I’ve spent the better part of the past half hour being fascinated by this 11 second video.

The clip is of a tall thin man storming through a crowd of people supposedly in a 70’s folk festival. He’s alone, wearing a short sleeved crimson velvet jacket and long brown wavy hair. Could it be?

From the end of the Pink Moon sessions in 1972 to his untimely death in 1974, Nick Drake frequently left his home for days, drive around purposelessly until his car would run out of fuel and call his parents. No one knew much of the things he did, and it appeared to those around him that he didn’t have a better clue either. If the allegations are true, and it is in fact Nick Drake walking in the video, I would guess that it was from this period. From the descriptions in the documentary A Skin Too Few, it seems that no other person would have been capable of being as depressed and hopeless as he was, and I somehow find that aura in this footage of the back of a walking man.

It is very unlikely though, that this really is Nick Drake. Drake was tall at 6′4″, but I don’t think a person his height is capable of standing out so much in a crowd, unless all of the hippies around him are around 5′3″.

But the idea that there exists a moving picture of adult Nick Drake in the world is too eerie to ignore. I was born after the debunking of Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster, but this video makes me feel like a 6 year old being captured by a snippet of Big Foot on his Black & White television.