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The recent South by Southwest Film Festival saw the debut of a documentary which has left the world of cryptozoology in shambles. Capturing Bigfoot has shown that the world’s most famous footage of Sasquatch, the Patterson-Gimlin Film (PGF), was a hoax.1 The now debunked video was first presented to the world in 1967. A pair of cowboys, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin, told astonished crowds that they’d been riding through a dry creek bed in northern California when they came across something unbelievable. Their video showed a massive “Bigfoot” casually looking back at the men before disappearing into the forest. (more…)