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K Korff on Rosewell & Bigfoot 39 K Korff on Rosewell & Bigfoot 39 Exposing Roger the gorilla head, you can only turn your head Exposing Roger Patterson's 1967 maybe a quarter of the way. And to look behind Patterson's 1967 you, you've got to turn your head and your Bigfoot film hoax: new shoulders and your hips. Plus, the shoulder pads Bigfoot film hoax: new in the suit are in the way of the jaw. That's why evelations shed light r revelations shed light the Bigfoot turns and looks the way he does in on a world-famous, the film. He has to twist his entire upper body." on a world-famous, [See also David Daegling and Daniel Schmitt's much-debated film article "Bigfoot's Screen Test" in the May/June much-debated film 1999 issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER.] supposedly showing a Heironimus also confirmed that he had to turn supposedly showing a Bigfoot creature his entire torso, instead of just his neck, because Bigfoot creature of how he was constrained in the suit. "The Bigfoot thing just wasn't a big deal in my life," Morris now reflects. "In the 1980s, Continued from Page 36 the film didn't have the momentum it had at Continued from Page 36 first. I decided to start talking about it. In the Morris's wife and business partner, Amy, last few years all these documentaries have helped make the famed suit. "Roger called us a come out. Most people by now know the film is second time and he asked us to ship him some a hoax, or they should know. We're at a point in extra gorilla fur. So we sent him some excess the public's relationship with the Bigfoot story, Dynel that was lying around," she said. it's time to tell my story. I've been thinking Philip Morris picks up the story: "He about the story for forty years." wanted to know how to fix the eyes. He said, 'You can see the white of the skin, when he [his The Eye Has It The Eye Has It Bigfoot actor] looks through the eye holes.' I said, 'Well, take some black makeup and put it The Patterson film also contains around the person's eyes, and also have him additional evidence that validates Heironimus's close his eyes and put the makeup on his claim. It was originally discovered by one of the eyelids. That should do it.' A couple of months authors (Korff) when analyzing a first- later, October '67, I was watching TV, and this generation, color-corrected copy of the film that Bigfoot has two left feet, but as this author film is being shown, and I see my gorilla suit. Roger Patterson's widow Patty herself supplied (Korff) first pointed nut in the Fox special, the 'That's my suit!' I yelled." His wife came in and, and was later shown in Fox's World's Greatest shape of the feet do not match the casts from the upon seeing the broadcast, agreed. Hoaxes. The key can be found in the seconds tracks that were later recovered at the site. Today, Morris Costumes is the single Jeff Meldrum, an anthropologist at the largest manufacturer and supplier of costumes that surround frame 352, the famous portion of University of Idaho, is a firm believer in the the clip where the "creature" looks back over its to Hollywood and to stores across the United authenticity of the Patterson film. Meldrum is States. Morris adds, "I'd say, looking at the right shoulder and stares briefly at the camera. convinced that the tracks found at the site match When enlarged and studied carefully in [Patterson] Bigfoot [film] in one of the those detail, the frames reveal a sudden burst of light the soles of the feet visible in the Patterson film. TV productions, the guy who wore the suit must on the right eye, which cannot be explained by With all due respect to Meldrum's have had his clothes on because the suit was normal sunlight reflecting off of an organic eye. enthusiasm, evidence has yet to be presented really tight on him." This was another important Curiously, its left eye remains in shadow, even that the prints that were purportedly left at the revelation that further proves the Patterson though there is nothing around the face to block site match the bottoms of the feet of the Bigfoot film is a hoax. Prior to Morris's the light. According to Heironimus, a cloth with creature. Morris's fourteen-inch "gorilla feet" comment for the record, Bob Heironimus, two holes in it for him to see through was are not physically capable of making the deep without Morris's knowledge, independently tracks that were later supposedly documented. testified that he had, in fact, worn his clothes draped over the front of the football helmet at least one inch away from his own eyes. This under the Bigfoot suit, and that it did indeed fit explains why the left eye of the "creature" is in Conclusion Conclusion him rather tightly. shadow, because it is obscured by the cloth. Morris stated that a six-foot-tall person could fit inside the suit. Bob Heironimus is However, this does not explain the light that Since the publication of Long's book, the media appears in the right eye. slightly taller than six feet, and he was very What does explain this sudden flash is a reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. The muscular as a youth, especially in the shoulders, secret about Bob Heironimus that only he and mainstream press is no longer taking the gills, thighs, and legs. Photographs taken of his closest friends are aware of: Heironimus's Patterson Bigfoot film seriously as evidence of Heironimus in 1967 confirm this. Using a anything but a hoax. Sadly, the reaction by technique called photogrammetry, a study of the right eye is missing, and he wears a prosthetic, many Bigfoot researchers has been not only or glass, eye! it was this glass eye of his that Bigfoot film done by the BBC calculated the reflected the bright sunlight. Detailed negative, but outright hostile. Unable to height of the Bigfoot at just slightly over six enlargements and enhancements of this area disprove these damaging revelations, they have feet. suggest that these reflections are consistent with resorted to everything from name calling and When asked about the length of the latex threats of violence and lawsuits to accusing feet that he supplied to Patterson along with the what one would expect of a glass eye and are everyone of being liars. Such behavior shows not the result of anything organic ill nature. rest of the gorilla suit, Morris replied, "Oh, I'd Further evidence in the Patterson film that when people cannot face facts, they tend to say fourteen inches." Not surprisingly, the also vindicates Heironimus's story. The alleged "shoot the messenger" instead of dealing Bigfoot tracks Patterson later submitted as his responsibly with the truth. "Tiffs book was evidence measured fourteen inches. Morris "fur line" of the creature that goes down its back written for the general public, who have been is in the exact spot where both Heironimus and adds: "The heel [of the creature] is too square- Morris claim the zipper is located. Remember, misled over the years, not the Bigfoot looking. It's a dead giveaway. Those are Morris distinctly told Patterson how to hide this community," explains Long. "They never definitely my feet that I sold Patterson," zipper from view, advising him to comb down bothered investigating Roger Patterson and his Regarding Bigfoot's gait, Morris states: long trail of fraud very carefully. Their "The Bigfoot researchers say that no human can the fur on the suit with a brush. Sure enough, standards of 'evidence' are not what science this Bigfoot, a wild creature presumably living walk that way in the film. Oh, yes they can! in wilderness, is remarkably clean and carefully demands. It's their problem to find a way to deal When you're wearing long clown's feet, you groomed. Also, in frame 61, the bottom of the with all of this now, the media and the public are can't place the ball of your foot down first. You moving on with their lives. We must remember, have to put your foot down flat. Otherwise, Bigfoot's right foot is easily seen. Not only is there are still people on this Earth who believe the arch on the wrong side, indicating that you'll stumble. Another thing, when you put on that this planet is flat and not round." []