Comments on: New KY GameCam Pic: Is It Bigfoot?

By: Animus

Animus — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:28:03 +0000

Thanks, Shill. Until I hit your link I was going with mountain gorilla. It’s obviously a bird.

By: DWA

DWA — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:09:52 +0000

I have to say: the crow hypothesis looks like a distinct possibility to me. Although I should add that it’s not distinct enough to postulate species (the crow getting the nod only because it’s the only relatively large black bird I would expect – key word there – to see).

If a sasquatch, it appears to be taking pinking shears to a hedge. I’m thinking not.

By: c.stark

c.stark — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:31:44 +0000

It’s a Birdsquatch…

By: shill

shill — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:16:57 +0000

Look at the pictures in perspective here It's quite obviously not a large animal.

By: thetwins

thetwins — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:04:10 +0000

It is entirely possible that what people are interpreting as the “feathering” of the “wings” on the image is caused by the figure posed behind a stalk of what appears to be a patch of wildflowers of some type.

I am intrigued by the fact that the owner of the game cam refers to areas of flattened grass; however, I’m also somewhat resigned to the fact that — like so moany other stories — there will be absolutely no follow-up.

By: drummer

drummer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:00:05 +0000

Hello all. I live 20 minutes from where this was taken and I wanted to offer some geographical info. Fairdale is on the south end of Louisville. A small suburb, if you will. To the south of Fairdale is very wooded and rural. So I know there is alot of wildlife in this area. If you keep going south, you will run into Fort Knox, which is very wooded and hilly and posted as “No trespassing”. As a matter of fact, some very large trophy white-tail deer have been taken in this area. I am not saying the photo is Bigfoot, pretty cool if it turned out to be though, but I wanted to clarify that this area is not heavily populated and is abundant with wildlife with many places large wildlife could exist. Never heard of any bear in this area though.

By: Paul78

Paul78 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:13:09 +0000

I can see how it looks like a bird but after looking at it again i have two more questions, where is it tail looking at it proportions i think at least some tails feathers should be visible and why in the sharpened picture does it look like it has muscular shoulders and arms which a bird doesn’t have?

By: john5

john5 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:27:53 +0000

Sorry it’s not a Sasquatch, as I thought it might be upon first glance, but it might be something as enigmatic. It looked like the figure was behind the large yellow flower but appears to be in front and to the left of it. I agree it is a bird but what kind??

The head is far too round and large to be the head of a crow although there were many in a photo from the same property. I don’t believe a crow’s head feathers are long enough to make the head this large even if its feathers were puffed out. A crow would also have a beak extended if it was taking off. In landing they do look down to zone in on where they are landing and might not reveal a beak, but again the head is far too round and large.

The only bird it resembles, IMHO, is an owl but I do not know of any black or extremely dark owls in North America. Owls don’t often fly in the daylight, unless feeding young or if prey is scarce, or they are migrating. Actually the picture gives me the creeps for some reason!

Thanks to CNN for covering a story of a potential bigfoot though. Of interest they did show a large bare footprint on the property that wasn’t really discussed at all.

By: bobbee

bobbee — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:40:16 +0000

Easy and obvious. This quite obviously is a mountain gorilla in a sitting position and as a matter of fact anyone observant enough will see that he’s hunting as well, as its perfectly clear in the pic that he’s also holding a rifle; probably waiting for the human to come out and get the camera.

By: Trapster

Trapster — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:06:15 +0000

A flying Grackle or Crow was my first thought when I saw the photo. A quick search of the internet gave me a pic with a crow ascending in a VERY similar posture.

It is the bird on the far left on the 2nd photo down.

Now Imagine that bird is flying directly toward you. I think it would be almost a perfect match.

Not to mention in one of the gamecam’s previous photos a group of Crows or Grackles were seen feeding on the ground at the site. 1+1= 2

The real give-away are the visible flight feathers outstretched on the wingtips in the original photo. If you see enough birds up close they stand out pretty well.

My two cents.