It's Final - Famous 'Bigfoot' Film Clip Exposed as Fraud by AI

It was a sad day for conspiracy theorists who believed that the famous 1967 Bigfoot (or sasquatch) sighting on grainy film was true.

The controversial clip known as the Patterson-Gimlin film has been analyzed numerous times over the years with mixed results. Some thought it was true, and others thought it was a prank.

Then Bigfoot conspiracists biggest fear came true. 

The hoax was definitively exposed by social media user Rowan Cheung. He's the kind of guy who stays up on the latest developments in the world of artificial intelligence.

Cheung posted footage of the clip stabilized and de-grained and the results are clearer than ever before. Bigfoot was just some guy in a gorilla costume.

This isn't the only Bigfoot story to surface this year. People have claimed to have discovered a sighting of Bigfoot via Google Maps.

Full disclosure I use to live in Humboldt County where Bigfoot was heavily marketed for tourists. 

When I came up to Humboldt in the late 1970s the story wasn't that old, and I got to talk with locals who lived in the Six-River Forest area where the fake film made its debut.

Most of the people I met knew it was a made-up story by liked the publicity it brought to their area. It increased tourism/jobs in the area for years. Heck, it still does.

As it stands, I would have liked to meet those two adventuresome pranksters.

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