THIS PICTURE IS 100 PERCENT GUARANTEED MAYBE KIND OF WHO KNOWS FOR SURE DEFINITELY REAL

FOR THE MOST PART, THE FILM IS three and a half minutes of grainy horseback riders and jerky pans, but it’s been scrutinised for decades amid every major Bigfoot debate. Because, two and a half minutes in, the lens of the 16 mm Cine- Kodak catches something strange.

We were just riding alongside the creek enjoying the warm sunshine day,’ says Bob Gimlin, who shot the film. ‘Then, across the creek, there was one standing. Everything happened so fast.’

Gimlin’s camera sees a large ape-like figure lumbering on its hind legs across a clearing. For a brief moment, the animal appears to look at the camera, and then it’s gone. This is the famed Patterson-Gimlin film, reportedly shot in October 1967 in the forests of Northern California. It is one of the most analysed pieces of film in American history.

To some, the Patterson-Gimlin film is definitive proof Bigfoot is as real as mountain gorillas or narwhals. For others, it’s a hoax akin to videos claiming to show ghosts, aliens, and lizard people. But Gimlin, now