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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-azUazmLAoM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpjiWs2dNDU It's my understand that all of it was quite real, every clip they showed and the project itself, and that there were significantly better and longer clips in that one project even at that time. Over time there have been many more clips accumulated by some people involved but those aren't necessarily a part of the "Erickson Project" at all, it is still very much so alive and there is talk of just pushing it all out to the public out of frustration. They are running into the hard fact that video is worthless, the better it is the better the supposed hoax is the conclusion people jump to. Add onto that the problems that alot of the Bigfoot just look like a overgrown chewbacca in the first place and that people suck at analyzing things in general and you realize the whole thing isn't really going to amount to much at all even if it does get dumped out. I have realized a odd point in the Bigfoot phenomena, there are tons of video of the Bigfoot floating around or being held in private, tons of evidence that just doesn't "go viral". God only knows how much of it is just floating around within the billions of videos on the net already. Skeptics ask why the Sasquatch are so rarely seen, why they aren't shot more often, why there aren't videos or pictures, and why there aren't hardly ever any other sorts of evidence popping up and the real answer is that it is all there actually, tons of it even. They get shot, evidence gets collected very regularly, they pop up on videos, and they get seen and heard all the time, people just aren't looking in the right places/recognizing what they see or even looking hard enough for the info.

I agree with much of Xion C's second paragraph. I would bet there are more pictures of BF in drawers and boxes being held back by people that do not want the publicity that have been released. Probably less video since that format has been around a much shorter time. The P/G film has been both a blessing and a curse in showing what could be with modern HD video and a curse in that it shows what can happen to the photographers of any new photography. Some people want no part of what Patterson and Gimlin went through after releasing the film. Can you really blame them? What we see now are mostly products of young people looking for fame or successful hoax on Youtube with blurry cell phone video, much of which is outright hoax. The stuff that could be authentic is such poor quality that most seeing it, throw up their hands with "I cannot see enough to tell". Even good quality stuff like the Canadian IMax footage is a difficult read because it shows so little. One pet peeve of mine is BF researchers running around poorly equipped or not equipped with good quality cameras. I have even heard arguments from Forum members that cell phone pictures should be good enough. They are not if the opportunity of your lifetime walks across the trail in front of you. And we have a large group that have shunned cameras altogether because of what I consider an unsupported myth: that BF will never show itself if you even have a camera. I wonder how many opportunities for good photographs and video have been lost because of that?. OK I understand that people have different goals out in the woods. But don't expect much belief even from proponents or any from skeptics if you have a 5 minute encounter with an unaware BF and don't at least get a photo. A BF that blunders into you or that is completely unaware that you are watching, is a prime opportunity for someone equipped with a suitable camera. Getting off my soapbox now.

The problem with this guy's argument that "it is a sociocultural phenomenon" is that cultures separated by continents and millennia seem to all be having the same "sociocultural phenomenon." I wish he'd have been with me a while back. He'd have soiled himself from a "sociocultural phenomenon."