Say 'Cheese'
-If one claims to have one encounter, it is no surprise when they didn't get it on camera. Maybe a person was caught unaware or had no camera with them. Maybe it happened too fast. Many of us have missed a cell phone shot/video fumbling with our phone. Fine.
-If one claims to have 1) an interest in Bigfoot and 2) many encounters and 3) in an area of Bigfoot hot spots, then it is very suspect when at least a few filming attempts/ results don't go with it.
-If one claims to capture Bigfoot on film, wouldn't that be the proof offered first and foremost? Maybe after they add, "Oh and later I made plaster impressions of a few tracks I found in the area. I know from the PGF event how important it is to also film the trackway so let me show you that as well."
We need to be very hard and demanding of these claims both believer claims and skeptic claims alike.
I remember a TV/ Discovery Channel Bigfoot show where some Bigfoot guys go talk to an old mountain man. He claimed these bigfoot(s) come out through the area all the time. He even showed paths where they walked through. He can give his reasons why he doesn't want to reveal them such as, "I don't want people up here hunting them" and so on. For some reason it slips the guy's mind that appearing on the show and showing where he claims they walked just might lead others to the spot he is revealing. So, basically, we are led to believe he has all these encounters all the time and even gives them food or whatever. Yet, he never takes a picture of this. Is it any wonder an already skeptical scientific community scoffs at these claims?