Wisconsin Bigfoot Video?
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on July 11th, 2006
Update: The video has been removed from youtube.
Disclose.tv – St. Croix Falls Wisconsin Bigfoot Video
Another new video posted to YouTube was brought to my attention on Monday by Cryptomundo reader smit833.
Here is the link to the video on YouTube.
The video was just posted to YouTube Sunday evening. The information posted at the site with the video states:
This was filmed on the 4th of July near St. Croix Falls Wisconsin.
I sent a message from the site to the person who posted the video requesting additional information. This is the reply that I received:
This thing was huge and at first I thought it was a bear. The area had a putrid stench which reminded me of rancid milk. I thought that I was going to vomit because of the extreme smell, it was unbearable. The film cut short because I accidently hit the ‘record’ button & thought it was still filming. It was real hard to keep up with it at the rate it was moving in the forest & that made it difficult to film. It eventually wandered off in the bushes, I attempted to follow but was unable to find it. I have never felt my heart race that fast in my life. That was one hell of a ride!
Was the BFRO too early and missed this Bigfoot? They had 2 separate expeditions in Wisconsin the 2 previous weekends prior to the 4th of July, when this video was supposed to have been shot. The 2nd of the 2 expeditions ended on July 2nd, just 2 days prior to this video.
As Maxell Smart would say, "I missed it by that much."
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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.
Bonobo, porkchop
Hello. I am the aforementioned filmmaker whose comments Craig posted earlier. I am intrigued by this footage, as it is either a pretty good hoax, or it is a real creature. I’m not going to say definitively one way or the other, as there are ways to determine that beyond this forum. All I can discuss is the uploaded, low-resolution YouTube video. I have looked at the :15 area where Bonobo suggests there is an edit. I do not see an obvious edit, although a tree wiping thru the frame in the foreground does make a good edit point, as it sometimes looks smooth. What I see is a camera set to “auto-iris” that, when the bright tree enters the frame very close to the lens, shuts the iris down and what you get is an almost black frame, and then the camera re-adjusts the exposure and it looks like a fast fade-in. I think this area of the tape is continuous. HOWEVER…. there is an edit at :42 It is clearly a jump. There are ways to determine if the cut was done in-camera (pause record, resume record) or in an edit suite, if you look at the video signal on a vectorscope. Perhaps the man sent to investigate this supposed sighting will have an opportunity to look into it.
As a filmmaker, I like this footage! I don’t think its real at this point, tho.
a couple of other observations…
there might be an opportunity to enhance the original video to look at certain features, namely, hands. At the very start of the video, from :03 to :05 or so the subject is standing still in the brush and the camera zooms in. I think you can see its hand in shadow, hanging down. Also, at :25 an arm reaches out and the hand grabs a branch (the hand is on the extreme right side of the frame, grabbing, 1/4 of the way up from the bottom). Opposable thumb? Can’t really tell.
Good afternoon Simian….
Just what we need, another damn expert opinion…welcome to the blog…ape boy….LOL
seeing is believing….
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Thanks for the welcome wagon, Bubba.
still beadyeyed, bald and furry, are ya?
part Sasquatch, most likely 🙂
Larrykat- How would a poster know about animals heading into deeper woods upon being spotted? Presumably because they’ve encountered animals in the woods before. Has anyone here ever approached a wild animal near the woods before? And what did they do when you got too close? I think it safe to say that they darted off into the woods (be they rabbit, squirrel, fox, wolf, or deer). And for those that would say it is unwise to apply animal characteristics to the Human-like Sasquatch, well…all I can say is that if you startled me, or started following me, I’d probably bolt into the woods too. Some would debate it, and at times I’m ashamed to admit it, but I am Human.
Are these generalities? Sure, but they’re useful ones, I believe. I don’t think anyone here is claiming any special knowledge of Sasquatch behaviour, only a general knowledge of typical animal and human behaviour (and if they’re really lucky, perhaps an actual encounter or two).