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‘Capturing Bigfoot’ Review: An Astounding Documentary Uncovers the Truth
Variety ^ | 10 18 2026 | Owen Gleiberman

Posted on 10/19/2026 8:41:42 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

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This famous evidence of the creature known as Bigfoot was shot by a man named Roger Patterson in Northern California on Oct. 20, 1967. The footage lasts just 59 seconds. We don’t get to spend much time gawking at the creature (it’s only a tantalizing glimpse), but he’s there just long enough for us to notice several things. The hair on his back looks a bit shiny. And is it our imagination, or is this primitive creature not just walking but strolling, with a rather jaunty sense of purpose?

Why did this footage possess the world? As an opening title informs us, “No one has ever been able to determine whether the film is real or a hoax.” Then it adds, “Until now.” “Capturing Bigfoot” is an astounding documentary about the legend of Bigfoot — about how it was born, how it took hold, and how that iconic piece of film footage came to be. It’s a documentary that answers all the questions and solves all the mysteries. Unlike your typical film about UFOs, it doesn’t leave you with that vague feeling of “The truth is still out there, and I’m still not sure what it is.” “Capturing Bigfoot” shows you the truth, but what it really shows you is what that truth says about us, a society that went down the rabbit hole of wanting to believe and now, increasingly, lives there.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: aislop; bigfoot; bigfootwasontheark; capturingbigfoot; cryptobiology; debunked; grift; grifters; hoax; sasquatch; scam

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1 posted on 10/19/2026 8:41:42 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

I believe in bigfoot. I dont believe in this latest claim of debunking the Patterson footage.


2 posted on 10/19/2026 8:47:57 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times Editor)
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Somebody want to give the Cliff Notes summary?


3 posted on 10/19/2026 8:48:53 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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4 posted on 10/19/2026 8:50:19 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: yesthatjallen
In an age where EVERYONE has a high-resolution photo and video camera on them at all times, somehow that grainy footage from 1967 is still the only "evidence" that has been captured?

Yeah, Bigfoot is real, and aliens are all over our planet.

Here's your sign.

5 posted on 10/19/2026 8:51:44 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: yesthatjallen

They finally caught him? That didn’t take long at all.


6 posted on 10/19/2026 8:53:08 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: BipolarBob

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capturing_Bigfoot#Synopsis


7 posted on 10/19/2026 8:53:09 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
Bigfoot is at the end of Grinnell Lane in Barview, Oregon.

You're welcome.

8 posted on 10/19/2026 8:59:46 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: BipolarBob

Cliff Notes are from by gone days. Try SI.


9 posted on 10/19/2026 9:01:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: lowbridge

I don’t know what Bigfoot actually ‘is’; but I believe people have seen something.

Bigfoot makes a lot more sense to me than extraterrestrials visiting us in little spaceships; and yet we have politicians and government officials spending a lot of time entertaining stories of the latter.


10 posted on 10/19/2026 9:06:04 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Sacajaweau

What’s SI?


11 posted on 10/19/2026 9:09:25 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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To: lowbridge

“I believe in bigfoot”

Not until one is shot and drug in out of the forest or captured alive.

Until then color me skeptical.


12 posted on 10/19/2026 9:14:09 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: Menehune56

I think it was a typo and was supposed to be “AI”

The “S” is next to the “A” on keyboards.


13 posted on 10/19/2026 9:16:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: lowbridge

I’m interested to see Les Stroud’s (Survivorman) documentary on Bigfoot when it comes out in a few months.


14 posted on 10/19/2026 9:18:40 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: Menehune56

AI is now SI according to Trump’s EO.


15 posted on 10/19/2026 9:20:33 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Lotus Notes then?


16 posted on 10/19/2026 9:48:14 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ("Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach.")
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To: V_TWIN
I think it was a typo and was supposed to be “AI”
The “S” is next to the “A” on keyboards.

Nope. Trump renamed it.

17 posted on 10/19/2026 9:59:43 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left, the truth is right-wing violence.)
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To: V_TWIN

SI is the new word for AI, meaning Super Intelligence. President Trump has so decreed.


18 posted on 10/19/2026 10:32:09 AM PDT by TronaJoe
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To: yesthatjallen

Sometimes a rabbit hole is the safest place to be...


19 posted on 10/19/2026 10:35:28 AM PDT by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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To: yesthatjallen

There are perhaps less than 200 Florida panthers in existence. However, over the last 50 years, more than 450 have been killed by automobiles.

I’m assuming that Bigfoot is better at avoiding cars than is a Florida panther. However, if Bigfoot exists, we should have had a body by now.


20 posted on 10/19/2026 10:43:51 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands (If someone says that there are no absolutes, ask them if they are absolutely sure.)
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