Comments on: New IMAX Enhancements of “Backpack Bigfoot”

By: Randyman

Randyman — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:28:13 +0000

Not a BF. At normal speed, the subject’s movement are too humanoid and athletic to be anything but a human. Not primate or hominid, but humanoid: running, shuffling and crouching down.

I see little evidence of BF’s conical head shape and sagittal crest, and its body is too thin and athletic. What’s with that left arm? It looks weird. Gun? Mike boom? Bat wings?

More likely crew/support than Sasquatch.

By: froggie54

froggie54 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:41:56 +0000

I just wish when folks take shots of things that they get the real thing instead of making it up by using a large guy to do the job, wild life know the difference how-ever don’t forget folks the smell of the Bigfoot is really bad, to me the smell is like a horse stall or a cattle pen that hasn’t been cleaned out in weeks and its soaked up with old water and other things like old urine its gross..Parts of the film remine me of how one stalks something, wants to get close and yet it doesn’t and we don’t have any left over bones that show’s he or she eats game meat.

By: CBFResearcher

CBFResearcher — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:41:43 +0000

I also agree with all those above who thought it couldbe someone on a mountain bike. That was my first impression. I purposely watched the video without reading any pre or post commentary just so I can come to an immediate conclusion without any influence. That said, I’m already slightly influenced by just being on this site… LOL

Person on a bike… Tht’s all this film shows. Cheers.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:51:42 +0000

Could the “appearance” of black be from backlighting?

By: hetzer88

hetzer88 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:47:21 +0000

Just my two cents worth here, but why does some guy who wants to be camouflaged wear all black? Considering that caribou see in black, white and grays, a better camo suit would be a heck of a lot lighter than what is being worn. And if that person wanted to be seen, they would not have leaped up from behind a hill, took a few steps and then hunker down. They would have leaped up at the right time and stood there waving their arms back and forth, causing the herd to change course.

The whole scene looks weird to me and not exactly right. The black color doesn’t fit, the backpack doesn’t fit, and a human in that position doesn’t fit either. And so it goes.

By: korollocke

korollocke — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:52:58 +0000

Crest???? Thought ever occur to anyone that its a hood or wool skull cap(skully as the kids started calling them.)? Pull the cap up a bit like the strange brew guys or jay of jay and silent bob fame and presto instant crest! Just a thought.

By: Pawnee

Pawnee — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:00:25 +0000

DWA, thanks for clarifying that. I came in a little late on this, and should have just observed the board more, before I commented. It makes sense now. I couldn’t identify what it was, from the first video, either.

By: vadan_hawke

vadan_hawke — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:22:35 +0000

What I think is funny, is at the 0:24 mark on the second video. Whatever the blob is, is fixing to get ran over by one of the caribou. It is running directly to where the blob dropped down behind the knoll. That being said, I really like the 2nd video, it is really clear, and they did a good job with the frame-by-frame. I wish I had their tv and they had a feather up their bums, then we’d all be tickled, it must be a HDTV.

By: DWA

DWA — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:21:56 +0000

Pawnee: it was the relatively poor resolution of early versions of the video, plus the belief of some of us that having a crew member herding the animals constituted bad filming ethics in which true pros wouldn’t engage (wrongo on that one) that led to speculation that this might not be human.

Some of the entries here date from the first version of this blog that didn’t have the Blu-Ray resolution. Ironically, the best resolution immediately prior to the Blu-Ray made it look the most apelike.

By: Pawnee

Pawnee — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:41:22 +0000

Maybe I’m getting a clearer resolution on my monitor, but I don’t understand why there is any controversy as to what is in the film. It’s as clear as day. A man in a hoody, with the hood tightly drawn around his head, gets up and is holding something elongated in his hand. He runs a ways and squats down.
I agree with Evo, he is probably recording sounds from close up, as the cameras wouldn’t pick up sounds from the distance they were. Remember, they use telescopic lenses, and could have been a quarter mile away.
A remote possibility is that the man is in a wet suit. It’s possible the herd was spotted moving to the river and the sound man crossed the river to be in position in that little draw.
For whatever reason he is there, it is definately a man, and nothing but a man.