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  "path": "/2026/04/08/how-bigfoot-became-an-american-icon/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T08:34:39.000Z",
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    "#Column3",
    "Al DeAtley",
    "archetypes",
    "Bernard Heuvelmans",
    "Bigfoot",
    "Bill Munns",
    "Bob Gimlin",
    "cryptids",
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  "textContent": "2,059 words The recent South by Southwest Film Festival saw the debut of a documentary which has left the world of cryptozoology in shambles. Capturing Bigfoot has shown that the world’s most famous footage of Sasquatch, the Patterson-Gimlin Film (PGF), was a hoax.1 The now debunked video was first presented to the world in 1967. […]",
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