I had a look at this after JSheldon87 first posted it in another thread. It's a little unique in that it posits a Bigfoot that can hang out in a tree and move with extreme speed and dexterity.
Like so many similar things, it falls into the Low Information Zone (LIZ) and is likely the result of camera artifacts and pareidolia, but is also typical of what often passes as evidence of the Big Guy. As pointed out above, this comes from the YouTube channel Rocky Mountain Sasquatch, and as they claim to post 2 or more videos a week, they have to find a fair amount of Bigfoot content. Some of the channels other videos seem quite dubious, including a serious discussion of 2 still photos, that sure looks like a little Bigfoot figurine posed in the woods. But most of the comments for this video are positive and consider this "strong evidence" not just for Bigfoot, but for one that can move like a Ninja from tree to ground.
Also as noted above, the claim is that it's a Snap Chat video and that the person on the receiving end of the Snap Chat message noticed Bigfoot and alerted the person taking the video. The person taking the video appears to be in a skid steer loader working on a dirt road, though I don't know what they mean by "cusomized". It appears to have a grapple bucket for moving brush. It's unclear if the loader is actually moving at the time as the clip is so short.
In my experience, there is a limited number of skid steers that can be driving one handed, thus allowing one to hold up their phone to record video. In addition, the bottom of the bucket is at the top of the screen, meaning it's in a pretty high position and not a safe way to travel. So, it's likely stationary, though it does appear to be yellow which could mean it's a CAT or CASE brand loader and some CASEs can be driven with he left hand only. It's possible its moving slowly.
The entire encounter takes place in about 2-3 seconds and would therefore consist of about 60-90 frames of video at standard 30fps. We can step through it fairly quickly using the < and > buttons on the keyboard to scrub through frame by frame. It consists of a few major parts, some of which are no more than a few frames long:
- The knees.
- Pan Left, with the Ninja Bigfoot in the background.
- Pan back right part way, then start pan back right over again.
- Complete 2nd pan back right.
That's it. It also seems to have several jump cuts, that are the result of the camera switching on and off, or some rough editing.
The Knees is just a shot down at the operator's knees and lasts for about 2 frames before the first jump cut occurs:
It jumps to a shot looking out the cab of the loader down the road before it starts to pan left and we "see" Bigfoot climbing out of the tree:
As the pan continues left, Bigfoot jumps down from the tree and runs off:
The pan left continues until the shot is looking out the left side of the cab through the metal cage:
The camera then begins to pan back to the right and then it gets a little jumbled:
Halfway through the pan back right, it's suddenly back to the end of the full pan left for 1 frame:
Then back to the ½ way point again at which point the pan goes back left again:
After getting to the full pan left position, it again starts to pan back right:
As the shot completes the pan right, Bigfoot runs backwards and up into the tree again:
Finishing up with the knees:
Clearly the jumbled-up shots between the left and right pans are bad edits that attempts to double the footage by adding the same shot in reverse. Snap Chat allows one to make reverse videos.
I'm not sure if the video starts forward and pans left and then the pan right is the reverse video tagged on or the other way around.
So, if half of the video is a reverse of the original, then the actual encounter lasts about 52-54 frames from the time we see the road until the pan left ends and begins to return right, or possibly gets reversed. The time that Bigfoot jumps from the tree and runs off is a bit less then 30 frames. Less than a second.
This is a badass Ninja Bigfoot.
Note here 5 frames after the jump from the knees shot what's in the tree, especially the "Y" formed on the left most tree:
Now go to 0:54 of the video where the analysis begins. It also starts with the knees:
But there is no jump cut, rather there is a tilt up that now reveals a more substantial Bigfoot, or at least a blob, that isn't in the previous clip:
Yes it's zoomed in, but where did that come from. Here they are with the comparison slider (move the center arrows left and right to compare):
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A few frames later, and it's moved to the other branch:
But this whole sequence is cut out of the opening video. Why?
Now go back to the original video at the 0:28 mark of the video. Scrub through to the point when the video is panning back right and Bigfoot is running back to the tree. Note the very dark stick or limb between the loader and Bigfoot:
Now scrub through from that point 5-6 frames. The camera pans right a bit more and then back left just a bit. As it does the stick kinda changes until it just disappears:
I don't think it's a magic stick, I thinks there's a lot of video artifacts.
The combination of rapid panning with a lower quality camera phone and possible compression artifacts, is distorting some shadows in the area. Pareidolia fills in the rest.
