Yeah, I think it’s over. Ketchum’s group — you know, the one that collected possum hairs and sequenced random garbage and called it Bigfoot — now is airing a Bigfoot video, supposedly the best evidence yet. You be the judge.
They spent half a million dollars gathering that, and they couldn’t even hand the camera over to someone who knew how to focus.
Bigfoot is just a myth. The chupacabra, on the other hand…
I loved being a kid and reading about this sort of stuff in books. I actually held out a lot longer for cryptozoology than I did anything remotely religious. It was actually seeing attempts like this to try and prove their theories that ultimately turned me away from zoological woo.
Bring on the videos of obvious mansuits!
Yep, it is the best evidence for Bigfoot that I have yet seen.
Maybe it is just me, but I get a lot less outraged at the fake videos of BF, mermaids, aliens*…
I do get fucking pissed at the fake documentaries which dishonestly try to promote the idea that there is some conspiracy cover-up or that “Scientists Have Discovered X Mythological Creature.”
*I really love that dead alien made out of turkey scraps.
For half a million dollars, they could have gotten some decent special effects.
Share this related oddity for anyone interested, Walmor Correa and his Memento Mori has some really nicely done cryptozoology anatomy.
If they had focused it properly, we would be able to see the zipper.
Hell, pay me half a million dollars and I’ll get some ‘footage’ of bigfoot that’s MUCH better than that.
Following mormon tradition, mormons take the Bigfoot myth and add a few layers of crazy all their own.
http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon637.htm (e-xmormons discuss “Why Mormons Believe in a Big, Black, Hairy, Degenerate, Sinful and Miserable Bigfoot Creature Named Cain.”
http://www.aliendave.com/UUFOH_Bigfoot.html (Brain addled Mormon devotee creates website page designed to sear your eyeballs, assault your eardrums, and convince you Bigfoot is still out there. Give money.)
Sadly, some newspapers are reporting on this as if it’s definitive proof that sasquatch exist.
“I was the turkey the whole time!”
At least Bigfoot doesn’t want you to tithe.
Does Bigfoot believe in humans? Film at 11.
Wait, was that thing wearing a pair of Air Jordans?
Why is Ms. Ketchum bothering with video? She should just capture Bigfoot with her Pokeball.
we think it’s all very funny and kind of stupid but Bigfoot is someones house payment,grocery check out slip,nice car,video gear and so on.they will never give up on this.
I wonder whose property that video is.
Yep, and with some other things too:
http://xkcd.com/1235/
@16: I was just going to bring up this point, and you and xkcd beat me to it!
Slipping into crytozoology from legitimate research is easy. Witness the Ivory-bill search of the Big Woods in Arkansas.
They got that close to a Big Foot…apparently a sleeping one at that…and they didn’t trap it? Now that would be evidence.
It’s nice to see film of a cryptozoologic creature exhibiting perfect human hip motion. There was I, thinking we were all alone in the world…
Three weeks without a shave and I make a better Bigfoot than that
Having seen a few of these things over the years, I’ve worked it out: clearly*, this remarkable being is in possession of a paranormal power. It’s like the somnolence field of kittens, except this one is a permanent defocussing field. You can’t get a clear picture, because somehow, Bigfoot itself perturbs the photons when you try, so they go all, like, wonky…
(Yes, I’m pretty sure this is the technical term.)
Yea, therefore, if anyone ever does produce a clear shot, we’ll know it’s a fake.
(And, I guess unsurprisingly, yeah, apparently, this joke has already been done, more or less. By at least one online t-shirt company, anyway.)
(*/So to speak.)
As a more entertaining Bigfoot story, here’s this link that manages to make Bigfoot brilliant and scary again: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1000.
Sweet dreams…
Well, I think that’s the worst “HD” footage of anything I’ve ever seen.
(Funny how some people think that encoding something in HD makes it high-definition.)
Hell, pay me half a million dollars and I’ll get some ‘footage’ of bigfoot that’s MUCH better than that.
For half a million dollars, my organization can arrange a night out on the town with bigfoot, including limo rides, VIP seating at a strip club, and “surf and turf” dinner at a nice restaurant, as well as photo-op and an autographed tshirt signed by the big guy himself!!!
Rich Woods @20:
The question of Bigfoots stride/gait/functional morphology has been addressed by one Jeffrey Meldrum, Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University. Meldrum is a mormon and a somewhat educated doofus. He exhibits the same kind of brain malfunctions one sees in mormon apologetics for the Book of Mormon.
http://www.isu.edu/~meldd/fxnlmorph.html Reading this text and viewing the photos and illustrations is like taking a master course in pseudo-science. There it is, all the proof you need for the existence of Sasquatch! Not.
Jonmilne at 23
I love that website. Best site to go to for crazy paranormal stuff for my paranormal investigation game I run. Also, Bigfoot sightings are just lost wookies.
Another home-run, cryptozoologists!
Who wants to bet it’s the same Bigfoot suit those two yokels tried to pass off as real a (by stuffing it with meat and freezing it in ice, no less) few years back?
Aw, @13 beat me to it. Is her name Ashley by chance? Gotta catch ’em all!
How silly…. everyone knows that Bigfoot retired years ago and farmed out his big footing duties to undocumented Yeti and unemployed circus midgets.
Frankly, even the Patterson/Gimlin film is much better.
Seconded.
Thread won.
+ 1
Or at least show us its face.
Y’know, there are crackpots out there who have proposed even greater wonkiness in earnest:
You’ve become a victim of Poe’s Law!
I love “DATA EXPUNGED”. :-D
isn’t that video the “Blair Bigfoot Project?”
Apparently, “there are two races which use the second-density form. One is the entities from the planetary sphere you call Maldek. These entities are working their understanding complexes through a series of what you would call karmic restitutions. They dwell within your deeper underground passageways and are known to you as “Bigfoot.” – The Law of One
http://www.focusonrecovery.net/mattersoffaith/Bigfoot.html
The one moment it is in focus it’s clearly a wookie mask. As it turns towards the camera, there isn’t so much as a twitch, much less change in expression.
@18 mothra
Except that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was an actual documented species that was supposedly extinct. Not a made up man-ape designed to make money off of fools.
My favorite bit of Bigfoot analysis was when experts solemnly opined that the furry wonder running from the shaky handcam was not human because it didn’t have the proportions of a man. They were right about the second half: the film producers later admitted that it was the cameraman’s wife in a gorilla suit.
Akira @29:
If it wad, I really hope that suit was washed in the interim…
It’s not even a convincing costume.