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Bigfoot wasn't always a household name. Back in the 1950's, you were unlikely to hear the term anywhere outside of Northern California, Oregon, or Washington. But then, in 1958, a man by the name of Jerry Crew came forward with something truly fascinating: a plaster cast of an absolutely massive human footprint. It struck a chord with some locals, who could recall reports by miners of a similar set of tracks discovered at Ape Canyon in Washington back in 1924, while others told of old hunting stories or even other casts of prints (though they never called it "Bigfoot"). Local reporters even began to dig up old Native American legends to compare with the sightings. In1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin presented yet another shock to the world: a video tape allegedly depicting a female "Bigfoot" they called Patty walking through the Bluff Creek area, precisely where the tracks were found nine years earlier. The question is, was any of it actually real? Welcome back to The Lore Lodge...

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0:00 - Intro
4:00 - Aura Ad
6:12 - The Battle of Ape Canyon
13:54 - The Death Valley Mummies
19:24 - The Bluff Creek Incident
28:10 - The Patterson-Gimlin Film
42:25 - The Native American Bigfoot
50:21 - Primer for Episode II