Comments on: Update: The Erickson Project

By: flame821

flame821 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:49:18 +0000

If it comes from Robert Lindsay, ignore it. He’s the guy who came up with the Bigfoot Steak story and quite a few other ‘interesting’ leaks/insights into the Erikson project.

Out of the two, (Lindsay, Ketchum) I will give Dr. Ketchum the benefit of the doubt as Lindsay has shown himself to be given to wild flights of fancy (remember him putting words in Dr Meldrum’s mouth?) and then becoming defensive, threatening and rude when he’s called out on his, well I’ll be polite and call them inaccuracies.

I wish the results and paper would be published tomorrow, but good science takes time. If you rush things and jump to conclusions you get junk science and made for TV soundbytes that rarely have anything to do with what was discovered.

By: PhotoExpert

PhotoExpert — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:43:03 +0000

DWA–You definitely beat me to the punch on this one. After your post, I have nothing to add!

By: Ragnar

Ragnar — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:35:02 +0000

Yeah, the video just screams fake. Really, who screams like that except in a horror movie? Real people would probably yell “WTF?” or “look over there, what is that?”.

By: choppedlow

choppedlow — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:33:09 +0000

I’m with whiteriverfisherman. If Erickson had what he says he has been sitting on for how long now (?), it would have been released. Not made into a project, sent to Hollywood, and whatever BS they seem to come up with every other month to keep everyone from forgetting about it. The Erickson project went from a clear face shot of one in HD to a baby eating pancakes? In a few months they will have them playing cards and laughing at the FB/FB guys Facebook page on a stolen iPad. It will be awesome if it is all true, but I have a feeling that the Erickson project is nothing but giant lies to cover for the little ones they initially promised. And what are the chances of you getting a bigfoot to run from cover when you conveniently have your cellphone camera going? And that scream! Was that Russia’s Anna Nicole Smith? What bad acting!

By: Peter Von Berg

Peter Von Berg — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:40:00 +0000

Phony sounding scream. If the girl took some acting lessons it would greatly improve the quality of their hoax video.

By: DNS

DNS — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:37:07 +0000

Is there more than one “pancake” video? Does this piece refer to the one that looks most like a person in a suit in yet another fuzzy video, from some years ago? If it’s the one I think it is, then I hope Lindsay is not any kind of reliable source of information about the Erickson Project. That Russian video up there is just as lame, I think. The contrived “scream” is just priceless.

Wouldn’t it be hilarious, though, if one of the many videos that look like bad fakes actually was the real thing? It’s not so hard to imagine. People do weird things when surprised. I know I have reacted to the unexpected in ways that seemed completely absurd to me after I calmed down and thought about it.

By: whiteriverfisherman

whiteriverfisherman — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:27:41 +0000

A baby Bigfoot eating pancakes? Did the baby have some syrup go with it? A 9-12 foot tall male, That’s like saying it was bigger than a bread box. I’ve never bought any of this Erickson stuff and this doesn’t help my opinion at all. I think this is all just an elaborate hoax.

Always have.

By: DWA

DWA — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:12:54 +0000

Well, there it is. Proof.

Proof that to run a man-in-suit hoax, sometimes you don’t even need the suit!

Interesting and unsurprising comments about the sound, which I didn’t even bother to turn on for this.

By: CDC

CDC — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:30:05 +0000

Matt, BoBo, Cliff, Ranae, and the Finding Bigfoot team will be on their way to Russia.

I can hear them now, “that certainly looks squatchy”.

As for the video? Theatre Arts 1a meets Youtube.

By: steve t

steve t — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:00:54 +0000

I have seen the Erickson site and it plainly states that only what is shown on that site is official. Any second hand info by people not involved or others is automatically suspect.

This video is CLEARLY a hoax, as the scream sounds rehearsed, the “creature” looks animated and not real, and again, it was not released by the Project itself. I think we should all just hang on and wait for Dr. Ketchum and her team to get that paper published and let science do its thing. I know if these animals are real, and I believe they are based on the credible evidence collected over the decades as well as native folklore and beliefs, so now lets let the scientists prove it and end the debate once and for all.