The world of Bigfoot is at a tipping point. The new media has allowed anyone with an internet connection to join the fray, and be the "best Bigfoot researcher in the world." Competition is fierce to get hits, and subs, and all that stuff. It also seems you can make money at it. Dig it.
In the old days of Bigfoot, you worked alone. You could spend months without ever making contact with anyone else in the field. You would finally meet up with your kindred souls at a conference or something. These were the trailblazers of the Bigfoot world. Now, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogtalk Radio, can make you an overnight success. That is not bad in its own right. However, it does attract those who are not necessarily all about pure research. If the only witness to what you are doing is YOURSELF, then fudging can be employed. Cut your video at the point where you would be made, and now your egregiousness is never known to mankind. In time, you begin to notice something - videos that show something (a lot of something) get all the love. We all want to be loved, right?
A few years ago, nobody was doing research on YouTube. firstbillyjack, tcsjrbigfoot, fasanotampa came along, and now, the armchair guy could sit at home and get his daily fix of Bigfoot. They became very popular. They were not, how can we say, actually finding much. I mean, they tried their best. Blobs could be seen that may be a Bigfoot. But that was alright. There was no Adsense and they were not hurting anyone. Then, THE CHAMP appeared. Timbergiantbigfoot would take this concept to an unimaginable height.
His knowledge of psycology and marketing would form the perfect blend to bring them in the tent in numbers not seen since P.T. Barnum displayed the "petrified man." Timber knew it was important to not get involved with the Bigfoot community. Knowing that factions always form when dealing with humans, he went underground. No last name, no Facebook, no Twitter, no Blogtalk, no Tumbr, no nothing, would be the order of the day. He would then only be accountable to his followers. Smart. Very smart. Back to the Cardiff Giant.
The giant being excavated in New York
The Cardiff Giant was being displayed by a small circus in New York and Barnum wanted it. He wanted it so bad, he had a sculptor make one that was ten feet tall. They poured acid on it and scared it with flame to make it look old. Crowds lined up to see it...screw the bearded lady.
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in United States history. It was a 10-foot (3.0 m) tall purported "petrified man" uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in Cardiff, New York. Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P.T. Barnum are still on display.
The spectacle was so successful that a newspaper reporter David Hunnum said "There's a sucker born every minute" a quote now attributed to Barnum.
There's a lot of stuff right now coming out of Ontario, and based on the numbers of YouTube subs, there is a "sucker born every minute." Confidence men know this. That is what keeps them motivated.
Not all frauds are as simple as a freezer with a monkey suit in it. Some of them are very sophisticated because they involve science. Hence, the essence of a confidence game is to gain trust. The video below was about the Ketchum Project or Erickson Project. People are taken in because they believe the people involved are real.
The video below I did 18 months ago. I think it is more true today then it was then. Of course, I was called every name in the book. I was the fake; I was the hoaxer; I was what was wrong with Bigfoot. Oh yeah?What could that Fasano guy know, right?
I and my team are supplying real evidence and we continue our work EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR. We are WHAT IS RIGHT ABOUT BIGFOOT not the Ketchum scam or everyone that only sits behind their damn computer or does a stupid pod cast or radio show. When you are watching Finding Bigfoot my team and I are in the woods looking for the damn thing and we may have done just that.
When Kevin is not looking for ghost or Bigfoot, he is a professional musician in a Christan rock band. Here is a video I hope you enjoy of him in action. They are very good and will be in the big time one day. He is a good man and a hard worker. I am glad to call him my friend.
The majority of his followers of Bigfoot Evidence Blog are trolls who have been blocked by me and other Bigfoot researchers from Facebook and YouTube. They are harmless since they merely spout the party line, and urban myths, that have sprung up about me. They do not like my looks, my size, my occupation and other pejoratives that have nothing to do with research. That by itself I could almost live with. Recently, however, something happened that I am not going to just live with. I was wrongly accused of hoaxing by someone who represents himself as a reporter, but is nothing of the kind. His name is Damian Bravo and he is associated with an organization called Team Tazer Bigfoot.
TTBF is a collective of keyboard jockeys that obviously have no field research background, which was amplified by my experience with Mr. Bravo. Damian, Kevin and I went out last Easter Sunday in the swamp to do a maintenance check on a trail cam that had been deployed for 21 days. It was important to inspect the area, change the media card and batteries, and lock it down for the next six months until November. All was going well as we hiked along a dried out creek bed to gain entry into the area. That is when Damian thought he saw something.
He thought he saw an upright, dark figure with head and shoulders moving through the palmetto field. I had my back turned at that instant and Kevin was looking ahead. Damain yelled out there was something in the brush and we went into the area to investigate. We were, however, unable to find anything. After questioning Damian about it size, movements, color (cloths), and so forth, he insisted he had seem “a bi-pedal’ dark animal. I did not see it but I was hopeful he had seen some of the phenomena that has been going on out there in the last three years. We continued and finally reached the trail cam.
I found Damian Bravo to be a nice guy with a good mind. Kevin and Damian hit it off well and I was excited about this possible alliance of different research groups. Damian shot a ton of video from two different cameras. I could tell he was having a good time. We accomplished our mission and made our way back to our cars. All was well and we headed home.
Before we left, I told him I could not wait to get home and begin downloading my videos. If you’ve watched me for the last three years, you know I am a YouTube guy. That is what I do. Damian then made a strange request. He asked that I put everything up on YouTube as “Private” and send him the emails so he could copy them and edit them on his site. He wanted to be the first to post them.
When I got home, I thought about that arrangement. I did not like it. In the field, I was very excited about meeting a new friend and I may have said no problem. I reconsidered that based on a couple things.
I went to his YouTube site and seeing that this guy has never set foot in the woods, I began to wonder about him. Kevin called and asked me if “Damian Bravo” was his real name. He thought it sounded too made up. I was getting second thoughts about giving him full control over my videos.I changed my mind.
I put up the video that shows the possible class A encounter. He clearly states he saw something and would not back away from that stance. I realized now why. He was a novice to the woods, and all newbie’s have sightings on their first trip in. That is normal. He saw that I published it on YouTube and became very angry.
He would later say I HOAXED THE WHOLE THING. He claims I had put a stooge in the woods with a monkey suit on. A stooge who would respond on cue. That cue was I ‘taking a fake piss.’ The stooge, according to Damian, was Rick Dyer(?)This is a preposterous assertion.
Damian did a counter response to the video I did as a quest poster on Bigfoot Evidence Blog. He put my image in a collage of Biscardi and Rick Dyer to give the impression I was in on the 2008 Georgia Hoax. For someone who wants to be respected in the Bigfoot world as a reporter, that was not ethical or moral on his part.
He said he wanted to report about me without any bias! Oh really! That image was biased. He claims he was set up. Can you prove this Mr. Bravo or are you just going to slander me and my friend Kevin? There is no other way to view this. You have no proof of your accusation. The statement that Rick Dyer was in the woods is mind boggling for any rational person to understand. However, let me get to the point.
In the video that is posted here you will hear me tell Mr. Bravo I did not think he saw Bigfoot. I believed he saw “the interplay of light and shadow.” In short - A BLOBSQUATCH. However, there was the potential that he DID see something. Especially the way he clung to it, and would not let it go. Kevin told me he did not believe Damian and was suspect about it.
Damian said he wanted to give me a second chance. What! Who the hell is he to be giving ME a second chance. I gave him a FIRST change. That was the chance to come from behind his computer and actually get into the woods. Kevin and I have been out in the woods twice since we last saw you. I bet you have not. Nothing slows down our research.
In addition, I confided in you that the recession has been hard on me. That was personal. You went public with that… You are low class sir.
The only thing that happened Sunday was you ran your stupid mouth while I was running tape. You made those claims; I did not. You also shot a bunch of tape. Where are your videos? Where is the video that proves it was hoax? You can't produce it because it does not exist. You are too much of a coward to show your videos because they do not SUPPORT YOU HOAXING CLAIM.
I am getting very tired of people like you calling me a hoaxer with no Goddamn evidence. Prove it Mr. Bravo or take down what you have said about me.
Oh, what the does Rick Dyer have to do with this? You have lost me there amigo.
The Harley Hoffman Bigfoot film shows detail uncommon in most fake Bigfoot hoax films. It was shot in British Columbia in 2001 under unknown circumstances. That seems to be the biggest problem with this film.
Hoffman has not spoken publicly since he shot the film and we know little about him. He and his brother seem to be more eccentric then Todd Standing. For example, Haley's brother once had a website trying to prove the existence of Santa Claus! This is all strange, except this film.
The quality and resolution is outstanding, and not your garden variety blobsquatch. Features of hair length and color are visible on this video. Why would cheap hoaxers be concerned with such detail similar to the Patterson film
This film has detail and it is very similar to the Patterson Gimlim Film. The major detail of the film that has always convinced me of it possibly being real is the width of the back with deltoids and triceps definition and a clear spine seen on the back. I will let the images and video demonstrate this.
This is not a cheap monkey suit. If all they wanted was a few seconds of video to hoax, there is way too much going on here for their basic needs.
The only drawback here is the strange behaviour of the people involved. Film seems to be edited and I would like to know where it was shot and see the entire video unedited.
Note detail compared with Harley Hoffman Film
The Harley Hoffman film is on YouTube. You can watch it here and decide for yourself. Other then this, I really don't know much about Harley Hoffman or anything else. More research will be needed. Loren Coleman tried to get details out of Hoffman, but was unable to. The video was first posted in 2006 on YouTube as "BIGFOOT Video WTF Insane!!!”
Left arm, right arm, head exposed
and holding a towel in the right hand
Last July Animal Planet aired an episode of Finding Bigfoot shot in Oregon. The crew was on the Mckenzie River were a group of fly fisherman shot a video on a rafting expedition that seems to show a Bigfoot standing on the rocks overlooking a class 3 river rapids known as "the fish field." The video eventually showed up on YouTube (18 months later).
The Finding Bigfoot crew, led by Matt Moneymaker, wanted to get to the bottom of this sighting and they went out on a raft boat and video taped Bobo standing on the same rocks. Ranae Holland compared their video with the original claiming it could have been a human standing on the rocks. The image was no bigger then Bobo, who is 6' 5" tall and Sasquatch is believed to be mush larger. Matt Moneymaker believed that because the figure was all black, it had to be a big hairy beast.
I saw something on the TV that nobody mentioned on this team. It looked to me that the object was removing a shirt or towel. If so, then this was a human. I magnified this low-res image off the YouTube video, and enhanced the best I could. It does seem to show a man with a wet suit on with a towel in his right hand.
T. G. Powell is "Cryptoflorida Cryptoflorida of Facebook fame. He claims to be a life long cryptozoologist who always maintained an interest in the supernatural. Born in the heartland of Illinois, he got an early start watching the late night monster movies on television every weekend. He began his journey as an author writing many articles for outdoor type magazines (he claims). He says he is an avid hunter, fisherman and outdoors-man, he always stuck to the thought, "A day in the woods is better than a week indoors." Now residing on Florida's Gold Coast, he says look for the many other spine chilling works dealing with the super natural and cryptozoology he will be producing in the months to come (He has not written a thing in two years. He has been too busy going after Tim Fasano). This man is a fraud and should be considered dangerous. He is the "unibomber" of Bigfoot. He lives in St. Petersburg Florida and post on Facebook under the name of "Cryptoflorida - Cryptoflorida." He does no field research, and does not hunt. He is a frustrated individual and finds it necessary to actively go after people he thinks are a threat. I hear he has two freezers in his home, and one of them is full. Until now, his identity has been unknown. Did he think I would not use my considerable resources to find him out? His biggest mistake was a comment he left on the Orlando Sentinel website a couple years ago. An IP address emerged that matched the one on my Typepad blog that he left as "Ben Dover." Sorry Ben, the jig is up. He claims to be a writer. All I can find is that he is a self published author who uses a vanity press to print his stupid books that read like a mongoloid retard wrote them. Check out his link here. If you are familiar with the Frankenstein myth, you will see how lame his title is to the only book he self-published. He has been cyber-stalking me for the last two years on the Internet and he recently found out that I had an arrest in 2003 for a misdemeanor that was dropped for lack of evidence. He is now informing everyone he can about it. He is disrespecting the name of Julianne and I will not stand for that. You have been made asshole. I will track you down, and take you into court. You are a pathetic piece of shit. Start running now you cocksucker. You once said I had an ugly face and I was fat. You are a fat, bald, short, thin mustached total flop with women. Now that I see how horrible you look, I know why you chose the horror field.
Director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego in the upcoming thriller explores just what happened to Apollo 18, and why future moon landings were canceled. History records the last moon landing as Apollo 17. Did we go to the moon without the worlds knowledge? This movie will show documents that prove NASA has always had a secret lunar program and it explains why we have never returned to the moon.
I have done a post on this topic where many researchers believe NASA found evidence of alien life on the moon, and that was the reason we never returned. It was not just the alien discovery that scared us off - it was a confrontation with extraterrestrials that forced NASA to close the Apollo Project. This movie will attempt to prove this point.
Lopez-Gallego claims that old NASA footage was discovered shot by the Apollo 18 crew. The discovered films show that the crew ran into an abandoned Russian Lunar lander, and that the crew had vanished. The American astronauts had direct contact with extraterrestrial life and never returned to Earth. That is all the director is saying at this point.
He claims none of this was made up - they are presenting REAL footage as it was filmed by the Lunar landing crew. I find this premise compelling, the say the least. This guy is being original and it brings up questions about a surrogate space program that NASA may have been operating for decades.
I live in Florida and I have filmed space launches from the street I live on WHEN THERE WERE NO SCHEDULED LAUNCHES! The day I filmed this, the NASA website said they had launched a small rocked from a mobile launcher on the back of a truck in Virginia. Ya, right.
Below are some of the documents that the movie will use to try and prove this mission really happened in 1974. People would have seen the space craft take off. Perhaps they did
