Menacing Shadow, Calculating Predator, Or Playful Sasquatch?

[Guest MoMoMafia]

Thanks BobbyO. It's not that I doubt the area so much as that I doubt the story. The guy is running and jumping like an Olympian one second without stumbling at all (according to his own story). Yet the next second he cannot see 15 feet in front of him? Let's say he is running as fast as he has been clocked before - 22mph. That is over 30 feet per second. So he is running at a rate that he can only see .5 seconds in front of him? He's lucky he didn't run into a tree, knock himself out and hallucinate the whole experience.

I can maybe buy the story that something migrated 20 miles west, into a fairly populated area - maybe. I am familiar with the area, and although there is a lot of wooded areas I would still not call this place even remotely semi-rural. I used to not buy stories of BF in what I consider unusual areas - suburbs, densely populated areas back east etc - but there may be more truth to them than I originally thought. I still think the honey holes are in very rural to wilderness (or defacto wilderness) areas from the Sierras through BC - and this report is on the fringe of that description. But I'm not buying his story.

...yet he could see his house, his dog, and his garage where he retrieved a hatchet. Plus I still think it's nonsense that he could run 22mph.

[BobbyO]

...yet he could see his house, his dog, and his garage where he retrieved a hatchet. Plus I still think it's nonsense that he could run 22mph.

Surely light would come into play where that concerned ?

Forgive me if I've got mixed up but not being able to see something that is 15ft away in the dark of night and in the trees would be different from not seeing your house that I would assume, would be at least in an open kind of area and quite possibly was lit up by electric of some kind,

[Guest]

It also should be noted that July is one of the most active months there where BFRO sightings are concerned.

Is that because BF is out more in July, or because people are out more in July, though?

Thanks BobbyO. It's not that I doubt the area so much as that I doubt the story. The guy is running and jumping like an Olympian one second without stumbling at all (according to his own story). Yet the next second he cannot see 15 feet in front of him? Let's say he is running as fast as he has been clocked before - 22mph. That is over 30 feet per second. So he is running at a rate that he can only see .5 seconds in front of him? He's lucky he didn't run into a tree, knock himself out and hallucinate the whole experience.

With regards to the 22 mph, I think it should be noted that the fastest humans have ever been clocked at is 23.4 mph.

[Guest Cervelo]

^^^

Bingo!

It might be faster than that...but 22mph is still motoring and as soon as the bragging beings that's when my malarkey meter go's off!

Edited March 6, 2013 by Cervelo

[Guest SquatchinNY]

I don't doubt his story at all.

[Guest]

^^^

Bingo!

It might be faster than that...but 22mph is still motoring and as soon as the bragging beings that's when my malarkey meter go's off!

I know. It's a ridiculous number to throw out there. But that's why I used it. When you do the math on it it makes it even more ridiculous. The guy is covering roughly 30 feet per second but cannot see 15 feet in front of him. But that detail aside, there just seems to me there would be too much ambient light to not see anything. I guess I've made my opinion known here - no sense in beating a dead horse.

[BobbyO]

Is that because BF is out more in July, or because people are out more in July, though?

Certainly we know the last one is true.

But we don't know about the first, i can only go on the numbers that are available.

^^^

Bingo!

It might be faster than that...but 22mph is still motoring and as soon as the bragging beings that's when my malarkey meter go's off!

Me too but.................................. Kids brag, a lot.

I personally think a hell of a lot of sighting reports have an element of exaggeration to them but some of it is down to shock, some of it is down to a genuine mistake, other times it's down to people trying desperately to try and prove to others that what they saw was both legitimate and incredible.

Other times of course it's down to an outright lie.

Edit to say : Exaggeration and inaccuracy.

Edited March 7, 2013 by BobbyO

[Guest DWA]

...and short of confirmation we will never know.

[JDL]

Reading above, I now agree that this report is fabricated, or at least highly exagerrated.

Run, Forrest! Run!

[BobbyO]

If it is highly exaggerated though JDL and as long as one specific part of it isn't, I don't actually care.

Same goes for all other reports.

[JDL]

I think elements of the report are possible, even such a scenario is possible. If the guy wants to think he was running 22 mph and say so, that doesn't even bother me. It was the lighting issue that was fishy to me when pointed out. If accurately described by his perception, he was either impaired, or his vision was impaired. I suppose I could be charitable and say that he was lightheaded from the run, possibly causing peripheral blacking out of his vision and that he had just turned from a lighted area to the dark and his vision hadn't readjusted.

As you know, I've had my own experiences, so I don't for a second doubt their existence.

[BobbyO]

This is the thing that I always think.

It's MUCH easier for witnesses to not just dismiss an encounter like this because of possible faults and exaggerations in the story because we know it is completely feasible, because we know of their existence and aren't still questioning even that, let alone the plausibility of the story itself.

[JDL]

Agreed