Can MIT Help Solve the Mystery of Bigfoot?

“The facts are that in terms of progress, the Bigfoot research community has ultimately made none. We are no closer now to proving these creatures exist than we were 40 years ago,” Knapp told Boston.

Knapp blames the setbacks on the digital age, and the amount of misinformation being spread in the form of photos and videos online. That, and the fact that more people seem to be trying to cash in on what they claim are legitimate Bigfoot sightings. “Self admittedly, up to this point, we have not had anything worth presenting as real evidence of this creature’s existence. If we want scientists to get involved, we have to go by their standards, not our anecdotal ones,” he said.

To help filter out the phonies and fakes all trying to make a quick buck on something he believes in, Knapp is asking those vested in Bigfoot research to rely on technology built out of MIT to prove that the truth is out there.

Knapp, who runs a blog called “Bigfoot Crossroads,” a personal site with updates about all things Sasquatch, recently stumbled upon an invention created by students and researchers in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in Cambridge in 2012, called “Eulerian Video Magnification.”

EVM is essentially a software that allows users to break down videos to reveal things in them that are invisible to the naked eye.

Thanks Theoria. I watched the sample of the processed Patterson film, was appalled by the faux-spooky soundtrack, and was reminded of the processing of the image of the "Face on Mars". This research looks ludicrous, and I'm generally receptive to the possibility of the critter's (or s') existence.

I won’t share my blueberry bagels with anybody! ;’)

I remember that topic, Newaygo Co is rural, but not nearly as much as it used to be. I have my doubts about her story, particularly “a family of ten of them”. :’)

The late Grover Krantz wanted a type specimen, and suggested that the only way to get one would be to hunt one down from the air, since the wild areas where they’re reported aren’t easy to cover on the ground, plus the critter can pretty much disarticulate a human in a few seconds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Krantz#Bigfoot_research

Let’s review the circumstances in play here:

-Bigfoots exist.
-Bigfoots have several abilities which defy convention science.
-The government and industry conspire to keep them a mystery to protect government research and industrial resources.

Ergo, Bigfoots will never ‘exist’ in popular culture even if one lives in your back yard.

Consider what the native Americans have to say about them.

Can MIT Help Solve the Mystery of Bigfoot?

If they can, maybe they'll also solve the mystery of Piltdown Man. After that they can get to work on the Bush National Guard Memos, along with figuring out where those flying saucers came from that Orson Wells was reporting on in 1938.

I never gave it much thought ‘til I lived in WA.

All I can say is you don’t want to encounter them. And if you do you will never forget it.

Check out some of the reports on BFRO.net.

I’ve only heard them.

I like to think that there is a Bigfoot out there. Have heard stories from reasonable people of tracks, “nests”, etc. A guy I worked with couldn’t make a job once as he had to travel 6 hours one-way to investigate a Bigfoot sighting with some air on a fence. With a University of Washington professor. He was a game warden. Made me think they either have WAY too large a budget, do a GREAT PR job, or they think there is something to it.

The other point some person made was (a skeptic on all of these types of things), what makes the human mind come up with these similar stories, across the globe and across the ages? That is an interesting take on it.

For me? I hope there is a Bigfoot; and I hope none ever are confirmed. Then it will just be the rare North American Ape - and what fun is that!? Plus, it will become the greatest friend the EPA and the envirowackos ever had!. “It does not matter if you have never seen a Bigfoot on your property. See these big trees? And the ferns? That is Bigfoot habitat.”

Their was air on MOST of the fence. A tuft of HAIR was caught on one of the barbs though - where the farmer had seen the creature walk over.

He never did say what the UW guy found with the DNA. First was “They are still doing the testing”, and later became “Yeah - I never heard.”

All kidding aside, there are several undocumented reports of bigfoots on the reservation here in New Mexico. Wood knocking and howling at night. Large dark figures on ridgelines in deserted areas that have no tree cover. Reports of red eyes even. Scratches on a house trailer.

Like you, I haven’t seen one and I don’t want to encounter one either.

There are simply too many stories from all over the world over many hundreds of years that describe the same creature for it to be a hoax.

How may stories from all over the world over how many hundreds of years are there about dragons, vampires, zombies, ghosts, Martians, and Atlantis?

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