The Paul Freeman footage

[Magical Realist]

Probably the second best footage of Sasquatch ever recorded. Here it is stabilized and zoomed in. The figure looks like a squatch and the fact that Freeman had found a lot of footprints in that area supports its authenticity. In the interview Freeman makes clear he doesn't care if anyone believes him or not. He is satisfied and quit hunting for them after that point respecting their privacy.

"Paul Freeman (August 10, 1943 – April 2, 2003) was an American Bigfoot hunter who claimed to have captured video evidence of the existence of Bigfoot and discovered Bigfoot tracks showing dermal ridges.[1] The plaster casts Freeman subsequently made were convincing enough to be considered critical pieces of evidence by anthropologists Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University and Grover Krantz of Washington State University, who put considerable time and resources into studying them."--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Freem...zoologist)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMY6WJDfwSs

[C C]

Deduct Springs being a place where water naturally seeps to the surface. The place to go to image capture animals looking for a drink.

One gets the initial impression that Paul Freeman must have been physically active, roaming around so much. But he died from diabetes. Could have been Type I instead of Type II, though (might have had it since childhood).

The audio is so low on the video below that it's beyond me how the speech-to-text converter outputted a transcript. Given that those things usually misunderstand a lot of things even when the volume is normal.

VIDEO EXCERPTS: So tell us the story about Uncle Paul.

He worked for the forest service, and he was a rider for the Mill Creek Watershed. His job was to keep people out, since that's a water source for Walla Walla.

He got interested because he started seeing tracks [...] local people started explaining to him what he was seeing, and he got interested in it.

[...] He made fake feet to walk beside the regular tracks, to see what kind of tracks he left as compared to theirs. I've done the same thing myself...

[...] In 1994, he found tracks, and was coming back every day, and he'd get in here about the morning, just at daylight, and try to set up. One particular day his daughter's car was broken down, so he stayed late at home to fix it, before he came up here. [...] He found the tracks, and it turned out to be the whole family [of Bigfoot] walking up and down the hill from the spring.

And he was following them back up the hill when she walked out in front of him, and he figured there were three together. There was a youth or very young juvenile, and an adolescent, and then her.

[...] When ABC News got a hold of it and wanted to do a segment on "Good Morning America", in the interview they asked him: "Have you ever made fake footprints?"

Without thinking about how they would spin it, Paul said: "Yes, I used to do it in research, I would make a set of prints and walk beside the other ones and compare them just to see what I could do versus what they did."

When the interview played on the air, they just made a terrible huge joke out of it. [...] To this day, I will not watch "Good Morning America"...

Deduct Springs: the Freeman Bigfoot film location - Day 5 ... https://youtu.be/mxC9JdlDMlU

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mxC9JdlDMlU

[Zinjanthropos]

There’s only one possibility. Evolution has designed Bigfoot and other cryptids to appear blurry. Probably because of the way their bodies reflect light. Not even a camera can focus on them. Like the guy in the comment section who said, ‘Bigfoot is usually hard to see because he’s blurry’. Wow! Truer words have never been spoken.

If you hunted Bigfoot all your life, had nothing to show for it, wanted to retire from it and were sick from diabetes, what would you do?

[Syne]

This footage is such bad quality that it goes without saying that it absolutely could be a gorilla suit.

[Magical Realist]

No blur at all. If it's clear enough to claim it's a gorilla suit, it's clear enough to tell it's Bigfoot.

[C C]

Freeman displaying three plaster casts of prints. One looks like a hand print.

VIDEO EXCERPT: Well, you said there were five [Bigfoot]; and they are only three now.

Yeah, two of them left. It was five of them [originally] that came through there all the time.

One summer, at the spring, we were going up there, and we found the ridge top all tore up. Trees were pulled up out of the ground, pushed off, little trees. And after that, two of them left. I don't know why they left.

Paul Freeman speaking at a Western Bigfoot Society meeting (1997) ... https://youtu.be/-8JrNiOxwuM

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-8JrNiOxwuM

[Magical Realist]

What is particularly compelling about Freeman's casts is that they have dermal ridges. The significance of dermal ridges on Bigfoot casts is explained below. The Devil's in the details!

"Dermal Ridges are surface ridges on the skin that cover the entire human body, especially the fingers and feet. Dermal ridges also contain pores that produce sweat and oil which leave indentation marks upon smooth surfaces when fingers (and even feet in the case of Bigfoot footprints) come in contact with it. This is better known as fingerprint marks that remains the same throughout the lifetime of the individual. Each fingerprint is a physical marking that is unique to the individual, no two people have the exact same fingerprints. The use of fingerprints can be used to identify individuals and is an precise science. It is commonly used in crime scene investigations, and is used as valid evidence in courts of law to prosecute individuals and even put hem in jail.

Jimmy Chilcutt, a crime scene investigator, is one of the foremost experts in Dermal Ridges and in the documentary, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, he examines the best samples of Bigfoot footprint castings. In his work, Chilcutt says he has to be very careful and professional because his work can put people in jail. Chilcutt has fingerprinted every known great ape species and hence, he is also an expert in primate dermal ridges. Through his research, he is able to establish gender and race of primates via examination of dermal ridges.

According to his research, human dermal ridges run horizontally across the feet, while in primates, the ridges run diagonally. But in the Bigfoot castings, the dermal ridges run vertically across the side of the feet. This goes to show that the Bigfoot footprint casting was clearly not made by a man or an ape. On top of that, the Bigfoot footprint cast is twice the thickness of footprints made by a human. This means that the creature making the print is much heavier than a human being and is around the size of the creature that we commonly know as Bigfoot. In the video, Chilcutt notes that a particular Bigfoot footprint cast he was examining had the same dermal ridge patterns as another footprint cast taken 10 years apart and that the samples taken are hundreds of miles apart. This is clear evidence that there is obviously more than just one Bigfoot, and that they are in fact a species like humans, spread over a large area. On top of that, they can be individually identified by their dermal ridges, just as humans can be individually identified by their fingerprints.

Dermal ridges can only be seen under magnification, and not with the naked eye. If the castings were hoaxes, it would take a very high level of sophistication to produce, either a scientist or a crime scene investigator, both of whom would have had to be specialised in dermal ridges. A hoaxer would need to painstakingly carve out each line of the dermal ridges, which run parallel to each other and do not intersect, onto a mould. This in itself would be a feat, given the precision and intricacy of the lines. This mould would then have had to be used to create an impression in the mud or soil in various places, for other people to come and make castings of. What makes the situation even more unlikely is that each mould would have to be different, but include the intricate dermal ridges. Who would have the specialisation to do something like that, and what benefit would they get from doing so? It doesn’t make sense that it would be a hoax, given the intricacy and the lack of benefit that such work would entail.

Dermal ridges have been found on Bigfoot castings from all over the world, and when they are examined together, they all have the exact type of vertical characteristics. For someone to have hoaxed the footprints is highly unlikely due to the geographical difference and the length of time between when the footprints were found and the castings made. Another fact is that dermal ridges are only known occur in humans and primates, however it is scientifically clear that the Bigfoot castings do not belong to either of these two bi-pedal creatures, especially since the dermal ridges are completely different. Despite the fact that the footprint castings vary between location and time, which they would in any species, the fact that dermal ridges are clearly evident on them under magnification, and that they are different, just goes to show that Bigfoot is not just one creature, or something that was imagined, but an actual unknown species, just like humans and primates. In essence dermal ridges is solid proof that the Bigfoot species exists.

Bigfoot footprints and their castings are the largest body of evidence for the study of the existence of Bigfoot. Hence, there is a concerted effort to examine and catalogue Bigfoot castings by leading researchers. With this body of evidence, Dr Jeff Meldum, an associate professor of anatomy at Idaho State University was able to establish various details – such as flexion and extension of the toes, variation in toe position, where the bones in the feet join with one another as a whole, the interaction of the foot with the soil under various weather conditions and the overall shape. This was then compared to various other castings from various primates, humans and also other non-human tracks.

Due to the research, Bigfoot experts are now able to discern a real Bigfoot footprint from that of other larger primates. From the minute details of the Bigfoot casting, one is able to see the consistency of physical characteristics of a Bigfoot footprint, that it is unique and distinct from other large primates."

https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-...idges.html

[Syne]

No blur at all. If it's clear enough to claim it's a gorilla suit, it's clear enough to tell it's Bigfoot.

Apparently you don't understand what the simple words "could be" mean. 9_9

[Zinjanthropos]

I figure Freeman had nothing to show for a career hunting Bigfoot that the hoax was inevitable.

[Magical Realist]

I figure Freeman had nothing to show for a career hunting Bigfoot that the hoax was inevitable.

LOL You're pretty much a lying troll at this point, aren't you? Just say anything..