SCREENING ROOM · 20 VIDEOs

Wildmen & Hominids: videos

Upright, hair-covered giants and wildmen: Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Yowie, the Almas and their relatives.

BIGFOOT

Patterson–Gimlin film (unedited)

Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin

The original 1967 Bluff Creek footage – the most famous and most debated minute in Bigfoot history. Marked public domain on archive.org.

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BIGFOOT

The Film That Made Bigfoot A Star

Oregon Public Broadcasting

OPB’s short documentary on how the Patterson–Gimlin film turned a regional legend into a global icon – and the hoax claims around it.

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BIGFOOT

Sts’ailes Sasquatch Days in Harrison Hot Springs

Tourism Harrison River Valley

Shows the festival celebrating the Sts’ailes people’s Sásq’ets, the being behind the word “Sasquatch” (no archive.org equivalent).

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YETI

Daily Mail Yeti Expedition Newsreel (1954)

Daily Mail

Period newsreel in which members of the 1954 Snowman Expedition present their findings to the press. License not stated on archive.org.

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YETI

Science in Action: Himalaya Expedition (1961)

California Academy of Sciences

1961 TV episode in which Lawrence Swan, a member of Hillary’s Himalayan expeditions, reports on science in the mountains once thought home to the Abominable Snowman. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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SKUNK APE

Police Search for Ape-Like Creature (1974 news segment)

Associated Press

Original January 1974 footage of the search in the Miami-area swamps during the 1970s wave of sightings. (Associated Press newsreel archived on archive.org.)

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SKUNK APE

Dave Shealy Skunk Ape Footage (2000)

Dave Shealy

The famous July 2000 video from the Big Cypress – judge for yourself whether it shows an animal or a costume.

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YOWIE

The Hunt for Australia’s Mythical Half-Ape, Half-Human, the Yowie (1976)

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (This Day Tonight)

A vintage ABC report from the moment the Yowie became a national story, featuring Rex Gilroy’s claims.

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ALMAS

Yeren, Almas, and Yeti: Cryptid Hominoids in Asia

Think Anomalous

An overview of Asia’s many “wild man” traditions, from the almas to the yeren and yeti, and how they appear in old art and literature (license not stated).

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ORANG PENDEK

Apakah Orang Pendek di Hutan Sumatera Ada

Mongabay Indonesia

Short Indonesian-language report from the conservation news site Mongabay on the evidence and the people searching for the orang pendek.

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MOMO (THE MISSOURI MONSTER)

Momo The Documentary (The Missouri Monster)

Ronald Lichlyter

Independent short film about the 1972 Louisiana, Missouri, scare, described by its maker as a documentary based on actual events; licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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MOMO (THE MISSOURI MONSTER)

MoMo the Missouri Monster: Louisiana, Missouri’s Bigfoot | Living St. Louis

Nine PBS

St. Louis public television feature revisiting the 1972 scare with local residents.

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MOMO (THE MISSOURI MONSTER)

MOMO: The Missouri Monster – Full Movie

Small Town Monsters

The 2019 feature mixing witness interviews and history with a playful 1970s-style monster-movie re-creation.

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HONEY ISLAND SWAMP MONSTER

The Search for the Honey Island Swamp Monster: Bigfoot Beyond the Trail

Small Town Monsters

Documentary episode that visits the swamp and retraces the Ford story with locals.

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HONEY ISLAND SWAMP MONSTER

Encounters with the Honey Island Swamp Monster Documentary Film

Dana in Honey Island Swamp

Clip from the documentary by Harlan Ford’s granddaughter, Dana Holyfield – the family’s side of the story.

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EBU GOGO

Folk Zoology Conference 2024

Floe Foxon (Folk Zoology Society)

Academic conference on folklore and zoology; from 1:31:20 anthropologist Gregory Forth discusses Flores ‘ape-men’ and <em>Homo floresiensis</em>. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.