A forum post mentioned an analysis of this photo, showing that it was of an unknown Salamander-like creature. The photo itself is blurry beyond belief, you cannot really tell what the photo shows, but within 15 posts someone mentions how it was "proven" the photo was of a dog in the water with a stick in it's mouth. Then 15 posts later, one person had the guts to say "most of us know it's a dog!". The problem with this explanation is that the photo is so blurry, you can't tell WHAT it is! The "Dog" explanation was set up by copying and pasting a dog into the photo, and somehow the features match up, but the theory doesn't hold water. Another blog debunked the dog theory totally, and their points completely destroy this theory which was concocted by saying a black spot on the photo was a dog's eye. The issue is that there are many versions of this photo and only one shows this feature, notice the photos below. One shows a big black dot and the other one doesn't. The dog theory proponents are using this to "prove" it was a dog?
The issue is that neither of these photos show a wake behind the supposed "dog" and that the big shadow beneath the large creature is purposely mistaken for a stick in the "dog"'s mouth, even though it's clear in these photos it's just a shadow! And it's painfully obvious from the top photo, which is much blurrier than the bottom one, that the "eye" of the dog is a blurred feature of the photo. The clearer bottom photo doesn't show it at all.
But this one case is not the only things the skeptics have attacked with their nonsense.
A newer bigfoot video has another stupid fake explanation associated with it. The video, taken in the River Mckenzie (In Oregon), by fly fishers, shows a possible Bigfoot. Like the Loch Ness photo above, you really cannot tell just what it is. But the skeptics decided to post a skeptical analysis saying it was a tree stump based on some artifacting it supposedly shared with another video. The only problem with the "tree stump" explanation is that the "bigfoot" actually turns to the left in the said video, which you can watch here. There is no way a "tree stump" would do this. But the skeptics all explain it with something that fails to explain it in the worse way possible, making them all look like dumb asses in the process! Now I'm not trying to say this video shows bigfoot, it doesn't. Like I said earlier, you can't even tell what it is! It probably is a bear standing up and turning left while on it's Hind legs. But it's no tree stump
But even worse, is the report of a Skunk ape video found here. The video shot by a hunter, shows an ape creature banging on wood, and it cuts out after a while and ends with the hunter running away. The fact that the hunter did not shoot the Skunk ape, the fact he didn't zoom in on the ape, and the fact he ran away was proof for 15 or more posters to say it was a hoax. There have been many reports of violent activity by skunk ape's that were sighted in the southeast and this would be the best thing to do, as a gun shot barely fazed on of them in one report. But to the idiot skeptics that is "proof" the video is fake? I quote: "Jesus christ I cannot believe people are taking this laughable attempt at a swamp ape hoax video seriously. You're a moron if you don't believe in shooting it to prove it exists. What makes this animal somehow exempt from the same fate mountain gorillas had? Blow it away I say." See the idiocy on this forum?
The forum gets worse people, It gets worse. A youtube video talked about in a threat (which is here) shows a weird humanoid, yet quadrupedal animal run across a highway in England at night. The animal clearly has back legs like a human that bend like ours and not the opposite way like deer do. Why am I bringing deer up. Well dozens of people on the forum all said "it's a deer" even though it's legs are totally wrong! It's incredibly stupid skepticism here, apparently. It was "proven" to be a fake later as well, with no actual proof needed. Just "It looks like CGI, so it's a fake!" That's not smart skepticism, that's stupidity. Their proof was another video that looked fake done by the same youtube person. They used this to "prove" it was fake?
In another video, that may or may not be a hoax, a bigfoot was filmed in Canada. The person got close up footage of it, and the people on the forum used the fact he wore "crock" shoes and filmed the trees instead of the bigfoot as proof. Yes, what shoes he wore is proof to these "dumbass" skeptics.
Another person said "it's fake because his face looks like a hoaxers face!". It gets worse people. Another quote from another person is even worse : "Why doesn't he release the complete and unedited video? I call this BS!"
It gets worse folks. A poster on youtube uploaded a video of a bigfoot. Whether it is fake or not I don't know. But immediately everyone thought it was a man in a suit. There was no "i'm thinking it was a fake" it was "It must be fake!". One person even said "she is wearing sandals, FAKE!" I'm not joking. But it gets even worse.
"This film is so fake,it is just another attempt to throw a fake film into the mix of films of bigfoot.Everyone can tell that the fake bigfoot was some stupid brat kid in a costume.Now if those kids were mine and they did this crap they would be eating the film camera and would not be able to sit down for a year,I think they should be horse whipped till their skin is ripped from their bodies and be band from ever even owning a camera but thats just me,I am a crule when it comes to liers and cheats and thieves,Still everyone knows this is a fake film and I ask myself why do they let people post this crap on this site? I think we all should be asking this question."
This vulgar rant condones child abuse, choking and torture. And is filled with misspellings. Just shows you the stupid skeptics all over the site now. Now later on the video in question turned out to be a hoax. I am not debating that. I am debating the supposed reason people accuse a video of being faked. The reasons make no sense. Once actual proof is found, that's one thing. But rarely did that even happen. Only once did they PROVE it was fake (this video). The rest was just them accusing the video author of faking it with no proof.
Another post was made by a guy who saw a thunderbird. One person later on said "I think we're being tricked here, this person has done a runner", like the person who originally posted never posted again. That's not proof it's fake, but it was to them?
Another post was talking about a video showing some unknown creature being filmed in a body of water in Northern Ireland. The person filming it had a person in front of him on a boat wearing a suit. Immediately everyone in the post said it was a hoax due to this. WTF?
Another post was talking about a very convincing photo of an Alien Big Cat in England. A whole bunch of people started saying it was a photo of a dog. Even though dogs don't have pointed ears like the photo showed. Sure some have pointed ears, but their to sharp of an angle. Someone else said "It's a hoax because only one photo was taken!" Some of the stupidity on this site is brain melting.
One really annoying thing that keeps happening on the forum, is the repetitive posts by one individual who keeps saying "this cryptid photo/video like all others is just a whale filmed at a different angle" even though the photo in question ALWAYS looks NOTHING like a whale. It's a really stupid thing I've seen over and over again. If it's a joke, then it's one thing, but if this poster actually believes this is the truth, then he is a fool.....
When I used to read the forum regularly, this stuff did not happen. This was back in 2007 and before. Something changed since then. The open minded posters are mostly gone. I don't know where they went. They've been replaced by hardcore skeptics. If I didn't know better, I'd suspect this was some takeover from some skeptic minded site like Skeptoid. It's really sad. These hardcore skeptics are dumb as a rock and make up "proof" that can't explain the thing and assume everything is fake without thinking it through first. They will even say to witnesses posting on the forum that they saw something "You made it all up" or "you're hoaxing it!". This stuff did NOT happen back in 2005 and before. There were so many believers on the forum then it wasn't funny. Now it's all hardcore skeptics with no braincells left. It's really quite disgusting.
