They Said It
Was New.
It Wasn't.
When Capturing Bigfoot premiered at SXSW in March 2026, the world called it groundbreaking. The definitive proof. The smoking gun.
Tom Biscardi proved all of it — 14 years earlier. And they came after his family for it.
The film they tried to bury is finally available to watch.
Two Films. One Story.
Only One You Can Watch.
The Wall Street Journal called the Bigfoot phenomenon a “prequel to the confusion that has engulfed our era.” Here is a guide to that confusion.
“We didn't just find a tape. We found the people. We have the man who wore the suit, the man who sold the suit, and the researchers who spent decades deconstructing the lies.”— Tom Biscardi, CEO, Searching for Bigfoot, Inc.
The Films That Defined History
A small number of film clips have been burned into the world's collective consciousness. Lasting only seconds on screen but a lifetime in our minds, these snippets of footage capture once-in-a-lifetime events — viewed millions of times, accepted by generations as proof-positive of their occurrence. While each has been debated, none had ever been conclusively proven fake.
The Patterson–Gimlin Film · Bluff Creek, CA · October 20, 1967
Until now. The Patterson–Gimlin Bigfoot film has been conclusively exposed as a hoax — for the first time, on camera, by the people who were there.
What Hoax of the Century Documents
Renowned Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi went beyond theory. He sat down with the people directly connected to the 1967 Patterson–Gimlin filming — and captured their accounts on camera.
Tom Biscardi · Expedition Team
Bob Heironimus has long claimed he was paid by Roger Patterson to walk across Bluff Creek in the Bigfoot costume. Biscardi put him on record.
Hoax of the Century features testimony from individuals directly involved in staging the footage — people who were there when it was filmed nearly 60 years ago.
When the film debuted in 2012, the backlash was immediate and vicious. Tom Biscardi and his family received harassment and threats from believers who refused to accept what the evidence showed. The film was suppressed.
Capturing Bigfoot:
SXSW, Suppression, and a Story Already Told
In March 2026, Capturing Bigfoot— directed by Marq Evans — premiered at the SXSW Film Festival to international headlines. The film presented what it called definitive proof: a newly discovered canister of 16mm film, locked in a safe for nearly 60 years, showing a man rehearsing in the Bigfoot suit before the 1967 shoot. Roger Patterson's own son, Clint Patterson, appears in the film acknowledging the hoax. Bob Heironimus — the man in the suit — is central to the story.
The coverage was breathless. “Groundbreaking.” “Definitive.” “The smoking gun.”
Tom Biscardi documented all of this in 2012. Heironimus. The confession. The firsthand witnesses. The proof. He did it first — and paid for it with threats against his family.
Capturing Bigfoot was subsequently pulled from the Overlook Film Festival. Producers cited concerns about piracy — specifically, the risk of the film's unreleased test footage being covertly recorded and leaked online.
Meanwhile, the film that told this story first — with more witnesses, more testimony, more history — has been sitting in the dark for over a decade. Until now.
The Record
Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin film the footage at Bluff Creek, CA. The world believes it is real. The hoax begins.
Tom Biscardi releases Hoax of the Century — with on-camera testimony from people directly involved in staging the 1967 footage. The Bigfoot community responds with harassment and threats. The film is pulled from circulation.
Capturing Bigfoot premieres at SXSW, presenting a "newly discovered" rehearsal film and interviews with the same key figures. The world calls it groundbreaking. It is pulled from the Overlook Film Festival over piracy concerns.
The original film — more complete, more honest, told by the people who were there first — is available to watch. Tom Biscardi is ready for the world to finally see it.
Hoax of the Century
Directed by Tom Biscardi · 2012 · View on IMDB ↗
In 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin walked out of the woods near Bluff Creek, California with roughly one minute of 16mm film that would change the trajectory of cryptid research forever. The footage ? a dark, upright figure moving through the tree line, pausing to look back at the camera ? became the most analyzed, debated, and disputed piece of film in the history of the unexplained. For nearly sixty years, it has never been definitively debunked. Until now. Hoax of the Century makes the case that the Patterson-Gimlin film was not a discovery ? it was a production. A short clip engineered for profit, built on deception, and sold to a world that desperately wanted to believe. The film brings together witnesses and firsthand testimonial interviews from people who were there, who knew the men involved, and who have carried this story for decades. This is not another round of enhancement analysis or blurry frame-by-frame debate. This is testimony. Real people. Direct accounts. The story behind the story of the most famous piece of Bigfoot footage ever recorded. What you believe after watching is up to you. But you will never look at that footage the same way again. Hoax of the Century is essential viewing for anyone who has ever taken the Patterson-Gimlin film seriously ? and essential viewing for anyone who hasn't.
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