Comments on: Vancouver Island Bigfoot Video

By: canuck

canuck — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:11:42 +0000

what I saw…

1. The forearms are too long when standing to be a bear.
2. Bigfoot walks both long and short distances on all 4’s.
3. There is no snout.
4. Bears run quickly from loud noises, this animal never broke into a run.
5. On all fours all legs are too long.
6. Estimating the height of the photographer’s eye level at 5′6″ and the terrain in front of the camera I would estimate this subject would be taller than 7ft. Why you ask? After spending 25 yrs. looking through a viewfinder you get a knack at judging distances and heights accurately. (hint)
I watched this video from the point of view through the camera lens as though I was shooting the scene. (try it yourself).
As a multiple sasquatch witness some very close, (10-15ft.) I would have to say my best guess is….. This was not a black bear!

By: asagan

asagan — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:32:43 +0000

This is so clearly a bear. You can easily see it walk away on all fours. These people must have never seen a bear before. Pathetic.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:32:40 +0000

sschaper- oh good, it’s not just my computer! I was thinking about how horrible the pixelation was too. It is so bad that i cannot honestly tell you if that kid is investigating an honest footprint or a hole in the ground.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:29:49 +0000

I wish we could see the original quality, rather than the shrunk-down upload to that web site. And I wish we could look at it frame by frame, the first frame with the thing it it does look more ape-like than bear like, and as I watched it a few times, it no longer looks like it is getting down on its haunches with too-long legs for a bear, but like it is walking down a ravine.

The pixellation is horrible.

By: styxx679

styxx679 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:46:36 +0000

Okay, I have a digi-cam, my girlfriend loves it and uses it everyday. I’ve had several digi-cams. I’ve never even held one that filmed anything of this quality. In this day and age, especially with kids, you’re not going to have a camera that’s so bad. If it’s a hoax, I think they lowered the quality to either hide a poor bigfoot costume or help to hide the features of the bear. The quality is the most suspicious aspect of this video aside from the boy filming looking side to side with the camera as his eyes

By: CHRISDCMC12

CHRISDCMC12 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:32:09 +0000

Looks more like a man or bear the video is so blurry you can’t see.

By: ilexoak

ilexoak — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:33:42 +0000

This is a good case study on how bears can look “hominoid” when the stand to look around. Especially at a distance in the woods.

By: nanniegoat

nanniegoat — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:27:46 +0000

My son is a professional hunting guide and he often has stated that it is not the bears that worry him but the big cats. Bears just flat out don’t like people and at the first sign of encroachment will high tail it out of there, just as this one did.
Sadly, no bigfoot here.

By: YourPTR!

YourPTR! — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:25:42 +0000

It’s an interesting video that showed initial promise. However, it is very low quality and short even for the subject matter. After repeated viewing it does bare a remarkable resembalance to a bear fleeing from the camera on all fours and I feel that’s almost certainly what this footage represents. Next!

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:29:45 +0000

Bears are like people in some respect and by that I mean that while you can more or less predict how people will act, individual people (and individual bears) can have motives and drives that aren’t apparent and unless you know the full circumstances, you’d e wise to study the situation if you have the opportunity . The image of lunging snarling growling black bear is one that is favored by taxidermists, film-makers and other story tellers, but in fact, black bears appears to be adapted for life hidden in forests, using the cover that is natural to forests, and is more likely to quietly close-in on people or to dissolve into the background until it can see an advantage it can utilize. One would be mistaken to take as example of bear behaviour the attacks at the Laird Hot Springs in British Columbia a few years back as typical. It turned out that bear, were it human, would have been diagnosed as mentally disturbed, driven by hunger and injury..and who knows what else neurologically.

The guy who shot the video is from that Vancouver region and seems to be well aware of how bears normally react, even if, to be safe, one knows not to approach wild animals. Let’s hope he responds and comes to pay a visit.