Comments on: What Is It? New Photo Mystery: Braxton Beast

By: blue1965

blue1965 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:11:55 +0000

That is no type of leaf that I’ve ever saw or raked. Could be a man in one of those orange hunting suits with his head down, but I don’t even feel that’s what it is. Whatever it is you can see both legs as it walks.

By: ETxArtist

ETxArtist — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:05:03 +0000

I admit I didn’t read all these posts. To me, it looks like a raptor perched on a tree branch. Could be a horned owl, they’re pretty common in twilight times, I’ve seen many of them without the aid of night vision. They are one of our largest birds of prey, and are known for perching low, especially after an unsuccessful hunt. Just an observation from a guy who’s id’ed over 300 species of bird in the wild. I may have bird flu!

By: borninvincible

borninvincible — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:52:28 +0000

enhanced a bit.. interestingly shaped. it appears to be walking with weird looking straight arms by its side.

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7769/enhancedau4.png

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:45:54 +0000

I don’t see any hands?

By: Fred G

Fred G — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:13:26 +0000

Okay…I decided to post here. Thanks Loren for the great coverage given to our mystery biped. For the doubters I will reassure you we do not know what is in this picture. It is just something odd we wanted others to look at. The camera used was a Wildview 2.0 Megapixel Digital Toggle-Switch Scouting Camera purchased from an sportsman’s catalog. There is no evidence at the site of a fire. It was taken at approximately daybreak and the entity is walking eastward. The camera used only snaps one photo every 5,10, or 20 minutes (it was set to 20 minutes). The image taken before this one was in darkness…this is why we assume it was taken at daybreak around 6 to 7 am. The woodpile did consist of logs approx 24″ in length, but the stack was about 5 1/2 to 6 feet tall. It was early December and as I recall it was less than 20 degrees Fahrenheit that morning. With it being a digital image…there will always be those who claim it was fudged. I can assure you it wasn’t. I supplied the image to Loren in its original condition. We plan to return there soon and take an image of a person standing at the same location to post here for review.

Here is a link to an image of the camera used.

By: momo

momo — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:25:37 +0000

This is visible to the rabbit which has jumped toward the front.
I think that it is not the photograph which caught just before hind legs came out ahead at the moment of skipping.

It is not so good at English.
I’m sorry when unclear.

By: cynicalist

cynicalist — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:20:24 +0000

If you care to take a look at this supposed “new creature”, you’ll see that even without the image being enhanced further, you can see that this is a fake image superimposed into the film still. You can see that the “legs” of the creature just sort of disappear above the line of leaf-litter on the forest floor. You can also see the cut-off line of this fake image of a blurred line where the ankles of the creature should be. Nice try whoever faked it, but not near good enough…..

By: Nekultura

Nekultura — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:06:11 +0000

My uncle saw a large, very tall (> 8 ft) reddish furry creature in rural Illinois, just outside St. Louis, in the early 70s (ca. 1972?).

It moved on four legs, with two swinging inward between the other two. It reminded him of a cross between a gorilla and a kangaroo. The spheroidal head seemed disproportionately small for the creature; and he thought it had two arms in addition to the legs.

He was driving south near, I think, Redbud, Illinois. The car behind him stopped and turned around, apparently going after the creature. He himself, afraid for my aunt and cousin asleep in the car (and maybe for himself), kept on driving, thinking it would appear in the newspapers later. It never did.

Has anyone else heard of such a creature?

By: Blade

Blade — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:16:56 +0000

I agree with doc007.

By: doc007

doc007 — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:24:55 +0000

Its clearly a woodpecker….it was behind the tree and when It moved into frame, the camera snapped it. The tree is not as large as it looks. You can clearly see the head and tail along with the wings down its sides.
what else you need solved??