More on the Vancouver Island Bigfoot Video
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 2nd, 2007
John has recently posted his take on the Vancouver Island Bigfoot Video here on Cryptomundo at Update Supposed Tofino Hominoid Video and Update: Vancouver Island Bigfoot Video.
I originally posted the video here on Cryptomundo at Vancouver Island Bigfoot Video. I followed that with a post titled Who’s to Blame for the Vancouver Island Bigfoot Video?
That last post was written in response to an article in the Victoria Times Colonist that somehow confused the fact that I posted the video here on Cryptomundo with it originally being posted on youtube.
The Victoria Times Colonist published the following article today:
Call it sasquatch or call it bigfoot — no matter what, there is something about the legendary creature that makes many of us want to believe.
A short, fuzzy video of a large, dark something that was posted to the Internet site YouTube has been viewed more than 200,000 times. Captured on video, we’re told, in the Enchanted Forest near Tofino last year, the creature looks like a bear when hunched over and like an ape when standing.
Since there aren’t that many apes found in the wilds near Tofino, our bet would be that it’s a bear — but again, the image is blurry enough that it could be just about anything.
The video includes more trees, bushes and ground than legendary creatures, but still, thousands of people have taken the time to watch, and many have posted their opinions to the site.
Not surprisingly, there are believers, and there are non-believers.
The naysayers have a point. If these huge creatures exist, why have we been unable to get a better photograph? Or video? Or find a carcass or skeleton?
Humans are pushing deeper into the wilderness all the time, after all. Where is the physical evidence?
On the other hand, it’s tempting to believe that all those tiny pieces — partial footprints, blurry photos and the like — add up to something significant. It’s nice to think that there just might be a creature out there that is smart enough to eke out an existence without coming into contact with man.
It sounds perfect for the animators at Disney, but maybe there is something to it. Some wildlife biologists say there is a chance that the creature exists. That should convince the rest of us to curb our skepticism just a bit.
In the meantime, keep your cameras close at hand this summer. We’re still looking for definitive proof, and a few clear photos — or seconds of video — might do the trick.
Don’t get too close, though — who knows what a bigfoot might do when angry.Times Colonist
Once again, here is the video. It is entitled “Strange Humanoid Encounter.”
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
I don’t see anything ape-like about it. It’s a dark blurry blob that goes from a standing or hunched position to one that may be an all-fours position.
The video of the actual animal is so short (maybe five seconds) that we can’t really tell if two or four legs is its natural walking stance. My guess is that it could be the real deal because when it goes to all fours it appears clumsy and looks like it is crawling as opposed to walking with a purpose.
When will people realize that movie cameras are to be held still when filming. Most of the footage I’ve seen on youtube are so unclear. Thanks to another terrible film the sasquatch still remains a elusive creature. Even if many don’t believe, the poor bears are the only excuse to use for people’s closed mindedness. The sasquatch is alive and well and still showing how slow and stupid the pink monkey (human) is. It’s a no-brainer why the so called experts and non experts have a problem with this subject. The very bad footage only helps those to believe these grand creatures are not real and are fake.
Sasquatch exists, so do Bears. The footprints are the key, no more plaster models, just dig out the footprint and see if any DNA can be obtained, try the nail area of the beast. Obtain some plants or branches near the footprints some minute strands of DNA may be found.
O.K. have we beat this sighting to death yet ? I was more impressed with the Sas crossing the road in Manitoba than this deal. This video or the explanation surrounding it ain’t getting any better. NEXT!
I’m with Joppa…next…and much better NEXT
Still a rubbish video.
But a nicely balanced, sensible and unsensationalist piece – all hail the Victoria Times Colonist!
That’s a nice pichur of a bear ya got der, but shure ’tis no saskwatch.
It does not help research into Sasquatch when everyone is so quick to give credence to hairy blobs. Until a modern video can be produced that is quality in nature, I will consider all but a very few as fake. Sites such as, “Youtube” have tremendously hurt research into the subject because they have become the commercial arm for the hoaxers, and have blurred the lines between what is real and what is not.
I’ve pretty much said everything I need to say about the actual footage on the past posts. But I agree with things-in-the-woods that this article is refreshingly free of sensationalism or mockery. I wish that more newspaper articles or news specials would take this sort of balanced, reasonable, level headed approach to the Bigfoot phenomenon.