Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science

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Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science

Directed by	Doug Haijcek
Produced by	Doug Haijcek
Distributed by	Whitewolf Entertainment, Inc.
Release date(s)	January 9, 2003
Running time	60 min.
Language	English

Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science was a documentary film which originally aired on the Discovery Channel on January 9, 2003. The program features scientists from various disciplines analyzing the most compelling evidence for the existence of Bigfoot, including the Skookum cast and the Patterson-Gimlin film.

The documentary has since been released on DVD and VHS. A companion book to the documentary written by anthropologist Jeffrey Meldrum was published in 2006.

[edit] DVD version

The DVD version of the program is slightly different from the one that aired on the Discovery Channel. It is separated into the following sections:

Introduction
Exhibit 1: Fossil Evidence
Exhibit 2: New Species Discoveries
Exhibit 3: Dermal Ridges
Exhibit 4: Body Cast
Exhibit 5: Images
Exhibit 6: Step Frequency
Exhibit 7: Biomechanics
Exhibit 8: Forensic Measurements
Exhibit 9: Visual Size Comparison
Exhibit 10: Behavioral Parallels
Exhibit 11: Vocalizations
Exhibit 12: Visual Misidentifications
Exhibit 13: Track Morphology
Exhibit 14: Kinesiology
Exhibit 15: Soft Tissue Pathology
Exhibit 16: Statistics
Exhibit 17: DNA
Conclusions

In the Extra Features section of the DVD are four sections:

1. Footage Analysis which includes the following:

Patterson-Gimlin Film: October 20, 1967 - 16mm film (This version of the film is of much higher quality than others that are usually shown on TV because it is a digital copy of the master. The other two films below are also digitals-from-master. [1])
Memorial Day: May 30, 1996 - Video 8
Freeman: 1994 - Video 8
Freeman film subject baby? - First observed January 4, 2003
Forensic Animation by Vision Realm