Comments on: Do Bigfoot Hear Cameras?

By: crapple

crapple — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:33:44 +0000

I also agree with Airforce47. It is likely that intelligent animals, and even smaller animals, can sense intelligence. All animals, when they think, wether subconsciencely or otherwise, emit brain waves that other creatures can “pick up” or sense without noticing. they may feel terror or couriousity towards us depending on our intentions, and same with us, on a slightly lesser scale. I believe this can also explain the times when nothing seeems out of the ordinary, but you suddenly have feelings of overwhelming fear , or suddenly feeling that sticking around wherever you are is a very bad idea, though theres no sign of anything wrong.

By: Tamarack

Tamarack — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:04:46 +0000

I think that a quieter camera system is well worth exploring as well as the system having the ability to remain out in the field for long periods of time.

Coming from a man who has spent countless hours in the field over many years using a wide array of visual and audio recording equipment, Mr. Dranginis’ ideas are not just mere thinking outside the box alone and I believe they are deserving of some attention.

I have held off buying a game cam once I heard about his ‘eyegotcha’ system concept, I just hope that I will be able to afford one.

By: wisaaka

wisaaka — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:52:53 +0000

I agree with coelacanth1938. I think this story illustrates well, our tendencies to over-complicate things.

By: ladywolf

ladywolf — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:24:21 +0000

Sometimes I hear a buzzing noise like what was described. I guess this means I’m hearing into the ultrasonic range. That’s weird.

By: coelacanth1938

coelacanth1938 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:08:14 +0000

I don’t think that they can hear a camera hum better than we do. I do think that they’re just not stupid.

By: norman-uk

norman-uk — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:11:24 +0000

Hugh compliments to Mr Dranginis for his work -so far-and perhaps he’s the ONE ! To comfirm the Gimlin and Patterson film etc etc etc……..
I always had a vague idea that Sass could see the camera beam and which put himer off. But this sound idea seems a lot better and is researched, thats what caps it! What this raises is the qustion why should Sass be bothered about it? Is it experience with shocks from electric fencing where the transformer gives off a buzz ? I expect older sasquatches would have bumped into it at some time and passed the message down or is there a natural phenomenom which Sass finds unpleasant or threating ? Is there another unatural phenominom which has the same effect?
From my own experience, i’m sure shared, walking round a familiar but generally unused wilderness and being alert, any signs of human intrusion can be very distinctive. Even missing out on subtle, to us, smells. Then when cameras are placed I expect in Sass terms there is a bit of a commotion! Very promising but will Saquatch, true to form, still evade us all?

By: sschaper

sschaper — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:07:20 +0000

I think that animals that are sufficiently intelligent might well enough notice that there is a trail cam now when there wasn’t one before. An omivore that might just be able to climb, or at least pull down branches, isn’t only going to look at eye-level, it is going to look along the ground and up in the branches above. Anything out of the ordinary is going to be noticed and might spook the animal. I just saw a show on PBS about Seton’s hunt for the alpha male wolf Lobo in the SouthWest nearly a century ago. No matter how well they hid the traps and avoided scent, Lobo could tell that something had changed from before, and avoided the traps, or even dug them up. If there are Napes, surely they are at least as intelligent and possibly as observant as wolves.

And the motors running in camcorders do make a noise. An old-fashioned all-mechanical Pentax K-1000 film camera wouldn’t and if that family that has ‘contact’ with a family of Napes really does, they could use such a camera.

By: octavioa1

octavioa1 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:12:30 +0000

I don’t think a sasquatch avoids trail cams for the human scent. If this were the case, there would not be any sasquatch encounters at all, meaning a human reaks more of human scent than would a trail cam handled by a human.

Anyone ever “hear” a TV when the volume is all the way down? That high pitched “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” sound. A similar high pitched sound is currently used as a ringtone for cellular phones, popular with teenagers in high school because the sound is inaudible to adults over 40 years old (teachers). I’m inclined to believe that a sasquatch type creature can hear or sense the electromagnetic field in electronic equipment, especially in areas where like in the deep woods where there is little EM pollution.

By: airforce47

airforce47 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:50:03 +0000

A very good post by Loren, Bill and the commentators.

I still maintain that based upon the reported close encounters of of human and Sasquatch that the species is somewhat telepathic. The ability to sense the other species or their intentions can explain to a great degree the variance in reported encounter reactions for both humans and BF. The reactions range from extreme fear (which I felt on my first encounter) to mild curiosity.

Bill has been working on the camera angle for a long time and if he’s right we’ll get a decent picture of a specimen within a year or two after he introduces the camera. It’s quite possible the specimens spot a majority of the game cameras for being out of place or detect human scent and become cautious.

Also, the proliferation of high speed digital cameras will increase the chance of getting a really good photo of a specimen.

One of the things to remember though about a really good photo is that it won’t convince science of the existence of the species. However, it might convince science that the Bigfoot mystery deserves scientific investigation and shouldn’t be relegated to myth or legend. This will depend upon the quality of the picture and who took it and where.

Good luck with the camera Bill and please keep us posted. My best.

By: ksr

ksr — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:23:44 +0000

I agree with Matt Bille, it may be the human scent ON the camera’s themselves.