I just watched my copy of BF: LMS. After watching it, I watched the actual footage several times. I thought a couple might be fakes, but I to tell you the truth, just don't know. The Memorial Day footage, I thought could easily be a fake. My wife thought the Freeman footage was of "a man in a monkey suit." Still, there's something about them that seems not quite right. It seemed they disproved the memorial day footage with their scientific test.I don't know what to think.

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Welcome, HBK!

Sorry, but I don't think the Memorial Day video was disproved by the LMS analysis.

They showed that a six foot Olympic-caliber runner could run at a faster rate of speed than the video subject, but that doesn't really prove anything. We don't know, for example, that the possible sasquatch was running at full speed.

No, to do a proper analysis of the Memorial Day video, you need to put a series of people (preferably, twenty or more) into gorilla suits and have them run the course. Each person must be the same height as that measured in the video, a little over five feet tall. Compare the group's average speed with that of the video subject. They should do the run at the same time of day and under comparable temperature and humidity conditions.

I'd be surprised if half of them completed the run without falling.



Welcome to the BFF.

That's a good point. It seemed like the BF was moving pretty fast, and at first I thought it was moving much faster than the runner. I was suprised that he ran so much faster. There's something to be said for the agility it displayed, though.

I remember reading another comment to the effect that the creature in the Memorial Day footage also didn't know that it was in a race. IOW, how much faster could it have run versus the speed it was actually running?

I had some similar thoughts after I watched LMS a few times. 1] When the Sas was running, we did not see any serious arm movement from the subject. Yet, when the runner recreated the sprint, his arm movements were very visible. To recreate the scene properly, the runner should have restricted his arm movements accordingly. 2] It was stated that the runner was fully 'warmed up' and ready to go. I felt that it would have been better to do at least one run from a cold start, just like the Sas would have done. I find it hard to believe that the Sas would have stretched out its muscles before the sprint across the hillside.

The primary point is that, in order to assess the argument that the subject of the video was a person in a costume, you don't recreate the circumstances with a much larger world class athlete running unimpeded -- you use people of the same size as shown on the video tape, and you make them wear a gorilla suit.

In addition, since we are addressing the possibility that the whole thing was a hoax, I would argue that world class athletes have better things to do with their time than to fool around with bigfoot jokes. The individuals used to run the route should be people of average running speed.