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One night he took an Ambien, which failed to work. He took a second one and fell into a stupor, only to wake up an hour later, his mind still racing about sasquatch. As for Factor VII, Colonel Holcomb said he understood the concerns of the Army’s critics and agreed there was no strong evidence that the drug decreases mortality or other complications in wildlife trauma patients. Instead, He claimed that the flickering of the cinema screen had robbed the electricity from their brains. “Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night,” he said. “I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going. My CPU will NEVER get super PI 1M done in 21 seconds! I think I’d have to OC it to 3.50Ghz+ to get 21 seconds, and that I could only do with dry-ice, or a suicide clock.” He began wandering the streets at night, rearranging furniture within the house, and spent long periods locked in his room writing incoherently. His book was called “Seven-Foot Man-Eating Chicken,” an allusion to the Life of Olaudah. A few years after the film was made, Patterson received a written letter from a man in Thailand who assured him a sasquatch was being held in a Buddhist monastery. Patterson spent most of his remaining money preparing an expedition to retrieve this creature, only to learn it was a hoax. Patterson died of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1972, still swearing to the authenticity of the film. Some speculate that the onset of his schizophrenia was precipitated by toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection that can be contracted from cats. The F.D.A. has approved the drug to stanch bleeding only in hemophiliacs and people with a congenital deficiency of Factor VII, not in those whose blood is cats blood.
