Bigfoot delusion comes in many forms. Everybody has their opinions and regardless of how far out their ideas are, there is a place for it in the wide-spanning world of Bigfootery.
But there’s one aspect to Bigfootery that has little tolerance and that’s hoaxing, even by “accident.” Accidental hoaxing is when someone spreads misinformation because they are either ignorant, not the sharpest tool in the shed, or too far down the well to accept that they are really are delusional and thinks what they are saying is valid information.
That’s the case with a man named MK Davis, who doesn’t just perfectly fit the definition of crackpot, he proudly demonstrates it as a lifestyle. MK has the rare quality of debunking himself the instant he opens his mouth and without anyone else’s involvement.
MK’s actually a nice guy. He just lacks aptitude. There’s at least one piece missing in whatever erector set he came from.
But there are impacts to this behavior. It causes other people to be fooled and spread the same misinformation he does.
What is Bigfoot Delusion?
A lot of people make it their life mission to demonstrate that somebody is hiding the truth about the unknown from them. Lately UFOs or UAPs get a lot of attention but Bigfoot is equally as unsolvable, and therefore a large target for those craving to ingest misinformation.
The age of AI has shown on a grand scale that anything can be manipulated with technology. It’s a mistaken belief that something can be “uncovered” through digital manipulation without even understanding how to forensically analyze what you are trying to uncover.
Bigfoot delusion is accusing nice guys like the late John W. Green, the late Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin to have been part of a Bigfoot “massacre.” MK took a mundane promotional film by the late René Dahinden and created a digital scenario that he claimed was evidence of not just one, but several Bigfoot killings in 1967.
It comes down to people unwilling to accept the legitimacy of the PGF or anything that touches a nerve where Bigfoot could be something credible. They look for ways to discredit it because they can’t accept it.
MK also tried unsuccessfully to discredit the late Harlan E. Ford’s swamp monster investigations of the 1970s. His evidence was producing a small shoe that was allegedly worn by the 6’4″ Ford to hoax footprints in the mud. Ford was a salt of the earth type of guy and didn’t hoax anything.
Using Religion as an Excuse to be Delusional
MK uses religious convictions as justification for his weak research. He thinks his interest in Bigfoot in particular is a religious calling to uncover truths from pixelation. He’s not the first to try. There were a lot of image manipulators on old AOL systems of the 90s and even before then, cryptid influencer pioneer, Jon-Erik Beckjord used Microsoft Paint in the 1980s to try and make his point.
Like Beckjord, MK sought to be a cryptid influencer when he purchased technology that enabled him to apply filters and do anything that today’s video editing production software can achieve. Versions of such software are now commonplace but when he made the purchase, software markets had not yet caught up. He was a rarity in being able to take a copy a copy of the Patterson-Gimlin Film, and transfer it to digital format.
From there, there are no limits to MK’s imagination in trying to show that something is hidden and he was exposing the secrets.1 The world has caught up to that trick though. Anyone can make whatever digital changes they want and call it art.
ML claimed to “remaster” the Patterson-Gimlin Film. Well, to remaster something means there is a master to work with. Such a master copy of the PGF has never been verified as authentic. What we see as the PGF in the public domain is at least a second generation copy.
People who spend hard earned cash on advanced technology must really want to achieve an objective. That’s a lot of wheel spinning for no gain in the basement.
You know what’s crazy is, MK has been around so long in Bigfootery that he eventually ends up apologizing for his errors. He deletes all of his videos from YouTube and disappears, only to return reinvigorated. Then he goes through a hissy fit and deletes his stuff again.
- MK Davis interviewed by Connie Willis on Coast2Coast AM, Oct 23, 2001 ↩︎