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Old 17th July 2012, 05:25 PM   #41
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It is EXACTLY what the Olympia Project is about! Their standard for evidence is almost as low as yours.

What is a good example? Blurry pictures they declare to be figboot because there are people stupid enough to believe no matter what?
What they captured on that trailcam is different from any other animal they've come across.
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Old 17th July 2012, 05:39 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by OntarioSquatch View Post
What they captured on that trailcam is different from any other animal they've come across.
Only because they want it to be different.
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Old 17th July 2012, 05:41 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by OntarioSquatch View Post
What they captured on that trailcam is different from any other animal they've come across.

What exactly did you see? Even with the outlines drawn it could still fit a 2D pic of a bear out of focus to me.
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Old 17th July 2012, 05:47 PM   #44
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What they captured on that trailcam is different from any other animal they've come across.
Yes because it was blurry and nondescript. The quality of those photos took a dive compared to the other ones. Funny how that works.
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Old 17th July 2012, 05:47 PM   #45
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For starters the lips are human. The saliva that was found on the lens is pretty good evidence that these are indeed lips and not a random blob.



ETA - If you look carefully in between, you'll see two front teeth

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Old 17th July 2012, 05:51 PM   #46
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OntarioSquatch.

I personally guarantee you that if you printed that picture out and went to your local public place and asked 100 people what they saw with absolutely no leading at all, not one of them would say "Oh that's a set of lips" Human, Squatch, or otherwise.

It's a random blur. There is nothing indentifiable in it.

You see a Squatch because you are looking for a Squatch. If I show you 100 inkblots you're gonna see a Squatch in 99 of them.
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Old 17th July 2012, 05:53 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by OntarioSquatch View Post
For starters the lips are human. The saliva that was found on the lens is pretty good evidence that these are indeed lips and not a random blob.

http://www.olympicproject.com/sitebu...G.w300h225.jpg

ETA - If you look carefully in between, you'll see two front teeth
If you believe hard enough Peter Pan bigfoot will help you fly to Never Never Land the Pacific North West.

But seriously. That is the most pathetic and desperate pareidolia I have ever seen. You obviously don't know what the word means though.
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Old 17th July 2012, 06:04 PM   #48
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Derek Randles has been involved in Bigfoot research for more than 25 years and of course never found anything, apart from the usual blobsquatch, mandatory for every good bigfoot site . What a wise man... (may I add lol?)

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Old 17th July 2012, 06:14 PM   #49
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Derek Randles has been involved in Bigfoot research for more than 25 years and of course never found anything, apart from the usual blobsquatch, mandatory for every good bigfoot site . What a wise man... (may I add lol?)
Of course you may !.. and btw.. that is all I want for Christmas.
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Originally Posted by OntarioSquatch View Post
For starters the lips are human. The saliva that was found on the lens is pretty good evidence that these are indeed lips and not a random blob.

http://www.olympicproject.com/sitebu...G.w300h225.jpg

ETA - If you look carefully in between, you'll see two front teeth
If they are human then they can't be Figboots.
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Old 17th July 2012, 06:18 PM   #51
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Then I guess they are not . Whatever they are, they are out there. That much I know.
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Old 17th July 2012, 06:20 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by OntarioSquatch View Post
For starters the lips are human. The saliva that was found on the lens is pretty good evidence that these are indeed lips and not a random blob.
I think this is more likely than it being bigfoot.
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Old 17th July 2012, 06:22 PM   #53
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setting aside the point that i see only a sailboat and no teeth in the pic...

the camera was placed by humans, the camera was retrieved by humans... where does a picture of supposed human lips enter the "this must be bigfoot" equation?
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Then I guess they are not . Whatever they are, they are out there. That much I know.
well. pass the A-1 !
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Randles still seems to believe that Smeja's story will be verified by the DNA results.

I'm thinking other possibilities. Smeja and Driver are pranking, punking, and jackassing. In other words, they have created a practical joke that must be played out to the very end. (The Jackass culture.) The joke was given longer life by the Ketchum report (alleged). Folks are seeing in Smeja someone who is hiding something and are concluding that he experienced something or something more than he is admitting to. Perhaps he is hiding the fact that it is all a joke.

Or, he and his amigo are plants meant to expose the world of Bigfootery. Under this scenario, his story is designed to sound convoluted and morally offensive to misdirect listeners away from its emptiness. And Ketchum came in to unwittingly carry the ruse even deeper into Bigfootery. Who planted them. Maybe just an experiment of their own. Maybe a skeptical organization.

Or, maybe we will be surprised about the DNA report. I seriously doubt it though.
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Who knows Jerrywayne, I wondered if it wasn't just one hoax playing into another. Pure coincidence since the Ketchum Study was instigated a couple of years before this incident happened. Then Derek talked Justin into sending in his sample and we have all of this drama. I don't understand why the proponents haven't figured out that Justin was probably RL's source and the one who leaked the "story" to begin with.
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Old 17th July 2012, 07:17 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by OntarioSquatch View Post
For starters the lips are human. The saliva that was found on the lens is pretty good evidence that these are indeed lips and not a random blob.

http://www.olympicproject.com/sitebu...G.w300h225.jpg

ETA - If you look carefully in between, you'll see two front teeth
Looking at this carefully.. as instructed. I see someone smushing a Chipmunk up to the lense. Just me though.. Not a happy animal.
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I've shot five bears in 27 years. So maybe we could compare hides. His best out of a thousand compared to my best in five.

I got one whopper. Big enough to fit yourself and a Filipina under quite comfortably. Or on top by the fire. That's the nice thing about having actually shot a big one. Tell you the story on that one: I discovered it had been radio-collared. So I was mortified when I was skinning it up - like WTF, is this some scientific bear I wasn't supposed to shoot?

It's really funny that when I was flying back from the Alaska Range over the Tanana River it slipped out the window, and I brought that hide into Dept. of Fish and game to be sealed. This quite attractive bear biologist says... "So, where's the radio collar?" I wonder what my face looked like because I was shocked, and blubbered about not knowing what she meant.

So she turns the ear inside-out and shows me the green tatoo on this bear that they put on in case the radio collar comes off. They'd been studying it for years. They weren't mad or anything. They shoot them from helicopters with tranquilizer guns then study their poop and whatever. Betchya fifty dollars they stick things up their rear ends. That's what's at the bottom of all this bear biology. It's not right.
I saw what you did there.
The bears probably go back to their buddies with a story of being intercepted by advanced beings. Their buddies don't believe them. "Right, Larrry. Why would they shove something up your... You have sick dreams, dude."
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For starters the lips are human.

*snip*

ETA - If you look carefully in between, you'll see two front teeth
how can anyone say these are lips, let alone human lips?



what can be inferred from such pics?


is this a better shot?

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It looks like the northern lights to me
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The top one looks like an X-ray to me, and the bottom one looks like a Lorax!
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Why does the illustration of junior look exactly like a slightly altered pic of a baby bonobo?

http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-r...oot-drawing-2/

And who would shoot a baby bonobo?

A question that comes to my mind is why does the adult have a hooded, human nose, while the baby has a flat, monkey nose? They couldn't possibly be of the same family of animal.
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Originally Posted by OntarioSquatch View Post
For starters the lips are human. The saliva that was found on the lens is pretty good evidence that these are indeed lips and not a random blob.

http://www.olympicproject.com/sitebu...G.w300h225.jpg

ETA - If you look carefully in between, you'll see two front teeth

Apparently you missed this in the other thread...
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Put your lips on a camera in such a way as to leave saliva on the lens. Snap the photo of your lips on the lens. Determine where the lights would have to be to create a result like the image you linked. That's how something of higher intelligence would handle it.
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The top one looks like an X-ray to me, and the bottom one looks like a Lorax!

I was going to say the same thing. Like an x-ray of a joint. Like a knee, or elbow.
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I see a Schnauzer...
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I was going to say the same thing. Like an x-ray of a joint. Like a knee, or elbow.

It is a joint man!
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I saw what you did there.
The bears probably go back to their buddies with a story of being intercepted by advanced beings. Their buddies don't believe them. "Right, Larrry. Why would they shove something up your... You have sick dreams, dude."
Hahahah, thanks. That was the idea. The parallel to space alien abductions. Nobody believes them.

People are accustomed to giving the benefit of the doubt. Nobody can be as abjectly stupid as this. It's the radio interview, right? So people listen, and assume he's acting that retarded for a more cunning objective.

No, I rather think he's just the idiot he portrays. In the woods, anyways.
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I see a Schnauzer...
How did you find out it was me?
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How did you find out it was me?
Snausage remnants at the camera site...
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Well this was fun. I see I've missed nothing over the past few days than more of the same nonsense from the world of bigfootery.

I can never get a straight answer out of the 'footers with respect to bigfoot's response to cameras. Now is it that they evolved the ability to detect and evade them 100% of the time in about one generation, or that they like to get really close and French kiss them?
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Well this was fun. I see I've missed nothing over the past few days than more of the same nonsense from the world of bigfootery.

I can never get a straight answer out of the 'footers with respect to bigfoot's response to cameras. Now is it that they evolved the ability to detect and evade them 100% of the time in about one generation, or that they like to get really close and French kiss them?

You're presenting a false dichotomy. OntarioSquatch seems to be under the impression that both could be true. And he knows because... well... he says he knows, and... well... he just does, okay?
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Pleeeeaseeee!
Its more than one species.
See? More than a single response to cameras.
Stoopid denialist scoffic egg-heads...
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I thought sasquatch could detect the IR of active cameras, and the electrical activity of passive cameras? This kept them from ever appearing on a game cam. They stayed away from electrical/electronic devices.

In fact, that was the story of why Roger was able to film Patty. The K-100 is entirely mechanical.

Apparently this squatch can detect modern cameras, but doesn't know what they are, and doesn't think that they should be avoided.

And it likes to smooch things it doesn't understand...
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For starters the lips are human. The saliva that was found on the lens is pretty good evidence that these are indeed lips and not a random blob.

http://www.olympicproject.com/sitebu...G.w300h225.jpg

ETA - If you look carefully in between, you'll see two front teeth
Or an up close of an knee X-Ray.
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knee xrays dont leave smudges on the camera, the only logical conclusion is that a skwatch was using the lost martial art ninja snot flinging so that the camera couldnt get a clear picture.
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And it likes to smooch things it doesn't understand...

It's only a matter of time before we have POV sasquatch porn.

Hmmm, off to register a few domain names. KA-CHING!!
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And it likes to smooch things it doesn't understand...
OMG! Bigfoot is a sorority girl!
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Who knows Jerrywayne, I wondered if it wasn't just one hoax playing into another. Pure coincidence since the Ketchum Study was instigated a couple of years before this incident happened. Then Derek talked Justin into sending in his sample and we have all of this drama. I don't understand why the proponents haven't figured out that Justin was probably RL's source and the one who leaked the "story" to begin with.
Originally I thought Ketchum would see Bigfoot in DNA the way Green saw a dynamic trackway at Blue Creek Mountain road or Meldrum sees a Bigfoot prone in the Skookum artifact: through eyes that want to see and with a mind that wants to believe. I didn't think she would be involved in an outright hoax. Now she claims to have visited a family of Bigfoot herself, so I'm not sure what is going on. (I'm beginning to wonder if there are folks in Bigfoot land catering to believers, the naive and peaceful types, by manufacturing friendly habituation locations, analogous to the spiritualist's seance parlor).

I'm thinking "punking" by Smeja mainly because his "demographics" would fall in line with the punking and JACKASS crowd. He would get satisfaction from carrying the joke on and on and drawing more people unwittingly into it. He would be surprised to find that Ketchum was going to legitimize his "sample."

The good thing about all of this is that we do have samples. A proper DNA study of the hair and blood could negate my scenario and prove skeptics wrong. Or it could offer no confirmation for Smeja's story and his tale will
fail on its own demerits.
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It's only a matter of time before we have POV sasquatch porn.

Hmmm, off to register a few domain names. KA-CHING!!
There are soft-core (I presume) porno books such as "Cum for Bigfoot" at Amazon --- I kid not. (Can I say "cum" here?) (Oops, I just did. Twice.)
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It's only a matter of time before we have POV sasquatch porn.

Hmmm, off to register a few domain names. KA-CHING!!
Oh no... not that ! I dont want to see the pine cone !!
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