- "Thanks, Jeff, for inviting me on your program.
It's been a long six years since I first began researching and writing
about the Patterson film, and now all the hard work has borne fruit. I
couldn't have guessed back then that I'd have made an appearance on your
program, along with Robert Kiviat and Kal Korff, finally being able to
tell the truth about this hoax film. Thank you for providing me the opportunity
to broadcast, for the first time, information the general public needs
to know, and has a right to know. about a piece of celluloid that's been
treated, frankly, like a religious idol and worshipped by a large number
of uninformed people.
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- You know, the famous Bigfooter, John Green in Canada,
told me, when I visited him and told him I was going to write a book about
Roger Patterson, "Nobody will want read a book about Roger Patterson".
I knew right then that he was wrong, and he's been proven wrong. People
are yearning to read this book. I'll tell you why: people really want to
get down to the bottom of this hoax. It's been talked about for years,
and especially on TV documentaries the past 6 years. Bob Kiviat and Kal
Korff were working on this problem, although from a different angle, years
before I started looking in Patterson.
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- Let me dispel a notion that's been floating around on
the Net that I and Kal Korff worked together on Bob Kiviat's World's Greatest
Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed which aired on FOX on Dec 28, 1998. That
allegation is totally and absolutely false. I was pursuing my own line
of inquiry. I never even heard of Bob Kiviat's name until Dec of 1998;
and had never met Bob Kiviat, In fact, I've talked to him two or three
times on the phone So, people need to drop this fiction immediately.
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- Second, Kal Korff has written the introduction to The
Making of Bigfoot, but nothing else in my book, except a few paragraphs
that I edited that form his account of solving the "feet" problem
on the Bigfoot. That particular item about the Bigfoot's fake feet are
dealt with in my book. Kal has reviewed my facts, as has Kiviat, and that's
it. So, I'm totally independent of these two gentlemen as far as my findings
go.
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- Also, this fiction that Korff is a "debunker"
is another falsehood. My Webster's New World College Dictionary defines
the word "debunk" this way: "to expose the false or exaggerated
claims of" something. Well, that's what I do in my book, I expose
a false claim. And that's what Kal is doing. But he's NOT A DEBUNKER IN
THE SENSE of A CLOSE-MINDED SKEPTIC. I know Kal's working on many other
projects where the truth must be told. One is terrorism; he's working on
a book called Secret Wars; and I've got a glimpse of it. Believe me, people
are going to be wildly surprised by that book.
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- Actually, what I did in my book is what any enterprising
lawyer or police investigator or fraud investigator does - find the facts,
assess the facts, compare the facts, analyze the facts, weigh them, and
draw a conclusion. The truth of Patterson was revealed to me by people
who knew him, not by me. Once people read the Making of Bigfoot, their
jaws will fall open, and they'll see that I am not a debunker, but just
a person who was and IS a person interested in finding the truth. No one,
NO ONE, I repeat, can call me a debunker or a liar or whatever, because
they aren't me; and I know a fact from an untruth. I take the stance that
ANYTHING, I mean ANYTHING, can be analyzed, and that facts speak for themselves.
Once you determine that a fact is indeed a "fact," then it's
a matter of weighing that fact against all the others. That's called CONNECTING
THE DOTS.
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- Ok, does Bigfoot exist? Bigfoot could exist. Why not?
Botantists find new plants everyday, new insects are discovered. There's
even video footage of an apparent hybrid ape -- the result of the mating
of an ape and a chimpanzee -- in Africa. That footage was aired last year
on CNN. The video appears legitimate, so far. Sure, Bigfoot could exist.
But if the Bigfooters want to prove it, they need to clean house, and start
deep-sixing a lot of the junk that has accumulated in their files over
the last half century. They need to dump hoax cases that keep hanging on;
they need to start raising the bar, and defining new standards of evidence;
they need to start focusing on their witnesses as well as their witness's
claims.
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- Yes, Bigfoot could exist, there are plenty of reports
coming out of the Pacific Northwest, and many from credible people, but
as long as those people claiming Bigfoot exists cover up or peddle their
poorly-investigated cases, the so-called Bigfoot community will get nowhere.
I'm also a strong advocate of responsible, fact-based journalism.
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- Frankly, the media over the years have abdicated their
responsibility to dig into the Patterson case. Why? "It makes a good
story, right?" Sure, the Patterson film makes a good story. But where
were the journalists who looked deeply into this case over the past nearly
4 decades, until Kiviatt, Korff, and I came along? Nowhere. I urge contemporary
journalists to do some digging of their own; there might be a great story
in Bigfoot-but the Bigfooters better be prepared to provide information
and the truth, not general theories and complaints about how they just
aren't understand by academic scientists.
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- Finally, I want to say that Bob Kiviatt and Kal Korff
are COMMITTED AND DEDICATED TO FINDING THE TRUTH. I've never met in my
life two of the hardest working individuals in the fields of television
documentary and the print media than these two guys. NEVER. I know for
a fact that their main goal is to GET TO THE BOTTOM OF CONTROVERSIAL AND
DEBATED CASES AND TO PRESENT EVIDENCE THAT MIGHT POINT TO OR PROVE A REAL,
UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENON EXISTS. Every word I've written in The Making of
Bigfoot has been published on strict standards of EVIDENCE and WHAT WOULD
STAND UP IN A COURT OF LAW.
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- My findings are BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. I've been
asked tough questions by Kal and Bob Kiviatt; believe me, they haven't
left me off the hook. Their role in the whole Patterson affair is to get
the truth out to the world. It's as simple as that. The public has the
right to know. It's time for flim-flam and unbased, unsupported claims
to END. I welcome people who can PROVE ME WRONG in The Making of Bigfoot
. I know I'm NOT WRONG, but if people feel otherwise, they NEED TO DISPROVE
ME.
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