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625 people in 95 mysteries

Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.

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Bill (William) MunnsCreature-effects designer; film analyst
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Bob GimlinWitness and co-participant
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Bob HeironimusClaims to have worn the suit
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D. Jeffrey MeldrumAnatomist, Idaho State University; editor of The Relict Hominoid Inquiry
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Daniel O. SchmittLocomotion biomechanist, Duke University
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David J. DaeglingBiological anthropologist; sceptical analyst
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Greg LongAuthor of The Making of Bigfoot
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Isaac Y. TianComputer scientist, University of Washington; lead author of the 2022 restoration
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Marq EvansDirector of the documentary Capturing Bigfoot
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Philip MorrisCostume maker; claims to have sold Patterson a suit
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Rene DahindenInvestigator; last known to have the camera original
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Roger PattersonFilmed the subject
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