Hi gang, it’s been some time since I have written. It has been a busy year not so much in the Bigfoot world but my personal life and all for the good. Once again I am a Licensed Private Investigator and am in process of launching an Investigation agency.
My field teams to the East and West have been working their areas and developing new areas and am excited at the possibility that spring 2018 will bring us some great results not seen since that of 5-6 years ago.
New equipment is in and will be using to enhance our coverage of our field team and looking forward to some more field testing of the said equipment.
I have laid low because the vitriol in the Bigfoot “Community” has been at an all time high not seen in a long while. My efforts are geared to the more positive aspects of research now, but as usual some negative creeps in and something I feel necessary to bring to the light of folks.
I write much about hoaxing, because I feel an educated public assists us in our search. Most recently, a relatively new group called the East Texas Bigfoot Hunters, put a post, on what is becoming the bane of the community’s existence, their Facebook page, this post.
Note the wording on the post and I would like to flag some very key verbiage:
“USING OUR GAME CAMERAS”
“SEVERAL HOURS OF FOOTAGE”
“EXAMINE THE FOOTAGE MORE CLOSELY”
This was followed by a second post eleven minutes later:
Note more of the verbiage:
“FEW MRE PICS FROM THE FOOTAGE”
“WE ARE STILL EXAMINING THE FOOTAGE”
“OWNERS”
Well to many of us that have been around a while this photo has been popping up over the last few years or so, known as The “Greenbrier Video,” so it was no big surprise and was obvious this was a hoax.
So when people started to question the picture that were in the know, particularly researcher Daz Brown and confronted, how quick the story changed and the pointing of the finger to the alleged anonymous submitter of the “picture.” Prompting a change in the story.
Note the wording in the verbiage:
“PHOTOS (EMAILED TO US)”
“PROPERTY OWNER”
Seems to be a little discrepancy from what was said in the first two posts to now this explanation. They went from reviewing hours of footage, to still examining footage to now photo just emailed. Also note that “the property owners,” has become the property owner.
This fits perfectly with most of the stages of Guy Edwards, “Stages of a Bigfoot Hoax:”
- The Announcement
- Defensiveness or Attack of Critics
- Postponement of Evidence
- Postponement of Evidence Again
- Claim, you are a Victim of a Hoax.
We see the Fifth Stage very clear in their last post about the picture:
Some may say, “Well they got fooled and excited and posted it too quick.”
But….NOT SO FAST!
Now look at the statements in the reply and the post regarding this. Here’s my concerns.
First, in their original post, they stated they were looking at “hours of footage.” Footage means video. That changed to pictures this anonymous property owner had “emailed them”
Second, “It took us almost no time to bust this person…” BUT “After being up most of the night working and examining these photos.”
Third, They didn’t post at all they busted the property owner, not until Daz Brown came out and told them the evidence they were presenting as their own was a hoax. Again this was BEFORE ANY POSTING BY ETBH claiming it was a hoax. Which should have taken them no time at all and nothing would have been posted had they just Googled the image. Seems like they are trying to say THEY busted it. Wrong.
Third, they still want to meet with the property owner because the area has great potential….WHAT??
In their post clearly shows a VIDEO PLAYER with the same length of video:
More to the matter of fact, we see the exact video player here with the same time stamp in The Paranormal Review’s YouTube Page posted in 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_h7HbIG4YE
So it was very obvious this was a screen cap, which they had said they caught after monitoring their game cams.
Why wouldn’t they know what terrain is in their shot to begin with? Please don’t tell me that you let the property owner set your cams up as an excuse because that doesn’t necessarily wash with me either.
May I be remiss to address the old excuse “We were hoaxed,” to remember the 2005 episode of C2C radio, regarding a bigfoot capture where a gentleman from Menlo Park stated, “We have scientists looking at it right now,” only to be days later using the same excuse.
In another post they talk about using “due diligence.” Well said due diligence, would normally dictate, that before posting such amazing evidence and claims, that due diligence would be done FIRST.
Seems to me more due diligence was done on T-shirt and decal designs.
And it is ironic, that the news article they were featured in also had two other characters profiled on this blog, the very gentleman from Menlo Park, and Bob Garret.
Common sense tells us what this really is. Well that’s the way I see it anyway, but the reader is the real jury.
Till Next Time
Squatch-D
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Till next time,
Squatch-D
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