The scientific community has overwhelmingly dismissed the film as showing a person wearing a costume. The film is still often held up by Bigfoot believers as the best piece of evidence for the creature's existence. The 'Patterson-Gimlin film' is a minute-long video that appears to show a female Bigfoot - later nicknamed 'Patty' - walking through a clearing in Northern California.

What is likely the most famous Bigfoot sighting was caught on camera in 1967. (Image credit: Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Images) Patterson-Gimlin film: 1967Ī still image alleged to be of Bigfoot taken northeast of Eureka, California in 1967. However, Daegling points out in his book that even though Ostman said the encounter took place in 1924, he didn't write it down until 1957, after he heard Roe's tale, so he may have been inspired or influenced by Roe. Ostman's descriptions of his captors are similar to that of Roe's 1957 account. Ostman was supposedly held captive by the family, but said he eventually escaped when papa Bigfoot ate Ostman’s chewing tobacco and fell ill, according to a retelling of the story in anthropologist David Daegling's book ' Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend (opens in new tab)' (AltaMira Press, 2004). Ostman was camping alone when he says he was scooped up in his sleeping bag by a papa Bigfoot and taken to meet momma Bigfoot and two Bigfoot children. Prospector Albert Ostman claimed that he spent around a week with a Bigfoot family near Toba Inlet, British Columbia in 1924. Related: 'Expedition Bigfoot' scours Oregon woods for signs of the mythical and elusive beast Albert Ostman abduction: 1924

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