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Posted: Jul 17 2012, 10:10 AM

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Elk County deer hunter sets off Internet firestorm with shots of creature

http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/STONEMANGUITARS/bigfoot.html

We were just looking for a nice buck,� said Rick Jacobs, the Elk County deer hunter whose stationary tree camera caught images of an unknown creature, setting off an Internet firestorm of speculation.

�We have some funny pictures,� he said. �They�re in the hands of some experts.�

The pictures, taken by an automatic camera mounted on a tree on a game trail in the Allegheny National Forest Sept. 16, show what appears to be a dark, furry creature walking on four legs. But what is it? Jacobs admits he doesn�t know, and doubts anyone is more skeptical about the whole situation than he is.

�We hung on to them for a whole week before we did anything with them,� he said of the pictures. �We couldn�t figure out what they were. I�ve been hunting for years and I�ve never seen anything like this.�

So he and his family decided to seek some help.

According to Paul Mateja, network administrator for the Buffalo, N.Y., Roman Catholic Diocese � and field researcher for the Bigfoot Research Organization � Jacobs� daughter talked him into sending the pictures to their organization for an opinion.

Anthropologists and primate experts were contacted by the organization. So far, preliminary results from the experts are saying it�s a primate of some sort, said Matt Moneymaker, head of the research organization.

As it appears from the multiple Internet sites and forums where discussions on the �Jacobs creature� are being held daily, some people say it is a skinny bear; many say they just don�t know.

Majeta said he�s investigated, and believes he has some answers.

�My impression is that it is not a bear,� he said. �I�ve met with the gentleman who took the photos and I�ve been to the site. I�ve done some analysis.

�It appears to be a primate-like animal,� he said. �In my opinion, it appears to be a juvenile Sasquatch.�

A what?

�Our contention is it is a Bigfoot.�

In Northwest Pennsylvania. Neither members of the research organization nor the photographer himself have revealed the exact placement of the camera, wanting to avoid sending crowds flocking to � or away from � the site.

Mateja says that if the creature in the picture is what he believes it to be � a member of the legendary Bigfoot family � there�s nothing to be afraid of.

�If you treat them with benevolence, they will respond to that,� he said.

What about all the skeptics? What would Mateja say to them? First of all, it�s not a bear, he said.

He referred to characteristics of the creature in the picture such as the apparent lack of a tail and the length and shape of the legs, saying they are inconsistent with bruins.

�We have two people who are expert biologists. They want to do more analysis. They say it�s not a bear.

�We�ve all gotten into this because we believe,� Mateja said.

Why don�t others believe, even when confronted with a picture not easily explained, asks The Era.

�Some religious belief perhaps?� responds Mateja. �I work for the Catholic church. If it�s a flesh and blood creature, it�s one of God�s creatures.�

Skeptics say they�ve never seen a dead one and never found bones of one. �These are rare creatures. You don�t find bear carcasses in the woods. These are more rare than bears.�

Maybe it�s just fear of the unknown that makes people doubt that the creature in Jacobs� pictures could be something as-yet-unaccounted-for in widely accepted science, Mateja speculated.

�They don�t believe there could be such big creatures living in our woods without people seeing them. People do see them. They are just written off as crackpots.

�In anything, you do have skeptics.�

baldrick69	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 10:17 AM
Member Group: Members Posts: 687 Member No.: 165 Joined: 7-May 10	Umm, it's a bear.

Duck	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 10:42 AM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,075 Member No.: 84 Joined: 11-June 09	If you look closely I think you can see it is in fact a young bigfoot bending over to pick up his dropped iphone 4s. The ridiculous part is the fact that he thinks he's going to get any sort of reception in the mountains...intelligent primate my bigfoot.

baldrick69	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 11:20 AM
Member Group: Members Posts: 687 Member No.: 165 Joined: 7-May 10	No wonder he looks grizzly.

Duck	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 11:39 AM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,075 Member No.: 84 Joined: 11-June 09	You'll not Winnie any friends with jokes like that.

baldrick69	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 11:45 AM
Member Group: Members Posts: 687 Member No.: 165 Joined: 7-May 10	It looks like a bloke in a suit because the length of the arms and legs is more in proportion to a human. At the same time if you're going for a bigfoot hoax then why wear a bear suit? I'm not sure I'd want to be in bear country wearing a bear suit for obvious reasons

Duck	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 12:06 PM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,075 Member No.: 84 Joined: 11-June 09	Bear suit? That would make him a bear faced liar for sure. Naa you were right first time, it's a very skinny young bear with mange. The print is a bear print.

sherry	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 12:36 PM
sherry Group: Admin Posts: 30,691 Member No.: 25 Joined: 2-June 08	Definitely looks like teddy bear to me!

baldrick69	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 02:08 PM
Member Group: Members Posts: 687 Member No.: 165 Joined: 7-May 10	Could be a bigfoot in a bear suit.

sherry	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 03:14 PM
sherry Group: Admin Posts: 30,691 Member No.: 25 Joined: 2-June 08

Duck	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 03:18 PM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,075 Member No.: 84 Joined: 11-June 09	Certainly looks like the bear has a big foot going by the print.

zombie444	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 06:58 PM
Advanced Member Group: Members1 Posts: 2,020 Member No.: 231 Joined: 15-July 11	What ever it is,it walks on its hind legs.

Duck	Posted: Jul 17 2012, 08:19 PM
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,075 Member No.: 84 Joined: 11-June 09

zombie444	Posted: Jul 18 2012, 04:33 AM
Advanced Member Group: Members1 Posts: 2,020 Member No.: 231 Joined: 15-July 11	its legs are longer than its arms and it has a hump on its back. This post has been edited by lifesmate on Jul 18 2012, 12:13 PM

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