The Paul Freeman Footage
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The Paul Freeman Footage
You be the judge for yourself, actual Bigfoot or man in a suit???
The Paul Freeman Footage
You be the judge for yourself, actual Bigfoot or man in a suit???
With Memorial Day Weekend nearly upon us, the MABRC is gearing up for the annual Memorial Day Expedition that the group goes on, and this year will be taking us back into an area where some great audio was obtained. Check out several audio clips at the end of this article.
The last night of the expedition, the MABRC loaded up on 4 wheelers and a UTV to travel to an area known as The Settlement, a place that small cabins had stood since the early 1900s, and had been used as a deer camp at one time. As the team sat discussing Bigfoot related information, a vocalization was heard from the woods back behind them, as one of our researchers was good at vocalizing, he responded. What happened next was a series of calling back and forth between Bigfoot and the researcher.
It continued for close to five minutes, as the team tried to located the creator of the vocalizations with a small thermal that could only reach out for several hundred feet with any clarity. When it finally ended, it was concluded that the Bigfoot had realized it wasn’t another Bigfoot that was answering him and had moved off. This left the team to sit without any more vocalizations occurring even though movement in the creek to their immediate front right indicated the Bigfoot was moving towards the creek crossing perhaps to cut off the team from getting back to the camp.
Deciding to head back, the team was traveling along the trail when the lead vehicle spotted something large and white cut across the trail, from the left to the right of the researchers, as the lead researcher jumped off to head into the woods after the white creature and the direction if had traveled in. At first the researcher had thought it might be a large white dog, until he watched the eyeshine in the woods from another researcher’s spotlight, and the creature stood up and then back down, it was the white Bigfoot, and it circled around and jumped across the trail behind the last UTV of the team, in which a researcher sitting in back of it, was able to see the white Bigfoot leap across the trail in one stretch.
That audio is also posted on the Bigfoot Field Guide website for everyone to listen to. This shook the team up, as most Bigfoot will head directly away from humans to get away, yet the white Bigfoot had circled around and came back across the trail. After discussing the event, it was strongly suspected that the white Bigfoot was causing a distraction for possibly more of the Bigfoot clan that was on the left side of the trail.
Important lesson learned here is that while the action may be happening in one direction, make sure to pay some attention to the surroundings around you elsewhere.
This weekend is the Strawberry Festival, please be safe and take your precautions against covid, once the parade is over, the MABRC researchers are heading for the woods.
Audio exchange at the Settlement
Audio from the sighting
Table of Contents
Summary
Overview of area
The Photo
Trail Camera Information
Deer Feeder Information
Winch Information
Test Subject Information
Camera Location Information
Sighting Location Information
The Photo Analysis
Conclusion
Misc. Photos
Additional Notes
Summary
On October 8, 2009, the landowner had his trail camera activated by a large bi-pedal figure at approximately 7:00 PM at a private deer feeding/hunting plot established on his property. This occurred about 3 days after his son spotted what appeared to be a large, black bi-pedal figure running down a hillside from another nearby deer feeding/hunting plot.
Due to the extensive expense the owner has incurred in setting up these deer feeding/hunting plots on his property, he was inclined to protect his investment in feed and equipment, not allowing the MABRC to go into to investigate until after deer hunting season was over.
On February 7, 2010, Team Stilwell of the MABRC was granted access to the location to do measurements and review the area in question, to either collaborate or debunk the photo and the figure in the photo. Present were D.W. Lee, Bobbie Lee, Carrie Schulze, Robert Johnson and Larry Coleman from the MABRC, and the Landowner, B.F.
Overview of area
The landowner states that his property is over 700 acres in size, with three large fields, the rest being woodland. The only access to the area is through 4 locked gates along one road. A hi-voltage power line right-of-way intersects the western and northern sides of the property, which connects with the right-of-way that goes to Skilleyville and the bait stations.
In figure 1 below, you will see that the right-of-way connects the locations on the Google Earth screen capture. The thin whitish line that crosses the wooded areas is the right-of-way.
Figure 1: (above) Regional Overview with right-of-ways. This has significance in that the MABRC has a working theory that Bigfoot tend to use right-of-ways as a means of navigation.
Figure 2 (below) shows the main section of the property, including the location of the entrance road from the highway, the single road into the property and the location of the trail camera where the picture was taken.
File comment: Figure 3 (below) shows the location of the 4 locked gates on the property in relation to the sighting and the camera location.
The Photo
In this report, the photo will be shown for reference, the owner still claims copyright and this photo is not for public distribution. In the photo, you see a large bi-pedal figure as it moves past the camera tree and heads towards the deer feeder bucket on tree #1. The washout effect is due to the close proximity of the subject to the camera and its IR flash; this is evident in later pictures of deer that have come to close to the camera in the same series of photos.
The temperature and moon phase is correctly shown on the camera, however, upon examination; the camera time was off by 7 hours approximately. This would put the picture being taken a little after 7 PM on October 8, 2009. The camera LED display had stopped functioning and the land owner could not see to set the correct time on the camera.
Figure 10.
Coordinates of the location: ***********, **************
Distance between camera tree and tree #1: 24’
Distance between camera tree and tree #2: 34’ 8”
Distance between camera tree and rock #1: 18’ 3 ½ “
Distance between camera tree and rock #2: 14’ 4”
Distance of tree #3 from camera tree: 57’ 10”
Direction of tree #1 from camera tree: 50° East
Direction of tree #2 from camera tree: 70° East
Distance of tree #2 from tree #1: 13’ 4”
Height of knot on tree #1: 6’ 3”
Width of knot on tree #1: 12”
Height of knot on tree #1: 11 ½ “
Width of tree #1: 13 ¾ “
Width of tree #2: 10 ½ “
Width of tree #3: 16 ½ “
Figure 13. This is the view of the terrain and the location of the trail camera area looking from the western side. The elevation would continue getting sunlight long after other areas would fall into darkness.
Sighting Location Information
Coordinates of the location: ************, *************
The landowner’s son and father were in a deer hunting stand on the property. As explained by the landowner, the grandfather had fallen asleep in the stand while the grandson continued looking out the firing slit, when he noticed the creature walking along the hillside. The grandson tried to wake the grandfather up to see the creature, but by the time the grandfather woke up, the creature had moved off to the north of the field. The field is about ¾ of an acre in size, and is surrounded by barbed wire strands to keep the cattle out of the peas that are planted there to draw in the deer. The creature was described as large, bi-pedal and black, and was thought to be jumping over logs as it traveled across. The grandson thought it had been approaching the field when it realized someone was in the hunting stand.
Figure 14. The direction the creature was moving in relation to the deer stand, in a northerly direction.
Figure 15. Deer Hunting Stand where son and grandfather were in.
Figure 18. It appears to have continued in a northerly direction after it passed the field as shown above in the picture. This is only an assumption based on the direction of travel.
Figure 19. A view inside the deer hunting stand.
Analysis
The plan was developed to have Robert Johnson stand in as near as position as
the bipedal figure to use as a measurement to the size of the figure in the photo.
To accomplish this, several pictures of the series were printed out in 8 ½ “ X 11”
sheets, one of the figure itself, one of the deer taken an hour and 18 minutes later,
and one of the daytime taken by the trail camera.
The daytime photo was used to identify rocks and other landmarks in the
nighttime photo to give a better indication of where the figure’s feet were
placed at.
Once the investigation team arrived on site, multiple pictures from different views
were taken for reference to the location. Once the landmarks were identified and
agreed upon by the team, measurements were taken and documented and the
process of lining Robert up in the same location began.
Once it was determined to be close to the exact spot, multiple pictures were
taken by the trail camera and with a digital camera.
Once the pictures were loaded onto the computer, the analysis began.
Step one, was to find one of the photos taken for comparison that would match
up the best with the original figure.
The photo selected was labeled 100_5063 with the dimensions of 2576 X 1932 pixels.
Figure 21. Original photo
What was done was take a portion of tree #1 that was readily identifiable, as a cross section from the 100_5063 photo, and moved onto the original photo, enlarging the original’s dimensions, until the cross sections matched.
Figure 23. This gave as near an accurate measurement to superimpose
the photos over each other, moving the tree in both pictures to match
up their roots and as near to the winch as possible.
The resultant comparison photo series shows the transition between Robert and
the original figure. The first photo shows Robert at 100% opacity, and each
subsequent photo is reduced by 10% transparency until he completely disappears
from the last photo in the series.
Figure 25. 10% transparency is applied to the next photo
Figure 26. 20% transparency is now applied, you can begin to see the outline of the bi-pedal figure in comparison to Robert.
Figure 32. 80% transparency has been applied, further detail of the bi-pedal figure is now viewable compared to Robert.
Figure 33. 90% transparency has been applied to the photo of Robert, and very little detail is left of his figure in the photo now. The size of the bi-pedal figure is smaller than Robert by an estimate of 18 inches. The bulk of the figure though still shows sizable girth.
Despite assurances from the landowner that no one would be up there after dark, it was decided by the analyst on the photos, to take a photo of the landowner, shown here, and compare his body style with the bi-pedal figure.
Figure 36. The landowner’s figure was cut out of the photo, and trimmed up with an eraser function in Photoshop to clear away the surrounding foliage around him.
Originally, when the landowner discovered this photo in the series of pictures on the camera, it was just a few days after a possible sighting of a bi-pedal creature by his son less than a ¼ mile away, that was heading in the direction of the trail camera area. It was possibly this sighting that caused most who viewed the photo to believe it could be a Bigfoot.
Upon traveling to the area, the investigation team saw that the remoteness of the area made it hard for an average person to get to the area and walk before the camera.
With the measurements, original photo, test subject, comparison photos, and viewing the actual site, it’s the analyst team’s conclusion, that the landowner is the individual who is caught in the original photo.
The hair illusion is possibly created from the camouflaged fatigues being worn by the landowner, as much of the fabric used in camouflage clothing contain dyes that reflect and enhance ultraviolet light. These optical whiteners and brighteners contain dyes make clothing glow brightly to the eyes of certain animals, making the wearer very visible. A company called Atsko makes a product called UV-Killer that can be sprayed on clothing to destroy these chemicals and their “glow in the day” effect. The possibility that this is affecting the IR flash on the camera into giving a flowing hair effect is pretty strong. Further study would need to be done on that theory to make sure it’s feasible though.
The sighting that occurred, does give credence to this being an active area, however the trail camera picture evidence points strongly to the landowner being the bi-pedal figure. Based on this information, the analyst team recommends closing the file on this picture.
Figure 41. Bobbie is recording video of the investigation, while Carrie looks down into the woods.
Figure 44. The road leading up to the location, notice the incline to the left of the truck, this is a pit used to burn the trees knocked down to create this deer feeding/hunting plot.
Figure 47. Larry is trying to line up Robert to match up the location of the bi-pedal figure’s footsteps.
Figure 48. A comparison shot of Robert trying to locate the right location of the bi-pedal figure’s footsteps.
Figure 56. Visiting with the landowner at the location of his son’s sighting
Additional notes
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Photos from the trail cam while the investigation was ongoing.
"Oklahoma State Representative Justin Humphrey filed a bill today to establish a Bigfoot hunting season complete with licensing and fees. Humphrey represents the Antlers/Hugo area."
Several News stations in Oklahoma interview our Editor-in-Chief D.W. Lee, and here we provide links to it all. The Bigfoot Field Guide Staff feels the same way that D.W. expresses, that it's a stupid idea.
KTUL Channel 8 in Tulsa Article and Video
KOCO Channel 5 in OKC Article and Video
And Justin Humphrey's response after he realized how bad of an idea it was.