In the Shadows – Skepticism - Article 28
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After the Memorial Day Expedition is over, the review of audio, video and thermal evidence is the next phase of an expedition. This review may take upwards of two months to do, with the audio being reviewed in minute-by-minute playback, so that nothing is missed.
But here is where the biggest skillset needed by researchers come into play, skepticism. A large percentage of new folks coming into the Bigfoot Community do not employ this vital skill, instead, believing everything that is posted online is Bigfoot, or Bigfoot did it. This really dilutes the evidence that is presented that has been thoroughly vetted through multiple processes to rule out everything that could have been the culprit in the evidence, and even then, those researchers who have been in the Bigfoot Community for years, know that when you have ruled everything else out, only then, can you say possibly or probably that it may have been Bigfoot.
As researchers, even the Patterson-Gimlin Film of a possible Bigfoot walking across a creek bed can only be described as possibly, as there are so many unanswered questions, and the sole survivor of the two men who witnessed the actual event is now the only person who can recall the events surrounding the scene. Not to say that Bob Gimlin is lying, but even in a court of law, one witness is not truly enough to convict a person alone.
When I listen to the audio, and hear what may possibly be a wood knock, I listen to the audio loop several times, and the before and after audio, to see if it’s possibly a gun shot, vehicle backfire or even kids out banging on something. Taking the audio from other recorders in the area at the time and comparing the audio time frame with the recordings that those devices recorded, we can either eventually rule out the knock as being any of the aforementioned items, and then we can say, it was a wood knock. But did Bigfoot make the wood knock? No, we can’t say that, only that it’s possible that maybe a Bigfoot did that. Why you ask? Because we have no evidence to back up that Bigfoot does wood knocks, there is no video, photographic or witnesses that can back up the theory that Bigfoot does wood knocks.
So in the end, if you want to go looking for Bigfoot, you need to keep a healthy dose of skepticism in your corner, not everything you will come across is Bigfoot-related, if it’s in the realm of being created by other creatures in the woods, or even humans, then it’s best to err on the side of caution and try to debunk your evidence until you have no other option than to say, it’s possibly made by Bigfoot.