Canadian mythology

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 44. Chapters: Bigfoot, Patterson-Gimlin film, Grover Krantz, Fouke Monster, Scott Herriott, Bigfoot in popular culture, Ogopogo, Harry and the Hendersons, Loren Coleman, Mogollon Monster, Abominable, John Napier, Spanish Fry, The Wild Man of the Navidad, Jon-Erik Beckjord, Shriek of the Mutilated, Daris Swindler, Thetis Lake Monster Hoax, Skunk ape, Mussie, Bigfoot trap, Tom Biscardi, Skookum cast, Lake Worth Monster, Formal studies of Bigfoot, Lutin, Fur-bearing trout, Honey Island Swamp monster, John Bindernagel, Momo the Monster, Kingdom of Saguenay, Manipogo, John Willison Green, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, Ape Canyon, Jeffrey Meldrum, Paul Freeman, Memorial Day footage, Grassman, Turtle Lake Monster, Nuk-luk, St. Louis Light, Raymond L. Wallace, Waheela, Trout Lake Monster, René Dahinden, Beaman, Old Yellow Top, Graham Roumieu, Gaasyendietha, Strange Abominable Snowmen, Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide. Excerpt: The Patterson-Gimlin film (also referred to as simply the Patterson film) is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a "Bigfoot", that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967 by Roger Patterson (February 14, 1926 - January 15, 1972) and Robert Gimlin (October 18, 1931). The film has been subjected to many attempts both to debunk and authenticate it. Most scientists have judged the film a hoax with a man in an ape suit, but other scientists contend the film depicts a cryptid, a creature unknown to science. Both Patterson and Gimlin have consistently dismissed allegations that they had hoaxed the footage by filming a man wearing an ape suit. Patterson died of cancer in 1972. Patterson's friend and business associate, Gimlin, has always denied being involved in any part of a possible hoax with Patterson and claims that he and his partner had encountered a real Bigfoot. Gimlin avoided publicly discussing the subject from at least the early 1970s until about the year 2000 when he began giving interviews and making appearances at Bigfoot conferences. Patterson said he became interested in Bigfoot after reading an article about the creature by Ivan Sanderson in True magazine in December 1959. Patterson's book, Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist?, was self-published in 1966. The book has been characterized as "little more than a collection of newspaper clippings laced together with Patterson's circus-poster style prose." It did, however, also include 20 pages of previously unpublished interviews and letters, 17 drawings by Patterson of the encounters described in the text, 5 hand-drawn maps (rare in subsequent Bigfoot books), and almost 20 photos and illustrations from other sources. It was reprinted in 2005 under the title The Bigfoot Film Controversy, with additional material by Chris Murphy. Some decades after the Patterson-Gimlin film's publicity, Greg Long interviewed people who described Patterson as a liar