Discovering Bigfoot

The director of this video, Todd Standing, has a poor reputation among the community of serious Sasquatch researchers, in part due to allegations that he has faked video footage. That alone is enough for me to have a biased attitude while watching this film. And really the only reason why I even gave this a look was due to the presence of both Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum and Dr. John Bindernagel, two highly respected professionals who have contributed quite a lot to the field of Sasquatch research. And while both Meldrum and Bindernagel manage to exhibit skepticism to much of the alleged evidence that Todd Standing supposedly has uncovered in this film, I still have to wonder just why both of those doctorates chose to appear in this film at all. And yes, I am one of those people who is convinced by the currently available evidence that Sasquatch/Bigfoot is a real, flesh and blood creature. But, in my opinion, documentaries such as this one do more harm to the subject than they do good. I cannot help but feel that Todd Standing is primarily an opportunist who is seeking fame and nothing more.

I doubt I can add anything to the comprehensive list of reviews below. What claims to be a documentary is actually a full length infomercial on Todd and his business which is to bring people into the woods and expose them to bigfoot. As a believer in sasquatch, I came into this wanting to learn more. Instead, I watched a man desperate to get attention to how cool he is blather on. I wondered at times if he is in on the joke after one too many scenes of him running around like a weekend commando and listening to audio of him chastise himself for not finding focus properly. I learned absolutely nothing but that bigfoot can steal 2 hours of my time and I can do nothing about it.

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.

Where to start? This film is hilarious! It's so phony and so fake, it is an insult to intelligence ...or maybe made just for good laugh! I really enjoyed stupidity of it, it's sooo bad.. I mean very badly made.. but it's also bloody funny! Just watch it guys :) enjoy "delicious apples" scene, oh man, I pissed my pants it was so hilarious. Why I would give 2 stars and not one? One star because it's so bad and another because its a good laugh!

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.