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LIVING Monday, January 11, 1999 Press Sun-Bulletin 5C Bigfoot or big lie? New claims against famous film set enthusiasts at odds 1 1 1 snvry. iii s. tt to-' if i iJ -sJ8 f.ta A -v 5. at it Truth CONTINUED FROM 1C by editors before being printed; today, editors are busy doing surveys on declining journalism credibility, so they have no time to look at the actual newspaper. (For example, if the phrase "stickle the size of a fire hydrant" appeared in this column, no editor has read it.) (Editors' note: Oh, yeah?) The point is that we have big problems in the news business.

But we also have a proud tradition of righting wrongs, expressed in the old you make a mistake, have the courage to print a correction that is too small to locate without an electron microscope." And that is why, when I received the letter from Mrs. Herbert H. Harder of Benton, Kansas, claiming that the Leaning Tower of Pisa is located in Italy, rather than simply tearing it into tiny pieces and feeding them to a hamster, I said to myself, "What if maybe just maybe Mrs. Herbert H. Harder of Benton, is correct?" And so, after some "nosing around," I uncovered the following information: The Leaning Tower of Pisa is, in fact, located in Italy.

However, under the Treaty of Ghent, which was signed by Charles Gaulle and Henry VI, Italy is, legally, part of Paris, France. The "Leaning" Tower of Pisa is in fact perfectly vertical. All the OTHER buildings in Pisa are leaning, and the residents walk around on special shoes with one heel way higher than another. According to a very highly placed source, both Charles Gaulle and Henry VI got Spice Girls pregnant. I hope this clears everything up.

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Box 1270, Binghamton, N.Y. 13902-1270. Cliff Crook puts a item into his display case at Bigfoot Central, which is his Both-ell, home. Crook is working on trying to debunk the famous Bigfoot footage. 0 'There's just too much evidence that these creatures do inhabit certain areas out there.

Even though the Patterson film is a hoax, it doesn't mean Bigfoot doesn't CUFF CROOK, BIGFOOT ENTHUSIAST BOTHELL, Wash. (AP) In the hearts and minds of true believers, Bigfoot's existence has long been enshrined in a single minute of jerky, grainy footage of a startled sasquatch retreating into the upper California woods. But two enthusiasts of the legendary being are alleging four magnified frames of the 16 mm footage 1 show tracings of a bell-shaped fastener at Bigfoot's waist. They say the creature in the so-called Pat- terson-Gimlin Film can finally be dismissed as a man in a monkey suit. "It was a hoax," said Cliff Crook, a longtime Bigfoot tracker who devotes rooms to sasquatch memorabilia in this suburb north of Seattle.

"How can an artificial, man-made object end up on a Bigfoot?" The film, purportedly showing a female Bigfoot fleeing a streambed, was taken by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin on Oct. 20, 1967. It has largely withstood independent scrutiny and, for many steeped in the lore of the man-beast, has become bedrock evidence of its very existence. i "There's no way of really detract-; ing from it," said Ray Crowe, pres-, itlent of the Western Bigfoot Society in Portland, Ore. The image i.

captured in the footage "has a fluid motion. It's a wild creature of nature." The film is important because many Bigfoot believers compare all plaster casts of telltale footprints against those made by Patterson the day he purportedly filmed the creature slinking across a sandbar in the Six Rivers National Forest. Discredit the footage, experts agree, and the gold standard for Bigfoot tracks will be washed away. Crook bases his assertion on computer enhancements performed by Chris Murphy, a Bigfoot buff from Vancouver, British Columbia, who maintains he discovered an aberration in the footage in 1995 while helping his son Daniel prepare a class project. Murphy declined to be inter-' viewed, instead supplying a written narrative detailing his discovery.

According to that account, the Murphys used a color photocopier to duplicate a frame of the Patter-, son film. Zooming in again and again, Chris Murphy became suspicious. To him, something geometric I vaguely the shape of a bottle opener seemed to take shape at Bigfoot's waist. Murphy maintains that four sequential computer-scanned i frames of the film show the object in different positions, as if it were swinging. He theorizes something iwfd'mim 'There are two witnesses (and) there are footprints.

We've never had anything like it previously, and anything like it RENE DAHINDEN, A BRITISH COLUMBIA, RESEARCHER ASSOCIATED PRESS Photographers Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin made this image Oct. 20, 1967, purportedly showing a female Bigfoot. Now, four magnified frames of the footage show tracings of a bell-shaped fastener at Bigfoot's waist, and after decades of doubt, some enthusiasts say the creature is a fake. Roger Patterson compares his own foot to that of what he claimed is a Sasquatch. "He couldn't spell the name 'sasquatch' before that." Grover Krantz, a Washington State University anthropology professor and Bigfoot expert, also believes firmly in the old footage.

"I fully accept the Patterson film," Krantz said. "If there was a fastener, it could not be seen in an enlargement. The film grain is such that it cannot hold an image of something that small." The truth of the Patterson-Gim-lin film remains as elusive as Bigfoot itself. Enthusiasts such as Krantz and Crowe see the film as a building block for their fai th. And the faiths of Crook and Murphy endure in spite of it.

MectS Now his hoax assertion is giving rise to a howl that would make a Bigfoot proud. Longtime enthusiasts smell a deserter. One recent e-mail was typical of the incredulity Crook's allegation of a costume fastener is up against. "Cliff, Cliff, Cliff," it scolded. "That's matted feces." "There are two witnesses (and) there are footprints," said Rene Dahinden, a Richmond, British Columbia, researcher who shares the film's copyright.

"We've never had anything like it previously, and anything like it since." Dahinden, 68, discounts Murphy as an amateur. "He wasn't involved in this until 1993," Dahinden said. is cinching the sasquatch costume in place. Murphy made a clay model of the object and in October gave that and the enlargements to Crook, a charter-bus driver transfixed by sasquatch stories since 1957. That's the year he made a camping trip with teen-age friends on Washington's Olympic Peninsula that ended with telltale signs of a sasquatch encounter: a rustling of brush, a throaty growl and an ever-worsening hallmark musk.

Decades later, at 58, spare rooms in his home are dubbed "Bigfoot Central," stuffed with photos, plaster casts and maps dotted with pushpins that chart sasquatch sightings. Crook knows that, in dissent, he and Murphy are "far outnumbered." "There's a few broken friendships because of this," Crook said. "I just figured, 'This is a search for the truth. When it becomes something different, that's when it should Maybe a Bigfoot will one day view the film, Crook figures, and offer its own disapproving grunt. "There's just too much evidence that these creatures do inhabit certain areas out there," Crook said, ever sanguine.

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