Comments on: Wisconsin Bigfoot Video?

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:27:04 +0000

Larrykat- How would a poster know about animals heading into deeper woods upon being spotted? Presumably because they’ve encountered animals in the woods before. Has anyone here ever approached a wild animal near the woods before? And what did they do when you got too close? I think it safe to say that they darted off into the woods (be they rabbit, squirrel, fox, wolf, or deer). And for those that would say it is unwise to apply animal characteristics to the Human-like Sasquatch, well…all I can say is that if you startled me, or started following me, I’d probably bolt into the woods too. Some would debate it, and at times I’m ashamed to admit it, but I am Human.

Are these generalities? Sure, but they’re useful ones, I believe. I don’t think anyone here is claiming any special knowledge of Sasquatch behaviour, only a general knowledge of typical animal and human behaviour (and if they’re really lucky, perhaps an actual encounter or two).

By: simian1

simian1 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:13:15 +0000

Thanks for the welcome wagon, Bubba.
still beadyeyed, bald and furry, are ya?
part Sasquatch, most likely

By: Ole Bub

Ole Bub — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:54:11 +0000

Good afternoon Simian….

Just what we need, another damn expert opinion…welcome to the blog…ape boy….LOL

seeing is believing….

ole bub and the dawgs

By: simian1

simian1 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:20:23 +0000

a couple of other observations…

there might be an opportunity to enhance the original video to look at certain features, namely, hands. At the very start of the video, from :03 to :05 or so the subject is standing still in the brush and the camera zooms in. I think you can see its hand in shadow, hanging down. Also, at :25 an arm reaches out and the hand grabs a branch (the hand is on the extreme right side of the frame, grabbing, 1/4 of the way up from the bottom). Opposable thumb? Can’t really tell.

By: simian1

simian1 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:04:42 +0000

Bonobo, porkchop

Hello. I am the aforementioned filmmaker whose comments Craig posted earlier. I am intrigued by this footage, as it is either a pretty good hoax, or it is a real creature. I’m not going to say definitively one way or the other, as there are ways to determine that beyond this forum. All I can discuss is the uploaded, low-resolution YouTube video. I have looked at the :15 area where Bonobo suggests there is an edit. I do not see an obvious edit, although a tree wiping thru the frame in the foreground does make a good edit point, as it sometimes looks smooth. What I see is a camera set to “auto-iris” that, when the bright tree enters the frame very close to the lens, shuts the iris down and what you get is an almost black frame, and then the camera re-adjusts the exposure and it looks like a fast fade-in. I think this area of the tape is continuous. HOWEVER…. there is an edit at :42 It is clearly a jump. There are ways to determine if the cut was done in-camera (pause record, resume record) or in an edit suite, if you look at the video signal on a vectorscope. Perhaps the man sent to investigate this supposed sighting will have an opportunity to look into it.

As a filmmaker, I like this footage! I don’t think its real at this point, tho.

By: escAPEe

escAPEe — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:55:24 +0000

Whereas we only have this 1-minute recording sliced from the middle of the videographer’s experience– please realize that the videographer witnessed what happened before and after the portion of the encounter captured by video. His testimony needs to be documented, investigated and corroborated with what is captured on video. The location of the encounter should be visited, and the circumstances behind his story about the video confirmed.

Let’s wait for the results of an investigation before so casually dismissing this video. It would be too easy and tempting to dis this one just because it was unfortunately posted on the You Tube site at a time when so many obvious pranks and hoaxes are also showing up on that web site.

However, this video may be the one gold nugget to be found in a pile of worthless rocks.

I look forward to the results of the investigation.

By: larrykat

larrykat — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:07:04 +0000

What is striking about a lot of the posts concerning Sasquatch or whatever is the apparent expertise of the posters. Many posts like some of the above assume certain behaviors as if they have personal experience or something. Unless a video is painfully obvious or objectively found to be a hoax, all should be “taken seriously”.

One poster above states the animals always head into the deepest woods, etc etc. How the heck would he know??!

By: as29732

as29732 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:34:23 +0000

Glad to see so many BF behavior experts here. sheesch!

I think some kind of investigation needs to be done before the hoax label is placed on this one.

By: Mateo

Mateo — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:49:53 +0000

It’s a hoax. I’m 99.995% sure. When the supposed bigfoot is walking at about the 30 second point you get a fairly good shot of his head and it’s clear that his lower face (especially the chin area) is completely covered in hair so that can not make out the face structure at all. Just like a chewbacca outfit.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:17:35 +0000

It is more of the same. Even if it is of a real sasquatch (which I very seriously doubt), the video is not even remotely clear enough to make a definitive determination. Not that I would expect film footage of a sasquatch to be necessarily clear, but it seems the details surrounding this one, in addition to characteristics in the video itself mentioned by some of the posters here, gives great cause for circumspection.

For the record, in my opinion, it is but another of a long list of hoaxed videos and photos. In my opinion, such continued, profligate, unrestrained hoaxing will only make things harder for those who are attempting to seriously investigate the matter, such as the TBRC and others.