after all, perhaps the mystery is what we love most of all. unexplained images that captivate and perplex. >> the alien in the film i saw looked like it had been very badly injured. >> an eerie evening in a junkyard. >> the thing was out here just twirling around up in midair. >> it or she is looking for something. >> and formations that seem to appear out of thin air. >> it's very mysterious. we don't know what it is. >> in this episode, film and

video that many believe provide evidence of mythical creatures on land -- >> here's the proof. here's proof that bigfoot exists. >> -- sea -- >> something just shot across this bay as if a torpedo went through the bay. >> -- and in the sky. >> a major sighting here. >> it was a massive span. over a mile wide. >> "caught on camera: mysteries and monsters." cameras can capture what the human eye can miss. >> the thing was out here just twirling around up in midair. >> but even after watching this video over and over, you may still wonder what you're looking at. >> when we're dealing with a film of a ghost, we're dealing

with a kind of allusion. >> that right there just sent chills down my spine. >> july 18, 2002, oklahoma city, oklahoma. kathy henley and colonel peacock are working the late shift at puckett's wrecker yard. >> it was around 1:03 in the morning of the 18th. me and colonel were sitting there at his desk. he was filling out his paperwork and going over it. to the left of me, we had a monitor sitting there. while i was talking to him, out the corner of my eye, i could see something moving around a lot. >> kathy turns to watch the security camera and can't believe her eyes. >> the thing was out here. and then after it twirled around going through the back end of a car, you could see a ball of light just shoot off. i told colonel, i said, you need to go check the lot out. >> that's when i came out here to see if anybody's around or doing it, and i couldn't find nobody. >> what was was in the yard has

vanished. >> so i pulled the videotape out and i took it home with me. when you go from a little screen like this to one this big, you could actually see it. and to me, honestly looked like a woman wearing overalls with blonde hair and a white shirt, and she was just sitting there twirling around with the cars and everything back here. >> the security camera records fewer frames per second than a regular video camera, giving the image a jerky appearance. >> i know by the videotape it looks like slow motion and there's glitches. that's because you're taking 24 hours of air time and putting it on an eight-hour tape. when i was seeing it, it was like taking your arm like a ballerina and just going in circles. >> unnerved, kathy calls her husband. >> i said, i need you to come home and see what i seen on this tape. he looked at it and he went, what is it? i said, david, what do you think it is? he said, do you think we ought

to call chris? and i said, well, yeah. >> they said something's happened on the tape. you need to see it. you just need to see it. david, what is it? i wasn't sure what it could be. he said, it's a ghost. i went, no. bring it up. let's see it. . >> we went ahead and brought it up here and showed chris, and that's where it all blew up. >> news of the ghostly image caught on puckett's security camera quickly spread through oklahoma city. >> it went from one cop, two cops, four to eight cops to eighteen, then the fire department got in on it. we had people from the sheriff's office come in. we had the attorney general's office come and look at it, investigators. it was pretty amazing. >> it's not long before the apparition catches the attention of lieutenant kevin parton from the oklahoma city police department. >> mid-june 2002 i responded to

an injury accident in about the 3700 block of airport road in oklahoma city. upon my arrival, i found a female that was laying in the roadway. she was a 33-year-old white female, and she sustained injuries that were serious in nature. and then sometime later the female passed away due to her injuries. >> this is where the story gets even spookier. >> the officer that worked the scene had come up here and he said, well, she was wearing a little shorts set, overalls, with a little white tank top under it and said she had blonde hair, but she had it pulled back into a ponytail wearing a cap. that right there just, oh, my god, just chills. >> i was surprised at the image i saw because what the woman appears to be wearing on the tape is exactly what the victim was wearing the night of the collision. >> curious, chris looks at his notes from the vehicles in the lot the night the so-called

ghost appeared. one record leaps out at him. >> there was a pickup, and it had had a bad accident, ran into the side of a bridge and was damaged pretty bad. >> the license plate of the pickup truck sitting at puckett's matches the one from lieutenant parton's accident scene. >> the night this incident happened was the first night it had been moved from the spot it was originally in. we moved it because the salvage pool was coming to pick up the car to sell to salvage. so that was another weird coincidence. >> the time of night the image appears is also eerie. >> the time of the accident was about 1:05 in the morning. and then the time the image appeared at puckett's wrecker was nearly the same time. >> i think it was her spirit, her apparition, and she come back to look for something. >> when people would watch it, the first thing they'd talk about, either say it or she is looking for something. >> her husband had come up here and cleaned out the truck and had got all her belongings out of it like her wallet with her kids' pictures and stuff in it.

so it could have been that. >> paranormal investigator joe nichol has a different theory. >> the least likely possibility is that it's a ghost. the idea of a ghost is a lovely one, very romantic, but not credible. but illusions with films of things that could look like ghosts are usually hoaxes or anomalies that just happen. >> over the next ten years, psychics, camera crews, and professional debunkers analyze the video. none have been able to definitively explain the image. >> i believe that it's not a hoax, doesn't have the warning signs and earmarks of a hoax, not easy to reproduce as a hoax. but it looks just like what happens when various kinds of insects get attracted to a security camera. and i think it's the simplest explanation. >> one set of researchers came in. they brought a little martian

doll and put in on a string or stick and waved it in front of the camera. one crew came in and thought it could be a electronic bleedover from some sort of an electronic outside source. but if it was the system at fault, why not one of the other seven cameras? i had a hard time believing that, especially that night. there was no storms. there was no interference. there was no wind. you know, there was no martians. there was no spaceships. you know, there just wasn't anything else to go with it. >> i believe there's a possibility it could have been her, and i watched several people come to oklahoma city and they've made attempts at debunking the myth that this might actually be her. and i haven't seen anybody yet that's been able to come in and show that this could be possibly something else. >> today i still don't know what the image is. coming up -- >> it was just beginning to form out of nowhere. >> curious formations crop up on a farm. >> it's very mysterious. you don't know what it is. a 3de

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something unexplained is happening in this field. >> this is amazing. >> suddenly, the circles would form out of nowhere. >> and it's all caught on camera. >> it's very mysterious. we don't know what it is. >> for 400 years, crop circles have sparked a debate between believers and skeptics. are they messages from extraterrestrials or manmade art? >> it's contentious. you can get into heated discussions and arguments with people about it. >> august 11, 1996, wilshire, england. according to crop circle researchers andy thomas and francine blake, the story begins on a dark and stormy night. >> a crop circle researcher

headed out with a video camera to see if he could see ufos or maybe crop circles. and he went to an area where many had appeared over the years. so he went in the early hours of the morning, it is claimed. >> he came here on his own, therefore, and it started to rain at about 10:00. but it rained very heavily, i mean, a real downpour. i've never seen rain like that. it was very heavy. it caused flash flood in a village just down the hill there. >> he puts up a tent and falls asleep. at daybreak, something wakes him. >> he heard a clicking noise, like crickets, he described. when he trained his camera on the area where he heard the noise, he started filming. >> what he catches on camera is perplexing. >> and then you see these little balls of light who make the crop circle. it's a question of not even a second.

it's very, very quick. he was startled. >> the mysterious balls of light appear out of nowhere and hover over the field. but watch what happens under the lights. >> underneath the lights, you could see this snowflake-like crop circle appearing out of nowhere within about seven seconds. it is probably one of the most controversial aspects of the entire crop circle phenomenon that we have. >> this is the proof believers have been waiting for. or is it? later that day, the videographer takes the video to the barge inn, a local hot spot for crop circle enthusiasts. >> we saw it, about t10 or 12 o it. >> it's very rare that when it actually you can capture something on film. >> this footage was incredibly important because nobody had ever managed to film the formation appearing before or never in a way that was absolutely clear. >> but who is this researcher? and is his imagery genuine?

matt williams also saw the oliver's castle video that night at the barge. his assessment? it's a fake. and he has a theory on how it was done and who did it. >> the oliver's castle video was created by a guy who worked for a television company. he created this in his cgi computer editing suite. >> adding to the mystery, the man disappears before anyone can ask him if he faked the video. >> what you would have needed to do to fake the video is obviously get footage of the formation. now, we know that formation was not there the day before. so he would have had to have taken the footage that morning. how did he know it was going to be there? did he know who made it? did he make it? that has never been nailed down. he would have then had to have rushed the footage back and then added on the balls of light. now, that's going to take time to marry up these two things and

make it convincing. >> but did he have enough time to fake it? don't forget, the film is shown at the barge the same day the circles appear. >> he was accused of having done a sequence on computer and then copy it onto film. i mean, you'd have to have facilities like hollywood to do that kind of stuff. in 1996, it just wasn't feasible. >> the videographer is written off as a fraud and ostracized from the crop circle circles. >> you have two views of the situation. one is that he really did film this and it was real and he was so taken aback and frightened by the attention that was put towards him because it would have been an important piece of evidence if absolutely known to be real, some say he backed off. some say he said, i don't want any more to do with it, and that's why he wouldn't come forward. others say basically that if the footage was real that he had to be persuaded into silence, that somebody had to pay him or force

him to say that he'd faked it to drain the energy out of the situation. >> he was very badly treated, and it took detectives to find out where he was. he was accused of all sorts of things. and in the end, he ran and we didn't see him again. it was very unpleasant and very sad. >> he's pretty hard to track down. this of course just adds further layers of intrigue. >> and what about the weather that night? would hoaxers really have worked for hours in torrential rain? and wouldn't they have left muddy footprints all over the formation? >> we know from experience, when you walk inside a wet crop formation, the first thing you do is tread wet, muddy footprints all over it. and yet inside that formation, when it was first discovered, there were no muddy footprints. >> it's not manmade, but there are people who would do everything to convince everyone that it is manmade. there's no evidence it's manmade. we've never seen anybody do that.

never. >> matt williams disagrees. >> what we do is we use this to flatten large areas. i'm right-footed so i'll use this foot. >> for 20 years, matt has been making crop circles and he has the conviction for causing criminal damage to prove it. >> a complex design would normally start around 10:00 at night when it gets dark in the summer months. and you'd be working until 4:30 in the morning when it gets light. >> this night vision video shows matt and fellow circle maker terry roderick making the famous serpent circle which fooled believers in july 2011. >> you use one person as a center point and hold the end with tape measures. use the measurement and sidestep to scribe the actual foot lines, which then you use geometry or you can improvise and be a bit more freestyle with it, start creating the pattern. >> but even they don't know who or what created the famous oliver's castle formation.

>> i think one of the interesting things about this controversy is that it's gone on for so long. i mean, here we are a decade and a half on and still nobody has definitively nailed this as a fake. and i'm willing to believe either. i'm willing to believe that it could be a fake, it could be real. but i've never seen definitive evidence either way. coming up -- >> i got four of them. major sighting here. >> a close encounter of the peculiar kind. >> i've never seen anything like it before. i have the worst cold with this runny nose. i better take something. dayquill cold and flu doesn't treat your runny nose. seriously? alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is.

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mysterious lights, and a few even catch them on camera. >> there's another one! >> where? >> whatever the phenomenon was, it was really eerie. >> march 13, 1997, phoenix, arizona. >> i got four of them. major sighting here. >> an enormous arc of lights suddenly appears near a mountain range southwest of the city. >> holy [ bleep ]. they're lined up in a pattern, man. there's geometry behind this. >> it was 15 1/2 years ago that this whole thing happened, and this footage has been around the world and no one to me has come up with a plausible explanation for it. >> mike christian, a phoenix resident for more than 20 years, has a perfect view. >> i was watching tv about 10:00 at night. and i noticed a light to the east here directly on the other side of this mountain. so i went and got my camera. and i started to film that. and as i was filming that, all of a sudden, this whole array of lights started to form this arch that you see in the videotape. it was an exciting thing because i've never seen anything like it before.

it was very bright. it looked like it was very close. i got pretty excited about it. i called my wife. hey, sue! >> well, that is a totally different configuration than we've ever seen before. >> dr. lynn keti also sees the lights and takes this video. >> i was excited to get out there, and i grabbed my camera. by the time i got out there and looked up and got the camera focused, the six had changed to three, like the end points of a giant triangle. by 4:30 that afternoon, my video was plastered on every news station. it was unbelievable. it was exciting. here i'd been documenting these things for two years, then i learned thousands of people saw what i'd been seeing. >> is this a ufo sighting with photographic evidence from multiple sources? paul scohan, an astronomy

professor at arizona state university, has a less extraordinary explanation. >> here in the desert southwest, we have a lot of military bases and rocket launches, and it's very easy to see them because we have 330 clear nights a year here in phoenix. so it's very easy to see these phenomena in the night sky whereas elsewhere in the country maybe you wouldn't see them. >> look, the one in the middle is doing something. it's going out of alignment. >> with a growing interest in the lights, the military responds to witness accounts. it asserts that the maryland national guard was dropping illumination flares that evening directly behind the estrella mountains where the lights were seen. scohan believes the military's explanation. >> as we went through the video and those lights started to wink out, at every time a light was extinguished, it seems to line up exactly with the ridge line of the mountains itself. the area that is down here to the southwest of the mountains, there is a part of it that is set aside for use by the

military. it's called the goldwater bombing range. and a standard practice for a night bombing run is to drop high-altitude bombing flare that's are very bright sources of light so you can see the area on the range that you're trying to hit. and they have parachutes attached to them so that their descent is slow dramatically. >> but witnesses are not so easily convinced. >> to blow this off as flares is a joke. it's been a diversion for 15 years. i mean, it was a very easy answer when you look at the footage because the footage doesn't do it justice. >> i've seen them dropping flares, and they didn't look like flares. they looked much brighter. plus, they had a really consistent pattern to them. when flares are dropped, they're sort of dropped in bunches and look scattered. >> paul scohan says arizona's unique weather could allow them to stay in formation after being dropped from planes. >> we have numerous evenings

here in the desert, especially in the spring and the fall -- and the lights happened in march -- where the air is completely still. there is no crosswind that would disturb a formation of that kind. >> i think probably it's got something to do with military, with some government experiment, which would seem logical to me. i don't think -- i don't know if there's evidence of it's alien spacecraft. there's no way of knowing that. >> given that we are one star in 100 billion in our own galaxy and there are 100 billion other galaxies out there, it would be unfortunate if we were the only sentient life out there. but, so far, thre is no evidence that there is other life elsewhere that we have seen yet. >> when you hear over and over hundreds of people describe what they saw and also how it made them feel, they were mesmerized.

they were in awe. >> the last one left. it's gone. >> there it goes. >> we may never know. but, nonetheless, it really was so dramatic and so different from anything, anything you can ever imagine being here on earth. coming up -- >> seeing the exposed bone where it looked like it had been ripped and burned. >> i thought it was extremely gory. i thought it was fascinating. >> are you a skeptic or a believer?

hi, i'm richard lui with your hour's top stories, faa is at the scene of a small plane crash that killed four members of one family in kentucky. a 7-year-old girl is the only survivor. that plane went down in a heavily wooded area yesterday. the faa losing contact with the plane shortly after it reported engine trouble. a federal appeals court denied a delay to the trial of

dzhokhar tsarnaev. the defense wanted to move the trial out of boston. jury selection begins on monday. now back to "caught on camera." it's the controversial film that captivated even nonbelievers. >> i thought it was extremely gory. i thought it was fascinating and compelling. >> but it's also the one skeptics called a fraud. >> anyone who would believe that is what we would call pathologically gullible. >> so what's the real story behind this alien autopsy that's claimed to be caught on camera? 1992, cleveland, ohio. british film maker ray santilli is producing a documentary on elvis presley. but while searching for footage of the king, his quest taking a bizarre turn.

>> in cleveland, we came across a guy with the most remarkable film of elvis. we purchased that off of them. then he said, are you interested in anything else? >> santilli claims the man also has never-before-seen video of the roswell ufo incident. >> and he explained that in 1947 he worked for the army air force and he was involved in photographing the recovery of a crash vehicle and these creatures. that's where the story started. >> the roswell story first hit headlines in 1947 following reports that a ufo had crashed in new mexico. >> there was scattered debris. the whole thing weighed just a few pounds. it was foiled paper, sticks, tape, and rubber. immediately the government came in and they said, oh, it's a weather balloon, and that's that. >> rumors of a government cover-up begin to circulate. and before long, the story starts to include reports of extraterrestrials on board. but if unearthly beings were recovered, what happened to

them? >> he showed me the film. it was remarkable because it was obviously the autopsy of a creature of some kind. safe to say possibly surgeons are certainly operating with a scalpel. they are separating the skin and the body tissue. they're removing organs. and they're placing the organs into glass jars. they're peeling back what seems to be a black film that's over the eye. and they are conducting a medical examination. >> the film you're watching premieres on television in 1995 to more than 11 million viewers. 32 countries buy the rights to televise the shocking film. the audience is told that the footage is authentic. in fact, it is not. according to santilli, it's a re-creation. this is what he says happened to the original alien autopsy footage that he purchased in cleveland. >> we got the film back into england and ran it through the machines.

it was peeling off as it was going through the machines so we just had to stop. >> i was very, very disappointed and upset. we thought we had something to show the world. >> if you bought something this valuable, it might seem logical to try to restore it. instead, santilli says he decides to re-create it with the help of john humphries, a well-known hollywood sculptor. >> we had frames. we had a lot of images. john was given the responsibility of creating exactly what was on film so that we could dovetail it into the film and sort of create what would be a seamless 20 minutes. so we plugged the gaps, basically. >> the alien in the film i saw looked like it had been very badly injured in some kind of incident. and there was a big tear around the knee and burns here and there and bruising. i was very shocked, very shocked. >> humphries says he viewed

frames from the original damaged film and was able to replicate the alien seen on the operating table. >> we didn't make any sculpture. you start with an armature, which is an aluminum frame. so you make a frame, get lots of bags of clay, and then you literally just manipulate that clay into the shape and form you want, in this case, an alien. it's painted then with special silicone paint. you can then set about doing effects. i just got some bits and bobs from the butchers. and interpreted what i could see from the pathology going on on the alien in the film as best i could. >> john even appears in the film. here he is holding the scalpel. >> i have to take the role of the american scientist/ pathologist from the original film. i just had to don a radiation outfit and cover myself. that's why you don't see my face in it. but that's me doing the pathology. >> it was a work of pure genius. i'm very proud of it, but it is a restoration.

>> the deception goes all the way to, oh, okay, well, it was a hoax, but now we'll make money telling you how the hoax was done. >> despite questions about the film's validity, the fascination is real. >> when we went public with the alien autopsy footage, we were visited by a number of delegations from various countries around the world. and the people that we saw were really very high up in their sector of either politics or military. the film also influences hollywood invasion movies such as "independence day." and santilli believes it has a bigger influence. >> first time the government acknowledged area 51 after our first transmission of the film. we transmitted at the end of august '95, and a couple weeks later the american government acknowledged the first time its existence. >> in 2006, more than a decade

after the film is broadcast, santilli publically admits that large parts of it are a re-creation. but he maintains that sections of the film are original and real. >> so we have a fake film of an allegedly genuine film of a real alien. i'm not buying it for very good reason. >> for the people that say the film never existed, there's an exclusive for you. there's a few frames. >> is there anyone out there who still thinks the alien autopsy is genuine? hmmm. >> right, he's adamant. he's bought this film. he believes in it. i believe him. and it was kind of left open really. no one could be 100% sure about anything. but ray believes in the film, and i believe him. >> santilli plans to auction the entire unrestored original film. he wants no less than $5 million. >> to have santilli say "trust me," i would say to him no. coming up --

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pretty big and it was shifting. >> and that legend has been kept alive largely by one mysterious piece of film shot more than half a century ago. >> my father took a film in 1960 of some object in loch ness. and that pretty much changed his life. changed my life. >> april 1960, loch ness, scotland. armed with a rented 16-millimeter camera, british aeronautical engineer tim dinsdale is monster hunting. >> he read an article in 1959 in a small magazine and became fascinated by the subject. the article covered things like a surgeon's photograph and dozens of other people's eyewitness testimony. >> the 1930s and '40s saw a surge in apparent loch ness monster sightings, including this one filmed by malcolm irvine. dinsdale wanted in on the action. >> so he went up there and his goal was to get unequivocal moving film. on his first trip, he got a sequence of film. >> on his fourth day at the lake, tim captures what thousands before and since have tried and failed to film. >> he described it as for all well being like the back of an african buffalo. same color tone. quite an enormous -- quite a

large object. as i say, several feet wide, several feet out of the water. with a sort of reddish-brown hide. and, as he watched this thing, it suddenly took off. then he remembered why he was there. then he started filming. >> is this the elusive loch ness monster finally caught on camera? >> well, that's the perennial question, isn't it? that's the $64,000 question. he really didn't know what it was that he'd filmed. >> for 50 years, this grainy, 62-second film has captivated the world. >> it was analyzed by the royal air force in 1965, and they measured the object you can see in the film. and they say it's six feet wide across, five feet high out of the water. it moves up to ten miles per hour. and as it's moving, it gets lower in the water. and their assessment is, well, it's not a boat, can't be a submarine. tlfrp therefore, it must be some

form of unknown animate object. >> despite inconclusive evidence, monster hunters and tourists flock to the shores of loch ness, hoping to get a glimpse of nessie. >> we came for a whiskey tour. and i said we've got to see nessie. hopefully he's going to show up for us. >> but sightings are rare, which may only feed the obsession. >> since 1991, i've been full time living in a van on the side of loch ness hunting for whatever the explanation to this mystery is. >> steve feltham's father brought him to the loch in 1970 when he was just 7 years old. he's been obsessed with the legend ever since. >> since i've been here, i've found out that the loch ness monster is extremely elusive and we're still no nearer really identifying what these animals are. it's such a mystery. >> to support his monster hunting lifestyle, steve makes

and sells clay models of nessie to tourists. >> the one time i was really blown away by a sighting of something, i was at the other end of the loch at ft. augustus, and something just shot through the bay as if a torpedo went through the bay. and it was going against the wave so, as it hit each wave, it would splash up white water. and there's no simple explanation in loch ness for what that could have been. >> dinsdale's film also inspires marine biologist adrian shine to identify once and for all what lies beneath the surface of lake ness. >> the loch ness monster is an amalgam of many things put together by the human consciousness, by human perception, by human aspiration. we'd all love there to be something there. >> adrian's loch ness project has organized dozens of expeditions from operation deep scan, a 24-boat sonar

exploration in 1987, to submarine searches and even an exorcism. >> be gone now, hideous demon. >> but nessie has remained a no-show. >> i think the legend is popular because we seek dragons and also, in a way, we like our mysteries to be something we can half comprehend as well. loch ness is one of the places where anybody can come. there's a road around it. it's not the antarctic. it's not outer space. it's not the bottom of the ocean. looking for monsters in a lake with a road around it is a mystery we can all join in with. >> when i finally see something in the loch, i really don't know what i'll do. i don't know what i would do. i wouldn't be packing up and going at the first opportunity, no. this is my life's passion, is trying to solve this mystery. >> while skeptics have long

dismissed the loch ness monster as a mythical creature, for its many believers and wannabe believers, the question remains. what is she?. tim dinsdale devoted his life to answering this question. >> he first went up in april 1960, and every year thereafter he went to find loch ness every year thereafter, he went to loch ness. from the end of 1960s, he'd given up his work and job and was doing this full-time. >> but he never captures nessie as clearly as he did in 1960. there have been other photos and films, but the dinsdale footage remains iconic. >> i often say witnesses seldom lie. cameras very often do. sometimes without their owner's knowledge. the dinsdale film of 1960, it's quite a poor quality film, which makes identification difficult. >> my father's film, to this day, stands as being unexplained. but i think -- i'm convinced --

that given all the estsdz, all the eyewitness testimony, all the photography and my father's film and other film taken that there's something large living in loch ness. coming up -- >> bigfoot turns, looks at the camera, and is gone.

a myth centuries old. >> bigfoot appears out of the bushes and makes those long, striding steps. >> and the iconic film that became part of the legend. >> this was the most amazing thing to happen in almost the history of the world. >> october 20, 1967, the pacific northwest. rodeo cowboy roger patterson is deep in the woods with his 16-millimeter camera. >> roger was a bigfoot buff and

had announced he was going to go out and film bigfoot. >> known as bigfoot in north america, yeti in asia, and sasquatch in canada, the infamous creature has reportedly been spotted all over the world. yet physical and photographic evidence of the beast is scarce until this film becomes a worldwide sensation. >> you're seeing in the patterson film bigfoot shows up on cue. the creature is walking along a creek bed, making what i think are exaggerated steps, exaggerated gait, turns, looks at the camera, and is gone. the patterson film was put out as here's the proof, here's proof that bigfoot exists. >> the film awes bigfoot believers and fascinates nonbelievers like joe nichol. >> the believers were prepared to believe it, no matter what it showed. they were going to believe it.

and skeptics would be very dubious about it. >> perhaps nobody is as dubious as this man and for good reason. >> i'm sitting in my living room at home watching television and the announcer comes on telling a story about these two rodeo cowboys who were out in the forest and ran upon a bigfoot. and i'm looking. here's our gorilla suit walking across the television screen. >> originally, a vaudeville entertainer in 1967, roger morris begins making and selling gorilla costumes. >> i received a call from this man who says he's roger patterson. do you have a gorilla show? no, no, no. a magician? no, no, no. he says, we're playing a gag on people. how much are the suits?

>> according to morris, he had specific requirements for the suit. >> did it look like a gorilla? what about the eyes, where you see the eyes? i said, you get the makeup. put it around the person's eyes wearing the suit, it will blend into the mask itself. they also wanted to know how to make it large and massive. >> and he wanted some extra material. he's going to have to change the head. he's going to have to put these -- and this is brilliant on roger's part -- pendulous female breasts which everybody thought, wow, that's the kind of detail nobody could make that up. it's so credible and believable. >> well, the check arrived, and i sent the suit out to him. he called me back and said, listen, you can see the zipper in the back of the suit. i said, well, that's easy to overcome. just get a hairbrush, brush it back and forth across the top of the zipper and it will disappear. that was the last i heard from him.

>> until he sees his suit on tv. >> i told my wife, come here, you'll want to see this. she walks in and said, oh, look, there's our gorilla suit. >> morris keeps quiet about his involvement, believing that patterson would admit to making the film. >> i didn't say anything to anybody because i thought our market was for magicians. it would be unethical to sell the costume and then tell the audience it's not a real gorilla, but it's a fella in a gorilla suit. >> but patterson earns thousands of dollars selling the rights to the film. and, yes, we too pay for the rights to use it in this episode. >> he went on television shows, radio shows all the way across the country. and i realized at a point that he was not going to tell anybody that it was a hoax. and i just set back and was watching what he was going to do. and i think that his intentions were that he would get someone to produce a motion picture of bigfoot and he would literally make a fortune out of it. >> five years after his footage debuts on tv, roger patterson dies of cancer, maintaining

until the end that the film is genuine. in 2002, more than three decades after he first saw the film, morris goes public with his story. >> i started announcing, that's our gorilla suit. another 10 or 20 magicians across the country have the very same suit. that's our suit. it's not a real bigfoot. >> but morris' revelations come too late for many of the film's believers. >> people are so taken by the things they fall for. they're hugely invested now. now they're fools if they were wrong. and as soon as you come in and rain on their parade, you find utter hostility. >> the first reaction was, no, you're lying. that is a real bigfoot. i'm trying to think, how is it possible that this thing could fool people? the suit was all right. it wasn't the very best gorilla suit ever made. but it was okay. but in broad daylight, it did not look like a real animal. >> i talked with phil morris

about this, in retrospect, seeing how entrenched this film has become, he feels he probably should have come forward. >> we set out to verify morris' story and found bob heironimus who says he is the man in the bigfoot costume. they have since become friends. >> he said patterson told him to walk like a gorilla. bob was a rodeo cowboy. he had no idea what a gorilla should walk like. so he walked like a normal person walking down the street, kind of waved his arms back and forth and thought that was real show business. >> bob has the size, the gait to be bigfoot, to give it life. and i think this is important. there are people still living who remember seeing a bigfoot suit in the trunk of bob's mother's car. when it comes down to it, it's hard to improve upon phil morris

as the source of the costume, bob heironimus as the guy in the bigfoot suit, and roger patterson as producer, director, and whatever else of this film. >> just as patterson stood by his story, so too does morris. >> rick baker, who is an academy award winner eight times, said to me one time, he said, phil, that was the worst gorilla suit i've ever seen in my life. and i said, yes, it's true. but think about this, that there were over 10 million, 20 million, 30 million people who saw that film of bigfoot walking through the forest, and they thought it was a real suit. that's absolutely amazing. >> at the end of the day when you've watched this figure stride and you've looked at it, i'm inclined to agree with the late john napier from the smithsonian who remarked famously, "i can't see the

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