Is the Patterson film a hoax or a film of a real creature?
The Patterson film’s authenticity is still an open question. a. Grover Krantz – (From a Summer 1994 Interview, from the TV show Encounters the Hidden Truth) “I went through it, frame by frame, measuring everything I could on it… what the body proportions were… and I can state flatly that there is no human being alive who could fit into a costume with the dimensions that are shown there. Maybe it’s a man whose got his elbows out, and that’s the shoulders… But, then any man of that height… the elbows are much to far apart to be the shoulders… there’s one way you could do it…” (i.e. fake the movie) “…You get a six and a half foot tall man, go one third out on his upper arm, break it, and introduce a new joint. b. John Napier – There is little doubt that the scientific evidence taken collectively points to a hoax of some kind. The creature shown in the film does not stand up well to functional analysis. …I could not see the zipper; and I still can’t. There I think we must l
