And what have we learned, boys and girls?

Well, apparently, mischievous folks in Manitoba (which is well-known for its mischief-makers) like to put on strange costumes and wait around on snowy hilltops in the cold for someone with a camcorder to come along, and then they run away, in case said camcorder-wielders also wield big guns.

So, it’s either a REAL cryptid video, or it isn’t.
It’s either a guy in a parka, or a real creature, or neither.
The camera loses focus at a critical point, but it might have been a bump in the road, or not.
The figure is either too big or too small to be a Bigfoot.
Its head is too big (but it could be a guy in a parka).
Its arms are too short, or too long, to be human.
It walks really fast and smoothly, or maybe not.
The snow is light and fluffy, and waist deep.
Or maybe wet and heavy, and ankle deep.
To a guy in a parka, that is.
But not to a seven foot basketball player.
It looks ape-like, but it’s too far away to tell.

The cameraman looks where he thought the figure might show up, and there it is! Suspicious.

The inexperienced, non-professional father and son team, flustered, excited and maybe even a little scared, “didn’t even think” to video the footprints, or whip out a measuring device to document their size or step or stride! Suspicious.

This team also didn’t think to run into the woods after the beast to try to get better video. VERY Suspicious!

They then took the video to a professional group to process it, including slo-mo and labeling! HOAX!!

Then they posted it on MetaCafe, a money-making site, instead of YouTube, which isn’t (yet). HOAX!! FRAUD!! MONEY SCHEME!!

Or, maybe not?

Good thing the video wasn’t closer, more focused, better lit, longer, from a different angle, with stereo sound (including a grunt or two), with original commentaries - can you imagine how many comments there’d be then??

I just think these two guys saw somebody where they didn’t expect to and let their minds play games. Watch when He reaches up to knock a branch away. Probably some guy out checking his trap line. Didn’t even seem bothered by the approach of the vehicle.

I know we all want to see a real Bigfoot, but fellows, I just think that is what this guys drinking buddies call him.

As for this Manitoba film clip it’s apparent the creature covers a great deal of ground in a very short time. We can see it travels on two feet. It has swinging arms and human like head. It does not surprise me there was as much camera shake given the level of surprise we experience when experiencing a bigfoot event. However it deeply troubles me that it never occurred to these people to look down at the tracks this creature has left behind. After all just about 99% of the evidence on this science is based on foot tracks. But these people claim it never occurred to them look down.

Like I said I have trouble accepting this so called oversight. I give this material only 25% chance of validity.

My question: will becoming known as “The Manitoba Video Obsessive” be sufficient qualification?

Whoops, this isn’t the CZ FAQ thread, is it…?

Just thought of another thing.

(No, that isn’t Patty.)

After the video runs real time, they stick in a slowdown to virtual frame-by-frame speed.

Does that look more like:

1) Somebody who wants, really, to know what this thing is?

2) Somebody who is confident - at least at the time he did that - that what is on here isn’t human?

or

3) Somebody who hoaxed it, and wants to give you the maximum opportunity to spot it? And is utterly confident there is no way you will?

I know, I know. Hoaxers work in mysterious ways.

Mysterious things show up on videos, too.

That’s what (they say) happened; they saw it crossing the road. When the son got the camera, after first checking the whole field to make sure, he zoomed to the place they expected the animal to be. You can see (he imagines) an instant of hesitation, around the moment the son says he can’t see it, when he seems to be panning back toward the road, then, there it is.

The camera movement is one of the pluses for me; things happen on camera the way they say they happened in their heads.

If the father saw this thing crossing and thought it was that unusual, that starts to rule out, for me, the idea that these were two innocents getting hoaxed. (In fact, panning straight where they did makes it almost impossible that they were hoaxed, unless they were telepaths. ) Either they were the hoaxers, or that thing is as unusual as it looks to me.

We aren’t going to know until we hear more. And I have to admit the sneaking feeling that when we hear more I’ll roll my eyes.

But if we don’t….hey, anybody want to run an expedition to Manitoba? OK, you can bring your sas hunt gear…but I’m talking about finding this guy and making him talk!

If he isn’t hoaxing, and I still doubt that, he has something here. If he could at least point some serious researchers to the site to measure that would be cool.

Keep us updated.