Comments on: Update: Mt. Hood Mystery Photo

By: hetzer88

hetzer88 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:40:30 +0000

Ok folks, I believe i am the only one to log in this particular view of the ‘animal’. I also see how people might think that the bears head is sniffing the ground, but if that were the case, when the 30 second video kicked on, it would still be there. No bear that I know of, would be able to suddenly blast away in the 1 to 2 second time it takes for the video to begin. If it heard a noise, it would look up first, sniff the air, and then maybe take off. That would be a good 5 or 10 seconds worth of being in front of the camera. Here is my take on it.
The creature is already hailing across the lens from left to right on a disgonal. The head is at the upper right of the ‘blob’ and you can see that the ‘nose’ is of coloured with the blackness of the rest of the head. The eyes are slits, exactly the kind of slits that would be associated with a creature running full tilt as the wind-air blasts into their face.
It is running fast, that right rear leg is pushing off the ground for propulsion, which is why it is stuck out at a weird angle. The weirdness in all of this is that, when studying the nose, is doesn’t look like a snout. It looks more smashed in, like a gorilla nose. That’s not to say it is a gorilla or a ’squatch’ , but the nose is very odd looking.
Anyway, I would not definitively just call it a black bear, but i would not label it as a ’squatch’ either. It is a mystery, and it will probably remain a mystery. And so it goes!

By: onetimer

onetimer — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:26:41 +0000

I believe this is a wolverine. If you doubt me, just Google “wolverine animal” and check out the pictures. Find one of the black ones and you’ll see what I mean. They look more like the mystery animal than any bear does, IMO.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:12:05 +0000

Shumway- I certainly would be interested in the enhancements you did on this. Any chance you’re going to share those here?

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:19:37 +0000

I printed out the pic with everything lightened and I could finally make out the head. definitely a black bear. Its head is almost directly in front of the camera with its nose sniffing something in/on the ground. The reason it looks so funny is because the front legs are hidden by the head and the leg sticking out is its right hind. I’m wondering if the reason it didn’t stick around for another picture is because it is sniffing a bee’s/wasp’s nest.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:56:21 +0000

hey, say what you will, I put this thru photoshop and the best I can say is a furry blob. I would say that it is a little fat for the average description for sasquatch, and the hind legs seem a bit short for sasquatch. The rear end does look a little primate, but if not a bear I’d say person in costume who really thought this one out. As for no other pics, unless this camera made noise or produced a strong flash, I don’t see why there wouldn’t have been more than one photo. Bears can move quickly when just wandering around, but I rarely have seen them move too fast for the camera to get another rear shot (at least not without reason). The more I look at it, the more I’m thinking it doesn’t make any sense at all.

By: silvereagle

silvereagle — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:27:22 +0000

In the PNW, the bigfoot immediately vacate areas that have as few as one single trail camera. Maybe the bigfoot are not as smart back east. And then again, maybe not.

By: KenMD

KenMD — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:43:10 +0000

Daryl,

Is it really hard to deploy all those cameras?

What does it take, a few hours or do you spend all day?

I hear there are lots of mosquitos, ticks and spiders?

I don’t know if I would be up for all that.

By: Daryl Colyer

Daryl Colyer — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:11:31 +0000

Hey DWA:

I am very sorry to disappoint, but those pesky black bears routinely wreak havoc with our cameras in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, where they are quite common. We’ve yet to film or photo Ursus americanus in Texas; however, our fingers are tightly crossed.

Sorry about the delay on the new website; it’s quite a chore, and as you so eloquently pointed out, we’re a group of volunteers with families, careers and financial obligations. We were hoping for a launch at the end of June, but frankly, that’s looking to be too soon.

We promise it’ll be up and running before too long, but it now appears it will be some time toward mid or end of July. Rest assured that even though the old site is mostly dead, we are very much alive and kicking like never before.

By: DWA

DWA — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:22:06 +0000

Daryl:

Did you say black bear?

Did I miss the part about their now being documented for East Texas?

Or did you just do that?
Not sure you’d call that payback on investment, with almost everybody suspecting they were around, but hey, little victories.

And notice my mention of your website. I had a feeling you’d come on with an explanation of what’s up. Just didn’t think it would come BEFORE my post.

By: DWA

DWA — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:15:54 +0000

mystery_man: I don’t know what the photo would be required to show. And yes I have said here more than once that a good one would be compelling.

Just no one ever asked me what that meant before. I might just have to take the Felix Frankfurter position: we’ll know it when we see it. For sure, all main characters are going to have to be visible, probably from multiple angles (and yes, I’m thinking video would be better): hands; feet; oh and don’t forget clear “landmarks” allowing measurements (although watch people jump on those); good closeups of the face…I think you get it. You’ll need to go to sightings, check against the visual, and say, yep, that’s the animal…or the clever hoax that incorporated all those reports….LOTOH* will getcha every time…

And it’s a high bar to clear that the sasquatch gets the kneejerk label “implausible.” It’ll be as funny to look back on this someday, I’m sure, as it is now to look back on the reaction to the first reports of the gorilla. It might be even funnier, actually, with everyone wondering how LOTOH ever got started in the first place. Why didn’t those dummies just LOOK? Why did they wait until everybody had seen one?

Oh, and while we’re on money and game cams: anyone notice how long it’s been since the TBRC announced the “Conservancy” change? The website hasn’t changed, a jot, since then.

THIS, scoftics, is what we mean by too few people, all doing this part-time for free. So could you stop the hoary chestnut about how that’s such a hoary chestnut?

*Legend of the Omnipotent Hoaxer