Bigfoot Lives!

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By Jay Ingram and David Newland, May 22, 2002

Everyone has heard legends, going back to pre-Columbian days, of a giant, ape-like creature that inhabits the deep forests of North America's wilderness areas. But for all the hearsay, no one has ever provided satisfactory proof of the existence of the animal known as Sasquatch, or Bigfoot.

The closest anyone ever came was in 1967, when a Sasquatch enthusiast named Roger Patterson and an outdoorsman named Robert Gimilin shot a short film clip that is now world-famous. The clip appears to show a creature more than 2 metres tall, calmly walking upright, away from the camera across a dry creek bed.

Patterson claimed until his dying day in 1972 that the film was authentic, as Gimlin insists even now. Thousands of Bigfoot believers agree!

But there are skeptics in the millions, and controversy has surrounded the film since its release. That's mainly because no further sightings have been made — that is, until now.

Jay Ingram visits the scene of a recent Bigfoot sighting in Central Ontario to unveil incredible new footage of the elusive creature in this week's edition of Jay's Journal, Bigfoot Lives!. Watch, listen, learn and enjoy!

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