Steven Streufert Explores The World of Bigfoot Pareidolia
Humans have a face-recognition software built in our brain that allows us to recognize anything that vaguely resembles a face. Sometimes our brain works too hard in trying to identify exactly what it is we're looking at by trying to make some sense out of it. When the human brain takes things too far and sees faces in shapes and familiar objects, psychologists call this pareidolia.
Some examples of pareidolia are seeing a rabbit or man's face on the moon, an image of George Washington on a McNugget, seeing Donald Trump's hair on a ball of yarn, or seeing blobsquatches and Bob Gimlin's face in the trees behind Patty in the Patterson-Gimlin film.
In Steven Streufert's new blog post, he writes about this strange phenomena in the world of Bigfoot. One photo Steven posted came from Jon-Erik Beckjord, the great "Granddaddy of all of this Blobsquatchery":
He was noted for progressively odd theories about the Bigfoot creatures and the Patterson-Gimlin film as a particular example. He was featured in an article called IS BIGFOOT FROM OUTER SPACE. As he aged, so his theories proliferated into the paranormal. There is a possibility that he was some kind of great Visionary, but I think parsimony suggests that there was some kind of mental illness going on as the years went by. Pareidolia may be fun, but delusional mental illness is not, especially for those others subjected to it, like Tara and Loren. He was known to appear at Bigfoot conferences wearing an "ET" grey alien mask in his later years.
Here is an example of some of the things that Beckjord saw in the PGF. It would seem that Beckjord was the creator, or at least the primal propagator, of the notorious "Red Circle." Below are some "baby Bigfoots," and other hidden Bigfooty presences he found in the bushes behind the film subject. He seems to have been an influence on MK Davis' work looking into the Patterson Film, as well. Before his website went down after his death, Beckjord displayed many an early MK image on there.
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| Early examples of the "Blobsquatch." Ignore the humanoid figure in the right foreground---that is just an alien robotic android being. Click to Enlarge. |
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LOL! "Blob" Gimlin? Awesome!!
ReplyDeletelol look at that horrendous suit
ReplyDeleteTroll at 12:54...if it's so horrendous why has this film still not been disproven, despite analysis by film industry experts such as Bill Munns? Even if you don't believe it's really Bigfoot, saying the suit is ridiculous is an idiotic statement. Go make your own that looks remotely similar to this and you can then come on here and make such a statement. Now the "replica" that Phillip Morris made, since he was the great creator of the original, that was ridiculous.
Deletelol bill munns, the guy that decided it was a bigfoot before he even analysed it and then his whole analysis is bias to say that its real, no comments from him on all the flaws in the suit
DeleteHasn't been disproven? When was it proven to be real? You can't start at "It's real. Now prove that it's not." when you're talking about something that hasn't been proven to exist otherwise.
Deletehighroad there is no place here for sensible logic and reasoning on this blog, such things are dismissed
DeleteDid I say anything about it being proven real? What flaws do you want to point out? As believers in at least the authenticity of this video, we point out the musculature, the gait, the facial features. In addition, the tracks from the scene were analyzed by Jimmy Callicut, a respected finger print analyst who has worked with the FBI and DEA. He found intricate details in the prints, including a healed scar. If finger prints can implicate criminals, why can't it be accepted as evidence (I said evidence not proof) of a Sasquatch?
DeleteHzy; there were no dermal ridges found in the Patterson tracks. Check out the thread on BFF "Pattys Feet and the Footprints"
DeleteBFF=Loserville.
DeleteBeckjord was crazy, Moneymaker is a crack head, Patterson was a swindler, Tim Fasano is a naked freak, Ketchum is a liar, blah blah blah. Just another normal day in Bigfoot land
ReplyDeleteYou forgot the most (to us) obvious ... "...and I am a paradigm locked, closed minded squatchophobe" lol. With one caveat... Moneymaker IS a crack head.
DeleteGood job guys. If we make just one bleaver come back to reality we can feel good about that. Kind off like digging deep for "Jerry's kids" on labor day.
ReplyDeleteListen to the JREF closet bleever footer..LOL
DeleteThis asshole is playing the skeptic role because he thinks it makes him look like less of a moron for having a Bigfoot obsession.
Patterson was the luckiest con-man alive... Can you believe it, a huckster sets out to make a living from bigfoot stories, and he's the only person in history to catch a clear shot of one on film. What a fortunate coincidence!
ReplyDeletePatterson was a visionary. The fact that he had a drawing of BF in his book that looked uncannily like the BF he later filmed, tits and all, proves that he was on the cutting edge of BF research.
DeleteEveryone that believes in or claims to have seen Bigfoot has a mental illness, I call it functional schizophrenia. There's probably another clinical term for it though. Cognitive dissonance works too, but this type of delusional behavior goes far beyond that.
ReplyDeleteBullshit, they aren’t mentally ill. Bigfoot believers engage in denial of reality as a way of life. Some call it denialism, but I call it being a stupid asshole. The believers want to imagine that they are smarter than mainstream scientists and that they have some kind of special knowledge that others don’t. It lets them pretend that they aren’t just a bunch of degenerate redneck retards. Quit trying to excuse their behavior as “mental illness”. It isn't mental illness it's self delusion.
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