The first hairy shadow (the torso?!) enters the view field abruptly and after wobbling slightly (but still maintaining the apparent vertical positioning) for 1 second passes totally through to the right. The second shadow (the arm?!) enters the view field abruptly as well but disappears in less than .25 seconds.

A four legged critter would require more time to pass in front of the lens and would likely be one large shadow if it was the body and several if it was the legs. Not one long shadow and one blip.

Also I originally thought the bear’s reaction was from it hearing the camera switch on causing it to scramble away. For it to look behind, first from the right side then to the left and finally back to the right, is an indication of it keeping an eye on a moving object and synchronizes nicely with the shadows passing from left to right in front of the lens. A detail I found interesting!

While we have only photos and films to view the proof of the presence of Sasquatch will be foound in the details of the images. That is until another ‘Jocko’ is captured!

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I also think that saying the bear is not old enough to have cubs is speculative at best no matter how young it may appear in this video. We simply don’t know, so I feel making the jump to the conclusion that it cannot possibly have cubs is assuming a lot, as is all of the speculation on what you feel it thinks is a safe distance or what its thoughts are as it looks back. Besides, even if this bear were clearly agitated, which I don’t think it is demonstrating to any appreciable degree, who is to say that a sasquatch would be what was causing that? It could very well be a dominant bear in the area, or the click and whirr of the trail cam. The way the shadow moves past the camera is admittedly odd, but in no way concrete evidence of bipedalism.

As to looking at the video with a mind clear of skepticism, make no assumptions of my level of skepticism or “fear of being duped” here. I am looking at this video with clear (as clear as the resolution will allow anyway) and unbiased eyes and have no strong desire for it to be one thing or the other. I am fully open to the idea of sasquatch existing, but see no evidence of it in this clip, in fact for me nothing really points to the jump that this is a sasquatch we are seeing rather than other mundane possibilities. If I am to weigh what I see in this video and decide if it is A) a large, undocumented hairy hominid, or B) A bear with its cubs, possibly slightly agitated by SOMETHING, then for me, from a scientific perspective, the likely answer is fairly clear.

I respect your sightings and think it is fortunate for you to have the experience you have had. But I think “knowing” it exists still does not mean that that is what is being shown in this video. Maybe it IS a sasquatch, who knows? However whether I know sasquatch exists or not is irrelevant here. What I see in the video could point to possibilities other than there was a sasquatch that walked by, and I just feel making too many assumptions or jumping to conclusions is really not going to help sasquatch research in the long run.

I’ve had my own squatch encounter years ago and I want there to be film or video evidence as much as the most fervent believer, but man, there’s just nothing to support all those points.

The one thing that seems to be consistent with animals and sasquatches is that everything is terrified of them. Silence in the woods, right down to insects? I suspect every creature that lives in the wilderness instinctively knows that squatches are the *ultimate* omnivore and nobody -from an 8 point buck down to an 8 legged arachnid- is safe, and flight or silence is their best defense.

Accordingly, I don’t think any bear smaller than an adult grizzly would hang around that close to something it knows could pick it up and take a bite out of it’s ass. If bears generally run from approaching humans, they’d flee at a full gallop from an approaching sasquatch.

I say the shadow is either a mate or a cub.

There are other subtle signs of the bear’s somewhat threatened state and with viewing the footage on a Google Video Player the following details can be seen:

1.00 sec - The bear’s hackles (hair down the spine) are raised.

2.25s -2.75s - A broader area of hackles is raised across the back of the bear’s shoulders.

2.75s -3.00s - The right ear is clearly laying back.

3.50s - Right after the bear reaches a clear area with all 4 feet it arches its back with hackled fur and with lowered head looks briefly to the left in effort to catch a glimpse of the figure approaching from the left.

15.25s - After the bear reaches what it considers a safe enough distance it suddenly stops and looks back to the right with its ears raised high and pointed forward in a state of alert.

21.75s - After taking a couple of steps the bear attempts to go no further at this point after it looks back to the right and likely senses the approaching figure is not headed its way.

23.50s - The bear looks quickly back to the left as the figure approaches and by 23.75 begins to turn its head back to the right likely in effort to keep an eye on the figure as it passes through to the right.

25.75s - The first shadow suddenly darkens the view and moves through to the right.

28.25s - The figure has moved past the view field and the bear’s head is now facing fully backwards to the right with the both its face lowered and ears half lowered until the filming stops.

There is no evidence the shadows moving left to right across the viewing field are of bear cubs climbing down the tree or that the bear is old enough to have cubs. It appears to me to be around 3 or 4 summers old. The bear is definitely clearing the area even before looking backwards and is definitely following a figure coming in from the left and traveling to the right. There is no proof the shadows are Sasquatch however I feel there is strong evidence (motion and time to clear the viewing field) that supports the opinion that whatever it is walks on two legs.

Personally I am not trying to see a Sasquatch in this footage or nor do I have a desire to see one in this video. In fact I am not looking for proof of the existence of Sasquatch in any video but I am looking for evidence of its presence. I am comfortable in knowing Sasquatch exists thanks to frames of the Patterson-Gimlin film that I first saw in 1973. From that time I have spoken to several eyewitnesses and their families from Ontario, B.C. and NY state and held copies of footprint castes while meeting with Dr. John Bindernagel as well as having my own sightings.

Knowing these hominids exist enables me to view videos without the doubt of skepticism or the fear of being duped by a hoax or fear of knowing they are real! With the large number of cameras now in existence I am looking forward to the many new videos that are bound to turn up. However, given the technology today I am not interested whatsoever in any of the blobsquatch digital blurry footage being circulated that lacks any clear detail. There will no doubt be many examples of clear and unmistakable film (video) footage of Sasquatch yet to appear in the future.

However, if this is a bear cub, then it has been following along side it the whole time. I really think that the sasquatch explanation is drawing at straws a bit here. I understand the desire some have for this to be a possible sasquatch, but the simplest explanation for what I see here and the behavior being exhibited is that this is a mother bear with its cub or cubs. One could speculate on all sorts of other theories, but if you really want to apply Occam’s Razor here, this is footage of a cub.

I personally do not see anything in the movement of the shape past the camera that rules out a bear cub and I am surprised that people are seeing something there that could conclusively rule this possibility out. As for a man in a fur suit, that would have most definitely caused more of a reaction from this bear than it is demonstrating. I also wonder what kind of foolhardy person would dress up in a fur suit and mess around with a bear this close just so that they could produce a hoax video of a black blur past the camera. That just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.

Watching the motions at regular speed the first dark figure that enters the view hesitates slightly, in a wobbly fashion, before moving through to the right. This motion is similar to the gait of a human where there is a slight hesitation of the torso as the next leg swings forward.

The second dark figure crossing the lens appears to glide quickly past without a hesitation and is similar to the smoother swaying of a human arm on a figure that is in full walking motion.

The film on Google Video frames can be paused at .25-second intervals. Too bad the frames do not have a .1 second interval to see more detail given the speed of the figure. Nevertheless some detail is evident as originally pointed out by Richard888.

A play-by-play of the stop motion goes as follows:

25.50 sec - a small shadow appears in the bottom right corner of the screen and could be a reflected shadow by the figure approaching from the left.

25.75 sec - no evidence of the figure present.

26.00 sec - the entire screen goes black.

26.25 sec - a vertical (posterior) edge of the figure appears on the left of the screen and it appears to be covered with short hair, shorter than what I expect to see from a bear at this proximity to the lens.

26.50 sec - Given the speed the figure enters the picture in the 26.00 frame, the figure makes little forward motion to the right in the 26.25 frame. This is the slight hesitation referred to earlier where a leg is likely being brought forward into the next step.

26.75 sec - The figure moves sways slightly backwards, likely while the leg is still in motion, and all the while maintains its apparent vertical positioning. The frame is also part of the hesitation with wobbly motion referred to earlier. The moving leg may have planted the foot at this point.

27.00 sec - The figure is halfway across the viewing field moving to the right with the hair showing more clearly. Likely the other leg is being moved forward at this point.

27.25 sec - The first figure is past the lens and the approaching shadow of the second figure is evident on the left of the screen.

27.50 sec - The screen is completely blackened.

27.75 sec - Without hesitation in motion the second figure is completely past the lens.

I cannot say this is definitely a sasquatch but it is clear the bear is somewhat threatened by whatever is approaching the area and is skulking away. The bear is reacting as if a more dominant animal is appearing on the scene but is not running in fear as if was a strange human approaching.

Given the motion and hesitations of this unknown figure and the 1.5 seconds it took to move across the lens it had to be walking on 2 legs. A four-footed would have required a longer time to move past the lens and provide more frame eclipsing. Combined with the short-dark hair on the figure, shorter than a bears, an interesting scenario presents itself.

A large man in a fur suit? Personally I do not think so. Is the bear simply responding to a sudden camera noise and someone later shaded in the figures? I do not think this happened either!

I don’t need specifics, just general location, please.

Also, I think bears, for the record, on this video.