December 3, 2013
My good friend and fellow Cryptomundian, Steve Busti, proprietor of the Museum of the Weird and the keeper of the Minnesota Iceman, weighs in with his thoughts on these photos:
If real, I’d say these would be some of the best photographs since P/G.
Unfortunately, I feel they are a hoax. And the perpetrator, Mark Anders, even gives us several clues.
If you notice, in each photo the right arm is stuck in a reaching-out position. It only gives the illusion of movement because the figure has been slightly rotated in each subsequent photograph. No arm swing, and we never clearly see the other arm. The only other perspective we have is of the rear, and now the right arm is obscured.
At first I thought maybe it was just a statue placed in the woods, which would have been costly to make and cumbersome to move. However, I’m pretty sure it’s all CGI (hence the “blur” to conceal the edges that would give it away).
In one of his last videos, Anders shows in plain sight how he did it, with two computer generated models rotating on either side of the “photo”. Here it is:
One look at Anders’ YouTube channel trailer will show you that he is a master of CGI and Photoshop effects:
If you remember, Anders was also the source of the “Georgia Bigfoot” photo a few months back.
And in case you didn’t catch it, Anders’ footage of the “Amazon Bigfoot” is pretty hilarious as well:
Also, Anders choose Rogers County, OK as the site where these photos were supposedly taken. Were they taken by the same idiots who shot each other in recent news?:
And lastly, it appears the Oklahoma Bigfoot photos are old news, as Anders just uploaded some new remarkable pics of an Oregon Bigfoot, only now he’s added some good old-fashioned Photoshop lens flair effects:
Now I’m not saying this is a hoax… just that we need to back up our critical thinking with a few minutes of investigation! 😉
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.
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