Flawed Todd

Well, it looks like Todd Standing is back and he is grumpier than ever. It seemed like it was not long ago Todd said he was closing down his Facebook account and moving on.

Now he is back and he is defending his photos of the lifeless looking Bigfoot affectionately known as Blinky.
 It appears that Mr. Standing is miffed that I, and others compared his face to Blinky's. The facial features really are amazing and match up almost perfectly.

If you have not watched Todd's latest video, here it is. In this video Todd tries desperately to shoot down the idea that Todd is Blinky. In my opinion, he is trying to hard too defend himself.

In the video, Todd uses a Douglas Fir pine needle...yes, you read that correctly, a Douglas Fir pine needle. Those are Todd's words, not mine. Mind you, he said black bears don't give off a heat signature, so take it for what it is.
  Todd uses the fir needles as a ruler to measure the width of Blinky's face. As usual, Mr. Muppet talks fast enough and with enough confidence that on the surface, his analyses seems legit.

Instead of using math, Todd goes out on a limb and just guesses....but he makes it sound convincing. Conveniently, Standing tells us that he busted the lens used to take photos of Blinky. He also says it's a long story but fails to tell us the story. The guy is right there talking and making a video. It's a perfect time to tell us a long story. Maybe he hasn't thought it up yet or maybe stories are too easy to question.

Like Euell Gibbons in a Grape Nuts commercial, Todd gets down to business with his fir....I mean pine needles. He has made little coloured lines to show how wide Blinky's face is. What I want to know is, are those marks accurate and to scale with the face? If you notice, Blinky has a bit of a profile. The image is not a straight on shot, so that's strike one.

Standing has no idea how far the fir needle in reference is from the face of the subject. It's another guess made based on the arbitrary decision of a nameless "photographer". Todd therefore uses the well thought out equation of reducing the fir needle length by 10%. Strike two.

Mr. Smarty pants also has no idea how far the camera person was from the subject, nor does he mention if the photographer is on lower ground, higher ground or even ground with that of the subject. He makes no mention of the make and model of the camera or the lens.Strike three. Strike our. Strike five.

Todd leaves out absolutely everything that can lend credibility to his assertions on how big his bigfoot might be. He merely gives us his subjective opinions and states them as fact. Why should anyone take his word for that?

Todd Standing is going to have to do much better if he plans on hanging around for any length of time. Time for him to put on his big boy pants.

The Real Todd Standing

I have never been a fan of Todd Standing, mostly due to his used car salesmen style of pushing his claims and his muppet looking Bigfoot heads. Todd has a very well rehearsed narrative that seldom deviates.

I won't get too much in to my personal opinion because I would like to focus on a well written article by Dave, author at 'the Sasquatch Voice'. Dave is somewhat of a Todd Standing expert. Dave has followed Standing's work from the beginning, as far as I can tell.


From Dave's blog:

"This is one of those articles that has been a long time in the works, and frankly it was very difficult to write because the events are so damn convoluted.  There aren't a lot of photos.  It remains convoluted and I may even make further edits or clarifications in the following days/weeks.   However this Exposé should shed light on Todd Standing in a way that will cause all his uninformed supporters to cringe and examine his phony claims.   I've finished it just in time for the SasquatchSummit in Washington State so that people will know who he really is, while he tries to look you in the eyes telling more of his fantastic tales.  Frankly, he deserves no podium to further sell he wares!   His conduct herein is just one more example of how he operates.  He generally gets away with things because he knows few actually validate his claims to their genesis.   He often then covers his tracks by leap-frogging his way from one claim to the next without corroborating his prior one.   Here are a few examples.   And while most of his newer supporters weren't around for most claims he's made, a few of the longer term may recall some, like when he made the claim of Dan Hamilton and the four teens that went missing and were killed in his fabled land of Sylvanic?  He used this alleged event to garner all sorts of support from the most gullible of younger supporters, and yet he never validated it and instead moved on to the next saga to trap those who are easily 'influenced'.  Many of you are also unaware of how he used shill identities on several different forums to write phony posts to build himself up and sell videos.  The different identities and their IP Addresses came right back to match Todd's same exact IP Address.   To his newest supporters who come along, you need to wake up, research his past, and start asking hard questions about Todd and his shenanigans.  Most importantly, make sure you authenticate his answers!  He will give you little validation otherwise, knowing you won't or can't check out his claims." 


Read the rest of the article here:  How Todd Standing Operates

Squatchdetective- Todd Standing’s Blinking Bigfoot

Todd Standing resurfaced recently and many people are not happy he has hooked up with Les Stroud and Dr. Jeff Meldrum.

   Steve Kulls of Squatchdetective had some things to say about "Blinky", the Bigfoot that Standing allegedly captured on camera.

"My first reaction to the film was, wow interesting, but a trained eye can see the multiple points of focus such as the camera being focused on the very near plant matter, and for some reason appears to be focused down range particularly on the alleged Sasquatch’s face.
In doing some analysis on the still of the video here is what I found:"

You can read the rest of Steve's analyses here: Blinking Bigfoot

When I studied this Bigfoot photo I thought it looked similar to Todd so I created a crude gif to see what, if any facial features matched up.