2008 - Newspaper Article - Morris and Heironimus Get on TV

[Trogluddite]

Hat tip to Bigfoot Encounters for replicating this article published in The Kalamazoo (MI) Gazette on November 18, 2008, in which Philip Morris repeats his claim that he sold Roger Patterson a gorilla suit.  The article was concerning an upcoming episode of Myths and Legends entitled Bigfoot Phone Home.  

 

Mr. Morris generally repeats what he told Greg Long (in the execrable book The Making of Bigfoot) with some minor variations.

 

1) He does not state when he received the phone call from Roger Patterson.

 

2) He adds a new claim that Roger Patterson "wanted something more like a Neanderthal."  

 

3) He states that the price of his suits were $450 rather than the $435 he told Greg Long and the $750 reflected in advertisements from 1967.

 

4) He specifies that the second phone call from Roger Patterson was two weeks after the first. 

 

5) He adds new claims that he told Roger Patterson to use hairspray to hold down the Dynel fur over the zipper and to use "stuffing" to make the suit look bulkier.

 

6) Philip Morris decided that it was okay to identify his suit after Roger Patterson's death in the 1980s.  

 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Trogluddite
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