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Simple question for Bigfoot enthusiasts: Why no unambiguous photos/videos?

Biscuit said:
I love that!!! Typical bigfoot researchers, they spend ten years looking for bigfoot and when they find him they decide to leave the area as quickly as they can. It makes my head hurt.
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Classic footer formula. Not enough squatch in your blob? Turn up the self-emasculating blubbering and flee. He really should have just thrown his purse in the bushes and make something happen.
 
Biscuit said:
I think there are no photos of bigfoot because it is very very hard to get close to large apes in the wild. Look closely in the right foreground of this picture and if you use an open mind and tilt your head and squint you will see a large mountain ape. There is a second in the background to the left but it could just be trees and branches looking like an ape.

http://web.me.com/ilkawallace/Site/Our_Albums/Pages/Rwanda.html#122


These were taken by my sister-in-law while in rwanda on a recent trip. She has assured me she used only the "enhance" feature in preview and no other photoshopping. I am certain she would not mind me sharing them. Lots of great ape pics.:D
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If it's "very very hard to get close to large apes in the wild", why are there literally millions of pictures of apes in the wild? Have you perhaps heard of Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey, or anyone working in primatology over the last 45 years?

I find it extraordinarily myopic of you to base your belief in bigfoot on your sister's failure to capture a clear photo of an African ape in its natural habitat.

EDIT: Forgive me if I misunderstood your post. Were you being sarcastic?
 
Vortigern99 said:
If it's "very very hard to get close to large apes in the wild", why are there literally millions of pictures of apes in the wild? Have you perhaps heard of Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey, or anyone working in primatology over the last 45 years?

I find it extraordinarily myopic of you to base your belief in bigfoot on your sister's failure to capture a clear photo of an African ape in its natural habitat.

EDIT: Forgive me if I misunderstood your post. Were you being sarcastic?
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*kitakaze leans over to Vort*

:mgduh

Too late. He caught it, though.

So new Darth Vortigern is to the ways of the Dark Side of the Farce.;)
 
My sarcast-o-meter was a little late kicking in. Maybe next time Biscuit could place [sarcasm][/sarcasm] around his post for the benefit of the uninitiated? ;)
 
Vortigern99 said:
My sarcast-o-meter was a little late kicking in. Maybe next time Biscuit could place [sarcasm][/sarcasm] around his post for the benefit of the uninitiated? ;)
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I figured the disparity between my description of the photo and the actual photo would be a dead give away. It is good to know my dry sense of humor translates to the internet well. I hope you can laugh at yourself because that was funny.

I am so confused by the bigfooters search-and-flee hunting tactic. Its not like gorillas are know as gentle and cuddly creatures yet a group of about 8 were able to track, find, photograph, and sit next to them for nearly an hour.

The only time I have known someone to run from an animal in the wild was when my sister encountered a mountain lion while jogging near our old cabin. I have never heard of anyone, bigfooters aside, that actively stalks a creature so they can run away when they find it. To me it feels like the hunt for bigfoot is what they really want, bigfoot itself is largely irrelevant.
 
Personally, I think a gun is the best way to disprove bigfoot. And I have suggested this to many of the "Camp and Listen and Forget the Film" methodologists of bigfoot hunting.

The suggestion is, that when everyone is sitting around the campfire, someone stands up, displays his firearm, and proclaims
" THIS IS MAH GUN, IF I HEAR SOMETHING WOOD KNOCKING, I AM OPENING FIRE, IF I HEAR SOMETHING WALKING AROUND MY TENT, I AM OPENING FIRE, IF ANY OF THE TRIP WIRES GO OFF, I AM OPENING FIRE, IF ANYTHING PRESSES ON MY CHEST, OR I CAN HEAR ITS BREATHING, I AM GOING TO OPEN FIRE, OR SHANK IT IN THE CAROTID ARTERY WITH MY K-BAR (Displays knife)."

Needless to say, any and all bigfoot Shenanigans stop shortly after that.


PROJECTED FOOTER RESPONSE TO THIS SUGGESTION: "Of Course it stops, Bigfoot knows when you have a gun, and what's more, he probably heard your speech."
 
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desertgal said:
No, I think he's referring to Creekfreak's photo, as well. Creek stated that the creature came out of the woods because of a forest fire, in front of a fire helicopter, and he claimed the pilots didn't report it because they were afraid of losing their jobs. If you remember, the focus of the full picture was the helicopter itself.
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Not quite:
 

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BTW, Lu, you disappoint me as a Bigfoot enthusiast. Your youtube profile is covered in anti-creationism gobbledy-gook and not a single Bigfoot video. Boo. ;)
 
Biscuit said:
I love that!!! Typical bigfoot researchers, they spend ten years looking for bigfoot and when they find him they decide to leave the area as quickly as they can. It makes my head hurt.
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Them. There were apparently two somethings.

I hadn't heard the "ten years" before.

They did go back the next day and found hair. According to Herriott (who's probably the most cynical of any "researcher") the analysis came back human/gorilla/chimpanzee group, but none of the above.

I met Peter Byrne in in Hood River at an Audubon Society meeting. He was very down to earth.
 
LAL said:
They did go back the next day and found hair. According to Herriott (who's probably the most cynical of any "researcher") the analysis came back human/gorilla/chimpanzee group, but none of the above.
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Interesting anecdote. Came back from where?

ETA: Lu, can you think of any good reasons why there are no unambiguous videos or photos of Bigfoot?
 
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kitakaze said:
BTW, Lu, you disappoint me as a Bigfoot enthusiast. Your youtube profile is covered in anti-creationism gobbledy-gook and not a single Bigfoot video. Boo. ;)
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I don't consider myself an "enthusiast". I was debating creationists when I ran across the BFF. It's something I still do because it gets me into molecular genetics and other subjects I want to know more about. I don't consider that "goobledy-gook".

I have some sasquatch related playlists, but the MQ videos were removed when A&E complained. The channel they were on was closed.

I'm into the Shakespeare authorship question now.
 
kitakaze said:
Interesting anecdote. Came back from where?
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Dunno. Klamath Falls?
ETA: Lu, can you think of any good reasons why there are no unambiguous videos or photos of Bigfoot?
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I think there are three or four that would be considered unambiguous for an identified species.

Most encounters are at night, most witnesses aren't carrying cameras and even if they are and have the presence of mind to aim and shoot the resulting picture may be just another blobsquatch (or in that case, two blobsquatches).

Owen Caddy tells a story on one of the podcasts about a professional crew that tried for six weeks, with trail cams and other high tech equipment, to get shots of chimpanzees. The troop was especially wary because they'd been hunted. In six weeks the pros didn't even see one.
 
LAL said:
Herriott (who's probably the most cynical of any "researcher")
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Herriott presents himself well on TV. He should - he was a weatherman.

Here's Scott talking Bigfoot on CNN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7_5DZ3Ik8

Still, he recycles a lot of silly footerisms and thinks he saw a big white Bigfoot based on pareidolia video play and his footer friend's blubbering.
 
LAL said:
I don't consider myself an "enthusiast". I was debating creationists when I ran across the BFF. It's something I still do because it gets me into molecular genetics and other subjects I want to know more about. I don't consider that "goobledy-gook".
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Lu, you make a great straight woman. You're missing all my riffs. It's intentionally ironic for me to refer to anti-creationism information as gobbledy-gook because it is very important, particularly to skeptics. Bigfoot, of course, is what would actually be referred to as gobbledy-gook by most intelligent people.

I have some sasquatch related playlists, but the MQ videos were removed when A&E complained. The channel they were on was closed.
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I think that stinks there was a complaint (History Channel)? Being in Japan, youtube was the only way I've ever been able to watch MQ.
 
LTC8K6 said:
That's a crop, Lu.
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That's the shot as it was on the CD Creek sent DW after many requests for the original. I'd forgotten I'd captured it until I found it in one of my flash drives.

It's pre-Creek's Photoshopping. The area in question is on the far right. It's clear the "figures" are nothing but tree branches and nothing - not even a decent shadow.
 
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