Men’s Adventure Quarterly #14: The Bigfoot Issue!
It would have been around 1968 that a local theater in my hometown of Smyrna, GA booked a run for a nature documentary and tagged a short feature onto the bill; a 20-minute (or so) additional documentary that featured my first exposure to what would go on to become known as “ The Patterson-Gimlin Film,” considered now for several decades to possibly be real live footage of a living, breathing Sasquatch (more on that at the end of this article). I was instantly fascinated and completely enamored with the concept of a North American equivalent to the more famous (at the time) Abominable Snowman, or Yeti. I walked out of the theater completely convinced in the existence of Bigfoot, who would hold a place of interest in my life for the next nearly six decades. Throughout my childhood and into my teens and twenties, I continued to follow developments in the larger Sasquatch community. I bought ...