What it’s like to catch Bigfoot on tape

According to Bob Gimlin

It was a beautiful day in October. Roger and I had covered a lot of the area looking for footprints or other evidence. We had our equipment loaded up on our horses, and

Roger was filming the colours of the leaves and me leading my pack horse, riding up alongside Willow Creek. We came around a big downfallen tree-root system and, all at once, Roger’s horse started acting up. I looked and there was the Sasquatch, standing on the far side of the creek looking at us.

Roger managed to get off his horse and pull his camera out and run across the creek. You can see in the film how it’s shaking in the beginning. He stumbled and fell going up the bank before he stabilised himself on a fallen log. By then, the Sasquatch had travelled quite a way. It wasn’t running, just walking, but the stride was quite a stride – between 42 and 46 inches – so it was covering the ground quite rapidly. It was unreal how agile it was. When it went out of sight, I wanted to follow it, but Roger’s horse had run away and he didn’t want me to leave him there.

At the time, I wasn’t a total sceptic, but I wanted to see some evidence, and my thought after that day was: ‘Yeah, they really do exist.’

If you don’t believe the film, that’s your privilege. I’m not trying to convince anybody they exist. I know they exist, so I don’t have any questions about that. People have talked to me about somebody being in a suit. I can’t go that route. It was too real, too much.

– As told to Lara Sorokanich