I’m very skeptical of Bigfoot…
Clearly you haven’t seen this picture yet! http://prettygeeky.com/images/uploads/2 … ot-003.jpg
I’m not buying it. That looks like Spongebob Squarepants in an ape suit.
Good interview, but Tom has really been pushing the "counterculture" meme as an obvious allusion to Gyke in his interviews recently.
I just never felt Zodiac was trying to start a culture war or was any way aligned with hippies.
The takeaway I got from Tom’s interview was that he was strongly influenced by the famous Patterson-Gimlin film from 1967.
I thought that film had been debunked once and for all. Details are a little fuzzy, but I distinctly recall something about a gorilla suit and a guy admitting to faking a "footprint".
Bob Heironimus claimed to be the man in the suit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson … Heironimus
The family of Ray Wallace claims he started faking footprints in CA in 1958, setting off Bigfoot fever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson … ay_Wallace
Bob Heironimus claimed to be the man in the suit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson … Heironimus
The family of Ray Wallace claims he started faking footprints in CA in 1958, setting off Bigfoot fever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson … ay_Wallace
Ah, yes! I remember it now – watched parts of a documentary about it some years back (on Discovery or some such channel). As as I recall, someone (his son, possibly?) even showed the molds (he made dozens of them, apparently) he used to create the footprints.
I don’t quite get it, though: Are there Bigfoot believers around who still claim the film is authentic (meaning that his family and others are, bizarrely, lying) – or do they simply argue that the film being a fabrication is neither here nor there in the grand scheme of things (which would be a valid point, of course)?
Multiple people over the years have come out claiming to have some involvement in the original hoax. But, just like the many claims made related to the Zodiac case, they can’t all be correct. Attention seekers always come out of the woodwork with stuff like this. Bigfoot believers point out the discrepancies in the many accounts made by hoax claimers.
There still seems to be a lot of people (Tom included) who believe that the original film is authentic.
To me there is so much bullshit in the world that the burden of proof is still on the believers to convince the mainstream scientific community that there really is an extant ape-like creature roaming around and eluding close scrutiny all these years. The Patterson-Gimlin film is yet another UFO (Furry instead of Flying). 
Here’s one of the better stabilized versions of the original film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e-8FeEEo-8
If it was an ape suit, it was a pretty nice one!
FWIW I got my hoaxers mixed up above. What I referred to was the footprint faker (Wallace), not the female bigfoot movie guy (Patterson).
Anyway, I read up a little bit on the movie in question and it’s an interesting story. Patterson was a pretty good huckster by the looks of it. But how people can still insist the thing is real is beyond me.
S2 Monster
Here is a trailer for the upcoming I Heart Radio show "Monster"
Ultimately, the distance and relative detachment displayed by his preferred MO (not to mention the epistolary relationship he maintained with the press), suggest that he was either a virgin, impotent, or both. At any rate, this is not an offender with a lot of sexual experience/prowess.
All of this is IMHO, of course.
Do you have some kind of source for this hypothesis? I’m not doubting this might very well be the case, and from a merely intuitive basis agree. Just would be curious to read more about how a perpetrator’s sexual experience affects the degree of physical contact they choose to have during their crimes.
Monster S2 E12: Rabbit Holes.
I still like last weeks episode the best because of the finger print information that I had not heard before on Larry Kane.
This weeks episode has interviews of some of my Z friends ,Mark Hewitt, Tom V and Angie, Kevin Fagan and myself.
There is one bit of misinformation made by the interviewers , where they said that I knew some of the victims.
I knew some of Darlene Ferrin’s family and I am friends with her sister Pam, I had been to where Darlene worked many times, she hung out at the Coronado Inn where I worked. But I do not remember ever being introduced to her?
