Cryptids · 2012 · 70 min

Hoax of the Century

Directed by C. Thomas Biscardi

In 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin walked out of the woods near Bluff Creek, California with roughly one minute of 16mm film that would change the trajectory of cryptid research forever. The footage ? a dark, upright figure moving through the tree line, pausing to look back at the camera ? became the most analyzed, debated, and disputed piece of film in the history of the unexplained. For nearly sixty years, it has never been definitively debunked. Until now. Hoax of the Century makes the case that the Patterson-Gimlin film was not a discovery ? it was a production. A short clip engineered for profit, built on deception, and sold to a world that desperately wanted to believe. The film brings together witnesses and firsthand testimonial interviews from people who were there, who knew the men involved, and who have carried this story for decades. This is not another round of enhancement analysis or blurry frame-by-frame debate. This is testimony. Real people. Direct accounts. The story behind the story of the most famous piece of Bigfoot footage ever recorded. What you believe after watching is up to you. But you will never look at that footage the same way again. Hoax of the Century is essential viewing for anyone who has ever taken the Patterson-Gimlin film seriously ? and essential viewing for anyone who hasn't.