Coming Soon: One Million Dollars of Bigfoot Blur?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 3rd, 2008
Recently, I posted about the upcoming contest, “Bushnell: $1,000,000 For Bigfoot Trail Cam Photo.”
I noted the outdoors products company Bushnell will soon be offering a million dollars for “a verifiable photo of Sasquatch with your trail camera.”
As was mentioned earlier, one of the most famous recent “alleged Bigfoot” photos taken with a Bushnell trail camera was the probable bear image (following) labeled by the media as a “juvenile Sasquatch”:
One of the other examples of a possible “trailcam Bigfoot” that I shared was the following one, taken on April 30, 2006, in the Mt. Hood National Forest, near The Dalles, Oregon, with a setup placed there by Klindt Kendall and Dianna Martin:
Various comment makers left remarks about the length of the hair or how clean or well-groomed this “Mt. Hood Bigfoot” appeared in this wooded setting.
In relationship to that photograph, I received this instructive communication:
In reading your “Bushnell: $1,000,000 For Bigfoot Trail Cam Photo” blog, I see some of your readers stating that they see long hair in the Kendall/Martin photo.
They may be right but after working with these cameras for many years I see camera blur. I’ve attached a few “what the heck is that!?” photos from my cameras for your own reference or to post.
Some pics can be very confusing (like the “foot” in #6) unless you also get to see the pics taken right before or right after the photo in question.
I’ve asked a couple people how far away from the camera they think the bears are. The average answer was 15 yards. In reality they are 15 FEET from the camera.
I hope Bushnell’s contest brings in a good photo (or two) but I fear there will be a lot pics of ‘long flowing blue jeans’.
Deb…Huntress
The following captions are those of the contributing photographer, Huntress:
#1 is a deer
#2 is me checking the camera
#3 is me again…wearing long flowing blue jeans
#4 is frost
#5 is a deer’s breath
#6 is two bears fighting
#7 the same as #6 but with the contrast adjusted
As we walk down this forest path, into the future Bushnell trail camera gallery of blogsquatch* images, blobsquatch photos and blurry Bigfoot, we should all do it with open eyes.
I certainly would be delighted if a good, clear, and worthwhile cryptozoological and zoological image emerges from this Bushnell challenge. Indeed, I would be very happy. But we have to be careful, skeptical, and open-minded about all this, too.
Ultimately, however, we can also be very excited by the forthcoming opportunity afforded by this Bushnell contest!
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*Footnote: I first mentioned “blogsquatch” at Cryptomundo on November 25, 2006, when I wrote, “Today, blogsquatching (this new term is the use of web logs to spread information on unknown hairy hominoids such as Sasquatch, Yeti, and Yowie across the internet) often freely shares and comments on the latest examples of blobsquatch images.”
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
I must admit, it’s a great ploy by Bushnell to sell more of their product. However, I’m sure there are some out there already planning hoaxes of sorts. I hope to see some of the images submitted or selected for review, should be quite interesting.
I see a big dif between the Kendall/Martin trailcam photo and the blur examples.
The former looks like hair; the latter like blur.
Not saying what kind of animal it is in the former. (Heck, could be a woman’s head, viewed from slightly behind and to the right.) But it looks like hair.
I don’t think Bushnell will have to worry about paying out that money. Just how will that photo be “verifiable”?
Says here it can’t be. Followup might produce proof. But boy is there a devil in THOSE details.
On thinking about it, though, I suppose we owe Bushnell a debt of gratitude. I guess it is lending some mainstream legitimacy to the pursuit, which can only be to the good.
(And I still don’t think it is verifiable what the Jacobs photos are.)
Good morning Cryptos…
It just gets worse….try this for corporate irresponsibility…
from the Bushnell website…
BONUS CATEGORY: For all you jokers out there – we’re giving away an additional Bushnell Trail Scout Pro camera for your best attempt to cheat Bushnell out of their $1,000,000 prize. So go grab your gorilla suit and head to the nearest woodlot. Just don’t get mistaken for a bear.
live and learn…
live and let live…
ole bub and the dawgs
This is great stuff. I’ll enter some trail cam shots I have.
See my new blog about the just announced contest and the rules, by clicking here.
On reading Ole Bub’s post and on visiting the Bushnell site, I have to revise my opinion.
Ole Bub’s right. That little feature of the contest IS corporate irresponsibility at the most extreme I’ve seen it – that is, up front and in public – lately. To name just a few possibilities: (1) gross wastage of money and time (same thing) better spent elsewhere; (2) potential lawsuits – to say nothing of manslaughter and murder; (3) …..
…..and wait for this one, ’cause boy was I wrong….
(3) setting the cause of sas research back yet ANOTHER fifty years.
They’re making it a joke, which could not inconceivably get someone hurt. Badly. Count on this: the heirs and assigns of anyone getting shot going after that “gyp us” prize will sue …and for much more than the $1 million. With a vastly better chance of getting it.
Was this how Bushnell wanted to go out of business?
Where WAS their legal department? Resting up for the claims?
No problem, Bushies. Pro bono. Think nothing of it.
But the joke’s on you, ’cause I just proved we’re a WHOLE lot smarter than your lawyers.
“Just don’t get mistaken for a bear.”
Wow. That’s just saying: and if you do, come back here. We’ll make it right.
the kendall-martin photo is clearly a deer’s face moving upward or downard. the “hair” is just the blur from the motion. the “arm”-ish looking thing is an eye.
tyfyt
I too hope that anyone who takes part in a staged photo does not get hurt; or otherwise sets up a hoax using costumes, that they use great precautions. I don’t want to see anyone get hurt or killed by a hunters bullet or weary property owner.
I guess Bushnell forgets there is still gun toting sasquatch hunters out there and many of them believe the same thing as me, we need a body. Lets just hope its not a human body that gets shot for “proof”. Just think about the poor guy who actually shoots one of these so called “sasquatch”. Can you say jail time? Your a let down Bushnell and I’m never buying a Bushnell camera or scope ever again! The contest was much more legit before whoever in your big office came up with the idea to let hoaxers in on the prize money. Idiots!
AlbertaSasquatch has spoken!