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Bigfoot is usually treated as folklore—a campfire story, a hoax, or fringe science.But in the 1970s, Bigfoot crossed a line no myth was ever supposed to cross.It entered the official records of the FBI.In this episode of Ghost in the Night, we uncover the true story behind the FBI’s real Bigfoot file—why it was opened, what was tested, what was concluded, and why the file still matters decades later.From the explosion of sightings after the 1967 Patterson–Gimlin film… to strange reports surrounding Mount St. Helens… to an intelligence-trained researcher submitting evidence to a federal lab…This is not a story about whether Bigfoot is real.It’s a story about belief, authority, and what happens when myth collides with bureaucracy.And once something is written into federal records… it never truly disappears.
By Phillip SamsBigfoot is usually treated as folklore—a campfire story, a hoax, or fringe science.But in the 1970s, Bigfoot crossed a line no myth was ever supposed to cross.It entered the official records of the FBI.In this episode of Ghost in the Night, we uncover the true story behind the FBI’s real Bigfoot file—why it was opened, what was tested, what was concluded, and why the file still matters decades later.From the explosion of sightings after the 1967 Patterson–Gimlin film… to strange reports surrounding Mount St. Helens… to an intelligence-trained researcher submitting evidence to a federal lab…This is not a story about whether Bigfoot is real.It’s a story about belief, authority, and what happens when myth collides with bureaucracy.And once something is written into federal records… it never truly disappears.