April 20, 2005

Bigfoot filmed in Canada this link supposedly includes the video, but bedamned if I can get it to work. And here.

Bigfoot came out to register his dismay at quidnunc not being Pope.

posted by Cults Everywhere 19 years ago
  • I believe in Bigfoot!
  • for fuck's sake i can't get the video to play. fuck fuck fuck shit shit cock!
  • WOrks in IE but I'm only getting local news about some boring stuff. Clearly a conspiracy.
  • Unrelated to this incident, but a good article from BFRO though long.
  • I don't know about the video (won't work for me either), but the photo in the article was filched from another film from 1967... see here... I smell something funny here....
  • Look people, the guys at Rockstar have said OVER and OVER again that there's NO BIGFOOT. So let's just let the matter drop and get back to parachuting off sky-scrapers and, of course, the pimping.
  • The alleged video of this alleged sighting relies on the MIME type application/x-object, which I think is (allegedly, of course) Microsoft-specific and rather old.
  • That's not bigfoot, it's Michael Clarke Duncan and I think they caught him.
  • but the photo in the article was filched from another film from 1967... oh for christs sake of course that's not a screencap, the editors just grabbed the nearest public domain image of 'bigfoot' they could find - the most famous one - from the Patterson/Gimlin film. Footage of sasquatch is the holy grail of cryptozoology & crazy UFO nuts, and this family is sitting on a gold mine whether its fake or not. Most likely they'll be charging thru the nose for a split second excerpt.
  • Sure it's not Jorn Barger?
  • No, because as far as I know, Bigfoot isn't anti-semitic.
  • You can tell that from a photo?
  • Not just photos. Fecal samples. You can tell what its been eatin'. Everything strictly kosher. Dead giveaway.
  • How the heck can none of us get this video to work? We're all smart, web-savvy monkeys, right? And how do you have a news website that has video of bigfoot and not have working video on said website? Fire the coding staff!
  • The link I'm seeing (and it play for me) is http://cctvimedia.clearchannel.com/wwti/news/Video Clips/update041901.wmv. But alas it is not showing bigfoot (NSFW?).
  • The video is not the bigfoot video - it's something unrelated. Another article in Canada's Globe and Mail said that the family is not releasing the video, as they want to exploit it commercially. So, no bigfoot video for now.
  • MonkeyFilter: We're all smart, web-savvy monkeys... right?
  • they want to exploit it commercially. Well that'll help it's authenticity then.
  • So if you got a film of, say, Jackie Onassis in a clearing with the Loch Ness Monster, you'd give it away to the media for free, so they can make millions of dollars off it?
  • Jackie Onassis and the Loch Ness Monster? Together? Can't be true. I would think Nessy could do better than that.
  • I have actually seen the footage from the TV show on this sighting, the one that was not linked above. It contains only a report and interview with the witnesses, not the footage. The owners wish to authenticate it before release.
  • So if you got a film of, say, Jackie Onassis in a clearing with the Loch Ness Monster, you'd give it away to the media for free, so they can make millions of dollars off it? Yup. The public deserves to know about Jackie O and Nessie - things the Warren commision buried.
  • OK The Bigfoot video, apparently superior to the Patterson/Gimlin film (it'd have to be after recent debunking) HAS been sold, to a US TV network (surprise surprise). No doubt that digital enhancements and released frames will be available within the next 300 years.
  • cool - which network? don't say Fox, don't say Fox, don't say Fox
  • Undisclosed at this time.
  • Dammit! The Fox Television program A Currrent Affair has licensed (i.e. not purchased outright) the Manitoba footage for two broadcasts. Both broadcasts will be the same installment of the program. There will be an inital broadcast and then a repeat of it. Contrary to what has been posted on a different bigfoot-related web site, the footage will not be airing this Friday, April 29th. A producer from A Currrent Affair confirmed to the BFRO that the info about the Friday 29th broadcast is false. The footage will be airing the following week, at the soonest. Two analysts from the BFRO will be appearing on the Current Affair program to discuss the footage.
  • Good, because the BFRO are by far the best, most scientific Sasquatch research group out there.
  • Bigfoot footage on "A Current Affair" 4:39pm Bigfoot footage relased on the Internets: 4:41pm
  • Get a sneak peak at a heavily compressed, blurry and pixelated clip of the footage here. By all accounts of those who have seen the footage in cleaner format, the creature shown can only either be a very large man in a suit, or a real sasquatch. It's not a bear or other animal, and the film is not digitally faked. No one is going to come forward and claim to have been in a suit for this one, methinks, as the figure seems rather too tall for a human.
  • supposed to air in two hours EST. an article and a discussion by bigfoot experts. In as much as one can be one, i suppose. Was the original truly debunked? I know a family member said it was, but I thought there were lots of physical (anthropomorphological?) reasons it couldn't be a human. *shrug* it's been ages either way.
  • anthropomorphicological. maybe.
  • What original? You mean the Patterson footage? There are actually about 3 decent pieces of footage of sasquatch taken over the years that are considered decent, one of which is the Patterson/Gimlin film. There has been a claim that it was a guy in a suit, but there has been no actual proof of this and there are significant problems with details of the claim. Recently an experienced physician stated in the press about this issue: "I read the absurd assertion that some guy named Bob Heironimus was the bigfoot creature in the Patterson/Gimlin film of 1967. One of my colleagues, Dr. Phil Mortensen actually met this Heironimus; allow me to say that if you believe that he actually was in the film, you are a fool's fool. I have had the opportunity to examine the film frame by frame, and no way, especially in '67, was such a suit that exhibited muscle movement and contraction available. Nor would one be easy to create today. I have attached frame 72, and prior and subsequent frames show muscular contraction and expansion, as one would expect from an upright, walking biped. And I speak specifically; the latissimus dorsi of the back, the gluteus maximus of the rear, the semitendinosus and biceps femoris of the back of the upper leg, and the plantaris tendon and gastrocnemius of the calf area. Even if none of that makes sense to you, this Heironimus is not nearly big enough to fill the suit out." He goes on with other observations. I still don't know what to make of the Patterson footage, but one thing is certain: Patterson and Gimlin had been tracking Bigfoot for nine years prior to taking the film. Hoaxers don't usually waste nearly a decade looking for something they are going to hoax. The possibility remains that they were the victims of a prank, but it seems a little odd. In any case, as stated in one of the recent articles on the Manitoba footage, if it is too blurry, you can't tell for sure what you're looking at. If it is too clear, people think it's a set up.
  • Cool, thanks - I saw a 30 or 60-minute special on that footage alone and it was filled with just such observations. Having to do with the gait, the length of arms, relative to the scenery etc. One hour to air . . . c'mooon Internets!
  • Just hope they have enhanced footage, and that someone hosts a torrent of the thing. Mustn't get one's hopes up, though, as it could very well still be a hoax.
  • well . . it should have aired by now. Anything?
  • What's the news? Nothing on the crazy ass UFO sites yet.
  • oh, yes, I'd watch a sasquatch if he could snatch a quart of Scotch then we'd crank our watching up a notch I'd stare at him and he at me and both of us could watch tv or with dispatch throw a potlatch
  • And thus begins this threads beatification into Sasquatch poetry. *makes obscure religious hand gesture* . . . no clips online yet that i've seen though :(
  • The Current Affair piece. Reeeally crappy video but the 'expedition' looks like a hoot. video doesn't work in Firefox with Adblock on but works ok in IE.
  • Yukon sasquatch hair? Canadian scientists are performing DNA tests on a tuft of hair said to come from a sasquatch, a legendary ape-like creature also known as Bigfoot. Results due Thursday.
  • Oi! Good to see I'm not the only one keeping tabs on Sasquatch breaking news.
  • somewhere out there on the internets is recordings of the beast making growly sounds, playing with the outhouse toilet seats and laughing. now go get 'em! :)