome pictures of my youngest cat legitimately look like cryptid photos, & the other one is all black, so she's almost impossible to photograph clearly.

[@infidelcastro5129]

Poor Simon had to suffer all those puns, Yeti managed it with his usual class and lack of sarcasm and cynicism. Also, I love the way he alluded to his upcoming range of wrist-based, voice-activated search engine devices… Asquatch. I’ll get my coat 😂

[@KornPop96]

You get the hell out of here RIGHT NOW and don't you EVER come back, Mr.!

[@PeachM0de]

Thank you, Katy and the rest of the team for putting this together.

[@jadaperez2169]

I love how you veer off from the script so easily. It's very entertaining to watch your thought process in real time.

[@andreagriffiths3512]

I find it very comforting because my brain is very much the same. I can follow Simon, no worries, whereas other channels that don’t have hosts going off on tangents are a lot harder to follow. Factboi is awesome!

[@MySundin13]

It's real. I wouldn't say this on a whim.....I have a relative that was an eyewitness in Northern Ontario....wayyyy up there. Him and his camping/hunting buddies were shook up about it for years. Most likely still are. The potential for an unknown primate still living in the vast wilderness is nothing new. The mountain Gorilla was also a "myth" until the 1910s

[@CoranceLChandler]

Yes, but that was 1910. This is 2023. It's been a minute

[@SkullLeader113]

Incorrect, the mountain gorilla was well known to the natives it was the Europeans who did not believe them. The depiction of gorillas has been found in cave paintings going back 1,000's of years.

[@noey4560]

11:00 I’m so used to simon’s skepticism that my mind autocompleted his sentence to “bears are big. I’ve seen bears. Not in real life, because they’re not real.”

[@GreenGrasshoppa]

😆😆😆

[@13lbaseball]

At long last, after Nessie, Bermuda, and even the Nantinuq (sorry), we have THE myth and legend. Thank you, Katy, for the script!

[@TillerMicroSkiffs]

How Simon describes his skeptical but enthusiastic desire for crazy stuff to be real is so 💯!!!

[@JayM409]

At a time when everyone down to the age of six has a phone with a high definition camera, and everyone films every traffic accident, arrest, and murder, we should have hundreds of hours of footage of Bigfoot. Instead we have nothing. That Cold, Canadian Place where episodes of Alone were filmed is called Vancouver Island.

[@davidjenkins2429]

Exactly

[@CaseyBDook]

The Bigfoot walking looks like a tall guy in a snow suit. He literally looks like a guy I know, same walk when he has his snow boots on and a couple beers in him.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Over-caffeinated Simon is the only way to watch a DtU on Bigfoot

[@amayanekonya]

I've always liked to think that the Patterson film was the neighbor pulling a prank on him. So he genuinely believed with all his heart it was real.

[@themacko93]

The hopped up tangents in this episode were just perfect.

[@darondax]

Oooh, I love me a good Sasquatch video! I saw one once where they said Sasquatch really loved mulberries, and we had one such tree in our backyard at the time. My mom didn’t seem too thrilled when I joked with her about having a herd of Sasquatch all up in our yard when the berries were in season 😂

[@greghenrikson952]

I love the confusion with the Zapruder film. Now I'm imagining Bigfoot getting hauled off by police claiming it's all a big mistake. "That was a different film! I'm just a patsy in a fur suit!"

[@SkunkApe407]

Fur suit? I wish! Do you know how time consuming it is to brush this much hair?!

[@shugadaddy4841]

I laughed so hard I cried when Simon made the bear scream sounds 😂😂😂😭😭

[@bigpoppa7124]

The experience of a sighting is the quickest way to turn a skeptic into a lifetime witness and investigator.

[@chazparker3657]

I hope this video gets good viewing numbers so Simon makes more Sasquatch content. What about other folklore and sightings around the world? Russia, Europe, Himalayas and other countries, Bigfoot gets around like crop circles. I remember watching an episode of Six Million Dollar Man as a kid, Andre the Giant played Bigfoot. Worth watching.

[@sunn_bass]

Wasn't Bigfoot in the Six Million Dollar Man a robot made by Aliens? That's been years since I saw that.

[@Lunch_Meat]

And Brock Sampson had to shave him. Bigfoot, I mean, not the six million dollar man

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

All fake btw

[@claytonberg721]

Until there is proof, I don't believe there is a bigfoot. However I remain open to the possibility that there is an unknown primate native to the vast Canadian north/Siberia/tibet/south america. I can't find it right now, but I know I read an account that a circus lost a pair of mating gorillas near Seattle and that they spawned so called bigfoot sightings for some 10 years. I'm surprised they didn't turn that up in their research. That being said bigfoot sightings are vastly bullshit. Obviously. But unlike megalodon or Nessie it's not like it's outside the realm of possibility that a large forest dwelling primate that we don't know about exists. What seems almost negligent in this video is that in one hour you wasted all that time on the easily debunked and obviously fake Paterson film but ignored that fact that Jane Goodall believes in the possibility of bigfoot. She's the world's foremost on chimpanzees who holds a doctorate from Cambridge. She's spoken to natives in remote parts of south america who have no experience with our pop culture who have given her accounts of tall, upright ape like creatures. She does believe there is a possibility there are still Neanderthals or some other kind of primate that we don't know about. Until there's proof I don't think it's a fact, but I'm also not going to dismiss the idea. It's important to note that oxford conducted a several year study asking for bigfoot hair samples. They were easily able to trace every sample to animals like cattle, dogs, wolves and such. It's not impossible to surmise however that if there were small tribes of neanderthals they would keep moving to remote areas, identifying humans as threats. The vastness of the canadian north/siberia/south america, most of those regions unpopulated precludes us from knowing exactly what is in them entirely.

[@101bravohotel6]

i hope he stops talking about cryptids cause all he did was talk out his ass and used really old shit examples and then half the shit he said he just made the fuck up to. this video was bad and horribly written. When people like LEs stroud are out here going " hey ive been in the woods my whole life and let me tell you their is some weird shit out there" then you gotta start to look at the bigger picture. nowhere did he mention todd standings 4k ultra videos, nowhere did he sight the insane amounts of DNA that has been discovered and remains unknown cause it comes from a ape we havent discovered fully yet and so on. there's now way more evidence to sassys being real then fake at this point.

[@nattycasper2022]

I really want to start measuring everything in Danny Devitos now. Also, I really enjoy the highly caffeinated version of Simon. 😂

[@lulujanuary]

I would love the Danny Devito system to replace the metric system. And also currency

[@nattycasper2022]

@@lulujanuary yes!

[@IvanTheVandal]

That bit about hunters accidentally tricking each other by making bigfoot calls cracked me up XD

[@retriever19golden55]

Thanks for the quick shot from Pete and Pete! Loved that show.

[@adriannaconnor6471]

Been watching for years. This is the first time I've ever been this early!

[@jonpitts1978]

your actually 8 minutes late

[@PippaPunk]

Simon!! 🤣🤣 When you mentioned about the man with blade legs, then was like I don't THINK he used his blade legs to kill, I spat out my drink and laughed so hard it came out my nose 🤣🤣🤣 I shouldn't have but now I'm soaked in nose lemonade. Thanks Simon. Keep up the good work 🤣😂

[@anomalouswoof2554]

Nose lemonade, OMG 😂😂😂

[@cannz9134]

1. If it exists the military know. 2. The best evidence for its existence is actually the for entertainment purposes television shows because they teach the public who enter the environment to shout and hit trees, which is exactly what you would logically do to alert any wildlife to your presence enabling them to evade the hunter

[@rebeccanicole8898]

OK. The Bears scream legitimately had me laughing in my car.

[@Unfortunately_Mickey]

Cryptid episodes are my favorite and Katy is such a gem 😊

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

Katy is also fake btw

[@alanf6516]

Stellar episode, but I will say that the best part was hearing Simon hoot like an owl. I didn't know I needed a clip of him doing that in my life until today. 🤣🤣

[@mustardtopdog9064]

I didn't even need the title, the thumbnail was all I needed to already know this was going to be epic 😂

[@scotv5099]

I'm a big follower and skeptic and the Patty film is the most convincing. Especially with the muscle, toes and finger movements along with the arm, leg and torso dimensions.

[@the_real_rascal]

Harry and the Hendersons is a freaking classic. That movie made me wish Bigfoot was real when I was a kid.

[@stephencrabtree4256]

It also won the Oscar for best makeup!

[@theConquerersMama]

He ate my corsage!

[@robleavold84]

Decoding the unknown is such a great show.

[@NorthOntarian]

Harry and the Henderson's!!!! awesome movie when i was growing up still an awesome movie today. I know what I'm watching this evening

[@SvenDzahov]

“My teeth are quiet nice, I brush them twice a day!” You might be the cleanliest Brit

[@BogWitch8440]

I'm skeptical of the existence of Sasquatch and feel it's more likely than not that the Patterson-Gimlin film was a hoax BUT... I'd like to think that Patterson- who was sasquatch enthusiast- actually managed to find the real thing before his disease took him. That's a wholesome thought.

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

Patterson is fake, he never existed

[@MySundin13]

That film wasn't hoaxed..... digital and film experts alike have stated that already

[@discojelly]

I didn't see anything that made that a hoax to me. (Of course that is my opinion) They couldn't make it that real even with Hollywood standards back then.

[@richardtherichard26]

@@Dannie281 well actually, it wasn’t. Multiple professional costume designers have come out and admitted that there’s NO way that could have been a person in a costume. Costume designs didn’t (and still don’t) have the ability to replicate musculature which is easily visible on the creature in the enhanced version of the film. So it’s nice that you wanna be a party pooper and all, but you’re wrong and you should feel bad about being so wrong… 🤡🤡🤡

[@jerrybartlett273]

It was real. She is a female Xanue who is still alive today . Please look up the Xanue Forest people if you want to know the truth about Sasquach

[@storkbomb7417]

To be fair, there seem to be quite a few experts from relevant fields claiming that there's no way that the Patterson footage could be a man in a costume, it's not just that one guy and that other guy with his "study." But even scientist brains are capable of filling in blanks and seeing things that aren't there, especially with footage that grainy (even after enhancement). Seeing that Bob dude walk was pretty hilariously convincing by itself, honestly.

[@ronjones-6977]

As someone with an easily identifiable walk, I laughed out loud when they showed Bob walking. It's so obviously him. As Bob said, "It was me." The believers, "No, it wasn't. Bigfoot is real." I'd like to see a Venn diagram of bigfoot believers and the people that think you can "change" your sex. I bet it looks like one big circle.

[@Special_Tactics_Force_Unit]

It's fake and all the experts are fake too

[@DneilB007]

@@ronjones-6977 I would be surprised if the overlap is more than 45%. Those who believe someone can change their sex to match their gender tend to be urban & trust medical professionals, and I would guess that people who believe in Bigfoot tend to not trust experts, a thing they share with many conspiracy theorists.

[@calliew311]

So, they made something better than Planet of the Apes, or anything Disney could make at the time, and they decided to make it with breasts? That's strange.

[@tomcollins5112]

@@calliew311 What actually convinced me was the female buttocks on the thing. Are there any women out there of that musculature and stature that you could paste some hair on and train to walk that way? That wasn't a male wearing a suit.

[@MikeH1768]

Sasquatch is often called Bigfoot, Yeti never complains.

[@katthawthorne1027]

The description of Bigfoot's habits and appearance sounds so much like an SCP entry.

[@kerriabate1042]

Sometimes I get more of a kick out of your side tangents than the actual content. Lol Have some more coffee 😂

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

They should have gotten Sax-Squatch to do the background music for this episode.

[@sozo_jamma1593]

Bigfoot: The hide and seek champion of the world. Also, what if the fact that they are blurry is their scariest feature! That's terrifying!

[@darthmagnum2007]

I appreciate the reliance and pull to the more scientific elements, and how it draws the viewer closer to "this may be possible". But also, as a native Washingtonian, its so much more than "does it exist or not". Its our folk lore, our stories, Its our own Loch Ness Monster (Which there is a theory that Loch Ness and Lake Chelan are "connected" due to Nessie "sightings" here as well. That also delves into the theory that Chelan has a driftwood floor, but is truly bottomless and has ancient giant sturgeon...) These are stories that have become our culture. Whether they are true or not does not matter as much here. Many WANT to believe, and that is good enough for them. The fact that we have one of the MOST believable cryptozoological creatures is pretty fun. I even wrote it into a Harry Potter fanfic based on Mt. St. Helens as a shapeshifting professor of Herbology. Hwy 20 over the North Cascade mountains has two sets of Sasquatch "tracks" the state road maintenance keeps up every couple years or so. Also, for those who have seen Harry and the Henderson's: The Seattle Interchange headed East does NOT just immediately transition into deep forest! That takes getting into, like, the second quarter of the horizontal length of the state to really get to... Like Sultan or Duval. Gotta go as far as Rockport or Newhalem to really get the woodsy vibes. Then past the Cascades, its sage-plains, farmland, or desert and basalt flats until nearly Idaho.

[@lisabeloved]

As a Washingtonian I 100% agree with you about it being part of our local folklore, where whether or not it really exists isn't really the point. It's our folk tale 🌲🍂🌿

[@lisabeloved]

I'm from the Olympic Peninsula area and we always heard and shared stories about the Lady of the Lake in Lake Crescent, and the fact that despite a constant flow of snowmelt into the lake, the level of the Lake almost never fluctuates. The theory is that at the bottom of the lake it connects to an underground river, which is why the lake is so crystal clear, and also contributes to why is stays so COLD year round.

[@SkunkApe407]

Y'all messing around in the PNW lookin for me. I'm in Florida, dudes! 😂 Who needs to hide when I have Floridian headlines?

[@jajssblue]

Superb sussing of the story of a sassy squatch!

[@josaking717]

Simon "It also has the ability to SHAPESHIFT *dripping with sarcastic enthusiasm* yes! That sounds reaaal!" I absolutely died 😂

[@kymmoore853]

What I always found interesting was that, when the Patterson-Gimlin footage was shot, the best ape suits we had were like the ones used in Planet of the Apes, which itself at the time was next level technology, and yet its stood the test of time and people, even now, mention that the technology to make a suit that convincing at the time wasn’t available. The other thing that makes me think about it is that the Bigfoot they supposedly filmed was female, if you go and try to get an ape suit from anywhere they’re always male and anyone that I can think of that would fake something you wouldn’t think ‘I know, I’ll make it a female...’

[@TheGrinningViking]

Kids in the town have stories about the suit getting passed around, made with badly tanned hides over a football helmet and one of those weird football breastplates. People saw boobs because people are weird

[@keithweiss7899]

A couple of years ago my friend and his wife had just left his dads house in Stoutsville Ohio, when a Bigfoot came running across a field and almost collided with his commercial landscaping truck. They were extremely shaken up! It was taller than his truck cab, so he estimated it to be about 8 feet tall. They are both young, sober, intelligent people who are not prone to fantasies. These things are easy to laugh about, until it happens to you.

[@SkunkApe407]

My bad. I had been picking blueberries and stirred up a nest of ground hornets. I was just trying to keep from getting stung. So sorry about their truck.

[@Maxley..]

There are so many who have had similar encounters. People with nothing to gain and possibly a lot to lose by sharing their tales. It's not a scientific viewpoint, but I am a cautious believer because of it.

[@aravenlunatic9028]

​@Random Guy Maybe if the Bigfoot was constipated or in the middle of squeezing out a 3ft poo log and was interrupted,it walked that way.🤔🤦

[@SkunkApe407]

@@aravenlunatic9028 you leave my momma and her drunk shuffle alone! Y'all think it's bears ransacking your campsites and getting into moonshine stills? Pfft!

[@michaelfox2433]

Sorry, but I simply don't believe your story even a little bit. If you think adding that they were "young, sober, intelligent people not prone to fantasies" adds any validity to your story,... you are truly delusional.

[@honeysucklecat]

I prefer to live in a world where Bigfoot exists than not, so Bigfoot exists.

[@Slava_Ukraine_70]

Almost spit my food out of my mouth laughing about the two gentlemen thinking that the other was an owl they were communicating with.

[@aste4949]

People love to imagine a big scary undiscovered creature in the wild, completely ignoring the hundreds and hundreds of undiscovered small lifeforms that actually exist. Large wild animals need lits of food and expansive territories. The odds of any remaining huge land animals existing who have not yet been confirmed by science are very slim.

[@wingerding]

That wouldn't be as interesting for these people.

[@joshuahadams]

I think one of the biggest thing against Bigfoot being real are the Tunnit. The ancestors or my people, the Inuit, spread across the arctic around c.1000 and met them as we travelled east and picked up stories of big, strong people who had faded into stories and legends, at least until 1925. In 1925 an archaeologist found a site near what’s now Kinngait on Dorset Island, one with artifacts unlike any known Inuit tradition at the time. These came from what anthropologists call the Dorset people, who mainly lived off the sea, preferring seals, whales, and walrus in comparison to the more generalist Inuit. They lacked bows and arrows, relying on their harpoons to lance and pull in large animals, likely the inspiration for stories of them being strong enough to row their qajait into the wind while towing Inuit in their qajait behind them. We have archaeological sites from across the arctic and subarctic to back up the stories passed down for the last five hundred or so years. Bigfoot has diddly squat.

[@cleverusername9369]

"As we traveled east" no, as THEY traveled east, you weren't there and had nothing to do with it.

[@joshuahadams]

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[@SusurrusBlue]

It is so funny that rude people always use their poor understanding of language rules to make stupid arguments. People use personal pronouns when referring to any group they personally identify with. Everyone at one point or another uses personal pronouns to refer to their sports teams, their culture group, their country, their family, the fandom of which they are part, etc. It is interesting how many people become linguists or historians when they are attacking other people online for no reason. Well, usually the reason is something like racism, sexism, queerphobia, and bigotry in general. Oh, the ridiculous smokescreens people use to hide their hate.

[@jamiecotterill2475]

On Shugliaq Island (Southampton Island).just northwest of Coral Harbor lies several huge footprints fossilized into the rock which are even larger than that of Sasquatch. These have been attributed to Tunnit.

[@eliharper6616]

Like cold Samoans?

[@christopherm.2001]

Love the way Simon's mind works. Always ready to hear his level thought processes. Only one comment about this subject matter, the native American names for Bigfoot are centuries old and have zero gain for reporting and recording. Exceptionally rare doesn't mean necessarily mean non existent. Common sense like Simon's is rare but still apparent. Thanks Simon for all the DTU.

[@TheLegPumpkin]

Not all fake sightings are by people who believe them fake, some truly believe they saw something. But Native Americans were also oral historians, and many tribes viewed mythical creatures in the way christians or muslims believe the bible or koran as literal when most historians point out how allegorical the stories were written. If you're going to take native stories of bigfoot at face value, the wendigo, thunderbird, and world turtle would also be fair game.

[@TheLegPumpkin]

When it comes to animals, exceptionally rare doesn't survive as long as sasquatch is said to. Breeding groups require hundreds for that time span, and we are talking about a massive mammal in north America

[@badman5852]

@@TheLegPumpkin how do you know they aren't like that species of lizard that are all female and reproduce asexually? Squatch confirmed by sciences.

[@jerrybartlett273]

​@@TheLegPumpkin they have been here on Earth longer than humans have. Please look up the Xanue Forest people if you want to know the truth about Sasquach

[@jamesy69002]

Me aussie- Simon doing an aussie accent- me LMAO🤣🤣🤣 Love all ur shows, Simon and basement cast xx

[@damienjstepick]

I got a chance to meet some of the best FX and suit creation guys for Hollywood and asked if they believed someone could make that suit and they said not a chance. They pointed to Planet of the Apes costumes and said that was the best they could do at that time. Then they mentioned it’s a female. The guy who claimed it was him was proven to no only be lying, yet he was known to make stories up and a few experts in anatomy said his walk was wrong and when they attempted to recreate the walk in a lab with athletes they couldn’t. I’m sad Simon didn’t at least provide research for and against.

[@woodpigeon7776]

DUDE.. Ski Free (or “The Skiing Game” as we referred to it) was legit terrifying , my god.

[@alexbruce7984]

I totally forgot about that game. I loved playing it lol.

[@alousnamer]

I like it when Simon yells at me immediently after the video loads. Comes in HOT. The true sign of a good Decoding episode.

[@btetirick]

Just a note to Simon. The map of Sasquatch sightings is actually very useful in the early phase of investigation. The idea is that if you are a person who believes in the sasquatch and want to find it, the map would show you were the predominant sightings are so you can narrow your search area. Hopefully it's also broken down by county as once you've picked an area to search you could then look at all the sightings in that area to get a rough idea as to the likeliest place where the sasquatch would be roaming so you would know where to concentrate your search. Mind you, this is just the initial phase and you'd still need to either find the sasquatch or at least find some very compelling evidence of its existence, but the point is that the map would be relevant.

[@Hooibeest2D]

The map is for showing where people are desperately bored so you know there's absolutely nothing to do there. Kind of useful!

[@lillylunapotter8079]

It's would be also helpful if people had a description of what they saw so that looking through you can also see if most of them sound like other known animals in the area or anything that has been found already like a bear that is larger than normal and has little/no fear of humans.

[@discojelly]

@@Hooibeest2D I would not call hunters, Country sherriffs, Avid outdoorsmen and Game Wardens people who are " deperately bored".

[@discojelly]

@@lillylunapotter8079 Most everyone who has had an encounter has entered their full description of the creature and their encounter to the BFRO or to us independent research groups. We don't have bear here in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma. And certainly don't have bear that can stand up at 9 feet tall and walk gracefully and two legs for 50 yards.

[@discojelly]

Indeed! And most of the folks who claim there is no way that these creatures or encounters exist.. have NEVER stepped foot into an area were encounters of been reported.

[@lealta1481]

I've gotten use to upvoting before I even watch. Thanks for entertaining me for all these years, Simon. I really appreciate it

[@theConquerersMama]

How could you not on this one??

[@darkman80723]

Lol, "Bigfart".....I like it

[@SkunkApe407]

Hey, I'm a big, hairy dude that likes tacos. My bad.🤷‍♂️

[@Abby_Liu]

I like how Simon's Australian impression is a scot-kiwi.

[@alastairthegreat2887]

Same place

[@danesorensen1775]

As an Australian, I am very impressed by Simon's attempt at a Rhodesian accent.

[@CrypidLore]

I would laugh hysterically at a Simon searching for bigfoot episode, he already likes hiking so he's 50% there lol.

[@MichaelOKC]

What I want to know is, how is it that Fact Boi can Rant and Complain about Danny writing a 5-7 minute introduction to a Brain Blaze episode.... but an hour long episode about Big Foot... Sure, no problem!?!

[@rustynut1969]

I can't say I'm a skeptic anymore after seeing him myself

[@garyjordan3914]

Gees , I feel for ya Simon . I used to laugh and make fun of anyone that belived in Bigfoot right up till I came face to face with one . That one thing changed my mind really fast . Thankfully with you being in the middle of Europe you will never have to worry about that happening to you .

[@the_mister_magister]

This entire channel is "simon being sceptic and also correct" and i'm here for it

[@promisedjubileedaniels]

THIS IS EVERYTHING I WANT IN LIFE!!! Simon and big foot in one episode? Perfection.

[@CoranceLChandler]

Have you ever seen Simon and Sasquatch in the same room together?

[@pamelamays4186]

Suggestion: A real animal that once existed. The Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger. Supposedly extinct since 1936, there have been alledged sightings of this elusive beast up until the 1980s.

[@btetschner]

I remember seeing a video of one before!

[@JessWLStuart]

A logger in Oregon told me the contract he had to sign to work explicitly stated that if he saw bigfoot while working, he wasn't allowed to tell anyone - especially not his supervisor. Considering what happened to the logging industry in Oregon over the Spotted Owl, I can understand their caution!

[@aaronsmith5947]

Do I even wanna know?

[@johnsguitarmusicanddemos]

@@aaronsmith5947Because of an endangered species being present, they weren’t allowed to log there.

[@josephmatos6802]

Over caffenated Simon is the best Simon he brings that strong OGBB energy

[@littlejampotsadventures]

Just what I needed 😌 hot chocolate, bed, and new mystery

[@jonpitts1978]

I like hot chocolate and bed

[@honeysucklecat]

What many don’t realize is the areas of the Pacific NW where Bigfoot lives are wild, difficult to access, and vast. Mountainous.

[@michaelfox2433]

And uninhabitable by any primate without shelter and fire. I lived there for nearly a decade and its wet and cold for 9 months out of the year. Naked primates could not exist there period.

[@calliew311]

Well ya, and the fact that they are all over the country. Not just the PNW.

[@saintsaens1992]

omg we need more coffein-drunk simon! i laughed my ass off xD the screaming bear killed me

[@terminalvelocity3132]

I had this false memory for years of a giant spider staring at me making chittering sounds. I figured I must have dreamed it or something and the memory stuck with me. Coincidently, I hate large spiders (I live in Australia). I don't recall how the conversation came up but I mentioned it to my mother a couple of years before she died. Rather than laugh, she looked me straight in the eyes, smiled and said "I cant believe you remember that. Turns out I was three years old at the time, sitting at the end of a hallway playing with a Tonka truck while my mother was in the kitchen. I stopped making noises so she came to check on me and found me silently staring at this giant mutant of a Bird Eating Spider. It had to be killed with a shovel. It's body took up the entirety of the blade with its legs dangling over the sides. She kept it for my father so he could have a look at it when he got home. FML.

[@Luthwen1301]

thank you for giving me one more reason to never ever visit Australia. I am terrified of everything that crawls and has too many legs/ eyes, and those things aren't even big where I'm from.

[@mzamethodman7134]

Arent goliath bird eating spiders only found in tropical areas? And the largest one discovered being around the size of a dinnerplate