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Showing posts with label Extreme Expeditions. Show all posts
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Saturday, 27 October 2012

Extreme Expeditions The Debate Continues

Statement from Extreme Expeditions through Lori Simmons
 (Who is a Friend of mine on Facebook):




I stand by our research 100% This was my father's discovery and his research area of 28 years, were the team and I researched and I visit on a regular basis. For us the activity that we experienced is truly mind shocking. It takes you ou...
t of everything you have ever believed in. This is an area that I'm continuing to build the trust with them. If your in their area they will let you know they are there if they want you to know...They obviously felt comfortable with the team being there with me. We experienced activity during the entire 10 days we were there. When I got home I felt like I just got back from Mars... I know as a researcher you have to keep an open mind because anything is possible. Throwing tomatoes is one thing but slander is another ballgame!
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It’s a shame that people have resorted to personal defamation of character with regards the images we posted recently from our last expedition.

We don’t mind that people have a variety of opinions, that’s why we put the images out there, but when people start to post images that openly attack your character and integrity, then that’s a step in the wrong direction or perhaps I am taking it too se...



riously?

Adam and I have been all over the world these last 14 years, and have sacrificed a great many things to indulge this curiosity in unknown animals, but we have always been honest and open about our findings or lack of, and those that know us will vouch for this. We’ve brought back whatever evidence we can to try and help explain away the mysteries and always submitted this to experts in their field, accepting their analysis - all we have ever said we are is field researchers – the science and clarification – we leave to others.

So, coming back from the States, we kept to the same tack we always have, to freely share our images and research, once anything that stands out from the norm has been analysed. Forgive us that we set up a camera in camp to capture any night-time wildlife, that the many other cameras that we placed on trails and deep in the forest captured nothing suspicious. We didn’t set it up with the intention of capturing anything other than raccoons (which we never saw) or any other kind of forest denizen. When we found something on a photo that wasn’t one of the team - that wasn’t someone in a sleeping bag as neither of the people outside that night had baffles or hoods to keep them over their heads, that wasn’t one of the two people on the team that smoked - one snored happily all night, every night, the other on that night was asleep on the ground who, if he had woken up for a smoke at 2:30 in the morning, I’m sure he would have remembered and shared it with the team when we all tried figuring out what the image was on camera – we couldn’t explain it away. But it certainly made us think and discuss it. Enough to get it analysed by people who could come to no confirmed conclusion so we, (now I personally realise), naively, thought – “this would be good to share with the community to see what they think.” – and that was our only and ever intention.

People will always have their opinion and we respect that – we could say a hundred times – “it’s not one of the team in a sleeping bag” – but someone will say a hundred times that it is. There is no issue with that, we have said we don’t know what it is, that we were in an area known for Bigfoot activity, but we certainly know that it isn’t one of the team or a wandering person in our camp. That’s OUR opinion.

People have done their own independent research into it and spent hours analysing it since its release, others have just said “sleeping bag” and left it at that. Either way – to us it’s just an interesting image that isn’t one of the team that we wanted to share.

What I personally feel is a step too far is people creating elaborate explanations for the picture and releasing character defaming images, when they haven’t even had the decency or professionalism to get in touch, to find out our side, to find out what else we did or didn’t do.

Hoaxing? Personally – I couldn’t be bothered and certainly am not interested – I do this for my own curiosity, not for the attention or the appraisal of others – and then I wouldn’t even know where or how to start – I would rather have gone to the States, experienced some of the area, got a feel for the legends and come back with no evidence – as it is – we came back with an interesting image, and I came back having nearly lost an eye and I’m still receiving medical attention 6 weeks later.

Sandy
Extreme Expeditions Ltd





Bigfoot Evidence 1

The Full Disclosure: Extreme Expeditions Photographs


World's only 24/7 Bigfoot News Blog: Encouraging readers to draw their own conclusions from the
evidence and arguments.



Editor’s Note: This is a post by Bigfoot Evidence contributor, Damian Bravo. You can join his Facebook group, Sasquatch Lives?.

The Extreme Expeditions Group gives full disclosure and Exclusive of more Photos and Info from the Supposed Strange Figure Sighting on SEP 4th, 2012 to Bigfoot Evidence. (The Debate rages on)

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Bigfoot Evidence 2

Saturday, October 27, 2012


Michael Merchant Really Doesn't Want To Believe Adam Davies Or Lori Simmons


Was it a mistake for the Extreme Expeditions team to release the trailcam photographs? Cryptozoologist, Adam Davies and researcher, Lori Simmons must feel extremely frustrated right now, and we don't blame them. Just this morning, Loren Coleman pulled an article from Cryptomundo titled, "Davies Expedition’s Alleged Hoax", suggesting the "creature" photo is fake: "Extreme Expedition's #Sasquatch is supposedly a FAKE! #Silliness #Stupidity". Coleman wrote the following as the reason why it was removed:
 
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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Extreme Expeditions Bigfoot Trail Cam Update

I am currently holding on a statement directly from the campers portrayed in the video footage and the stills, and they disavow any chance of having a guy wrapped in a sleeping bag have a smoke while on camera, they feel strongly that it is an unknown anthropoid. Unfortunately I do not have such a statement yety, only the assurance that such a statement is on the way.

Earlier today this statement came up on the EE Facebook page:

Morning world.

Due to the amount of traffic coming through the .net website, we have had to move servers, so the main site will probably be down for around 48 hours. Apologies!

The EE Team


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GRA-hEWwoqg


Sunday, 21 October 2012

Extreme Expeditions Update


2 hours ago
"Extreme Expeditions caught these two images on its trail cam. I've set the images side by side for comparison, because the image on the right, which I grabbed from the vid, isn't getting any notice at all. So, note the image on the right, which has what appears to be a snout with steam exhaling from it. (In the video the steam is very apparent.) I don't completely know what this is, but if it's a ...
BF, then it has a snout, as some are reported to have. This side view (right pic) also shows a conic head. The right arm looks interesting to me in the right pic, too. I wonder why I cannot see a space between the arm and torso. This is very strange, but fun to think about. Thanks Extreme Expeditions for sharing this!"

The lack of definition between arms and torso, and torso and head are two things that make it look like a human being bundled in a sleeping bag: furthermore, the "Snout" could show somebody's head popping in and out of the sleeping bag also. JC Johnson notes that the continous stream of "Steam" coming from the mouth looks more like somebody is smoking a cigarette.

 Since we have no definite markers for Bigfoot except large bulky torso and wide shoulders, and we have three indicators which could very well indicate a human bundled up in a sleeping bag but sitting upright to have a smoke on a cold night, I'm going to have to say this is more likely a sleeping bag-unless we do get better resolution of the head showing an actual snout or the arms swinging free from the sides of the torso. 

Friday, 19 October 2012

Extreme Expeditions Bigfoot Footage 9-2012

Unknown “Creature” Captured On Trail Camera


An international team has returned from investigating the creature known as Sasquatch with a clear image that two world experts have been unable to identify.

 http://www.extreme-expeditions.net/media/press-releases/unknown-creature-captured-on-trail-camera
The image and accompanying 1 sec film clip was taken by a trail camera in the team’s camp at approx. 02:30 on Tuesday 4th September 2012 in the North Cascades National Park, Washington State, an area renowned for Sasquatch activity.

The team spent two weeks in the area and although they experienced a plethora of “associated” Sasquatch activity, rock-throwing, screams, unexplained noises, they objectively could not say what these incidents were caused by.

The image, however, shows an unidentifiable object situated between an extinguished campfire and two team members who were sleeping outside unaware.

The image and film clip were sent to Jeff Meldrum, Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at Idaho State University and to Ian Redmond O.B.E., a field biologist for investigation. Despite thorough analysis they have been unable to come to any conclusion on the evidence presented – but neither have they disregarded it as fake or immediately explainable.

Notes for Editors:

Extreme Expeditions Ltd (EE Ltd) who organised and participated in this expedition comprises field researchers Adam Davies and Andrew Sanderson, who have conducted worldwide research into unknown creatures for the last 14 years, most notably the Orang Pendek in Sumatra.
[There is a fairly good possibility that the creature shown by the trailcam might actually BE a closer relative to the Orang Pendek rather than to the traditional Bigfoot-DD]

The team joined with Lori Simmons, whose father, the late Donnald Wallace researched Sasquatch in this area over a period of 28 years, an area she regularly continues to investigate.

The remainder of the field team comprised: Dave Archer, who has been on a number of field expeditions and saw the Orang Pendek in 2009 - one of only a handful of Westerners to have seen this creature in the last 50 years. Tim de Frel, on his second expedition with EE Ltd. Jackie Tonks and Simon Mellor are personal friends on their first expedition with EE Ltd.
 


• IMAG0013 (12.25.2009 09:29:21)

I feel it is very important to advise that although the time/date stamp is incorrect on all images (showing 25/12/2009 and incorrect times) we regularly reset the settings on trailcams for both the date and the number of images/film length to shoot – but more often than not, it reset itself to its default settings and dates – we have no idea why.

However from our own knowledge of the night in question and regular events we can make a good assumption to times as explained on each image.

The purpose of this image is to show the fire and the nightime layout of the camp. Also more importantly how warm objects show up on the cameras – in this case the fire. Bottles and objects can be seen on the table which is large table and of the wooden picnic variety. You can clearly see a pair of boots to the immediate left of the table – toes pointing towards the camera and also sleeping material crumpled up.


IMAG0013 - © SES2012 All rights reserved Copyright © Sasquatch Expedition September 2012 (SES2012).
 
 
• IMAG0015 (12.25.2009 11:30:51 T+2hours)

I feel it is very important to advise that although the time/date stamp is incorrect on all images (showing 25/12/2009 and incorrect times) we regularly reset the settings on trailcams for both the date and the number of images/film length to shoot – but more often than not, it reset itself to its default settings and dates – we have no idea why.

However from our own knowledge of the night in question and regular events we can make a good assumption to times as explained on each image.

Here the same layout as above but the fire is extinguished. We can still clearly see sleeping matter and a pair of boots as per above. We know that the team retired to bed at roughly midnight as the fire was dying down and that two team members rose to use the restroom at 04:30. So from the times stamped on the camera we know that this is roughly 02:30 on the 04th September 2012.

Most importantly here we have the unknown “object” in frame. The light -coloured image to the left of the picnic table.

IMAG0015 - © SES2012 All rights reserved Copyright © Sasquatch Expedition September 2012 (SES2012).
 
• Reproduction 5
Using Dave Archer, the stockiest built of the team, to replicate the posture and position of the “object”. By doing this we could ascertain its position in relation to the fire area and the table and also get an indication of the size of the “object”. Dave Archer is 5’ 9”/1m 75cm high and weighs 12st 12lb/82kg. The reproduction image is shot from ground level whereas the camera trap was at a height of approximately 6 feet about ground. The newspapers used to insulate the ground for sleeping on are still clearly visible to the right of Dave. He is squatted down on his haunches looking at the area between the fire and the picnic table.

Here are the measurements of the contents of the images which may help with scale.

table length 244cm
table width 88cm
table height 73cm
table edge to BBQ 183cm
seat edge to BBQ 169cm
BBQ height 64cm
edge seat to fire pit 274cm
fire pit width 131cm
fire pit height 38cm
BBQ height 64cm

Many thanks

Sandy
The Extreme Expeditions Team
 
Matt Bille Interesting. The re-creation by the team member helps a lot. It seems absurd that the most elusive large animal in the world would be videoed taking a stroll through a public campground with fire sites and picnic tables, but certainly bears as well as primates have been known to make the same kind of visits, and it's not a stretch that an unknown primate, even a wary one, would occasionally poke around near sleeping humans to see what might be edible. I've never been a fan of the idea sasquatch is normally nocturnal - we have no known nocturnal apes and only a few nocturnal monkeys. Again, though, humans are certainly not a nocturnal species and yet we do poke around in the dark at times. It would be interesting to do the re-creation again at the right time of night to see how bright a human being in clothing shoes up in the infrared, but you folks might have thought of this already and done it (?)

[Matt is in error. ALL of the great apes have shifted to more nighttime activity when under pressure by human encroachment into their territory]
 
Adam Davies, Andrew Sanderson & Carla Marshall run privately funded expeditions to some of the remotest parts of the planet, searching for evidence of new & unknown creatures. Find us at http://extreme-expeditions.net/
 
 

 



Damian Bravo
OK here is my analysis of the the trailcam phto from the Extreme Expedition posted by Shawn.




Dale Drinnon This is very interesting. My first impression was that the head and shoulders were entirely different from the typical Bigfoot [or from Patty in the Patterson/Gimlin film] and that this was an apelike creature standing at full height and NOT kneeling down. The originating site does mention that it closely resembles a gorilla...but it could be kneeling as you state and the back of the head built up by a large hood in a costume. I might well like to reprint this in my blog but I am undecided as to what my final decision on it might be.
Dale Drinnon Incidentally I was sent notice of this photo while I was being interviewed over the phone by a representativre of one of those "Unsolved Mystery" type TV shows and we discussed the photo at that time, about noon earlier today (about 11 hours ago)
 
 
Damian Bravo Forgive my type-os put this together quickly and the program I use does nto spell check.

There is also a video which I shall post here once we have a copy posted to YouTube, and here are some comments on the video from the Extreme Expeditons copy on their FB page:

Extreme Expeditions The quality doesn't show up too well on the FB uploader so once it is on YouTube first thing tomorrow we will advise of the URL :)smile
 
Jason Mattick What do you guys make of the protrusion on the upper right of the creature in the latter frames? Kind of looks like a snout? [Something like a snout appears very briefly in the video footage, but it does not appear to match a bear's snout]
 
Extreme Expeditions To me ,the closest thing it looks like,is a Gorilla,and I have seen them wild in the Congo.Adam.
 
Jason Mattick Overall shape looks very gorillaish. Your cams are motion activated? And you have now posted all of the pictures with the creature in them?
 
David Bradford Hall I think the creature is human.....and it's in a sleeping bag....half asleep....!



Published on Oct 20, 2012 by
Recently the group on Facebook Extreme Expeditions posted a trailcam phtos which some believe is the possible back of a Bigoot. Is what we are seeing a possible photo of the elusive creature know as bigfoot. Team Tazer Bigfoot's Damian Bravo put this together and its shows some very interesting factors on the strange figure in the photos.

Category: Science & Technology

License: Standard YouTube License


 
 
"Quadruped Bigfoots" by Charles Middleton and below, another attempt to get the quadruped pose right

There is a growing subsection of "Bigfoot" reports which are different from the norm in that the creatures described are very much more apelike and they are known to leave tracks with divergent or opposed big toes and to commonly travel on all-fours, the striking portrait at the left comes from Alabama and it turned up on my photosearch intended to go with the "Hog Hunter" story previously printed on this blog. It might instead actually depict the original for the Skunk Ape,the much more apelike creature reported sporadically in the SE area of the USA. Whether or not this latest trailcam creature represented at the top part of this blog is the same as the Skunk Ape remains to be determined