He made a plaster cast of one of the prints and brought it to the local newspaper office.
The creature commonly known as “Bigfoot” received its name from a series of reported large footprints found in the forests of northern California in the 1950s. These footprints were said to be much larger than those of a human and became a topic of interest among locals and researchers.
The proof that Bigfoot is real … or is it?
The filmmakers were Roger Patterson (1933–1972) and Robert “‘Bob” Gimlin (born 1931). They are Bigfoot researchers that had traveled to Bluff Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River in the Six River Forest of Northern California.
