Patterson made no secret that he was hoping to get documentary footage at the time he captured Patty. (A point his detractors like to make…sort of like calling a man out for catching a fish after announcing he is going fishing) Guess this is the resulting documentary film. I’d be intrested to see it. Has anyone here?

Re: “they toured the country in the late sixties and early 70’s to raise money to further their research and fund their business plans. This film would be shown at local theaters and event halls to generate interest and donations, then the footage of Patty walking along Bluff Creek would be shown. This all took place during the same period of time in which the “Minnesota Ice Man” was on tour, and once that was inferred to be a hoax and disappeared from the public eye, attendance to the Patterson and Gimlin Film Footage unfortunately also went into a steep decline, and Roger and Al called off the continued showings scheduled around the country.”

There is something wrong with the timing, the timeline, and the logic in the reasons for the decline in attendance.

The footage was taken in October 1967. It is stated it was shown in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Patterson and his partners (but not by Gimlin). The end date for this could not have been beyond 1972, when Roger Patterson died. Five years, max.

But the Minnesota Iceman was shown, mostly, from 1966 through the summer (maybe the fall) of 1969. It was brought back onto the state and stock fair circuit after that. There really wasn’t much press about it even being considered a hoax, in the mainstream media, only that it was a curiosity.

I’m not buying a link between the West Coast decline in Patterson’s “lectures” (occurring through the early 1970s, according to this press release) and anything happening with the East Coast media and Midwestern bookings of the Minnesota Iceman.

Frankly, won’t the decline in Patterson’s showings have more to do with his own illness and death in 1972?