For a good idea what real people look like recording in the woods, check out “SoftyPapa“.

Note the sharp images and commentary. Note the length of the videos. Note the identification of the location in the foothills of the Japanese alps. Note the intentional choosing of a subject. Not that this guy hasn’t seen some peculiar things. But he makes an attempt to photograph them and to describe what he thinks he’s seen. He doesn’t just stop and run away. Reality check!

That’s pretty much the problem here. I mean, the guy’s got the video of the century, going to make him famous and possibly rich, and he STOPS recording? Right, fellah. Sure.

I’ll take a stab at answering your question (which I have done before when it’s been asked here).

The responses to most of these show that most posters either (1) don’t know the difference between evidence and proof or (2) don’t know how to deal with evidence. Or both.

I posted above to show people how to think about videos like this. While I’m not saying that we need to get a film crew and primatologists to KS, pronto, I’m saying that this cannot be conclusively determined to be fake. (Actually, there’s nothing that can be done with it.)

Too many posters glom onto the wrong things to criticize and forget the only thing that counts: what is the subject? While much may make you go, heh heh, the only thing that counts is the subject. Skeptics go on and on about Roger Patterson’s character, forgetting that the only thing about that film that counts is what that subject is. I don’t care if he gutshot his grandmother and stole the camera. WHAT IS THAT?

Helping people understand how to deal with evidence is a good reason to keep posting these. Because from what I see, learning is a LOOOOONG process.

As I just posted in another comment thread:

…Cryptomundo is not a serious scientific research site, although serious scientific research research as it applies to cryptozoology is a frequent topic here.

Cryptomundo is a blogsite that explores humor, news, opinions, as well as research.

All topics may not appeal to all readers. Feel free to explore the ones that appeal to you and ignore those that don’t.

While they may not appeal to you, there are other readers that they do.

Peace, Craig

Too true. I wonder if anyone has submitted one of those to them?

Not even a worthy Blobsquach here.

But seriously, there is nothing here that screams authentic to me. It has all the markers of a hoax. Bad acting, bad set up, and by god, a BAD BLOBSQUATCH! For heaven’s sake, they could have at least given us a worthy blob to bat around for entertainment.

Also I have to ask why the most elusive creature on the planet chooses to move in the line of sight of noisy humans when it could have simply faded back into the foliage and disappeared.

Teenagers can hack into government agencies and do so for fun, it’s well within the realm of teen creativity to hoax bigfoot.