# New Bigfoot video. Real or hoax? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 4, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900 "2012-11-04T23:51:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/1 "2012-11-04T23:51:56Z")
Story + vid: [http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/39929/hikers+take+flight+when+what+they+thought+was+a+bear+resembles+bigfoot/](http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/39929/hikers+take+flight+when+what+they+thought+was+a+bear+resembles+bigfoot/) Someone’s analysis: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmw5EObNVxY) I dunno. Looks like a bear to me. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/2 "2012-11-04T23:59:09Z")
Kinda hard to tell since the coward ran as soon as it moved. I’m sure it was a bear as Bigfoot doesn’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/3 "2012-11-04T23:59:11Z")
It’s a black shape behind some trees. I see no reason to think it’s anything out of the ordinary, like a sasquatch. ---
**Author:** ![Uber\_the\_Goober](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/58956e/32.png) [@Uber\_the\_Goober](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uber_the_Goober)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/4 "2012-11-05T00:17:26Z")
It is so clearly a bear turning to go UP the hill that I’m surprised anyone at all is even talking about it. At one point, to me at least, it appears that the bear turns his head towards the camera and you can make out the shape of his ears. Then he turns away from the camera, as bears tend to do, and heads up the hill. That makes him look like he’s “standing up”. He’s not. He’s just going up the hill. Away from the humans. Like a good bear should. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/5 "2012-11-05T01:19:50Z")
What look like arms and a more humanoid shape is the illusion caused by the obstructing branches. It certainly looks unequivocally like a bear at every point up till then, so I’m going to assume it’s a bear. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/6 "2012-11-05T01:28:13Z")
Bear. In which case, the kids should have run much sooner. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/7 "2012-11-05T01:35:50Z")
Fake. Bigfoot doesn’t exist. Just in case someone posts another video asking the same question: Fake. Bigfoot doesn’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/8 "2012-11-05T01:38:59Z")
It’s a bear. I see nothing in the video to make me think otherwise. One thing that can be safely eliminated is a Bigfoot, at least according to what they are supposed to be like. Bigfoots are supposed to be fully bipedal. The animal in the video seems first to be on all fours. When it turns, one forefoot looks vaguely curved like a knuckle-walking gorilla - but that’s not the way a Bigfoot is supposed to walk. And it never looks to be fully upright. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/9 "2012-11-05T02:13:55Z")
The announcer in the breakdown has it right. Quite clearly it’s a Blobsquatch. Sounds reasonable to me. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/10 "2012-11-05T03:21:25Z")
If the only video/photo evidence for an animal is obscured and/or blurry, shouldn’t that kinda make you suspect that said animal doesn’t exist, and that all that video/photography is of other stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/11 "2012-11-05T03:34:52Z")
Clearly a bear. It’s not like they have any difficulty standing upright or even walking a few steps. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/x-zrGDHyp7k/hqdefault.jpg "Bear Standing & Walking") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-zrGDHyp7k) ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/12 "2012-11-05T04:25:23Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > What look like arms and a more humanoid shape is the illusion caused by the obstructing branches… This! ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/13 "2012-11-05T06:04:06Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > Fake. Bigfoot doesn’t exist. Just in case someone posts another video asking the same question: Fake. Bigfoot doesn’t exist. This is always the answer. Regardless of whether you can identify an object on a video or tape or not, it’s not a Bigfoot. They do not exist. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bigfoot-video-real-or-hoax/639900/14 "2012-11-05T15:45:17Z")
The video, however, is real and not a hoax. If it were a hoax it would be more convincing. The fraudulent part is anyone even suggesting this might be a Bigfoot.