A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

emp17344

Supposedly exposes the Patterson-Gimlin film as a hoax, which is a big deal in the Bigfoot community.

davidw

There's a Bigfoot trap in Oregon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot_trap I wonder if it gets a mention? It does get a mention in the recent Bruce Campbell movie https://www.ernieandemma.com/ - which looks to be even more poignant with his recent cancer diagnosis :-(

zyxzevn

Physics is needed to fully understand the demolition of 3 towers..

axiolite

What does bigfoot have to do with conspiracy? Doesn't bigfoot qualify as folklore/urban legend/pseudoscience/hoax/mythology? Is there widespread belief the government is actively covering up its existence for some reason? Nothing in the linked story explained it. Did someone make a whole documentary and couldn't get the most basic info right? Or did the reporter mangle the article write-up?

mikert89

I used to look down on conspiracy theories, now I think many are actually true, or are mixed with truth. Its really unlikely that a theory circulates widely but has no basis in reality

Detrytus

Conspiracy theories arise from the natural tendency of human brain to look for patterns even where there are none. That being said, nowadays it seems that a difference between conspiracy theory and confirmed fact is 12-24 months

zdw

Given that a large portion of the population has a HD or higher quality camera in their pocket most of the time these days, most cryptid style conspiracies seem pretty well debunked at this point.

Supermancho

The documentary does not, in fact, help explain the conspiracy zeitgeist. Human nature has been reason enough through modern history. This MSN "article" seems oddly out of place on HN.

Animats

There are more conspiracies. Here are some well-verified ones: - Epstein and way too many important people. - The big one from the 1970s onward to increase the return on capital by lowering living standards, the "Powell memorandum".[1] That's the founding document of the modern conservative movement. - Facebook/Meta being behind schemes for age verification.[2] [1] https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/ [2] https://techoversight.org/2025/07/29/bloomberg-meta-google-l...

analog8374

Why are explanations so popular? You gotta wonder.

antognini

In a similar vein I highly recommend Behind the Curve, which is a documentary about the flat Earth movement. It was a pretty fair film and tried to get to know the people involved in the movement and what it was that motivated them. It was interesting to see that one of the main figures featured in the documentary started out pretty generically wanting to get into conspiracy theories and started reading up on one after another until he found a particular one that clicked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Curve

mukmuk

Somewhat relatedly, there is a pretty plausible theory that some “find the Yeti” expeditions were in fact cover for operations by my country’s intelligence services to sabotage China. See e.g., https://topsecretumbra.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-...