The Freeman Bigfoot Footage

More famous Bigfoot footage, probably in the Top 10.

Paul Freeman was a worker for the local watershed district when he shot this footage in 1994 in the Blue Mountains on the border of Washington and Oregon. He saw a Bigfoot in the area previously and reported it, but he was widely ridiculed at work. Thereafter, he swore to always carry a camera with him in the woods.

A while later, he found some tracks and started following them. This is the start of the video. Then he comes upon a Bigfoot and photographs it briefly while he freaks out. At one point, the Bigfoot bends down to pick up a smaller object, possibly a baby Bigfoot. Then it moves off into the woods.

This video is controversial, but I think it is very good. Notice how the creature simply bends aside 10 foot tall pine trees as it moves through the woods. One complaint is that the Bigfoot looks down as it walks. Supposedly a wild animal would never do that. However, a sprained foot would be a serious injury for such a large animal. In the Patterson footage, Patty also looks down at the ground once, so it's possible that Bigfoot, like humans, looks at the ground while it walks to make sure it did not fall.

The video is controversial, as some call Freeman a faker and liar. Supposedly he was so upset at people making fun of him for after he saw the first Bigfoot that he faked this footage to "show them who's boss." I can't comment on that, other than to say that this is a damned good costume. Further tainting Freeman is that he has been proven to have faked some of his evidence, including tracks and hair. Tragically, this calls nearly all of his evidence, tracks, videos, hair, etc. into question. Once you start faking stuff, your credibility is gone forever.

The problem is that some of his tracks are very good and would be very hard to fake. There are a few possibilities. Either he found some real tracks and then started to make fake tracks or he started to fake tracks and then he found some real ones.

A real problem with Freedman is that he was one of those guys who always seemed to be there when a Bigfoot or its tracks showed up. The reason for his problems at work were not so much ridicule from other workers, but instead, right from the beginning, forest workers felt that his sightings and tracks were hoaxes.

Furthermore, tracks were found in the area where Freeman shot this video, and they have been analyzed. There is a deformity between the 2nd and 3rd toes on one of the Bigfoot's feet. Amazingly, footprints with this exact same deformity were found in the same area a while back. Then, a few years later, more tracks were found in the same area with the same deformity.

On the other hand, many Bigfoot researchers feel that this film is a fake. If it is, it's an awfully good one.

But this is definitely a legendary Bigfoot tape.