Bob Gimlin at Patterson/Gimlin Film Site Interview (Short Version)
Tate Hieronymus / Bluff Creek Project
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Bob Gimlin
Bluff Creek co-witness whose six-day-post-event radio interview provides an unusually early fixed point in the Patterson–Gimlin record.
Bluff Creek, Northern CaliforniaOctober 20, 1967Provisional research profile
Location archiveCalifornia
Media & documentation
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Survivorman Bigfoot | Bob Gimlin | Full Length Interview
Survivorman - Les Stroud
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Open original source ↗SC EP:90 Interview with Bob Gimlin
Sasquatch Chronicles
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Open original source ↗Bigfoot Film Journal PDF with Bob Gimlin photographs
Sasquatch Canada
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Open original source ↗3 additional source items are indexed in the Observatory media archive. Browse the media archive →
Overview
At a glance
Primary encounterOctober 20, 1967
LocationBluff Creek, Northern California
Co-witnessRoger Patterson
Surviving primary media16mm film (separate evidence object)
Earliest recovered Gimlin interviewOctober 26, 1967
Archive source depthDeep
Exact locatorLOC-0022
Case statusUnresolved
Media / transcript records1
Summary
Gimlin is the surviving co-witness associated with the 1967 Bluff Creek event and Patterson–Gimlin film. The Observatory treats his testimony, the film, later analysis and competing explanations as related but separate evidence objects.
Background & context
The strongest current witness-level anchor is a radio interview six days after the reported encounter. Decades-later recollections are useful only when kept chronologically distinct from this early source.
Only encounter-relevant public biographical context is shown.
Events
Encounter record
1967-10-20 · Bluff Creek, Northern California
Bluff Creek / Patterson–Gimlin encounter
Reported filmed encounter involving Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin. The film is a genuine historical artifact; the identity of the filmed subject remains unresolved in the dossier.
Published-provisional / unresolved
Open case →Reported observations
LOC-0022
Early witness-state / event chronology
- immediate event belief statement
- armed co-witness
- six-day post-event testimony
Media & source material
Watch, listen & read
Interviews, reports and transcripts are gathered at the research layer and displayed here when the source and rights state permit it. The original provider is always preserved.
1 source record0 playable here0 transcripts located
Audio interview1967-10-26 / modern digitization
Jack Webster Interview — Bob Gimlin, 26 Oct 1967
John Green recording / Bigfoot Forums transcript
Six-days-after-event testimony from Gimlin discussing whether he thought the encounter was a gag and his decision not to shoot.
Transcriptmodern edited transcript of historic recording
Research details
DisplayInline playback is not verified; original-source link is preserved.
Rightslocator-only
Locator08:49–09:11
Statement historyNot yet compared
Indexed source passages
Concise research summaries point to exact source locations when available; long third-party transcript passages are not reproduced.
LOC-0022
Six-day post-event statement
Gimlin states that he did not regard the sighting as a gag, confirms he carried a rifle, and says he did not believe he could shoot the subject.
Provenance
Source history
A chronological record of where this testimony appears. Media above is presented for reading or playback; this timeline preserves source order and provenance.
1967-10-20
Reported Bluff Creek encounter
Patterson and Gimlin report the event and surviving film.
Open source/record →1967-10-21
Near-primary newspaper coverage
Early public reporting documents that the event and film were already being discussed.
Open source/record ↗1967-10-26
Jack Webster interview
Recovered early Gimlin testimony six days after the event.
Open source/record ↗1998
BFRO retrospective case summary
Useful later consolidation, not a contemporaneous 1967 source.
Open source/record ↗Consistency & changes over time
Stable / recurrent
- The archive's current audit rates the core chronology as strong across the source history.
Added later
- Decades-later interviews may add detail but cannot overwrite the 1967 record.
Changed / contradicted
None coded in the current record.
Unresolved
- Complete chronological registry of later Gimlin interviews
- Pre-event logistics disputes
- Film-subject identity
Controls
Corroboration & evidence
Roger Patterson is a co-witness to the reported event; Patterson's testimony must be modeled as its own witness/source chain.
The surviving film is linked to the event but is not treated as proof of Gimlin's testimony or of a biological subject.
Research assessment
Documentary strengths
- Very early post-event interview
- Surviving film and press chronology create a rich documentary case context
- Deep longitudinal source history
Limitations / controls
- The film's subject identity remains disputed
- Later memories span decades
- Shared event context requires source-level independence controls
What would improve the record
- Enter later Gimlin interviews chronologically
- Build Patterson's witness/source chain separately
- Continue film-evidence provenance and competing-hypothesis analysis
Research graph
Connections
Bluff Creek 1967 flagship caseOpen connected record →1967 Gimlin media recordOpen connected record →1967 Gimlin transcript recordOpen connected record →Exact source locator LOC-0022Open connected record →Patterson–Gimlin film analysisOpen connected record →
Related reporting & research
Public record reference
Record identifier
- Witness ID
- WIT-PUB-0021
This stable identifier helps readers and researchers cite the same Observatory witness record over time.