Thanks Titus..

Glad to see you're still here too

I live in Ontario, and this makes me want to buy a ghillie suit.

I didn't think anyone was convinced by those first few pics, it was obvious to me that there was a lot of polite holding of tongues.

but werent the closeups just sad and haunting?

they really did make a couple of powerful images there.

Youd think bigfoot would know by now - "Dont F*** with Lee Majors"

For those of us wasting our day....it was pretty perfectly done.

First, we had all night to think about what that close up might look like, amping up the excitement.

Next, there is the delay, waiting on ol' Jim to row in.

Then a few prelim shots, so we would get even more excited about the one that was going to blow our minds!

Then the first one finally arrives, intriguing, but too dark to really tell.

Playing right into the hands of our hoaxmaster, board members manipulate the pic in photoshop the pic to reveal....wow!

An awesome, plausible and wise old face!!!!

It was really pretty great. I enjoyed every gullible minute of it!

Anyone had any luck dating el chupacabras?

Not only are the lips identical, but the indentions on the sides of the forehead are also exact, as is the nose and cheekbones and eye socket shapes.

Oh well. For some reason, I think this T man fella won't be showing up again.

After the GA faisco, now this.........here is a bit of advice to any future BF hoaxers.............

Use an obscure costume......... NEVER, I repeat, N E V E R buy an off the shelf, internet advertised costume, cause you know what that will get you.

The Name of the film is
(The Man God forgot)
I am almost positive
its a Sad story about a guy
left with nothing
I have my freinds searchin it now

At very least it looks like the movie will have a great suit and I look forward to seeing it.

Damn... I was hoping to sign him on the Leafs we need a heavy..

The Leafs need more than that!

Unless you count Finger...lol.

(Go Bruins!)

I agree, there are significant similarities.

Very interesting how this developed and still very interested how it will pan out…

I think....if you haven't written this off already...you are being significantly optimistic/naive.

I'm new to posting (at least here, anyway)

So...I don't know how to get a picture in here.

If you go back to page 25, post 497, I think you can see the brow line in both pictures quite well.

EDIT: The last page I looked at before dinner and stuff was 23 or so...I just saw the mask...so...uh...forget what I typed up top here.

The creature even has the forehead mole in the same place as the mask!

I was gonna tell the guy he should get in the movie biz if it was a fake but didn't want to p him off.
Anyway, not a surprise that this was a hoax that someone put some money in to, I was just watching abominable on sci fi and this was spookier

Wow... nice mask anyway

So, uh, can we at least -- once and from now on -- correctly refer to the locality as Temagami, not "Tomagami"? It's beginning to grate on my eyes and brain. It's as annoying as calling that big American city "Shicago".

Drats!

You could also add that even though "Tom" was trapped on an island, and island that they knew how to get to, they were going to wait a few months to go back to look for him/it.

Anyone want to take a stab at PM'm him?

I've been gone for awhile and low and behold some people just never give up. First Ga now AK!!!
This is simply put a HOAX!!!!!!,,end of discusion

Thanks to everyone who did research. I wish he'd come back on the thread and fess up but that ain't gonna happen. Oh well, at least you came up with a cool back story. But the commercially available mask meant your quick undoing. For once though, I'd like one of these guys to say, "Okay. You got me." Well done Bionic Man.

Just wanted to comment that I'm impressed with the research capability of forum members to find such mask photos so quickly and make the comparisons needed to resolve these sighting pictures.

Impressive research and comparisons.

Bill

these are very interesting new photos of a possible sasquatch but more research etc needs to be done it. thanks bill

You darned right.

This bunch can out a hoaxer ..........while you wait, so to speak.

Nice work on this outting, and on outting the GA fiasco, as well.

I think we may have some Columbo fans in this group. Officer Frank Columbo would be proud of the work being done here.

Not since lee Majors posted that mask it's not...

A mask database thread is a great idea. Pin that sucker. I'll post mine to it. I have an obscure mask I got right from the sculpter.

It's here.

I agree, this is THE place to check and see if something is a hoax or not.

Somebody help me get this dang fishhook out of my mouth......he caught me! No really, I was playing Loren...knew it was fake all along just trying to get more pics out of it so we could expose it

i reckon the "old timers" was just sittin waitin for this feller to have out enough rope to hang himself. initially i was posting to keep this thread up top and have folks get curious.

lee did good yall.

as for the hoaxers...

they show up soon after they are busted, scream bloody murder, call folks names, threaten lawsuits, and/or threaten bodily harm.

it is best, we have learned, to take a wait and see attitude.

Saved me a Trip to North Bay!

In a situation like this, I guess someone has to play Loren. Nice work bringing the much needed Loren Element to the overall dynamic, in order to get it outted faster.

Nice work everyone! You guys are really some amazing sleuths! Really too bad, but something really did feel Hollywood about those pics. They were really too perfect. Let's get to the next great adventure Scooby Gang!

I can appreciate a hoax like this with a bit of effort in it. Can you still put the video online

Yep .....i've always been a team player.....always willing to take one for the team!! I'd rather git hit by a curve than a fastball though.

I'm gullible.

That's the only conclusion I can draw, because until the post of that mask, I was leaning towards this being credible, and made a few posts along those lines which I now regret.

Sigh.

Okay, that said, I still feel, as I said before, that it's best to leave unfounded criticism of the poster until AFTER they have finished posting OR there is some hard evidence (such as that mask). What can it hurt to wait a couple of days?

Also, I think it would be useful to try and figure out how this was done, and also to make not of the holes in the presentation and the story, as a yardstick for future events.

How was the scale of the creature faked? Was it the different camera angle, or was the human subject standing further back?

Another site wants to 'look into the pics before they are dismissed completely', lol.

They want to post that they uncovered a hoax, I bet. Make all their viewers think they they did it, not this forum.

They will stop at nothing, seriously. Pretty disgusting.

whats the site? If you dont want to put it here PM it to me.

Oh come on...............got to be the "hoax debunkers"

Arizona TJ:

"How was the scale of the creature faked? Was it the different camera angle, or was the human subject standing further back?"

One easy way is to position the human further back than he appears to be, and lean him close to a foreground object so he appears beside the closer foreground object. You can play some effective tricks on the finished camera image that way. Years ago, I did some creature models at a small scale and set them up by this method so they appeared full scale compared to me apparently standing beside them, when I was actually much further away from my apparent position. The camera's lack of depth perception makes this kind of "trick photography" among the easiest optical tricks to accomplish. So this is one option for making the comparative human look much smaller than the "Squatch".

Not saying that was done in this case, just that it's one very easy to accomplish option to get that result, and could be how it was done.

Bill

Yep, the same site that took credit for William Parcher's find, as well as another member of JREF (among many others here that actually did some of the heavy lifting) and proclaimed that they debunked the Georgia hoax.

quite a trick taking claim for this one.

after all, all folks gotta do is look at lees post to see the date/time.

oh duhhhh, i forgot just how stoopid most folks really are,

carry on yall, i gots guns to shoot tomorrow...

many, many times, heh heh.

I agree with your senitment about waiting to see......that being said I was excited about the photos. I even PM'd the guy to thank him for posting as I was worried that the criticism of the more jaded posters would run him off before he finished uploading photos. Oh, well! I guess I gave him a good laugh.

I gotta say that his story about being scolded by 'the person on the phone' for overstepping his bounds was what got me hooked on the tale. I thought he was some teenager who was uploading his dad's/uncle's photos without permission. LMAO. *shrug*

Dang it............Tomagambi has never showed back up with more info and pics/video. At least the GA. Boys put up a dispute. Anyway, what made it so good was the "story" itself......had a good plot and was creative. But I guess after all is said and done, I got to quit fallin' for just any ol' squatch that comes along. After all these years, "Patty" is still my girl!!

leemajors, what was that, like your fourth post on this forum and you bust a hoaxer, thumbs up buddy! Somebody give this dog a bone

Hey, i'm the six million dollar man, it's my job to bust bigfoot's ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JktcQ2A32cU

I always thought this looked like a costume. The body just looked plain stupid, and the face looked far too human. That's just my opinion.

It cannot be over-stated, the superb job done by leemajors in quickly debunking this sham......Welcome aboard and ROCK ON!

I agree, no matter how this turns out I hope a lesson will be learned. I am a teacher, and I am always preaching to my students about the importance of unbiased research. Always sit on the fence while you study as much evidence as possible, and then choose a side based on your findings. Sometimes we are dissappointed with our findings, but in the end we are satisfied with our decision. We still have much work to do.

The two masks are I...dentical
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Good job leemajors

I think it might be more amusing to eureka upon Lee and the Ben/Jim guys as part of the same production crew. It is only amusingly fortuitous that both are new members as of the last 36 hours. It would also be a great way to monitor and gauge BFF reactions without revealing the same user name as a monitoring account.

I only wish I could parse the foley sourcing for those bionic moves. It's one of my favourite sounds, like, evar.