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Bigfoot Spotted Sneaking Around Below Bald Eagle Nest, Multiple Outlets Report (cnet.com) 173

Posted by msmash from the grain-of-salt dept.
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.
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  • Well, that's it (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:47PM (#53025617)

    I'm convinced the editors have resorted to trolling us now.

    • We are being trolled.

      • We have found the the truth!! The game is a Foot.

        A rather Big Foot mind you, but a foot none the less.

    • If they were really trolling us, it would have been a creepy clown.

      • A kid dressed like a creepy clown got arrested in my neighborhood for trespassing earlier this week... apparently he was walking through the yards trying to scare someone he knew when a neighbor saw him and called the police. He was a minor so it probably won't be on the news.

  • Explained...by a dude who knows there's a webcam (Score:5, Funny)

    by xxxJonBoyxxx ( 565205 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:47PM (#53025627)
    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.

  • Blurry? (Score:5, Funny)

    by harrkev ( 623093 ) <kevin@harrelson.gmail@com> on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:48PM (#53025631) Homepage

    Maybe bigfoot is blurry in real life?

    • Bigfoot is an extraterrestrial space alien with built in optical stealth technology.

      Sounds feasible.

    • Re:Blurry? (Score:4, Funny)

      by npslider ( 4555045 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:01PM (#53025817)

      If the picture had been taken with a Samsung Note 7 it would have been crystal clear, and made for an explosive cover story!

    • Absolutely - he has *Evolved* to use Phase shifting to hide from us humans - knowing that this wavelength of light is just beyond our visible range. Thus remains hidden and safe from us predators

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by alzoron ( 210577 )

      Confirmed: Bigfoot works for Apple. He's what they test their new revisions of the the reality distortion device on.

    • And that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster, roaming the countryside. "Quick! He's fuzzy! Let's get out of here!"

  • Bears can be bipedal (Score:4, Insightful)

    by guruevi ( 827432 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:52PM (#53025679)

    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.

    • Re:Bears can be bipedal (Score:5, Funny)

      by Fire_Wraith ( 1460385 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:52PM (#53025683)
      Wookies, for instance.

    • Yes, bears can be bipedal for short distances. However, that definitely wasn't a bear. Person in dark clothing is most likely answer.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by guruevi ( 827432 )

        A picture at an angle and a lot of shadow (this was an eagle's nest so it must be relatively high) can mask the difference between something standing and going on all fours. Either way, it's not like humans don't go there (hence the camera), so a hunter or a military/militia training is an equally good answer.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Nidi62 ( 1525137 )

      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.

      The arms and legs are too long and it's motions too smooth to be a bear on two legs. It's almost certainly a hominin, with the most likely explanation being a person.

    • You may not have watched the video but it's clearly bipedal. Bears can walk for short distances on their hind legs, but those legs are really short. This thing has legs that are like a human's - half the length of the body.

      It looks to me like a guy in some sort of suit, like a snow suit. He probably has no idea that he's Sasquatch.

      Michael

    • Plenty of animals are bipedal for short periods of time

      Like people in ape suits?

  • Nothing to see here. It's just his little brother. They had a falling out a while back. Something about a gal named Nessie.

  • In other news...Killer Clowns !!! (Score:3)

    by ripvlan ( 2609033 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:55PM (#53025721)

    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.

  • Not a bear (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Spy Handler ( 822350 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:57PM (#53025753) Homepage Journal

    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.

    • Considering scientists are discovering new species every day... why not? I'm sure in due time there will be a picture of this species in all future Text Books, and students everywhere will despise having to remember the scientific name: Sasquatchis Footbigis

    • "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" --Sherlock Holmes

      It's a human.
    • It's Bruce Lee in a a Wookie suit.

    • Yeah, it's definitely not a bear. Bears' forearms cannot swing back behind their body. It's a human or in the primate family.

      • It's a human or in the primate family.

        Definitely a Wookie then. And yes, I know that Wookies are from a galaxy far far away and long ago, so it is impossible for them to be related to primates at all. Probably don't even have mitochondria.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Reziac ( 43301 ) *

      Watch the legs. You can see pant legs swinging back and forth as he moves, which skin-with-fur doesn't do. So it's a human in a furry costume.

      Pretty good job of trolling the camera, tho. Someone knew exactly what it's range and focus are, and where the nest wouldn't interfere.

  • I come to /. just to read the hate comments anymore. They give me a good laugh. I could care less about anything else.

  • Slashdot (Score:5, Insightful)

    by vadim_t ( 324782 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:01PM (#53025815) Homepage

    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"

  • Sigh. (Score:4, Insightful)

    by ledow ( 319597 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:07PM (#53025881) Homepage

    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.

    • Before you can even begin to say that a certain crypted exists you have to examine the evidence and determine if such a creature can exist. I have devised several questions that I asked myself about such creatures before I put forth any effort to believe them. If the answer is 'no' to any of the following questions then said creature probably doesn't exist. But just because you can answer yes to all the questions only allows for the possibility for the creature to exist. I doesn't prove it does.

      Can t

  • This story got /. through one whole page of comments without a single mention of the Second Amendment.

    Well, until now of course.

    • But we need our guns to shoot bigfoots.

      • As native born US citizens, BigFoots have the right to a gun and the right to shoot back.

        • Maybe you should read a little something called THE SECOND AMENDMENT, you commie!

          A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State from the threat of bigfoots, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

          • But that was written back when darkies and bigfoots were only considered 0.6 of a normal human defined as pasty white (non-jewish) male property owner. As per amendment now they have right to vote, collect social security, be free to worship BigFooter Jeebzuz and be part of the militia

    • That sounds like something Hitler would have said.

  • What did he say?

  • Bigfoot (Score:4, Funny)

    by kwiecmmm ( 1527631 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:14PM (#53025949)

    "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."

    • I'm more amused by the bigfoot hunter TV shows talking like they know WTF this animal that's never been directly observed does. "'Squaches are known for their large nests consisting of ..." and "A 'Squaches mating call sounds like..."

      Yea, lets just spread the ignorance nationwide.

  • Tell RMS to get back to work and stop messin' with the birdies.
     

  • Obligatory Mitch Hedberg (Score:3)

    by Yvan256 ( 722131 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:26PM (#53026057) Homepage Journal

    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.

  • Mitch Hedberg (Score:4, Funny)

    by Major Blud ( 789630 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:35PM (#53026139) Homepage

    "I think Bigfoot is blurry. There's a large out-of-focus monster terrorizing the Pacific Northwest" --Mitch Hedberg

  • Human. Obviously. (Score:3)

    by JustNiz ( 692889 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:38PM (#53026161)

    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.

  • Dana Gould (Score:5, Interesting)

    by ThatsNotPudding ( 1045640 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @01:39PM (#53026173)
    "Funny how after everyone had phones with cameras, the number of UFO sightings really dropped off."
  • It's written on the Biblie!
  • I know that's not Bigfoot. I saw him earlier today chillin' with Elvis at the Burger King.

  • the Infinite Improbability Drive before the elections? Thanks.

  • There is No Sasquatch - The Evidence is Clear (Score:5, Insightful)

    by crunchygranola ( 1954152 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:00PM (#53026905)

    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 [sciencedirect.com], 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.

    • "At this point we can close the book on the theory that there is, or has ever been, a Sasquatch. "

      Sure, we could, but what fun would that be?
  • Given it's the woods, it's most likely a clown.

  • 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.

  • 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 come

  • 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?

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