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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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Watch out for 'dem killer clowns too!!!
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.
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"
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
"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."
Tell RMS to get back to work and stop messin' with the birdies.
Table-ized A.I.
Write-in BigFoot-Nessie 2016.
Change we CAN'T believe in!
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.
"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."
It's written on the Biblie!
> Maybe it's Donald Trump in the bigfoot costume?
You mean there is a difference? :-)
*ba dum tsh*
I saw Bigfoot drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.
His hair was perfect.
THE SOFTWARE, IT NO WORKY!!!
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
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.
As native born US citizens, BigFoots have the right to a gun and the right to shoot back.