Jacob’s Creature Brings Up the Age-Old Question: Are We All Nuts?
October 26, 2007
If you haven’t seen this on the Web by now–you might just be locked in a box–
Rick Jacobs, a hunter in Northwestern Pennsylvania, has set off a media flurry with some photos he has captured while scoping out a trail with an infrared camera–
On Sept. 16, 2007, Rick’s camera captured an image that has set the sane and insane wondering…Just what is it?
Some claim it is a very (and I do mean very) skinny bear sniffing out a tree in front of his camera…
Others…well…
(cough, cough) A juvenile Bigfoot..
I am not one to jump on conspiracy theories and all of that nonsense, but the photos are quite interesting..
The photos are currently being analyzed by wildlife professionals in hopes of finding out exactly what this creature is. From The Bradford Era:
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.
Ummm…it get’s a bit stranger. Paul Metaja, an administrator for the New York Roman Catholic Diocese, had this to say:
It appears to be a primate-like animal,” he said. “In my opinion, it appears to be a juvenile Sasquatch.”
By the way, Paul is also a field researcher for the Bigfoot Research Organization. Makes you feel a bit more comfortable about being at church, doesn’t it?
I have personally seen these photos on the net–and I will give you the photo links in just a second, but first my thoughts: All I will say is it doesn’t seem like a bear to me–but I have also been called crazy a time or two myself…
Take a look at the photos and tell me what you think. Photo 1 is a picture of two young bears that walked up to the same tree. Photos 2 & 3 are the magical images in question. Tell me your thoughts.
From The Adventurist Vault:
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that is some weird stuff right there.
Creepy! Just in time for Halloween too!
Sorry, “Jim” but your comment has been deleted–next time you want to advertise your business on my site…please don’t. I do moderate the comments.
Very interesting photos. I’m definitely going to have to do some more research on this stuff. I bet cryptozoologists are going nuts on this one
Yeah, it is all over the place right now. Type in “Jacob’s Creature” in any search engine to learn a bit more on what people are saying.
The animal in these pictures is not a bear. I’ve seen plenty of bears in my time, and I used to live in the NW Pa. area. I’m very familiar with the wildlife in the Bradford/Erie/Eldrid area, and I’m also familiar with the local stories that people have told for many years concerning “Bigfoot”. This is interesting and more attention from professionals should be focused on it.
im sorry, anyhow this is close to my area interesting story!
this is not a bear….corshami
I would love to know if anyone with the proper technical skills.. and access to sufficient programs could figure out the ratios of the limbs for the tibia, femur, radius and brachius And then compare / contrast those findings with known mammals in the geographic area.
At first glance.. I was thinking it was a Chimpanzee… although what the heck Chimps would be doing there … I have NO clue.
Hey, could someone figure out (science.. not just guess).. what the size of those things are.. compared to the baby bears that were captured in the same setting ? use the tree etc.. for basis of reference ?
It’s a chimp. Look at it and think about all the nature shows you’ve ever seen. The first picture is it bending over to retrieve whatever was on the ground and the second picture is it eating from the ground, a common thing for chimps.
Now the question becomes why is there a chimp loose in PA?
Guys–you bring up some very interesting points. A chimp is what actually came to mind when I first seen this as well.
As far as why there would be a chimp loose in Pennsylvania?
Many times people will take in Exotic pets..then release then when they become troublesome…could be a reason. You may also reference another story I just posted concerning a hunter who has supposedly seen a lion near his hunting grounds. Searches are underway in West Virginia currently, for the lion.
As much as I want to believe in bigfoot, I’m pretty sure that’s a black bear with mange. It makes things look pretty different. Here’s a picture of a bear with mange.
http://www.terrierman.com/mangeinblackbearflorida.jpg
There’s a similar case in Texas, some people found a dead coyote with mange and were certain it was a ‘chupacabra’. For months people believe it, the press spread the rumor, until testing proved it was a coyote. Still, the animal was disgusting. Certainly looked the part.
http://www.mysteriousuniverse.org/?p=1293
I have seen bears with skin conditions that looked exactly like the picture.
It makes a little more sense when you put the photos in proper cronological order. They are timestamped. The bear cubs have come to investigate the scent. I can’t figure out what the black bag the bear knocked over could be.
It was suggested that Rick Jacobs had “baited” the area in hopes of finding deer. I am not sure what was in the bag–but it seemed the bears liked it as well.
In pic 1 a “deer block” (made with lots of molasses) or a salt block is obvious in the foreground. It’s obscuring the cub’s nose. Pic 2 - It’s just a mangy bear. Pic 3 It’s playing with the one cub.
It does look like a bear, but since we can see the head in picture 2, where’s the ears? They’re not standing up. I would figure they would be more upright and not flat on the head..
Interesting photos none the less.
Maybe it left some tracks? My question is did anyone take pictures of the ground around the salt block, maybe make some plaster impressions if possible? i would get someone who is good at tracking bears and such out there to look and see if they are bear tracks or not. Just a thought!
The first picture is definitely a bear. The next two are taken about 30 minutes later. That is certainly enough time for the bears to walk off. I would like to see some of the pictures that are in between that time.
I don’t like the second photo as much cause the head part is pretty blurry compared to the tree that is right behind it. Kinda odd.
Anyway the second 2 pictures are pretty creepy. Its one really, really ugly bear that’s not proportioned to well or something else.
theres no way thats a sick bear and youd think there would be more pictures caught on the cam and how did the saltlick stand get knocked over or wat is it against the lick
the first email adress was the wrong 1
This is clearly a sasquatch.
I have been tracking the sasquatchal migration through northern and eastern PA/Southern NY for years and this one is typical for what you would see in the Bradford area around this time of year.
Northwestern PA ‘Sasquatch’ is called ‘Squonk’ and was ‘known’ to exist during the lumbering times… Squonk is particularly fond of the Hemlock stands.
I’d say it’s definately a bear, because there’s no such thing as bigfoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It definitely looks like the pictures posted by Chris, like a bear with mange . .I would have to agree with Chris that it is indeed a bear with mange after seeing the photo he posted and comparing them.
I’ve compared measuremnts of cubs at about the same age to ones I have of the same age. Then compared them to the one of this Sasquatch. In my expert opinion this is a female Sasquatch at approximately 10 yrs of age.
I have to agree. When i look at Mr. Jacobs pictures, the first thing I notice is the length and girth of the body and its extremities. When compared to a bear of the same age (which i would estimate to be around 5-6 years old) there are vast differences in both length and girth. You can not even argue this picture, that my friends is indeed a Sasquatch.
It is easy to tell the length and circumference of the limbs is out of proportion to a bear. Although the hair appears raggedy and the specimen could very well be mange-infested, but I highly doubt it is a bear.
it can’t be a chimp you would be able to see they’re pink protruding butts. if you google pictures of chimps they have very noticiable butts that are pink and seem to pop out on these images his behind is black and hairy. I don’t know what it is but i don’t think it’s a chimp. I just pulled up various pics of chimps and put then side by side with these images and the butts don’t match up. it does look like a primate. maybe a gorilla? i don’t know.
Neat.
Thank you for sharing.
Now, I might consider these photos to be a, “Sasquatch” — if you can produce evidence of hair samples, or foot prints, or claw markings, —something more !!.
Until then, Hummm …. ” Happy Halloween” !! …
It is a bear, just look at the feet in photo 3.
Not long and human like, nope short and stubbly like a bear.
Rob
Tyra the most common Chimp that would match up to this picture would be a Bonobo. They have longer limbs and not quite as pink of “butts”. Most males of both species don’t really have pink rears at all. They also walk upright more than the Common Chimp. Google bonobos they are pretty awkward looking things.
Rob I think you did it. Those are bear feet 99%. Not very big for a “Bigfoot”. Its still one creepy bear though.
Not a bear. Skunk Ape. No question. I am from Western Pennsylvania and there are times in the woods when the hair stands up on the back of your neck and you know something is watching you, but you don’t know what. Well, now you do.
Tyra, on October 29th, 2007 at 1:27 pm Said:
it can’t be a chimp you would be able to see they’re pink protruding butts. if you google pictures of chimps they have very noticiable butts that are pink and seem to pop out on these images his behind is black and hairy.
Tyra, what you are seeing is known in the zoological world as a “bad monkey” where due to poor diet and confinement, adverse medical conditions of the posterior develop. Forward thinking zoo-keepers closely monitor the fiber intake of primates, and provide open play areas and cushioned seating which mitigates the more profound manifestations of BM.
There can be only one explaination for this:
Slow newsday…..
Was in the trinity alps this last weekend at 3 am heard the loudest howl/scream only about 50 yards away across thre river no cows in the area and no bear makes this sound,Also how lucky only howl/scream Ive ever heard and so close. This thing really had some lungs. The pictures looks like something other than a bear “2&3″ Big ED
Good call Doc…this could have easily been set up by anyway, there are too many unanswered questions, like what is the bag doing there? where are other photos taken? One thing I can say for sure, it definitely is not a bear with mange, but possibly a man in a suit????
hmm makes you think, and creeps you out at the same time…
it’s not a bear. . . bears front and hind legs are approximately the same length. . . clearly whatever is in the pictures does not have the same length front and hind legs. . . . look at any picture of a bear with or without mange and you will see the legs are the nearly exactly the same length. . . i thought it could have been someone wearing a suit doing a hoax, but again the length of the legs make me wonder.
also, about the mange theory, if you look at the picture, the creature is covered in hair/fur whatever. . look up pictures of bears with mange and the poor things don’t have hardly any hair/fur on them at all. the only place that the creature in question doesn’t appear to have any hair is in picture 3 in the area where you normally find the armpit. . . behind the front left leg. . . . . weird
EDITOR’S WARNING!
There was a comment posted on this site by a Rick Jacobs “claiming to have released the video. They left a link. DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK! It will lead you to a Porn Spamming site. This is in NO WAY, SHAPE, or FORM related to Rick Jacobs or Jacobs Creature. I followed up on the comment..comments do show me email addresses. The email address in question is a known SPAM site and BANNED by AOL. Once Again, if you see a link posted by “Rick Jacobs” do not click! It is a fake and fraudulent site also infringing on copyright laws as well as identity theft. I have reported this site and hopefully it will be taken down and action will be taken.
I have deleted the one comment I have found, and don’t feel like it is worthwhile to put up the link. Families are reading this site and the outright use of this type of material is strictly forbidden.
Sorry, but these things happen from time to time. Luckily I found it and have banned them from posting on The Adventurist. Hope no damage was done. I try to do my best to moderate the comments being posted, but the shear number the last couple of days have made this a hard thing to keep up with.
Remember, I am watching. If you spam you will be reported and banned! This is a family friendly site. As far as stealing Mr. Jacobs identity and copywrited photo posted on the above mentioned site, I am sure the authorities will be looking into it.
At this point, I am not aware of the video of Jacobs Creature being released. Beware of any sites that claim to have one–and know that they might possibly lead you to Adult material. I am not saying a video won’t be released in the future, but at this time..it has not been made public.
Jason A. Hendricks
Editor
The Adventurist
It is the vigilance of folks like Jason that make the Internet a safer place. Kudos and thanks! If only there were Forest Rangers with the same diligence, especially in places like the wilds of Elk County, where for years hunters have gone ‘missing’. Were they victims of skullduggery (rival hunters, angry husbands, elite PETA patrols) or is there something else in the woods? These latest images, disturbing as they may be, raise important questions, not only for the wilderness traveler, but perhaps for the very origin of man himself. I will watch this story with one eyebrow raised, Spock-like, and hope that science can provide us all with an answer, and a safer place in the woods to vacation.
This a mother black bear with cubs. She is sick or has some kind of diease. I have hunted bear all my life and that is what these pics are.
Shawn Fowler
Bear hunter
Well…
a person can’t bend over like that…
the legs are straight….not bernding like a person would if picking something up.
The arms seem to be very long considering the
person is reaching while not bending his /her legs.
The waist area sorta has an outline of slacks or pants. if somebody blew this up they would see the sort of pockets showing through?
One of his pals may be pulling a fast one on him by making an elaborate costume it is near holloween after all.
Anyway…physically people can not bend like that you would need to be double jointed maybe?
Surely there should be face pics too how did the creature walk to that spot?
why only these few pics?
Also some daylight pics would be helpful or a lot of others from other angles with more than one camera set up..thanks..the mystery continues..
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I believe the “big foot” siting is a siting of someone (human) in a hunting suit….the black bag looks like a video camera bag or somehing similar to that.
I haven’t read every post but has anyone taken notice of the item in the foreground of each of the three pictures. The one of the bear cubs, in the foreground of that picture you can see one of the cubs at what appears to be a salt lick. In the pictures after that; that same square shape now has something sitting on top of it or proped against it appears to have some kind of handle on it…bag of some kind maybe. And in the 36 seconds that lapsed between pictures 2 & 3 that object did not move an inch. Wonder who left it there or what that happened to be…you can tell this is not a shadow.
Hoax
Chimps,baboons,and gorillas cant servive in these kinds of habitats. Jacob i think you stumbled onto something none of us are really prepared for. that is NOT A BEAR. If you have any other evidence or any other pictures i suggest you get prepared and get to the bottom of this and prove your story to be true on what that is. A SASQUATCH (BIGFOOT)
Not a hoax at all. If you had read every post it would have been clear, crystal clear. Also, REAL bear hunters have names like Gunter or Magnus. As game cameras with ever-higher resolution begin to permeate the market this yule season, I believe we will begin to see more sightings of the strange and elusive. Let the naysayers relax in their Barcoloungers and toss brickbats. The genuine seekers of truth will be lurking out in the woods with megapixels of truth to rebuke the critics. For them I say, Bravo!
I believe this is not a bear. I know it sounds crazy but I too saw a hairy being while hiking in Pennsylvania. My (now wife) and I witnessed this in 2003. I was describing this incident to a work associate who told me about the bigfoot web site. I made a (sighting) report nearly a year after the incident. A scientist returned my call, we played “phone tag” several times and he “gave up”. I decided to make another report. Still no call back. Also, I’d like to mention my favorite hobby since 1979 is bowhunting. I know what a bear looks like. This was not one.
although i do believe in bigfoot and have heard stories sightings in that area, i do have doubts about these pictures, such as: how did the bag get on top of the salt block in 28 minutes, what is the bag, where are the shots from between the 2 photos (although i don’t know how fast this trail cam fires)? I would like more info, but do find it fascinating, just want more info. Lets get more trail cams out there!
I know this particular subspecies, based its thinner upper body and the degree of its tilt. This is somewhat unusual for this area, due to the season- I would ewpect to see this around the greater Kentucky region this time of year. I only wish the quality were higher; a better look at hair texture could tell us more specifically what part it originated from.
Laurie, it looks like the playful cubs tipped the salt block over, and what you are seeing is the base. I don’t want to run afoul of posting regulations, but might suggest Googling “Salt Block Pan” for an image of what one typically sets a salt block atop to maximize its useful life. As far as trail cams go, most are motion activated, and have an interval between how often they can fire. I too would like to see the pictures in the interim, although it is quite possible there are none.
If you look at the pictures of the Skunk Ape on Google (again, just a quick search , look for the one where the creature is behind palm fronds) I think you will see eerie similarities between that and this Pennsylvania sighting. I may double-check the locks on the doors tonight!
That is clearly a picture of my ex-wife first thing in the morning.
Congrats Rick, I didn’t even know she remarried.
dualio–THANKS for pointing that out, it is so clearly now a salt block stand (we always used a stump for salt, never heard of a stand before) and now the photos make alot more sense! I will follow this with great interest, and i thank you , and also Rick jacobs for this. Keep those trail cams firing!
Laurie, the thoughts are appreciated but all credit must go to Rick for making this forum available and being unafraid to pursue the truth.
If this sighting can be verified, I porpose naming it: “Gigantopithecus Jacobus” in honor of our host.
this thing is definitely not a bear. If it is a sasquatch, it would have to be a juvinile. That is what I think it is. I reported a sightinotosg back in 1969. Only this one was about 8 or 9 ft tall. My story is on the bigfoot research site. As for the trail cameras, there are several time settings on them. anywhere from one minute apart to 10 or 20 minutes between each shot. Some can also be set to take up to 15 secs of video….
These are great photos. I may have to make a field trip…
I think it is not a bear, look at the girth of the hips and how long the arms are. Plus, its face has no muzzle like a bear. And it has long hair covering its body like chimps do. Maybe, somehow a chimp escaped from a nearby zoo or someplace?. But, we need more evidence before we start thinking there is a bigfoot in the area. And maybe there is a unknown creature something like a Bigfoot walking around Pa.
(that’s kind of CREEPY!)
Zoogirl, there are no conventional zoos in that neck of the woods, perhaps a petting zoo with a llama or alpaca, but nothing like what is in that picture. As I type this, sitting here in my office of solitude surrounded by the Pennsylvania countryside, I watch the waning gibbous moon hanging just above the eastern horizon and ask myself, “is the creature watching the very same thing?”
WELL there goes my bear and deer hunting season in Elk Co. Not going to catch me out in the wood with that “Monster”!! Scary!!!!
It’s OK little buddy, I got your back out there in the big woods. No monster going to harm my Bro!
I thought that Bigfoot was a biped
i do beleave that maybe the bear cubs or somthing knocked over the stand for the saltlick and there should be more pictures in the 28 min between the cubs and the other thing
chupacabra
Negatory on the Chupacabra. Temperature gets too cold up here and the Chupacabras (IF they exist) are as hairless as a chihuahua. Skunk Apes on the other hand are tres hirsute. Being the benificiary of Nature’s Capilene, they are optimized for just the sort of weather we are starting to have right now.
Little bit of a tangent: Every Monday after Thanksgiving is the first day of deer season and every year, without fail, there are cardiacs galore in the woods. Sure, some may be from overexertion and a sedentary lifestyle, but how many I wonder are due to literally being scared to death… by a skunk ape???
Ive been researching Bigfoot for years, and I’m an avid hunter. Ive never seen a bear like this in all my years of hunting. The first think I noticed in this picture is the long back legs on the creature in the 2nd and 3rd photos. Now, bears have the same length legs no matter if they have mange or not. And i read in a previous comment about the ears not sticking up like a black bear, which i noticed too. It definitely looks like a primate. as much as i would like an answer to these photos, I’m hoping it’s a Bigfoot. Cause it truly looks like one to me.
“Laurie, the thoughts are appreciated but all credit must go to Rick for making this forum available and being unafraid to pursue the truth.”
Actually, Rick Jacobs has had no part in this forum being created. I wrote the piece and linked back to his site because I was unable to come across contact info. I am not sure if he is aware of this, at this time. I have tried to be respectful in my coverage and obey all copywrite laws. All photos are the exclusive property of Mr. Rick Jacobs and I am adament about making sure that he is being given his proper due for the great photos, bringing Jacob’s Creature to light…
It has definately made us all think and rethink..
Cheers-
Jason A. Hendricks
Editor
The Adventurist
The 3rd picture shows the bear’s snout. It is lighter colored. People love conspiracy theories!
I take that back. What looks like a bear’s snout is really the inside of the front leg with fur missing. You can see the bear’s eyes though and make out the head in the 3rd picture. Definitely a bear!
Ok if he was there taking pics why didnt he take more?
coulda been a bear easily.
My first thought when I saw these pix on the BFRO site nearly a week ago was, “Are bears and bigfoots compatible?” As a biologist friend of mine opined, “I think momma bear would consider a juvenile Sasquatch a meal.
Interestingly, and according to the BFRO site, Mr. Jacobs has a total of seven photos from the trail cam and has retained a lawyer. He released only the three we see. This would leave one to believe that the other images may be even more convincing and he possibly expects to profit from them.
BTW, I mentioned to my wife after first viewing the images that it would only be a matter of days before they hit the national news. Last night I saw them and a related story on MSNBC. Someone’s earlier comment regards “a slow news day” was right on.
About a year ago I was scouting for the best place to hunt, which around my place is on the top of a steep incline. It is very close to a cliff. There is an old mineing pond at the bottom. I happened to glance over the edge and see what I had thought to be a bear. It was drinking out of the pond. I threw a small rock over the edge to spook it away. It stood up and ran on two legs over the hill on the other side. Immediatly after, I relized that although bears can stand on there hind legs they can’t run in this position. The pictures of this sighting are extremely similar to the sighting I had but are much closer. At first glance the photos might appear to be that of a bear however the legs and arms are to long. It would be next to impossible for a bear to achieve the kind of position that the creature in the photo is in. I believe that these photos are genuine and is definitly not a bear. I live in northern butler county PA and seeing photos that match what I had seen is enough proof to lead me to believe that these creatures deffinatly exist.
Ron s.
Twenty bucks says that little bigfoot can not lift that block and take it home
Interesting photo.I would hope he will allow the photos to be examined by experts in the field of photography.
My camp is in ridgway in the National forest. We have hunted the area for a long time and never seen anything like that. Certainly does not look anything like a bear. Hopefully more pictures are released or atleast a more detailed story as to whether there were tracks or not etc. If we never hear anyhting more about it I would have to imagine that it was a hoax. Hopefully we hear the results of the photograph studies and whatever else takes place in solving the case. The game commission response seems like a lazy one “mangy bear” why not say they are uncertain there is no way they or anyone can make that decision based on first look. And as far as exotic pets that is possible I remember some crazy animal from asia found on a guys porch in pittsburgh which turned out to be a pet that got out. But wouldnt a chimp or ape be closer to the town and seen again if it were raised by humans? If its a pet someone in Ridgway would have said something by know. You cant have a pet like that in a small town without everyone knowing about it.
Doesn’t it seem odd to any one that they have been seriously looking for Big foot since, 60’s-70’s and all we ever see is vage blurry photo’s?
A Dead Big Foot would we worth millions, it is suppose to be a pretty big animal and since rumors have been around for hundreds of years there would have to be a reasonable size breeding population.
Yet nothing but shitty video’s, I think an animal that large and a primate at that, would easy enough to hunt down and discover after 40+ years with trip cameras, night vision, air craft and big money.
My opion is a lot of Big foot lore recently maybe based on humans that have mental problems and have drifted off and live in the woods.
I’ve seen plenty of big hary guys that if they wandered off and lived in the forest for a couple of years, no bathing, mud and debree cacked to there skin, they might just look and act like Big Foot. Hey that was a ‘Simpsons’ episod.
ABSOLUTLY Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think its big foot mini me…..
I agree with Dennis. Anybody who knows or has studied the greater sasquatchal migration routes of PA/NY can easily explain these photos. Sasquatch/Squonk/Skunk ape are migratory and sightings always increase in this region this time of year. As to Karen’s observation, the reason that it is not in the greater Kentucky region may be because of the uncommonly warm autumn. This would also explain the unkempt appearing transitional phase between the summer and winter coat which this specimen is clearly displaying.
The pictures were not released right away because the game commission fought their release claiming it was game land the photos belonged to them.. As far as looking for footprints he didn’t know what he had till after they were developed someone noticed the pictures while going through them.. I believe there are the only 2 photos of this creature..
If you look at the second photo it looks like the animal sat down and looked at the camera as if it was trying to figure out what it was(after the first picture).. Do I think it’s bigfoot? Who knows, I just know that I live here and we have a TON of bears and I have never seen any that looked like this..
there were 2 bear cubs, the other pictures are a canine, possibly wolf or coyote, look closely… its from behind, there was an attack, the salt block in the foreground was turned over and the head that looks like a bear, is one of the cubs being held by the other animal. A lot of shadows from 2 light sources create illusion, and cause matrixing. But, if you look at the times, 20:04:23 shows the 2 cubs and the block upright…before the attack. 20:32:05 shows it standing with the legs going the same direction as the salt block which was overturned, and 20:32:41 shows where its moved to face straight, and the cub is down… It’s definitely not bigfoot or anything unordinary.
Those are weird. I was looking at number three and thinking could it be a large fury dog…but did anyone notice the position of the hand/paw in picture three….I mean when a bear or dog or wolf for that matter leans to scratch would the bend their paw back like that it looks like folded knuclkes.
Well, since no one was out there, I don’t know how JCS can state it is “definitely” not a big foot. There is always room for doubt.
Maybe the head is on the other end…it is hard for me to tell which way is which on the photo. I don’t know how anyone can see a cub being held by an animal, but ok….also, does anyone know if the supposed animals in question can even have legs that long! I mean those are long thick legs…the do look more human or like an ape…then dog legs…
There are 2 different light sources there though, one is coming up from the bottom left to the top right of the picture, the other is the flash bulb in the center of the camera, it’s creating 2 shadows on the same object making them appear larger. It’s harder to tell on a photo without color, but studying them, it can be seen.
I enlarged the pic as well as clarified it, and I don’t believe its a bear. Too many discrepencies, since I, myself, have seen bears up close. This definitely does NOT look like any bear. I was born and raised in PA and I recall a time when I lived in Jeannette, and our house sat along side a wooded area, that one night you could smell a strong odor of sulfer, and my parents, brothers and myself could swear up and down we had seen something ‘unhuman’ in the woods just below our house. It was reported a few days later that there was a sighting of “BigFoot” and described that it gave off an odor of sulfer. So who knows.. maybe it really is…….. easier to say it was just a bear than face the fact that Big Foot could actually exist.
Looks to me like a bear with mange, and a large tumor or stuck cub. Its left rear leg is extended because of the growth (makes the limb look much longer than it really is). First photo is left side of bear (head down near treee and “growth” that looks like a leg), second photo shows bear from the rear with growth underneath.
One thought that always seems to happen when reputed shots of mythical beasts are taken is that they are always out of focus, or fuzzy, or too dark, etc.
Same thing here.
Why does photographic skill seem to completely disappear in these instances?
I like turtles
after looking at the pictures…
it looks like a panther to me…
The reason the pictures are fuzzy is because mythical beasts give off a peculiar amout of heat . No one is quite sure why they do, but it is a fact albeit a little known one. Not even the most skilled photographer can over come this problem.
It is most definitely a Bigfoot in transistion.
For all of you who are wondering why there are so few pictures. The trail cameras (what the photographer used) all have delays set in them. They generally run from 15 seconds to 1 minute between photo’s. Sometime longer depending upon how it is set up by the owner. I use one everytime i scout a new hunting spot to track activity of the animals in the area. I have captured pictures of all sorts of animals in my time in the woods and have seen many weird happenings and have to say that these are defiantely primates of some species known or unknown. Excellent pictures though.
The pieces are beginning to fit together now. With the recent recovery of a chupacabra carcass in South Texas (Cuero), it seems pretty clear that we have a single species of creature, with subspecies in different parts of the Americas.
The northern subspecies, sometimes called “Sasquatch”, is covered in fur. It’s southern cousin is nearly hairless.
DNA testing will tell the whole story once a northern specimen is brought in. In all likelihood, a fair amount of extraterrestrial DNA will be present. Whether this is the result of deliberate hybriding experiments by extraplanetary visitors, or the result of one of their own animals mating with a terrestrial species remains to be seen.
For those of you that don’t know, along with The Adventurist, I am also the Editor of the Outdoor Recreation and Climbing areas over on Topix. I recently put up a poll on the site asking “Is Bigfoot Real?” http://www.topix.com/forum/outdoors/T5RSUK208GSTJVC7H
An amazing 60% of people have said that Bigfoot could exist..or Does Exist. Only 25% of those that have taken the poll said a flat-out “no”. I just thought these were some interesting statistics and thought I would share.
Jason A. Hendricks
Editor
The Adventurist
Hmm….looks like a chimp. I don’t know what a chimp would be doing there, but considering that monkeys have been lost in transit in such states as Florida seems a possible explanation for it. Or maybe bears are evolving? Who knows? Should be looked in to though…..
you have to look close at the 3rd picture it appears to be kneeling on the back right leg and the front paw seems to be turned inward(doesn’t look like a bears paw).. If you look really close you can see the eyes, nose and ears.. The pictures are blurry because they weren’t taken by anyone but a motion camera and the person who took them didn’t look for prints because he didn’t know he had the photos till after they were developed..
If it’s a sick bear I’m REALLY glad I don’t drink the water around here lol..
There is no way this is a black bear! The game commission told us that coyotes are just german shepards, and mountain lions are just house cats and now sasquatch is just a bear!
They are the most dishonest government agency out there.
It’s def. a bear…the one image is a bear looking towards the camera you can see its right and left leg and its eyes if you look close enough…its very blurry and dark….. (others see bigfoots bending back)…the other photo is like 30 seconds before or after and it’s harder to tell its a bear, but it’s facing the tree…it’s not like the bear dissapeared and sasquatch appeared 30 seconds later…I’m a believer of bigfoot, but even I must admit this IS NOT a bigfoot
10-4 on the game commission giving this the brush-off, although I would contend that PennDOT or the PA Gaming Commission are the most dishonest. The PA Legislature is in a league of their own, but I digress.
Back to the Skunk Ape, the sulfurous smell could be indicative of poor diet, perhaps from foraging through garbage. I have to tell you that the thought of going out to throw something in the trash can and seeing a skunk ape there dining on half-eaten pierogies and haluski is unsettling at best. I suspect when eating their normal diet (whatever that might be) that they leave less of a vapour trail.
This got me to thinking, I live in Gettysburg, PA and this brought to mind an event that happened to me and my husband while out on the battlefield on night. While walking on a path to a monument, we both heard a most frightening growl off to our left in the darkness. It sounded very very large. It was a deep and very menacing growl and seemed to come from our level or just above. It was not a dog, certainly…and down here we just don’t get all that many bears. As a matter of fact, I’ve never seen a bear in my life, plus in this busy military park, SOMEONE would surely have noticed a bear. When we heard the growl, we froze in terror…… and waited, it was late fall and we heard no twigs breaking or leaves rustling, no movement at all….and just this one growl. We continued up to the monument, took some night photos and left. It never growled again, nor did it move……..always wondered what it could have been. WHAT exactly IS a sasquatch????
This could be a chimp, perhaps a bear, but i doubt either one simply because of the pelvis and leg lengths. there is a fellow who photo-sopped a bear in the same position, even wiping a tree through the photo for comparison. it still amply shows the ‘creature’ has MUCH longer legs, and forearms, and a much shorter neck, and upper arm.
I would like to point out some recent finds in the world of cryptozooology, which any person may google, and satisfy themselves that smug ‘we would have found it by now’ attitudes, show a real lack of intelligence concerning the whole field of biology.
Let us start with the Gorrilla. most people assume that once the almighty human species wants something, it can be found; however, it took many years to find this relatively slow, and stupid creature, which by the way, had a few skins and skeletons floating around for years, before it was finally accepted by the nay-saying public. This is within the last 150 years.
The panda, took an immense effort and was not officially ‘accepted’ until less than 100 years ago, and this is an incredibly slow, and stupid creature compared to a hominid.
The tallest animal in the world is the giraffe no?
Have you heard of its brother, the Okapi????
Most ‘educated people’ have not. Even though it is nearly as large as it’s plains-dwelling brother, this ‘forest-giraffe’ was not discovered untill the last 80 years, and is relatively unknown to most people, even when it sitting in a zoo in front of them.
The giant colossal squid sounds like a childs’ invention, but it really exists, and is really not fair to throw in hear because of it living in the sea, but while we are at it, the coelacanth, is always touted because it was presumed to be extinct for 60 million years or so.
And to return to these blurry pictures of the ‘Pennslyvania what-is-it’; Jacobs has more photos, I hear, and has retained a lawyer.
Good for him. He has exhibited considerable huevos in exposing his life to the taunting TV-educated masses, if he has done this for a hoax, the other photos may show this, on the other hand…. he may have attained tantalizing evidence of the creature that SHOULD be the hardest to capture, on film, or otherwise.
A rational person would concede that the alleged bigfoot creature would have the largest brain of any wild creature, as a matter of course- because of it’s being a hominid. Combine that intelligence with night-vision, a sense of smell far exceding ours, and a hide that is thick enough to allow it to run at speeds far beyond ours, especially through thick brush we balk at.
And don’t forget this is not a recent phenomenon. The natives of all countries on earth, describe the EXACT SAME CREATURE. And if you scoff at Natives listen to the stories of our own pioneers and prospectors, who for hundreds of years have been reporting sighting, and even shooting, a similar beast that has the temerity to have size and stamina enough to withstand all comers, even a deer-rifle toting human.
Do I have an axe to grind? Yes! I have seen this ugly, scary, unbelieved creature, and so have others I know. I feel sorry for Jacobs, even if his unreleased photos are very clear, and hard to refute.
Google ‘homo florensis’, and you will see that even with a skeleton to pass around, this poor bastard is in for it.
If this is not a hoax, I salute Jacobs, as well as pity him.
its not a bag in the foreground ya idiots. the bear tipped over the salt lick… revealing a black base. not a bag, but instead a tipped salt lick.
I live about 3 miles from Rick Jacobs. I heard about these photos a couple weeks before this became popular. My one coworker’s mother knows the Jacobs family. One day he was telling everyone about these weird pictures on this guy’s camera, and how he was in the process of reporting it to BFRO. Details were sketchy, but I thought it was pretty interesting. I had no idea it would get this big. However, I thought the guy must have been serious about the photos since he went to his lawyer to make sure he had rights to them. I have fished and hunted in the area where this happened and it is very rural. A lot of people have been mentioning escaped monkeys. I don’t know. This area is about 100 miles away from any zoo, and it has some of the coldest temps in PA during winter, so this beast would have to be very hardy. I try hard to keep an open mind about things. I simply can’t be arrogant enough to say that some kind of unidentified, and elusive primate does not exist in the forests of North America. I have bowhunted this area for many years and have noticed bears, at times, at close range. I am not a bear expert, but I have watched them feeding and smelling deer trails. I have never seen one sniffing the ground in the manner shown in photo 3. They simply bend their heads down. Also, in the photos 2 and 3 I don’t see a tail. Bears are supposed to have little tails. I also see no protruding ears, and ears are very apparent on a black bear. There is also no muzzle. The limbs are long and the body isn’t proportioned correctly for a bear.
There is disbelief about PA mountain lions also. The PA game commission completely denies their existence, except for an escaped pet now and again. There have been too many sightings by credible witnesses for this to be possible. I know two witnesses. Just because we don’t see these things everyday doesn’t mean that they do not exist.
The picture in question, definitely looks like a Chimpanzee to me.
Has anyone gone there and tried to take hair samples from the area to determine the genetic makeup of this animal. I believe that would be the first route any scientific mind would use. As much as it looks to be frolicking it must have left some hair samples on the trees or ground there or near there.
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I think this is so awesome……..sure it’s probably a bear wearing a coat from a yard sale….I wonder if it knows that winter is coming?? ha ha, just kidding..
Anyway, There you go Mr Stephen King……I believe it’s time for another Bigfoot movie…..!!
This has been really fun can’t wait for the next pictures. LATER Big Ed
Im sure everyone knows that there are no primates in Puerto Rico right? Wrong, although there are no primates native to PR there are indeed chimps running wild in PR, Ive seen them and I have plenty of friends that have seen and taken clear pictures of them, I hear they got loose from a testing site somewhere in PR or on a small island that the locals call “Monkey Island” Ive been told that the wild chimps have been living and breeding in the jungles of PR for some time now, not only that but there is also a troup of primates living wild in Texas, so for a chimp to be photographed in Northwestern Pennsylvania is really not an impossibility.
If there is a chimp running wild in P.A. How is going to fare out in the cold weather this winter? Chimps are not cold weather animals and are indeed a mostly tropical animal found in locations slightly above and south of the equator. It’ll die in P.A.’s cold winters.
Its some sort of monkey. For all the people that think its a little bigfoot need to pull there head outta there ass. Bigfoot lol no such thing people stay off the drugs.
Jason, that is not a monkey, not even a bad monkey, although it might have one, but I digress. You must spend some time out in the hinterlands, and by that I mean Elk county and surrounding environs, and do so ALONE, and then, only then, can you make such a statement.
There are things in the woods up there that we are not aware of, ask any old timer.
definately small bigfoot, look at the long legs there is no way that is a bear. compare it to the other pic.
I believe it is a young bigfoot…. the shape and size just doesn’t match a chimp…..Will you let us know what the experts decide, and publish more photos of it if possible.
I was so really wanting it to be bigfoot. It is just such a great story, and if it were finally true! WOW!
But unfortunately Chris had to ruin my fun with a picture of a bear with mange.
http://www.terrierman.com/mangeinblackbearflorida.jpg
Yeah.. that looks pretty much dead on
We’ll get you next time Bigfoot! Next time!!
On further inspection, maybe the “head” in the 3rd picture is one of the cubs?
The salt lick is on a salt lick holder, which when it was knocked over, is what everyone is seeing, the bottom of it. It isn’t a bag. Second that is a bear with mange, if you look really close at the first pic you can see ears. And the third picture looks like he is rubbing the top of his head on the ground. I have seen them do this before. And as far as having hair and mange, if he just got the mange there are going to be spots of hair yet until it all falls out. BEAR WITH MANGE!! Been in this part of PA all my life and have hunted for 20 years I know what a bear with mange looks like and this is it. Just looks funny the way the pictures are angled!!
I was discussing this very issue at length with some folks at Dirty Ehrma’s in Brookville (just down the road from Elk County) and also a few Emergency response people and all agree there is something out in the woods in North Central PA.
Think about it, all the extreme searching being done over all these years for bigfoot and nothing! Of course as long as there is talk about it, people are going to think there maybe one out there. And when they see things in the woods, their minds can play tricks on them. I could be totally wrong and it would be kind of neat if I am, BUT until I see a dead one or proof of hair samples, I think it is just a figment of everyones imagination and people would like it to be true. Who knows, there are lots of things out there that no one knows about yet, but saying this is bigfoot in these pics that clearly looks like a bear with mange is crazy. Ok all you people that have seen one, shoot it next time so we can all see it!! I totally agree about the game commission not telling the truth about coyotes and mountain lions though!! We DO have them here and I for one have seen a moutain lion on a few occasions right here in my backyard!! And I’m not the only one seeing them!! As far as coyotes, you can hear them howling at night and see them running in groups around here and have even seen dead ones that hunters have shot. So these are 100% out there!
I’m from Clearfield County and go to Elk County quite often, there are vast forests up there and anything is possible, but I don’t think that is it!!
Maybe it is a skunk ape with mange.
Local reaction (including a woman from Clearfield County) on the mysterious enigma:
http://www.wpxi.com/video/14449589/index.html
Is it some sort of a cat? Some area residents are puzzled.
Well for a reply to robs comment about the feet,I noticed that also,but if your as an experienced hunter as my family and I who hunt for a living and pretty much live right in the forest, I have seen tons of bears,and that looks in 2 ways like a bear, the back looks like its slightly hunched in both pictures,and the black coat. Now for some more things that are interesting,look at how long the arms are? and look at the feet,they seem strangely human,as does its stature.also take a look at the skin,and something i realized quite recently, ears….if it had mange you would see the ears,and even if it didnt have mange,were are the ears? now take a look at a picture of a gorilla, the ears are almost inside the head.But the thing with the gorilla is that its shape and size is off. but anyways,my thought is that its a crossbreed between a gorilla and a bear. Which if by a chance there are a zoo near the area that the picture was taken,they could have had a misshap and tried to hide it.or it can be a natural deformation that occurs world wide with bears. The answer is in the hands of the evidence.Good luck,sincerely, Ethan Wiley.
It is a chimpanzee.. People smuggle them in as pets.. And then when they get too big to handle.. They drive them out into the woods and just leave them there. It is a big problem all over the world.
The anatomy is consistent with an adult chimpanzee as well.
It is no big foot.. And no bear.
I,ve seen the only chimp that walked up right hour long TV show and that chimp could not straiten out his lower legs. Big Ed
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