Bob Heironimus
Bob Heironimus
Bob Heironimus has become somewhat of a infamous celebrity in the bigfoot community for claiming to have been the actually bigfoot creature depicted in the Patterson film, and his claims are detailed in Greg Long’s book (The Making of Big Foot, The Inside Story, Published 2004).
Bob Heironimus was a tall (6 ft), powerfully built Yakima, Washington native, age 26; when he claims, Roger Patterson offered him one thousand dollars to be dressed in an fabricated ape suit for a Bigfoot documentary film he was making. Bob Heironimus made a gentlemen’s agreement with Patterson that he would play the Bigfoot. Bob Heironimus met Bob Gimlin when Gimlin was a bartender in Yakima; the two men became acquaintances. Bob Gimlin was Patterson’s partner, and was with him during the filming of the Bigfoot.
Greg Long (Investigative Journalist) uncovered testimony that corroborates Heironimus’s claims: Russ Bohannon, a longtime acquaintance, says that Heironimus exposed the hoax in private in around 1968 or 1969. Bob Heironimus, the man who wore the Bigfoot costume, experienced Patterson’s lying when Patterson refused to pay him $1,000 for wearing the Bigfoot suit, as promised.
Bob Heironimus claims he did not publicly discuss his part in the hoax because he had hoped to be repaid eventually in the end. In separate incidents, Bernard Hammermeister and Heironimus’s relatives (mother Opal and nephew John Miller) allege to have seen an ape suit in Heironimus’ automobile. In fact, Bob Heironimus’s nephew John Miller was eight at the time and recalls playing with the Bigfoot suit and putting on the headpiece, so he claims.
The relatives say they saw the ape suit two days after the bigfoot motion picture was shot. No date was given by Long for Hammermeister’s observation, but it apparently came well after the relatives’ observation, as implied by the word “still” in the justification Heironimus gave Hammermeister for requesting his silence: “There was still supposed to be a payola on this thing, and he didn’t have it.”
Greg Long argues that the suit Philip Morris (Morris claims to have made the bigfoot suit) says he sold to Patterson was the same suit Heironimus claims to have worn in the Patterson film. However, Greg quotes Heironimus and Morris recounting ape suits that are in many respects quite dissimilar from one another; Long speculates that Patterson customized the ape costume, and offers collaborative evidence and testimony to support this idea.
- On a side note, Gimlin has not admitted to any hoax , although he has indicated in an interview that he allowed for the possibility of a hoax on Roger Patterson’s part.
Considering the Bluff Creek Bigfoot film footage from 1967 that Roger Patterson took, it seems logical that eventhough he had purchased a gorilla suit from Morris, he would also customize it as well. How better could one differentiate a purchased suit from a costumer from any other gorilla suit on the market?
Simple: make it female. With added breasts, one would ask: why go through all the trouble in the first place if this was a fake? That’s exactly what Roger imagined people, scientists and skeptics would ask. And ask they did. It was different and people started talking. And the rest, well, went down in history.
Wolfgang that is a very good point indeed! There is also evidence that Roger Patterson in fact talked about and drew pictures of female Bigfoot’s, which many people fail either to know about or even bring up.
Which makes the whole thing of Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin ironically bumping into a female Bigfoot (which even to this day are hardly ever seen) that more mysteries and unbelievable.
It is comical too see these weak opinions and justifications in discrediting the Patterson-Gimlin film and possible existence of sasquatch creature. Common sense tells me that neither Patterson nor Gimlin had the sophistication to develop a film that scientists today still cannot officially rebuke. Sightings of this same basic creature are documented around the world and from the earliest recorded histories of North America.
I truly hope that there remains doubt as to the creature’s existence and that it continues as an unknown myth. If it does become an accepted creature, man will only cause its demise.
Jay, I am with you all the way on that comment. Humans migrated to their living rooms since the invention of tv, they are much safer now..
the patterson film has never been proven fake,far from it! bob h says roger would pay him 1000$ to walk in the suit,thats about 5000$ today,bob(liar)heironimus didnt think of inflation,100$ would have been more than enough to get a moron like bob h,and he is a moron,coward,loser who makes up lies about people who have been dead since 1972. i cant put into words how much i hate this man! no suit from 1967 has muscles that move under the skin. i have tried to duplicate the walk from the outstanding legend meets science documentary ,i cant even come close.
Bob H is a user and a loser.
I have been looking at the site on the web concerning bigfoot/sasquatch and find them remarkable more for their sameness than for anything else. All the “evidence” appears on most of them and they sell t-shirts. My take on the Patterson film is that it was filmed over a period of days and developed to be able to edit and splice it as needed which explains the speed of its’ release from the time of the alleged encounter and the fact that the original is missing. The still I have seen of the bigfoot from behind with it’s left foot bottom facing the camera should give you it’s height. If you take the footprint casts made at the scene as legit and they are 14.5 inches long then you can extrapolate the height of bigfoot as they are almost coplaner. I get 5″10″ to a max of 6′. It seems to me this was a much more elaborate hoax than one done by just two people. Just my current thoughts.
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Bob h is a washed up pepsi worker,he was telling people in yakima his pathetic lies for years,long before we got news of it. Why would roger patterson not pay this guy the money he said he would,that would be a insane move to make because he could expose the hoax instantly,skeptics claim patterson made all this money from the film,so why would he rip off someone who could blow his cover.Bob h is a pathetic person looking for money and attention.
Hey lorena Babbitt,oops, I mean Gary. I’m 5’10 with a 10.5in foot and a 12in shoe, a buddy is
6’2 with a 11.5in foot and a 13.5in shoe, so for you to get a max of 6′ from 14.5in when the shoe should be around 16.5, you better stick to walmart door greeter and leave footprints
to at least someone with a 3rd grade comprehension.
Bob H did pass a poly, and so did Ted Bundy when he said he didn’t kill anyone. The biggest joke, is the family say’s they saw the suit after, that would mean he had it, so why couldn’t he produce it, you would think he would have come up with his dog ate it. Loser.
My shoe size is 11.5 ,and actual length is 12in.
Odie, I have no idea what you are trying to tell me with your comments about shoesize. Maybe it’s my 3rd grade level of comprehension. The 14.5 in. track length I refered to is a published figure regarding the alledged tracks found at the PGF filmsite. IF you regard these tracks as legitimate then extrapolating a height for the creature is relatively easy and it is not 7’4″. That said, my opinion is that all if it is fake, but let’s say we agree to disagree and leave it at that.
So how come bob didn’t tell everyone, hey roger said he was going to pay me to wear the suit and reveal the hoax after roger refused to pay him, right there and then , and why wait y ears later?
if the guy promised to pay me to wear a suit , then came out on the news and said he found bigfoot i would have revealed him as the liar he was right there and then?
So …..
maybe they did conspire together and roger gave him hush money, and now that rogers dead, bob wants more money and the only way to get that money is to make himself a name, and how else to make yourself a name, but to come out make yourself a psuedo celebrity