Yes, I read the entire article, just for you. However, I had heard those stories and that evidence before. They are what prompted my response from my original post “I have heard compelling arguments on both sides.”

Shoes, we are friends, and love the “Mulder and Scully” aspects of our friendship. Besides, we have agreed to disagree before on Sam Rami’s Darkman. If our friendship survived that, it will certainly survive the Patterson-Gimlin film.

For the record, I don’t see myself as a Bigfoot believer as much as a person who is open to the possibility of such a creature existing, and I actually lean toward the Patterson-Gimlin film being a hoax. Having said that, I don’t believe the question of the Patterson-Gimlin film’s authenticity proves or disproves Bigfoot’s existence, and I think it would be wrong to completely dismiss all of the footprint evidence and the all the eyewitness reports. Science requires DNA evidence or a body and so do I. I may “want to believe”, but I also want proof.