Sasquatch sighting stories move to Internet

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Sasquatch sighting stories move to Internet

CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, March 24, 2007
NANAIMO -- The creature known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch is covering a whole new territory -- the Internet -- after a Texas man, a self-styled Bigfoot researcher, has posted a video he claims to have taken near Tofino last July.

But John Bindernagel, a biologist and the author of the book North America's Great Ape: The Sasquatch, is concerned that the ability to post videos by anyone claiming to have footage of a Sasquatch will damage efforts to do genuine scientific research into the phenomenon.

"For me the Internet is a mixed bag -- it's easier to report a sighting, but it's not vetted very well," he said.

Reports of seeing the creature on Vancouver Island go back many years. Bindernagel, from the Comox Valley, claims to have found footprints in Strathcona Park near Mount Washington.

In 2005, he told the Nanaimo Daily News that there have been about 100 sightings on the Island since 1850.

In the same time, there have been about 400 sightings in B.C., a number he thinks is low due to people's fear of being mocked.

Though evidence has yet to surface proving Bindernagel's claim that the Sasquatch is real, he thinks a scientific approach could prove its existence. He is now working on a second book about the phenomenon to argue why scientists should give it serious consideration.

Bindernagel said fuzzy films on the Internet do not help him making that argument.




© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2007

Source: www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/capital_van_isl/story.html?id=55c987c2-eede-45d7-bf99-f61c3977cca5&k=6199

[sebastian]

Western Canadian's just informed us this:

Jeremy Hainsworth, Canadian Press
Published: Sunday, March 25, 2007 Article tools
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Font: * * * * VANCOUVER — Was it a bear? Or was it a sasquatch, the legendary primate long rumoured to inhabit Vancouver Island?

A B.C. man is reporting he may have spotted the mythical ape-like creature in the Enchanted Forest near Tofino, on the northwestern tip of Vancouver Island.

“My brother and I had a strange encounter with a large, dark humanoid in the forests of Tofino,” the unidentified man says in the introduction to a video posted recently on www.youtube.com.
`Strange Humanoid Encounter’ has been viewed more than 15,000 times.

The pair — who say they live five hours from Tofino — were on a walk in the forest, using a camera to shoot wildlife.

What they saw caught them off guard.

“Look, quick ... stay back” says one, as the camera begins to roll.

”My hypothesis is that this was a bear although my memory deceives me,” the man writes in the video introduction. “The animal was about seven feet tall, give or take one foot. It hunched over quite a bit.

“When it first encountered us, it stared. By the time I got the camera out, it stated fleeing.

“It had no smell that overpowered the wet forest smell, and made no sound, except for rushing through the bush,” he writes in online discussions after the video was posted.

After the creature fled, the pair run forward and look for footprints. What they find stamped in the earth seems more human than bearlike.

While the tape is blurry and the camera work shaky, there seems to be something resembling a human shape when it rears up.

When crouched, it looks like a bear.

So far, the video has provoked pages of discussion on YouTube.

Some respond saying it’s a hoax; others believe it’s the real thing.

“This is NOT a hoax. The quality is bad, but my original copy is quite clear,” writes the man who claims to have posted the video.

The man, who did not respond to email requests for an interview, says he’s sending the tape to the B.C. Cryptozoology Society “for an expert’s advice.”

The videotape does receive mention on the cryptozoology.com website. The website’s glossary includes such creatures as the Mongolian Death Worm, the Loch Ness Monster, Blobs, Globsters, the Beast of Gevaudan, the Coelacanth and Goatman.

Wildlife biologist Dr. John Bindernagel says postings of sasquatch videos on Youtube are not uncommon, but many appear to be spoofs.

“This video, it’s very good of the fellow to at least entertain the option that it could have been a sasquatch — not just an upright bear or not someone in a fur suit,” Bindernagel says.

”But it’s not very good and it’s not something that a scientist would bring to attention of his colleagues as evidence because it isn’t very good.

“It could well have been a sasquatch but it’s neither persuasive or convincing.”

Bindernagel, who has written extensively about the subject, says the internet videos can both help and hinder efforts to do genuine scientific research into the Big Foot phenomenon.

“Because we have been unable to attract informed scientific comment, the media has proceeded with this very attractive, simplistic hoax hypothesis and that’s been really quite problematic,” he says.
But Bindernagel is convinced sasquatch exist.

He says there have been more than 100 sightings of the legendary creature on Vancouver Island and thousands of sighting throughout North America since the mid-1800s.
© Canadian Press 2007

[sasquathc hater]

there is no such thing as sasquatch.. if therer was then why hasn't no one killed one or atleast got a good pciture or video of one yet.

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sasquathc said:

there is no such thing as sasquatch.. if therer was then why hasn't no one killed one or atleast got a good pciture or video of one yet.

why you gotta hate? Huh?!

And by the way sasquatch is not spelled "sasquathc".. slow down a little when you type.

It's not a good idea to come onto a forum full of hate and arrogance, you wont make many friends like that!! But whatever!

Yeah you're right! there's no such thing, it's us with nothing else better to do running around the woods in gorilla suits!! LMAO
Try telling that to alot of hunters who have come across it in the bush. Most of these guys dont report it and alot of them no longer return to the bush to hunt afterwards. It's a real shock to their psychology!

I love it when a skeptic has an encounter with one and it messes their view of what they thought was real and what isnt! LOL Some never really recover!

So sasquathc hater, climb right back into that bubble you live in and make sure you seal it off real real tight, wouldnt want to see
you get hurt, really now it's for your own good.

You can respond to this but dont expect a response back from me, well not until you learn what your mother forgot to teach you as a young child. If you want something in life, it's best to ask nice and politely.



Thanks,
Max.

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Poor old "Sasquathc Hater"...has never seen one and cannot believe it is possible.

Well, I bet thig poster believes he/she has a brain although they've never seen it....

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OOPS! (I type to fast too) meant to say "THIS poster". Not that it matters, neither the hater or I seem to be able to spell.