Discovering Bigfoot

First things first. Yes, I believe that there could very well be living Sasquatch out there. Now we've got this out of the way, let's focus on this "documentary".

The introduction goes almost on for 10 minutes on how well Todd (the film maker) is trained in everything, while you see him running in full sniper camouflage gear/suit. This all topped with some cheap music to create some false suspension. I was crying and laughing at the same time. At times I just wondered if all of this was one big joke, and some college kid made one of the best parody comedies ever. I wish...

This documentary is based on some bad crappy footage of supposed to be Sasquatch. And some close ups who look very real (I must admit) and actually could very well be something significant. This said and done, you would expect the documentary maker would take his claims further and will try to hunt for better footage than he already has given. Wrong. What he does is take you on a boring 1 hour 30 minute journey, showing you every footprint he claims to be Sasquatch. Suddenly every noise that was made, is produced by a Sasquatch. And when you think this couldn't get any worse, he starts talking about how he is supposedly being followed very close. And he even starts to draw out paths, and even describes how many Sasquatch are following him, and how they look like. Sadly for the viewer, not one shred of film footage is given, backing this up. To back up his claims he involves two professors. Everything he does is just put pressure on this two people. Just at the point it's not even funny anymore. He lacks total healthy self criticism. This documentary is clearly made by a fan boy, desperately trying to prove that this things exist. Nothings else matters.

Todd is probably a great guy. And I believe he is a great enthousiast, and I hope he will one day find the smoking gun, that for once can proof their existence. But for the love of god, never again make a documentary. Please?

Here you get some guy in camouflage, who according to him, spent many years as a sniper making more noise than a city full of football fans.

Then you get a very large area of where these beings live and somehow the so called expert noisy sniper and some PhD doctors go out and know exactly where this species is going to be, by finding broken branches and small trees put into structures before they get there.

One of the best scenes in this film was when the apples were taken, I never laughed so much watching a documentary.

Do I believe that there are the sasquatch, yes I suppose but this film will not get you any closer to the truth.

Put this with the just as funny most haunted programs and you will some fun watching these.

Watch this but jeep an open mind, this is very badly done.

I dare you to go and watch this and look out for all the really bad things they do for you to be impressed.

Either this man is the greatest cheater, as even the film's experts saw no signs of a fake scenario that would require a lot of preparation, or it is true, real. There is crystal clear footage of the faces of these entities. In addition, night vision material, infrared. Tracks and much more. I don't understand the negative comments in some reviews.

There are some compelling pieces in this documentary and I always respect Jeff Meldrum's opinion. He is one of the few, if not the only, BF researcher that sticks to a scientific approach without leaping to drastic conclusions about their existence.

I agree with many of the other comments in that there doesn't appear to be anything new, the production quality is bad and there's no flow with editing either. Making this hard to follow at times.

I'm also not quite on board with some of the video showing "bigfoot". Since I don't really know what a bigfoot should look like I guess these could be real. Then again they don't seem to match with other representations I'm familiar with which depict them with a more conical shaped head and almost no neck. These look, to me, way too human. Like a guy in a mask human. The black one we barely see, again to me, seems like footage of a black gorilla that was edited into the documentary. Also, these supposed tree structuctures prove nothing. These could have easily been made by humans without leaving any human "tracks" or evidence. I'm also pretty sure a bear would enjoy a red delicious apple and eat every part of it. There are many animals that could take the apple and run or fly off with it without leaving a trace as well. In fact, in Todd's rationale he shows us in the moss how hard it would be to leave a track unless you were extremely heavy so this notion that it has to be a bigfoot that took the apples is a non-starter. I also didn't get the sense that Dr. Meldrum was completely buying that rationale either and it's probably because there's nothing scientific about apples going missing in the middle of the wilderness.

Also, I noticed right away before any mentioning of Les Stroud, that the area they focused on with the tree structures is the same area that Les Stroud was in for his show where he also used the apples. I thought that episode of Survivorman was fairly compelling so maybe there's something worth investigating in more detail? Todd actually appeared in that episode.

The irony to this is that this documentary was released in 2017 and I just watched it in 2024. I would think that if Todd, Les and Jeff all saw things that they felt were worth investigating further, they would have. I'm talking about sending in the scientific and technological communities on a several month excursion to surround a large area and begin shrinking that circle with man power and technology and thereby trapping one or possibly an entire "community" of them. Based on Todd's knowledge of that area and his vast encounters with them I would think this would be ground zero for finally proving their existence. Yet, none of that has happened, no follow ups, no large expeditions, no Diane Fossey like observational research, nothing, nada, zip, zilch. If there's so much evidence, sightings and interaction with them why has there been no large scale effort to discover them?

I think that's because there's nothing really scientific going on here at all to warrant such an effort. Trees broken in half (btw is common in every wooded area that I've been in), missing apples, growling/snorting that sounds more like a bear, some guy running around in camouflage and blurry vague video doesn't really warrant a full on follow up expedition.

In general, I'm a large skeptic of most cryptids except for bigfoot. Mostly because we have actual physical proof of such a creature in Gigantopithicus existed. Because of that, and compelling footprints complete with tissue scarring and hinge marks that it is no scientific stretch to think that Gigantopithicus, or some other bipedal primate still exists. Unfortunately, this documentary doesn't advance any new theories or evidence.

I can only believe that this is a mockumentary, a well done one, but still made up. This is the 21st century, there are so many methods available to people nowadays that this guy could have used to gain positive evidence of the existence of bigfoot, so why doesn't he have it? As previously stated give us some tangible evidence, DNA would be irrefutable, the videos just don't look real, no facial movement at all, looks like a mask, sorry.