October 8, 2007

Update: Olympic Peninsula Bigfoot Video

robertogreco has responded to my email regarding the Olympic Peninsula Bigfoot Video posted here on Cryptomundo.

As some of the readers of Cryptomundo surmised, it is a child’s Halloween costume.

Sasquatch Sighting from robertogreco on Vimeo.

Hi Craig,

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, I have been away from the computer all day.

As you have probably seen by following links from the Vimeo video, my family and I make plush toys based on the kids’ drawings. Back in June my son became interested in cryptozoology when we found the book Tales of the Cryptids at a library. We eventually spent quite a bit of time researching sasquatch. In fact, you can see some photos of the first book and a couple of others that we tracked down posted here and tagged with “bigfoot.”

I noticed that since your email was sent, a link to the video and photo I posted were added to the Cryptomundo blog (note that I have visited the blog in the past on occasion). I’d like to address some of the comments that were made on the post with the following comments of my own:

Our intention was not to convince anyone of an authentic sasquatch sighting or make a “blow to cryptozoology.” The photo and video were posted to Flickr and Vimeo where family, friends, and people who follow our work and know what we do could see and hopefully enjoy them. Sure, it’s public and anyone can see it, but we if we were intentionally seeking a broader audience, we would have likely posted it to YouTube and/or contacted a site like Cryptomundo. I hope that also explains the “ho-hum” caption and lack of exclamation marks.

Nonetheless, that’s not to say we have a problem with others viewing the video.

Yes, my son is in a costume that we made and which he will be wearing for Halloween. In fact, we always try to get the kids’ costumes completed early and considering the time involved in making them we hope that they will use them more than just once for trick-or-treating. Yes, the fur is identical from head to foot. Wow! my son will be thrilled to hear that his locomotion is that of an 11-year-old (he’s only seven). Doh! he probably won’t be thrilled to hear that he looks like an Ewok. Yes, he was coached insomuch as we talked about how a young bigfoot might walk and how it would react to the presence of a human.

Once again, we had no intention of creating controversy or pulling off a hoax. We just make plush art and costumes, take photographs, and occasionally record them on video. This time the subject happened to be sasquatch. If you are interested, you can see some of their previous costumes here.

Thanks for contacting me.

robertogrecorobertogreco

Craig,

A couple more notes to add to that last email:

We will be posting more photos and possibly more video of the sasquatch costume. In fact we’ve have an entire series planned since June. The new images should make it even more clear that this was not intended to convince anyone that we had a real bigfoot sighting.

More information about our work is at the following addresses:
http://www.lizettegreco.com

Thanks again,

robertogrecorobertogreco

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