Amateur astronomer and my good friend M.K. Davis from Benton, Mississippi undertook a journey in 1997 out of curiosity-he saw a photo (frame 352 of the Patterson/Gimlin film) which intrigued him. He figured that he could probably use the techniques he applied to astronomy to that film. He found several different things in the course of his study on the film that solidified his belief that the film is real. M.K. has found scars on the creature, bulletholes, eyebrow raising, bare skin, anomalies in the film itself that told him the creature was real. M.K. started speaking at conferences on his findings which intrigued his fellow researchers, and he deeply impressed all who saw his findings. After 8 years of studying the film, tedious hours of experimentation and study, he came to the conclusion, on September 27th, 2005, on Artistfirst Radio that the film was proven in his mind and that further study was a bit unnecessary to him (but he still finds things in the film even today!). The main culmination of his work was going to the actual film site on October 20, 2005 and seeing the place where Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin came upon and filmed a real Bigfoot 38 years before. He and the party he was with found a track and a tree twist/break at the film site. M.K. was able to determine that there were missing frames in most copies of the film shown on television; even the "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science" DVD copy of the film, donated by John Green, has missing frames! The recent National Geographic special on Bigfoot was the only one to date to show the entire film, missing frames and all, from end-to-end. M.K. was able to determine that the copy shown on that broadcast was a 1-inch tape scan of the original film because of writing on the end of the film which said "American Bigfoot". That writing was significant because a company back in the early-'70s called American National Enterprises, or ANE, bought the rights to the original film from Roger Patterson, and they kept it for many years. The company was bought out by another company called Perequin, and that company eventually went under, which left the fate of the original film in limbo. It is lost today. M.K.'s work is underappreciated by some in the Bigfoot community, but others (like myself) are deeply intrigued by his findings and want to learn more about this elusive film. M.K. Davis is a true pioneer in this field and deserves to be highly commended.
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