June 7, 2011
Cliff Barackman has been diligently commenting and recapping each episode of Finding Bigfoot. The episode that aired on Sunday, June 5th spent some time on a handprint on the inside of a glass door. Cliff has video, pages from his notebook, and the frames he used to measure the the print.
I could not use this first frame for determining the overall length of the hand, so I had to export another frame (seen above) from the video in which its entire length was visible. This posed a slight complication because the camera shifted to a closer position before this frame was shot, thus skewing perspective and size of the image in the frame. To compensate for this, I took the physical measurement of the thumb length derived above (3.16 inches) and found its length in pixels. I then used these numbers in a new ratio to determine the length of the hand from the base of the wrist to the finger tips. I had to estimate where the base of the wrist was, and I judged it from the pattern of the smears left on the glass. The overall length seems to have been around 9 inches or so.Cliff Barackman
Below is an actual page from Cliff’s field notebook. You can read the rest, including a video, on Cliff’s Finding Bigfoot Commentary Page at CliffBarackman.com
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