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Bigfoot Spotted Sneaking Around Below Bald Eagle Nest, Multiple Outlets Report (cnet.com)
Take it with a pinch of salt. Maybe some more. Eric Mack, writing for CNET:Bigfoot, that mysteriously unkempt and anti-social gentlemen of the woodlands, has again made an appearance on camera in his trademark blurry yet intriguing style. This time the legendary cryptid has apparently been captured on the CarbonTV Eagle Cam in northern Michigan. The live webcam is trained on a bald eagle nest 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground near the Platte River State Fish Hatchery. In the aforementioned video we see a dark lumbering figure talking into frame about 10 seconds into the clip. The shadowy silhouette of something clearly bipedal makes its way through the stand of trees before walking out of frame. While the creature appears to fit the traditional description of Bigfoot, it also could pretty easily be explained as a bear or a human. Because the camera is capturing the forest floor looking down from 100 feet up, the perspective is a little screwy and it's hard to get much clarity.Further reporting on Time, and Fox.
I'm convinced the editors have resorted to trolling us now.
Where there are webcams, there will be trolls who put something unexpected into the frame, just far enough away to trick the eye. I may have...er...known someone...who's done this before.
Maybe bigfoot is blurry in real life?
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
Not going to grant the ad revenue of the sensational video but 10 frames or ~.5-1s of noise can't confirm much but there are a lot of non-ape alternatives. Plenty of animals are bipedal for short periods of time.
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Nothing to see here. It's just his little brother. They had a falling out a while back. Something about a gal named Nessie.
Fuck Trump AND Hillary .... Giant Meteor 2016!
Watch out for 'dem killer clowns too!!!
The shadowy silhouette of something clearly bipedal makes its way through the stand of trees before walking out of frame.
.... what like a human. When did this level of supernatural BS conspiracy nut reports get to be on slashdot, it's the opposite of science and technology. Maybe if it was a physiological study on these people it would actually be newsworthy.
Bears do not walk like that. It's either a human in costume or an upright ape more closely related to humans than any currently existing ape.
Who better to believe in Big Foot than a group of basement dwellers that have never seen real trees, the sun, or a shower.
In a furry suit, trolling us. Next topic, please.
I come to /. just to read the hate comments anymore. They give me a good laugh. I could care less about anything else.
I remember back when it was "Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters"
Now it seems it's ever trending towards "Slashdot: News for Morons, Inane Bullshit"
Big Foot does not have many friends. All of them suck at taking pictures. Plain and simple. He's too old to know about 'selfies'.
Blurry.
From a distance.
Inconclusive.
No follow up, other evidence, etc.
Like every UFO, ghost, loch ness monster or other story: It's BOLLOCKS until you actually have something worth showing.
There are entire tribes that have only been contacted by modern civilisation in the last few years. They are places in the ocean that we've never been to. We barely understand how many planets there are in our own solar system, let alone anyone else's.
But the more BOLLOCKS like this that appears as "news" or even a funny, the more idiots confuse "open scepticism and probability" with "acceptance of absolute shite as fact".
I can't even work out why this is on here, why it's worthy of a submission, why it passed moderation, or why I'm seeing it at all.
Stop it.
Maybe it's Donald Trump in the bigfoot costume? Big foot, small hands!
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
This story got /. through one whole page of comments without a single mention of the Second Amendment.
Well, until now of course.
What did he say?
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
"They typically dwell just behind rocks, but are also sometimes playful bounding into thick fogs and out of focus areas."
Unfortunately this is on Slashdot for some stupid reason, but that doesn't mean I can't mock the story with a good Futurama reference.
"Bigfoot is a crucial part of the ecosystem, if he exists. So lets all help keep possibly Bigfoot alive for future generations to enjoy, unless he doesn't exist."
He doesn't have a selfie stick. Lots of other kinds of sticks, but no selfie stick.
Tell RMS to get back to work and stop messin' with the birdies.
Table-ized A.I.
I have many selfies from back in the 80's.
We should start a GoFundMe to buy Bigfoot a selfie stick.
Write-in BigFoot-Nessie 2016.
Change we CAN'T believe in!
He needs a new phone first. His Blackberry is on it's last legs.
that's a Creepy Clown! Notify Homeland Security and CNN!!
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here.
Because "webcam".
"I think Bigfoot is blurry. There's a large out-of-focus monster terrorizing the Pacific Northwest" --Mitch Hedberg
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
Its clearly a human, and one not even used to walking round the forest. Look at the awkward way he jumps off a small log around 0:40.
As to being all black and possibly hairy, I'd suggest thats entirely down to poor lighting/camera resolution/compression artefacts.
"Funny how after everyone had phones with cameras, the number of UFO sightings really dropped off."
Gorilla marketing?
It's written on the Biblie!
I know that's not Bigfoot. I saw him earlier today chillin' with Elvis at the Burger King.
> Maybe it's Donald Trump in the bigfoot costume?
You mean there is a difference? :-)
*ba dum tsh*
Somebody got their coastocoastam in my /.
the Infinite Improbability Drive before the elections? Thanks.
There was this story from about 12 years ago. Unfortunately the linked article is no longer available but I did find a follow up that has a more "current" one. The dino has survived until at least 2014 but I didn't find anything newer than that.
Time to offend someone
Same Same, but Different.
Although the catch phrase "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" is often repeated, it is fundamentally nonsense - unless elaborately qualified.
If you thoroughly search a room looking for a suspect, and do not find him or her, you know they are not in the space searched. Absence of evidence can obviously be extremely strong evidence of absence if you have effective tools to look for the evidence.
We now have the equivalent situation with respect to "Sasquatch".
With the advent of environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring, a technology that has been available now for nearly 20 years, it is possible to survey the animals present in an environment, without ever seeing them, by detecting the traces of DNA they inevitably leave behind. When you consider forensic DNA analysis, analyzing the traces of DNA left on most any object you interact with, the technique is almost 30 years old. No one has ever detected the DNA of an unknown non-human primate in North America.
All of the Sasquatch "evidence" - footprints, disturbed areas, supposed feeding or gathering spots, claimed coprolites, etc. would be loaded with Sasquatch DNA if it was real. Nope, no Sasquatch DNA anywhere. At this point we can close the book on the theory that there is, or has ever been, a Sasquatch.
Second class citizen of the New Gilded Age
They are beyond Gorilla, they've gone full Squatch!
I knew a guy that removed his license plate from his sport bike and dropped trow before blazing by a speeding camera at 110 mph. Somehow I don't think that's quite what you mean.
Nah, hair is all wrong.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Cthulhu/Nyarlathotep is my platform of choice.
Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
Given it's the woods, it's most likely a clown.
Thailand?
OMG facts!
I want proof!
SARKASM ALERT, if you would dare to shoot in the woods or anywhere else on a bipedal creature just4fun or "proof", the only legal way you should use a gun is:
a.) on yourself
b.) to compete for the darwin award.
It's still there.
http://www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/info/whiteisland/camera/whiteislandcraterfloor
I saw it and the first thing that popped into my head was hiker. The second was that he was wearing dark clothes, and it was probably cold that morning.
As to the blurry, way out of the focus range of that particular device as it was trained on the nest.
That was me, sorry.
And yes, I am hairy and blurry in real life.
on 271.000 MHz, callword for NORAD Western Area Defense Sector. Rambled off a bunch of numbers, probably where a Air Guard F16 to meet for refueling. Getting back to the big scary monster, this is some interesting footage but hope it is not a plant to get BF hunters all excited. I pretty much dismiss all this BF stuff because such hunters do lots of emotional drama and promotional buildup but never deliver the goods. Incredible footage by wildlife from photogs and videographers good for nature programs comes at very high cost. These people have to be very rugged, spend months in the wilderness, very good equipment and broadcast quality technique, and at best get 10 minutes of footage good enough to show on PBS Nature. i.e, the snow leopard where one of them suffered illness that after he is no longer strong enough to go back out into the wilderness. However the Big Foot hunters would never put up with this endurance like what SEALs put up with, but they sure know how to deliver emotional drama!
mfwright@batnet.com
that was no eagle, it was a pigeon in a Halloween costume in the nest. Bigfoot probably is playing a hoax on us.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
specifically, it's a Granite Gear brand Silverback Bigfoot
I have selfies going back to the 1960s, way before cell phones. You can take a "selfie" with any kind of camera. Back then my camera didn't have the delayed shutter release that my DSLR has, so I had to hold it out at arm's length. Still worked!
There are slight differences, Bigfoot does harbor nor eat toe cheese.
This is CarbonTV trying to drive traffic with a man in a hairy suit.
you may be on to something, I never heard of CarbonTV until now (and thousand other slashdotters that clicked the link).
mfwright@batnet.com
Someone accessed Lord Lucan's bank account yesterday at the Central State Bank in the small town of Beulah, Michigan, USA.
Wait... isn't Beulah near the Platte River State Fish Hatchery?
Extended shutter releases were common. Used for long exposures, so you didn't shake the camera. They also worked for selfies.
Learn to love Alaska
Now that brings joy to my heart. I didn't get a link to their web cam when I did my search. Sometimes the world just needs to be a little weirder but I don't recommend bobcats.
Time to offend someone