Here’s the quote:

“There was, for example, the classic grainy 1967 film of Sasquatch traipsing along a tree line in the northern California woods, and footprints found in the same region 10 years earlier. Both were seminal pieces in the growth of the Bigfoot movement. Both were debunked as fakes years later. Neither revelation changed the minds of Bigfoot believers.”

In my opinion, Daegling is an intellectual fraud masquerading as a purveyor of accuracy and truth.

I once knew a brilliant man, prominent and influential in some circles, who did many good things in his life. However, “Dr. M.” had a fatal flaw: he was a racist. Not the cross-burning kind but, rather, the prideful kind. Dr. M. was German, and he refused to accept the possibility that Germany committed atrocities during the war.

“There was no holocaust,” he said.

It didn’t matter that Jewish prisoners said they were there. It didn’t matter that American soldiers said they saw the death camps or the victims. He wasn’t impressed by the photographic evidence. He refused to accept the reality of the holocaust, period, insisting that the anecdotal accounts and “so-called evidence” were misinterpretations or fabrications, and that holocaust historians were perpetuating a gigantic hoax.

Daegling reminds me of Dr. M.

After his death, Ray Wallace’s family claimed that he hoaxed many footprints, including one found and cast by Jerry Crew and made famous in a newspaper photograph. Wallace himself never made this claim, and not one shred of evidence in support of the contention exists. In fact, the available evidence clearly DISPROVES this assertion, as documented by the BFRO. However, the fact that one of Wallace’s nephews said it was so was good enough for Daegling. In his mind, apparently, the unfounded claim must be fact, because it lines up with his opinion.

Likewise, when Bob Hieronimus said he wore an ape costume and was filmed by Roger Patterson, Daegling accepted the bizarre and contradictory story. He needed no supporting evidence, the claim itself sufficed as truth because it matched his prejudice. Academically, Daegling appears to be little different than present day German Nazi apologists who refuse to accept information that contradicts their beliefs and who latch on to anything, regardless of the source, that supports their bias.

In my opinion, many of those who buy Daegling’s assertions are either betraying their lack of familiarity with the history of sasquatch research or exposing a personality trait they share with him.

Hubris.

The ‘best’ (?) analysis I’ve seen showed pictures of a tall, thin young man (6′4″ as I recall) superimposed over the film’s subject (the foreground trees, etc. overlayed with seemingly good precision), and Patty was a bit taller and much bigger than the human being.

Sorry, I didn’t read all the book. I had to lay it down a few times because of uncontrolled spluttering and was afraid I’d damage the library’s copy.

Did he buy the Wallace family story? Who debunked the Patterson film? Was it really Mrs. Wallace in the ape suit?

I think John Green did one of the best jobs of debunking the debunking. Nothing I could say can top this.

Or this, by Loren Coleman:

Surely Dr. Daegling has read them already and printed a retraction………somewhere.

Lu

- confessions and corroborations from Clyde Reinke, Philip Morris, Bob and Opal Heronimus (however you spell it), John Miller, et al;

- the photogrammetry study commissioned by the BBC that determined the entity in the film to be the same height as Heronimus;

- Daegling’s analysis of the film and his rebuttal of Glickman and Krantz;

- Long’s book and the subsequent article by Kal Korff and Michaela Kocis;

- my own cynicism as to Patterson’s extraordinary good fortune in being just at the right place at the right time once he had decided to make a Bigfoot documentary for sale; and

- my own gut reaction to the film: that it shows a big guy doing a mediocre monkey impression in a fur suit with a zipper down the back.

I understand that none of this debunks the film for you. It does for me.