- Gebundene Ausgabe: 475 Seiten
- Verlag: Prometheus Books (März 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1591021391
- ISBN-13: 978-1591021391
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 16 x 3,1 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.070.200 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Tells the true story of hoaxer Roger Patterson and produces ultimate proof that his infamous sixty-second film footage of the legendary creature was a fraud.
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Bigfoot - huge, hairy, foul smelling, this legendary apelike animal continues to captivate the public's imagination. This fascination hinges on a single piece of motion-picture film shot in northern California in 1967. For thirty-five years, Bigfoot believers have been convinced that this sixty-second piece of film proves the physical reality of Bigfoot. But now comes a book that demolishes that belief, that produces final proof that the film footage is a hoax. "The Making of Bigfoot" tells the amazing story of Roger Patterson of Yakima, Washington. A part-time rodeo rider, chronically unemployed and dying of cancer, Patterson propelled himself into short-lived fame and fortune by exploiting his obsession with the Bigfoot subject and leveraging his expertise in manipulating and conning people to pull off one of the world's great hoaxes. Living within two hours of Patterson's hometown, for three years paranormal investigator and author, Greg Long interviewed more than forty witnesses in Yakima who knew Patterson intimately. The voices of these witnesses, combined with facts unearthed from newspaper archives, books, and court documents, tell the real story of Roger Patterson.
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22 von 27 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Actually no stars
13. März 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Auutor Greg Long claims to have proved the Bigfoot movie a hoax by finding the man who wore the suit and the man who made the suit.
The man he claims wore the suit says it was made in three parts out of the skin of a dead horse, and smelled accordingly.
The man who claims he made the suit says it was made in six parts out of ordinary costume materials.
How does junk like this get published?
13 von 15 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Not Enough Journalism Involved
28. April 2004
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I'm not really sure what to think about the Patterson film and as I am interested in this topic, I was hoping for an incisive, detailed look at the film and how it might have been made, hoax or otherwise. Unfortunately, this book is more the tale of a reporter piecing together anectdotal evidence about someone based on hearsay and opinion rather than an investigation into the making of the film.
I was prepared to welcome an expose of a hoax (should it be a hoax), but from the very start the introduction to the book presents the case for a hoax on the basis of something like "we don't believe in this film because we think Roger Patterson might have been able to fake it." That's not meant to be (and isn't) a quote from the book, just my emphasis on what I think the attitude of this book is. And that would be fine, but why not set out to prove it with facts? Instead, I'd say this book does little more than offer an opinion.
The central concept of this book revolves around the idea that Patterson faked the footage with a costume he either made or purchased and perhaps modified. The book presents interviews with the alleged costume maker (even picturing an ad selling the costume), the alleged costume wearer and a score of others who swear that they know that Patterson made or had a costume. Where is the costume and isn't the logical approach to show the reader something that really looks like something that Patterson showed us in the film? Seems like it should be fairly simple to do with all these people claiming inside knowledge of the hoax. (Some people Long interviewed don't even offer strong opinions, they just act suspicious, in Long's view!)
Maybe the latter could have been done, but the fact that it wasn't done by Mr. Long is a little troubling given his strong assertion of a hoax. It just seems that Mr. Long is only willing to go so far, and no farther, to make his hoax claim. Mr. Long, if there is a hoax, let's expose it! If not, well let's leave it at that.
Bob Mack, Indianapolis
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Absolute junk!!!
17. April 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Few things in life are as unpleasant as getting a tooth pulled. Doing taxes. Slaving away in a dead-end job. Reading "The Making of Bigfoot". Wait, what's that you say? Reading "The Making of Bigfoot" qualifies as an unpleasant experience? Yes, friends, it does. The whole book should be classified as "historical fiction". The first two chapters take extreme liberties by making suppositions about what Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin thought the day they filmed a Bigfoot, October 20, 1967. These first two chapters pretty much set the tone of the whole book. Long goes into his "investigation" (read character assassination) of Patterson with a zeal akin to rich televangelists who receive another check from someone they've just fleeced. He completely ignored anything good about Patterson, instead focusing on Patterson's habit of borrowing money and not paying it back, Patterson's arrest record and his "con artist" ways. It's clear that Long has hatred for Patterson, and complete disdain for Bigfoot hunters who support the PGF; he mocks the late Rene Dahinden's unique speech characteristics regularly throughout the book, and discounts John Green and Peter Byrne's assessments of the the PGf and regularly mocks them as well. Long interviews several witnesses, most of whom seem to have an axe to grind against Roger Patterson for one reason or another. He seems most excited by his find of Bob Heironimus, the man alleged to have worn the "suit", and also the man alleged to have made the "suit", Philip Morris. The two conflicting stories of how the suit was made and the fact that one party says it was in 3 parts, the other saying 6, doesn't seem to bother Long one bit. He puts both claims in the book and says that one account of the suit can be traced to a rumor put forth by Patterson. He arrogantly pronounces the PGF dead, and he the killer, by the end of the book, and the reader feels he/she has been through the literary equivalent of a tax audit. Do yourself a favor, don't buy this book unless you are really desperate or curious. Thumbs down to "The Making of Bigfoot".
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