A six-year-old boy joins the Bigfoot Club. Gets letters in the mail. Sees the Patterson footage in a movie theater and believes with his whole heart. Fifty years later, the costume maker and the man inside the suit both come forward. The most famous footage in cryptid history is a $435 gorilla suit from a sideshow shop in Charlotte, North Carolina. And nobody wants to hear it.

Episode 5 of Signal Override takes you inside the scariest Bigfoot encounters ever documented — then pulls the rug out and shows you the con. Part 1 is the bait. Part 2 is the switch. Just like the movie theater in 1971.

Chapters:

(00:00) Opening — The Oregon Road Trip: Forty Bigfoots at Sixty Miles Per Hour (03:00) The Chapman Family — Ruby Creek, 1941 (06:00) Ape Canyon — Mount St. Helens, 1924 (09:00) The Movie Theater — A Boy Joins the Bigfoot Club (11:00) The Phone Call — Philip Morris and the $435 Gorilla Suit (13:00) The Confession — Bob Heironimus Wore the Suit (15:00) The Industry — Fifty Years of Monetized Mythology (17:00) The Replacement — AI Killed Bigfoot (19:00) Closing — Say Goodnight Lola

Featuring: The Chapman Family encounter (1941). The Ape Canyon miners attack (1924). Philip Morris — Morris Costumes, Charlotte, NC. Bob Heironimus — retired Pepsi bottler, Yakima, WA. Greg Long — "The Making of Bigfoot." The Patterson-Gimlin film (1967). The Smithsonian-backed CBS special (1974). Sunn Classic Pictures. The Six Million Dollar Man. And one kid in the Bigfoot Club who grew up and said enough.

"Nobody would love Bigfoot to be real more than me. But it's not."

Topics: Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Patterson-Gimlin film, cryptozoology, Bigfoot hoax, Philip Morris costume, Bob Heironimus confession, Ape Canyon, Ruby Creek, Bigfoot sightings, Bigfoot debunked, cryptid documentary, AI replacement, Signal Override, SceneCast, audio drama, conspiracy, unexplained, true events

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