Comments on: Manitoba Bigfoot: Another Look

By: Animus

Animus — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:41:12 +0000

These videos, blurry and shakey as they are, go public because people with no real interest in sasquatch or cryptids in general find them interesting. They watch them, they debate them and then they forget about them. Everyone commenting here has a greater interest in these topics than the average joe and has seen hundreds of pictures and videos like this. So when another one comes out, we’re disappointed because we can’t gain anymore information, ie: facial structure, height, weight, what was it doing there. These videos are exciting and new for most people and they may entice someone not really familiar with the topic to become more interested so years from now he or she can log onto websites like this and debate why these videos go public.

By: DWA

DWA — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:51:40 +0000

Sschaper: not so much sure it’s impugning the photographer as in wondering why stuff like this goes public, and gets debated, when there is almost nothing in it to debate.

Wildlife photography from the hip is next to impossible. Which means, to me: if you didn’t get a good shot to supplement your experience, you may not be better off to release what you got to the public than to keep it to yourself.

The only time I ever encountered a grizzly bear on foot – in Alaska, about 3 or 4 air miles from the nearest tree, at distances as close as approximately 30 yards – my camera stayed against my chest throughout an encounter that actually did take as looong as it felt like. Hey. It didn’t tell me it was there! How could I know?

And manetheren: what I know about Manitoba (where a hunter killed one, with one shot, and carefully inspected the body in 1941) is exactly why I take stuff like this to task. ‘PEGUIS’ refers to a video that is truly enigmatic; clearly depicts a big mammalian biped; has convincing backstory; and makes this look like …well, look up there.

By: DWA

DWA — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:45:14 +0000

Sschaper: not so much sure it’s impugning the photographer as in wondering why stuff like this goes public, and gets debated, when there is almost nothing in it to debate.

And manetheren: what I know about Manitoba (where a hunter killed one, with one shot, and carefully inspected the body in 1941) is exactly why I take stuff like this to task.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:42:24 +0000

greywolf and shumway, you attack the photographers, but I am guessing you haven’t ‘been there’, or you wouldn’t. It is like ammunition discipline; you know it, you know you should do it, but in the suddenness of the event you don’t get it done. As I experienced the first time I played paintball.

I”m a half-way decent photographer, but a short time ago when I saw an unidentified animal running at me, and my sub-conscious screamed ‘wolverine’ (which I don’t think it could have been) even though I had my dslr with me, I simply stared in startlement and didn’t get a single picture. (it ran like a skunk or badger, but reddish brown, too short to be a wolverine, and NOT a groundhog/marmot). SE Minnesota about 20 miles south of the wolverine sighting a couple years back.

So, I’m not condemning these folks.

By: manetheren

manetheren — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:11:20 +0000

DWA – This video is not representative of Manitoba. According to John Green in “The Apes Among Us”, Manitoba is second only to BC for the number of sightings. There’s a lot more going on here than just a blobsquatch.

By: gridbug

gridbug — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:27:12 +0000

You mean that “well-publicized A Current Affair expedition to Manitoba to search for the Sasquatch” that amounted to little more than a fever-dream of Georgia Bigfoot Hoaxer proportions? Don’t get me wrong, I do love me some Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D but man did Bobby Clarke bungle it. Woulda coulda shoulda…

By: RandyS

RandyS — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:04:06 +0000

Given that the footage was taken with an “old video camera” and that the subject was approximately 300 meters (328+ yards) distant, the reason the footage is blurry likely has nothing to do with the camera operator. The camera — its lens and its recording medium — was probably incapable of the necessary resolution to capture a clear image of an object “a little bigger than a man” at that distance. It also looks as though the figure was isolated from the original footage and enlarged for broadcast. The result is a small image of a blobsquatch instead of a tiny image of a blobsquatch.

It’s not the inability of the photographer to focus that gives us footage like this, but the fact that video is a lousy medium with which to shoot anything more than a few yards away.

By: DWA

DWA — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:02:54 +0000

Why bother with a piece of [squatch dung] like this?

When you say ‘Manitoba,’ say ‘PEGUIS.’

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:28:31 +0000

As Peanut said about lazy eyed people (from Jeff Dunham’s Arguing With Myself DVD) “Focus You Moron!!” What is it about people taking these type of footage that they continue to record if the image is not in focus? There have only been a few that I can remember that the person recording was trying to focus…to those people I applaud. At least you were trying, but stuff like this, “Oh my God! A dark blob is coming our way!” I’m getting a little irritated (if you can’t tell). We are living in the most technologically advanced stages in human history and we still can’t get people to focus when filming. The Champ video from the cell phone was better than this.

By: wdsasquatch

wdsasquatch — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:56:05 +0000

I live in southern Manitoba, northwest of Stonewall, about a mile away from the uninhabited swamp lands. I have heard of a story of a couple of hunters going up there. As I heard the story: a large black creature (not a bear) walked in front of them on two legs, and into the swamp on the other side of the road. These guys dont like to talk about the story, so im thinkin its probably true. I think a Sasquatch could easily support itself up there. There is plenty to eat, and that habitat can support other large animals, like black bear, moose and deer. So I beleive Sasquatches are living in Manitoba and that Bobby Clarke might have actually filmed one. I know this footage is to shaky to tell for sure but like Bob K said there was also eyewitness testimony.