Bigfoot Photograph Campaign on Kickstarter

A Kickstarter campaign by a UK student aims to capture the first indisputable photographic evidence of Bigfoot.

Frame 352 of the Patterson-Gimlin film allegedly showing Bigfoot (Wikipedia)

Henry Haynes from Winchester, Hampshire, an avid photographer, says that the poor quality of photographic and video evidence to date poses a major setback to Bigfoot research. He aims to raise £10,000 through crowdfunding site Kickstarter to fund a three-man, three month expedition to the forests of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. What sets his endeavour apart, he says, is that high-quality photographic evidence is his sole goal - not hair samples, footprint casts or any of the other physical evidence prized by other Bigfoot searchers.

Arguably the most famous photographic evidence to date of Bigfoot is the Patterson-Gimlin film, shot in 1967 by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin at Bluff Creek, California, which appears to show a hairy, bipedal creature loping through the woods. The film has been the subject of controversy, with some viewers arguing it merely shows a man in an ape costume.

When asked about the identity of Bigfoot, Haynes said that his personal favourite theory is that an undiscovered type of great ape roams the forests of Oregon, but also acknowledges Grover Krantz's Gigantopithecus theory.

He cites the recent discovery of the coelacanth and the mountain gorilla's classification, as late as 1902, as evidence that little-explored areas may yet harbour a large species unknown to humans.

If his campaign reaches its goal, Haynes states he plans to spend the money on supplies, visas and survival training.

Further reading:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/197178322/the-search-for-bigfoot
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/did-bigfoot-really-exist-how-gigantopithecus-became-extinct-16649201/?no-ist
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932708000252