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We address it in the next @BigfootnBeyond.
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This Chinese artist, Mo Yun, plays the traditional Chinese instrument, the guzheng. When she performs, she wears a Hanfu with wide sleeves and a cross-collar style, reminiscent of the Wei and Jin dynasties (220-420 AD). The Wei and Jin period is a political era in Chinese history that follows the Eastern Han Dynasty and precedes the Northern and Southern Dynasties, encompassing the famous Three Kingdoms period.
Jeff absolutely believed the PGF was authentic until his death. He and I discussed it several times after his interviews with the documentary crew, and a friend discussed it with him during his final weeks in hospice. Any suggestion that he changed his mind is misleading spin.
Did Meldrum Dump Patty?
That’s the claim some have floated after Marq Evans and Tamir Ardon showed him their mystery footage in November 2024 — that he knew the truth and no longer treated the Patterson-Gimlin Film as genuine.
The later record doesn’t support it.
In the April 2025 Backcountry Manifesto interview — roughly five months after that session — Meldrum walks through the biomechanics of the Bluff Creek trackway and the film itself with the same analytical posture he had used for years. He refers to the subject as “Patty” without qualification.
“…I’m quite confident in what I’ve described to you because you can watch it take place in the foot of Patty on the film. You can see her heel come up first and almost reach verticality. And if it was a stiff artificial foot, a rigid prosthetic, then the rest of her foot, given the orientation of the heel, would have to stick eight inches straight into the ground. But it’s not, you know. It’s just bent. It’s flexed, and that’s what we call the mid-tarsal break. … And that is the most fundamental distinction between a Sasquatch footprint and the human footprint.”
That is not the language of someone who had abandoned the film or Patty herself. It is the language of someone still treating it as a usable record of real anatomy and gait. The mid-tarsal break he points to on screen is the same feature he had long argued was difficult to reconcile with a costume or a stiff artificial foot.
Whatever Meldrum’s private reaction was in the moment — and the reports of discomfort about how the material was presented to him are relevant context — the subsequent public record does not support the claim that he gave up on the Patterson-Gimlin Film. He continued to analyze Patty as a genuine primate subject. The charge that he “knew the truth” and walked away from the film is difficult to square with the interview he gave afterward.
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Tune in this Sunday at 2pm for our first steps into Washington in search of The Sasquatch Factor!
From the forested coastal range to the Olympic peninsula to the northern Cascades, we trek the mountains and valleys to find the answer to our question. What is it about Washington that positions it as the Land of Giants? Find out exclusively on our channel this Sunday!
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What makes Washington Bigfoot country? From Paul Freeman’s footprint evidence with Cliff Barackman to searching for possible tracks with Shane Corson, Sasquatch Factor: Land of Giants explores the encounters—and the food, water and cover that could allow Sasquatch to thrive here.
Watch Sasquatch Factory this Sunday at 2pm EST on the Small Town Monsters YouTube channel.
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Are They The Last Cave Men?
Worcester Telegram, Worcester, Massachusetts · Sunday, July 29, 1934
Shout out to Boring, OR!
@NABigfootCenter
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Remember the Dyatlov Pass documentary from 2014?
The one that introduced you to the hikers, the tent cut from the inside, the mutilated bodies in the snow, and then — toward the end — the still of a dark humanoid figure in the trees. After all the suggestions that a Yeti had massacred those poor people, the mind did the rest. That photo is etched into my brain and it’s the one most of us still see. I walked away convinced a Russian Bigfoot had killed those nine students.
It was a fun ride, and a compelling one. But after the mermaid mockumentary was exposed, I realized my conviction about Russian Yeti had been manufactured. Enough of the real case was woven through the yarn that the fabrication felt like something I had arrived at myself.
Nine young people died on that slope in 1959. That part is not a debate. What a sixty-to-ninety-minute program can do with a tragedy like that is another matter. Soften the other explanations. Let the music and the editing do work no sentence has to do. Save the haunting still for last. After all the hinting, one blurry frame hits the imagination like a ton of bricks.
Cliff Barackman said on Dave Wylie’s show that documentaries are paintings — you can create whatever story you wish. That line fits. A documentary is not a window. It is a painting. The painter chooses the light, the crop, and the last image you see before the fade.
I am not saying every documentary is a hoax. I am saying the form has the power to fool people who thought they were watching a record of what happened. If it can do that with Dyatlov, it can do it with anything that already has mystery attached to it.
If you were on that ride in 2014, you know the feeling. Enjoy the craft when a new one comes along. Just don’t hand your judgment over to the producers.
At the @NABigfootCenter , we keep an updated sign showing the six most recent Sasquatch sightings we’ve received and investigated.
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This is the link to leave a voicemail (via computer/website using mic on your device) - speakpipe.com/bigfootandbeyo…
I know that they do use voicemail questions more when they get them so good chance it will be answered on the Podcast👍🏼
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Today is National Public Lands Day, a celebration of the wide-open spaces, wild places and unforgettable landscapes that belong to all of us.
Get outside. America is waiting.
Photo at @YosemiteNPS by Frank Lahman
ALT Stone bridge over calm river with autumn trees and Half Dome granite peak in the background under a cloudy sky.
