Thinker Thunker Attempts to Censor Bigfoot Anarchy

I received an interesting message in my You Tube inbox today. Why can't people just email me? I rarely, if ever, check my messages there.

  Apparently I have upset the all powerful and mighty Thinker Thunker for stating my opinions about how he conducts his breakdown videos, if you can call it that. It's actually more like sensationalistic click baiting and that isn't unusual in any area of media.

  I have a huge problem with people like Thinker Thunker who take obvious and proven hoaxes, or take innocent videos and twist those videos in order to drive viewers to their channel. If a person is making an honest attempt, I don't have an issue with it. In Thinker's case, the evidence against sincere breakdowns is glaring. A person would have to lack critical thinking skills to come to the conclusions he does, or they are hoping for big hits on their videos. Those are my opinions. If you choose to agree with me, that's cool. If you choose to disagree with me, that is also cool.

Anyone who knows me or interacts with me knows I have strong opinions about anything that is Bigfoot related, especially when it comes to hoaxers, cons, bullshit artists and hoax enablers. In my opinion, Thinker Thunker has jumped from hoax enabler to hoaxer. My reason for this is because of the utterly far reaching and ridiculous Buffalo vs. Bigfoot video breakdown. That video even beats out the almost equally lame Turkey Hunter video.

Here is a new example of other opinions on the Buffalo video. Can 99% of the rational people be wrong?

This brings me to the message I received. Thinker Thunker appears to have an issue with my opinions, and as a result, he is trying to censor and/or silence me. Thinker Thunker provides no valid reasons for telling me to cease and desist, other than to call my posts "hate-posts".
Thinker Thunker, having nothing intelligent to say, resorts to ad hominem attacks.

Good grief. Jed White, AKA Thinker Thunker is such a tough one, isn't he? Please, bitch, come up with something original. This sorry-ass cease and desist letter is vague, childish and carries no weight.

This Is What Happens

The latest video breakdown by Thinker Thunker has gotten under my skin. He took a perfectly innocent video and turned it in to a circus freak show. I'm sure he knows damn well there are no Bigfoot in his video but that doesn't sell. What does sell is contrived bullshit combined with flashy software and some fast talking.

  It is people like Thinker Thunker who make the Bigfoot community look foolish. He may not be a hoaxer but he is a hoax enabler and a bullshit artist. Thinker Thunker is counting on the fact that people will blindly believe his weak analysis, and that those people will not research the issue.

Two other breakdowns have been done by other individuals and their analysis of the video better shows what those bipeds likely are. They are human beings out for the day, having fun. Even still, there are others who dismiss those breakdowns in order to side with Thinker Thunker. No real reasons were given other, than "I trust him more" or "I believe him". Really? Is that good enough for people nowadays? It's kind of scary if you sit back and think about it.

I was visiting a thread in one of the Bigfoot Facebook groups and there were a few people who were able to cast doubt on the Bigfoot vs. Buffalo video in about five minutes.

Here is a link to the streaming video of Yellowstone. Old Faithful Geyser Webcam

I checked the webcam yesterday and *gasp* guess what I saw? No, it wasn't a rogue Bigfoot. It was a person strolling on the walkway. It takes awhile for the person to start walking. Look to the right side of the screen and you will see a dark figure on the walkway.

Someone took a few minutes to compose an email and send it to the park. After all, if you want to really get to the bottom of a mystery, why not start with a comment from park officials.
  This was the reply the individual received.

If that's not enough, the same person found a website showing a group of people out that very day. Could they be the four people caught by the park webcam?
Link:  Yellowstone National Park

You won't believe this but one person in the group took a photograph of a fierce Buffalo.

There was a question asked on the website but no reply had been given when I last checked the site. Today the person replied to the question. Click on the photo to enlarge.

"how many where there in your group , and did you walk single file?"

 "Hey Danny, there were four of us. When we snow shoed we mostly walked single file, but there was room in some areas to walk next to each other on more established trails. Thanks for sending the Bigfoot link. Wish we could have had a sighting!"


Isn't that an interesting coincidence? Thinker Thunker magically finds four Bigfoot in a random video and there were four individuals walking single file in the same area, and on the same day.


Common sense and a tiny bit of logic should tell us that just maybe this group was caught by the park webcam.

This kind of blatant sensationalism by people such as Thinker Thunker needs to come to a stop. Take ten minutes to do a bit of checking on your own. People in the community are always complaining about hoaxers but how many are doing anything about it? Take the time and dig for answers you can share with others. Let's put an end to this madness.

Who is Thinker Thunker?

This is a blog post I have been wanting to do for awhile because I am growing weary of hoax enablers, sensationalists, and fabricators of information.

In my opinion, Thinker Thunker has turned in to one of those individuals. I used to be a fan of his videos because I thought he was providing some good breakdowns for questionable videos.
  It seemed like his motives changed over night. Instead of well thought out breakdowns and good observations, his videos have turned in to "everything is a Bigfoot" kind of mentality. I was noticing that Thinker Thunker was revisiting Bigfoot videos that had already been deemed hoaxes by the majority of people in Bigfootland.

I will provide some examples for you.

First up is a screenshot from the IMAX video which allegedly shows a Bigfoot. If I am not mistaken, the subject shown in the video was later reported to be a crew member on an ATV or BMX bike.

In his description, Thinker Thunker goes for the sensational approach and explains why this can NOT be a human.

Then we have the 'Big Red' videos recorded by Timbergiant. In Jim's video, he records something but it's difficult to determine what it is. Some people say it's a dog and others say it's a costume. I am going with the latter on this because I think Timbergiant presents questionable videos. He is either a hoaxer or the luckiest Bigfoot researcher of all time. The man has videos of at least three Bigfoot, multiple videos of foot prints and he has collected evidence, only to be "accidentally" destroyed by TGBF himself.
  According to Thinker, not only is this a Bigfoot, but it's carrying a baby. You can't get more sensational than that.

Next there is the Bigfoot in the giant Sequoias. This video has been proven to be a documentary done by Shawn Bannon, yet Think Thunker still tries to get some mileage out of it by claiming this is a real Bigfoot.

This might be intriguing to someone who is new to the Bigfoot community so I'm sure Thinker Thunker is playing on this for channel hits. Thinker spends a lot of time on his videos but he can't research this to find out it's actually not a Bigfoot? His actions are irresponsible and he is blatantly misrepresenting this particular piece of footage.

There is also the Siberian Bigfoot which was later confirmed to be a hoax by Igor Burstev. Thinker Thunker presented this creature as real and carrying a baby as well.

This screen shot contradicts Thinker Thunker.

The last straw for me was recently. Thinker Thunker took an innocent video of Buffalo and hiker/skiers and turned it in to a Bigfoot video.

 Thinker has presented complete and utter bullshit with this latest "breakdown". His methods are flawed. Sure, he has a cool voice and fancy software but shit is shit. Spritzing it with perfume won't change it.

If you want a much better and realistic breakdown, I suggest you visit Snow Walker's channel or ParaBreakdown's channel. Both men give a more realistic and sane explanation of what occurred in this video.

Breakdown by Snow Walker

ParaBreakdown video

With so much big shittery going on with Thinker Thunker, I decided to have a look around to see if I could find a reason for his motivations of presenting such  sensationalistic crap.

It didn't take long before I believed I had my answers.

"So far I have over 1,300,000 views on Youtube with well over 9,000 subscribers. I'm not exactly a household name, but it's a nice start.

(I use CGI software to examine and investigate paranormal videos.) People LOVE this stuff! :) And it all ties in with my last script (a paranormal thriller,) which happens to be the 1st script I want to shoot. And at least now, I have an active, hungry audience waiting for new projects)"

I have no issues with Mr. White being an entertainer or making money from entertaining. What I have an issue with, is Thinker Thunker making money off his videos by misleading people. He is knowingly creating false information in order to drive traffic to his channel and videos.
   
In my opinion he is no different than any other hoaxer, snake oil salesman or bullshit artist. He should no longer be allowed to ride on the backs of people who are interested in the subject of Bigfoot. He does the community a disservice and it's a slap in the face of those who take this subject seriously.

The man should not be taken seriously when it comes to his breakdown videos of anything related to the subject of Bigfoot.

Bigfoot, or Big Tree?

Today I visited one of the Facebook Bigfoot groups and a discussion had started about an old alleged Bigfoot sighting from 2010, however, the video was only recently posted on YouTube.
If you have time check out The Genoskwa Project Ohio , it's a fantastic group.

Here is the video. It's a series of still shots. Link: Paranormal Central

This alleged sighting was also discussed in this video: Bigfoot Photo From Trail Cam

Right from the get go I had problems with this video. First of all, the titles state that the subject in the video is a real Bigfoot without a shred of real evidence or proof shown.

When I see marketing tags like these, it usually raises red flags with me. How can the individuals be so confident that this thing is a Bigfoot?


I watched the video about six times and left some comments in the thread that was discussing this anomaly. From the stills in the video I created some overlays to show what I considered to be nothing more than a tree, foliage and shadows blended together that gave the illusion of a large dark upright body.

Jeffrey Gonzalez from the Sanger Paranormal Society jumped all over me for my own opinion. There were plenty of  "LOL!!!", followed by other words with exclamation points. Mr. Gonzalez, as a last resort, started in with the expected ad hominem attacks. At no point in time did Mr. Gonzalez provide any further evidence to support his claim, save for this ONE photo.

If anything, this one photo helped support my assertions that this is nothing more than pareidolia.


I will lay out the photos down below so you can decide for yourselves.

Zoomed image

Jeffrey Gonzalez at the location

They did do a good job of getting the angle right in this photo but that's about as good as it gets in my opinion.


The next photo is a side by side comparison. Note the shadowed tree behind Mr. Gonzalez. Also, note the bright sunlight on the photo on the left. I believe this is causing a darker and/or larger shadow.

This gives a reasonable size comparison between the "Bigfoot" and Mr. Gonzalez. The scale of the two photos is a bit off in the above picture.

That has been corrected in the overlays below.

I don't have a decent animated gif program so I used Bandicam for the following:

So, is this a blurry Bigfoot? A huge bear? Pareidolia?  I'm sticking to my own opinion on this one but don't let that sway your own opinions.

I do not think this is an outright hoax but I do think it's a simple misidentification or wishful thinking...or maybe both.

If someone, especially those with a public platform, are going to assert that something is genuine, I would hope that these people perform their due diligence to rule out ALL possibilities before jumping to the conclusion that something is a Bigfoot.

I suppose trees don't garner much excitement though.

I'm So Startled! - Bigfoot Sighting While Turkey Hunting

There is a new "Bigfoot" video up on YouTube and for some odd reason, there are people who actually think this is the "real deal". Actually, the video is from June 19, 2014. One popular You Tuber has  done a breakdown of the video that supports the two subjects being real Bigfoot. I'm not sure why the video is getting this sudden attention but it is what it is.

This really surprised me because even a quick view of the video does not scream Bigfoot. It screams two-guys-walking-in-the-woods. It's obvious...very obvious.

Here is the video in question:

The first red flag for me is the terrible acting. It seems like the woman is forcing herself to breathe heavily, and she does NOT appear to be startled. She sounds more like Marlin Perkins in an episode of Mutual Omaha's 'Wild Kingdom' than anything else.

The two subjects casually enter the frame and the woman follows them flawlessly, cell phone perfectly focused. It's just a shame she didn't use the zoom function, then we would have a very clear shot of two people. She was poised enough to keep the phone steady, so I see no reason why she would forget about zooming in. That's red flag number two.

I have grabbed some stills from the video, brightened and adjusted the contrast. I don't have fancy software, so I didn't magnify the stills by 700%, which renders the images useless. I resized the images just enough to show differences of colours in the main subject (the one with the dead deer).


I'll post the full sized enhanced images and below those I will post cropped images and add commentary below each one.

Just by looking at the photos above, it's quite easy to see this is nothing more than a man wearing a gray or light coloured jacket.

Next up are the resized cropped stills. Brightness and saturation have been adjusted slightly in order to show detail.

In this photo we can clearly see the bottom line of the jacket, sloping from upper left to lower right. The head of the subject is much darker than the upper body. The legs are also darker than the body but not as dark as the head. The man is carrying something but it does not resemble a deceased deer.

Once again, dark head, light or gray jacket, and pants of a different colour. In the video it may have appeared as if a dead animal was swinging in the arms of a Bigfoot but this still shows something completely different.
It looks like the person is carrying something similar to a pack or a coat, and dangling below that appears to be a smaller bag, perhaps a case for binoculars. A strap can be seen and it's being held be the left hand.

I have isolated and magnified this portion of the video. It doesn't look like a deer head flopping around.

Is he wearing a cap? Light jacket and brown pants, perhaps. He's holding something with the right hand. The arm looks bent at the elbow with the forearm almost horizontal.

I see nothing in this photo that comes close to resembling a Bigfoot. It looks like a person wearing a jacket.


One last thing that I thought was a bit strange and it didn't make sense until someone posted this short clip from South Park.

This could be a coincidence but then again, maybe it's not. I was unaware that people like to parody South Park. A quick search on YouTube yielded many parodies of this very clip.

Thomas Marcum has also taken a look at this video. You can find his post at The Crypto Crew


EDIT: Thanks to a reader of the blog, we have a zoomed and stabilized version of the video.

 

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

Seek Thermal Review

The following review is based on my personal experiences with the Seek thermal camera. I am not an expert with thermal imaging devices and this is my first experience with a thermal camera.

I think it would be safe to say that any Bigfoot enthusiast would welcome a thermal camera as part of their gear. Some people in the community have access to, or own, a high end FLIR thermal camera. Many of us simply don't have the budget for such a device but now we have an alternative.

The Seek thermal camera was recently released for sale and the demand appears to be very high for this device. Seek initially had some delays but I think they are finally getting caught up on back orders. There still remain a couple of issues with the Apple version of the camera, mainly due to the app being accepted in the Apple app store. Seek assures it's iOS customers that the cameras will ship soon. I have an Android device so my wait time was only about three weeks. When the camera shipped, it only took ONE day to get to Canada.

The camera comes in a good sturdy box and shows a bit of information on the camera.

Included with the camera is a hard plastic carrying case and key ring.


Before using the camera, the Seek app needs to be downloaded from the playstore. Once the app is installed, just plug the camera in to the micro USB port. The app will prompt you to accept the device. After that, use is very straight forward.

The Seek thermal camera comes with different functions and nine colour palettes. I like pictures, so I am going to post a lot of them you so get a good idea of what the functions are.

Enabling this function will give you a fairly accurate temperature reading.

Hi/Lo displays a low temperature and high temperature. This is useful if you want to check for air leaks at home or it could aid in detecting a heat signature of an animal in the brush.

This is where you fine tune the heat detection settings. I'm still playing with this function in order to get the best images possible. You have the option of including a date/time stamp and a watermark of the Seek logo. Date and time are very important when you're out in the field, so I opted to use this.

The slide function is something I really like. This is great for day time use and you get a heat signature. You can slide back and forth to pinpoint the target. Engaging this function is done via the on/off button on the top left of this image. Unfortunately at this time the two images don't match up exactly. I'm hoping Seek can fix that issue. A new product will always need some tweaking.


Once I unboxed the camera, I started snapping photos and my dog was the target. Thankfully he was nice enough to stay still.

"Iron" 

"Cool"

"White" Subject shows in white.

"Black" Subject shows in black.

I'll post a few short video clips showing some of the colour palettes and functions of the camera. One thing I immediately realized is that a thermal camera should not be moved around a lot, like you would with a camcorder. I realized this after the fact, so excuse the blurry videos.
  The camera is great for a point and hold application.

The video above shows a herd of cattle. Finding any deer was tough due to the plethora of hunters in the area. Distance ranged from about 80 ft. for the closest animal and roughly 300 ft. or more for the furthest animal. Setting is on "White". Temperature outside was approximately 5C.

This video is from the same location with the "Black" setting used.

Once again, same location. This is the "Iron" setting from the colour palette choices. Because it was a bit cool out, I preferred the gray scale, using the "Black" setting. Personally, I found it worked better. As the day warmed up, I used the "White" setting.

This function is good for day time use. As you can see, the cattle don't appear to be a one to one scale between normal video and the thermal video. Video quality seems a bit degraded in the non-thermal side of the window. I use a Galaxy Note3 and the video quality of the phone is much better under normal use. The zoom function of my phone works while using the Seek thermal camera. The Note has a maximum zoom of 4X, so your results may vary.

Video using the Hi/Lo temperature setting. It was warming up but there was about four inches of snow on the ground. Tall grass and stumps were bare. Sunny skies with a few clouds.

Same location using the "Iron" setting.

I didn't record videos or take pictures using all of the colour palettes. These are posted just to give you a basic idea of the camera's abilities.


Overall, I am very happy with this camera. It works great around the house and I have already found a few areas of heat loss that I can address. Mechanics would probably find this to be a valuable tool during diagnostics. The camera can detect water leaks and moisture as well.


As a tool for use in Bigfooting, I would say the camera is okay. It could be helpful if you hear something close by, such as branches snapping etc. The range of the camera is said to be approximately 1,000 ft. but I have not found an animal at that distance yet.

  The Seek will never replace a professional grade FLIR, and with a modest price tag of $200, I wouldn't expect it to perform on the same level as a $1,200+ camera.

It's closest competitor is the FLIR One. The FLIR has a price tag of $349 and has a resolution of 80 x 60, for a total of 4800 pixels.

"FLIR has also applied some great technology to help users get the most out of the resolution. Multi-Spectral Dynamic Imaging, or MSX, makes use of the second camera visible on the FLIR ONE, a visible light camera with a resolution of 640 x 480. MSX uses the visible light image to mine data about surface patterns and edges, then embosses this information into the thermal image. The effect is that the somewhat low thermal resolution is much more intelligible to the eye, giving the impression of a much higher resolution."

Source: Ivy Tools Blog

 The FLIR One is only compatible with iphone 5/5S.



Compare that to the Seek's 206 x 156 resolution and 32,136 thermal pixels.

  It would be beneficial if Seek could employ similar technology like MSX to sharpen the images. Maybe this will come in firmware updates, if that's possible, or in future generations of Seek thermal cameras. 


I don't ever see myself dropping a few thousand on a thermal camera, so the Seek is a perfect addition to my collection to my kit. It's a keeper and the camera performed flawlessly the entire afternoon. I didn't notice an excessive drain ion my phone battery. I used the phone on and off over the period of about three hours and I still had over 50% battery life. Under constant usage, this may change.


If you are interested in the Seek thermal camera, visit their website:  SEEK THERMAL