Bob Heironimus, the latest man to claim to
 be the person in the supposed Patterson Gimlin suit

There have been many people who have tried to prove that Sasquatch or Bigfoot creatures are nothing more than a popular myth or a series of elaborate hoaxes. There have been a number of different people who have come forward, each one claiming to have been "the guy in the fur suit" or claiming to know of someone who helped stage the famous Patterson/Gimlin film "hoax" shot at Bluff Creek, California in 1967. The latest person to come forward and claim he was "the guy in the fur suit" that day at Bluff Creek is Bob Heironimus. He has tried to make a case for himself by enlisting the aid of writer Greg Long, author of the recently released and controversial book "The Making of Bigfoot". In his book, Long makes many improper assumptions based on inaccurate information and his own predetermined opinion that the Patterson/Gimlin film is a hoax. Much of the information in the book which Long claims to be "facts" are completely misleading and he seems to spend far too much time trying to prove to the reader that Patterson was some type of con artist instead of concentrating his efforts on the examination of the film itself. If Bob Heironimus was hoping that working with Greg Long would be the best way to try and prove his claim then he had better have a plan "B" ready because it’s just not going to work. Heironimus certainly isn’t the first to come forward and make this claim and he probably won’t be the last either. Despite all these claims and despite many years of expert scrutiny of the PG film by scientists and film experts, to this day nobody has been able to conclusively prove this film is a hoax.

Some people claim that well-known prankster Ray Wallace was the "creator" of Sasquatch, and that he alone was responsible for all of the tracks found in California in 1958. The problem with this theory is that some of the alleged "fake tracks" he was credited with making didn’t match the set of carved wooden feet he was said to have used to make the tracks. The fact that the wooden feet didn’t match the alleged "fake tracks" should have ended all belief in the theory that Mr. Wallace had "created" Sasquatch, the problem was the media. None of the many reporters that interviewed him about the track casts taken in the area of Bluff Creek and about his carved wooden feet ever directly compared the two side by side, or they would have easily noticed that they didn’t quite match.

Another major problem with this theory is that there were plenty of tracks, which were found in other states besides California. It would have been next to impossible for Wallace to find the time to visit all these other states to make all these fake tracks while at the same time trying to run his own business.

But perhaps the biggest problem with the belief that Ray Wallace was responsible for the whole Sasquatch phenomenon is the fact that tales of Sasquatch encounters go back as far as 1818 in American history and hundreds of years before that in Native American history. While it’s a fact that some of the evidence presented in the past has been faked such as various tracks, photos and videos by different pranksters, it's highly unlikely that all of the possible evidence has been faked.

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