( Phil Poliing Overlay Comparison)
Note: For the purposes
of clarifying this event, I will assume the reader is mostly familiar
with the names and reputations of the individuals involved.
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Summary:
In the Fall of 2013, Todd Standing
invited Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Dr. John Bindernagel up to a
a habituation site Standing had been
working to show them what he considered to be a Bigfoot hotspot, and
the place that he claimed to have filmed the creatures in high
definition video.
The draw that coaxed the scientists to
attend was the compelling video clips Standing offered in his
documentary, 'Bigfoot North' and also on Les Stroud's 'Survivorman:
Bigfoot', which aired in March of 2014.
The most pertinent result to come from
this event is not the videos themselves, which after careful
examination by expert and accomplished video people has been deemed
to be fakery, but the statements
released by the scientists who visited
Standing's habituation area.
The Toddster nearly convincing Meldrum
After returning to his lab at Idaho
State U, Dr. Meldrum wrote on his facebook page:
FOR
THE RECORD:
The
account offered on Todd Standing’s Kickstart site is accurate in so
far as my involvement is concerned. Following the events that
occurred last Fall in Alberta, Todd asked me not to discuss my
experience extensively until he the chance to finish the production
of his documentary. Therefore, I have said very little publicly and
openly about it. I will let him share the details with those
attending the summit or the airing of his film in Seattle the
following Tuesday. I will say that I did witness and interaction,
i.e. Sonya talking reassuringly to something large and heavy that was
circling our camp under cover of darkness at the end of a burmed
road. It reacted to her approach and eventually broke from the
treeline and crossed the gravel road to the opposite treeline. I
observed through night vision an upright silhouetted figure,
forward-leaning, arm-swinging, moving smoothly. Was it a sasquatch? I
am not certain, but under the circumstances and based on the
reconstruction conducted the next day, it strikes me as a real
possibility that it was.
~
Don Jeff Meldrum
After heavy criticism on the
blogosphere, later, Meldrum posted this:
I
have been challenged and badgered to respond to the criticisms aimed
at Todd Standings images. So today I set things aside and wrote a
quick and dirty response to Falconer and Poling report. I still have
not drawn a conclusion myself, but I am certainly not convinced by
their arguments that these are definitely hoaxed. I continue to be
dismayed by the tenuous arguments and baseless certitude by so many
on this. A lot more work needs to be done.
Let
me reiterate — neither my visit to Nordegg for a few days, nor my
co-hosting, what I thought turned out to be a very interesting radio
show, constitute an endorsement of everything else that Todd has
done. I am still considering the evidence.
~
Don Jeffrey Meldrum
Dr. Bindernagel in the Nordegg
For his part, Dr. Bindernagel said on
camera in Standings 'Bigfoot North':
“After
spending time in the field with Todd Standing… I am firmly
convinced he has in fact filmed portraits of the Sasquatch face.”
Dr. Bindernagel has not, to my understanding, qualified or redacted
this statement publically, but I was at the Sasquatch Summit in '14
and watched as Standing tried to get Dr. Bindernagel to agree that a
creature had walked up the knoll behind their campsite in the Nordegg
and to Dr.B's credit, he denied that he had ever agreed that it had
happened. You could almost see Todd's jaw hit the floor.
So, at this point, I think Standing is 90%
enthusiastic Sasquatch BOOSTER (without the benefit of hard evidence
for existence) and I reserve 10% for the 'he may actually be making
contact with' the animals in question.
That said, his four best video footage
examples, which we are coming to know as 'Blinky', 'The Muppet', 'The
Uphill Creature' and 'the Dark Devil' are all too suspicious in
nature for me to put credence to, more likely that they are a
combination of high end puppetry and, especially in the case of 'The
Dark Devil', far more likely to be a human in makeup. Standing is
smart and clever, and when I met him in 2014 he promised that he
would have 'evidence that will prove once and for all the existence
of Bigfoot.' Unfortunately, what he has supplied does not give
us enough information to truly conclude he has filmed a new species
of humanoid.
Statements that Standing makes are
little more than hollow boasts, and it is how a circus promoter
talks, and it's difficult to reconcile given Standings persuasive
manner and intelligence. In the documentary, you can actually see the
process of cajoling Todd uses in turning Meldrum into a supporter.
Based on the aforementioned suspicious
video footage, some 'treepee' structures, missing apples and some
depressions in muskeg substrate (all 'results' that could easily have
been created by a friend of Todd's who could have camped just beyond
being detectable by Standings group camp in the Nordegg) he then
films himself 'leading' Dr. Meldrum with these scant summations of
proof in an attempt to shore up his position as nothing less than
'the man who discovered Bigfoot.'
Micheal Jackson? WTH?
The point here, I think, is that in
light of the lack of the hard, necessary evidence of bones, Standings
tack is to build scientific consensus with parlor tricks. His
motovations are difficult to understand: he wants fame and fortune,
that much is clear. And efforts to have Sasquatch protected by law in
the Nordegg are just further examples.
I really like Meldrum, I was lucky
enough to spend a couple of nights with him in Port Angeles in March
of 2013 and he was very gracious and patient with my incessant
questions. But like a politician, he is very good at talking his way
around a subject like definitive proof without really admitting he
fully agrees. And though I have heard him speak a few times, I have
not personally met Dr. Bindernagel, but still have much respect for
his refusal to accept all of Todd's 'evidence.'
In 'Discovering Bigfoot', we did hear
Bindernagel say, 'After spending time in the field with Todd
Standing, I am firmly convinced that he has in fact
filmed...portraits of the Sasquatch face.'
But after seeing Dr. B's response to
Standings on stage badgering and Bindernagel's subsequent refusal to
corroborate, I suggest that this is still Dr.B coming to his senses
and withholding final agreement.
I read the post made by Phil Poling and Daniel Falconer about
Discovering Bigfoot and I concur with both men's summary statements.
Poling said, basically, the 'eye blink is CGI' and that 'Blinky' is
simply Todd Standing in makeup.
Falconer stated that the creatures were 'contrived props' staged to
appear real and that Standings method of releasing this information
as suspicious because it is 'drip fed..for a fee'.
Dark devil, or dude in greasepaint?
This fall in 2017, Standing released further supposed live BF footage
in 'Discovering Bigfoot' that viewers are calling 'the dark devil'.
The scant few seconds of video show a blackish face, mostly obscured
by downed timber, zoomed in to show what looks like a furrowed brow,
an eye and black, shiny skin. Opinions on this newer piece of footage
is still rolling in, but in my view it is also just a human in
makeup, staged so as not to show enough to discern otherwise.
The ultimate goal of anyone interested
in Cryptid research is certainly a body. We need bones in order to
study the aspects that living creatures possess. Video proof is
specious at best, hair/scat/meat DNA would be useful if verifiable,
but it too falls short of a final agreement.
As much as we might respect the
experience and expertise of scientists like Meldrum and Bindernagel,
because of the lack of a body and/or bones, Todd Standing's efforts
to get them to agree that his videos and area were real also fall
short of the mark. And until that Sasquatch body is delivered to a
lab somewhere where a group of biologists and anthropologists can
agree on what lay before them, then there is no more to be said of
any usefulness, really, on any existing or even new photographs or
audio clips or video footage.
NOW that I have thoroughly denigrated
Todd Standing and called into question Meldrum and Bindernagel's
abilities to tell fact from fakery, I will state finally (and
repeatedly) that my own belief about the huge number of witness
accounts of a GHH (giant hairy humanoid) around this country and
around the planet has more in common with (get ready) UFOs and Ghosts
than a relict hominid species of proto-human. Remember, the name of
this blog is 'Bizarre Bigfoot', and while I cannot posit any evidence
to support my belief, neither can anyone else to support THEIR
belief. We are still in the dark here as to the origins of all of
these fantastic claims, and so it is my contention that logical
thinking must eventually arrive at a collection the things that defy
conventional explanation.
'Whoa, dude, shit's on fire yo!'
To summarize, here are some talking
points.
1).Sasquatch, Ghosts and UFOs/Aliens –
many witness accounts with zero physical evidence.
2).Photos and videos are unreliable,
burn marks on abductees and plaster casts of footprints do not
constitute proof.
3).Alien bodies, just like Bigfoot
bodies are not available for examination. One could conclude that
governmental/military interests control and withhold these artifacts,
but again, we have no proof.
Unless more than one reliable,
credentialed whistle blower comes forth to expose a coverup, we are
still at square one.
4).There is still the possibility,
however slim, that this is basically a hallucinatory/sociological
phenomenon.
I knew it...
Examples of shared hysteria are known
to science, and the human mind is another complicated thing to figure
out.
Lastly, I will repeat my support for
The Law of One material. As bizarre as it sounds, it seems
increasingly likely that channeled information from advanced,
non-human intelligences have explained all of this weird stuff. Now
it's your turn – copy and paste the link, report back!
https://www.lawofone.info/results.php?c=Earth+History&su=Maldek%2FBigfoot
