The Sleeping Bag Bigfoot - A Treatment by Phil Poling

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Phil Poling, proud member of TeamTazerBigfoot. You can visit his YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/supersoylent2 or his breakdown channel at www.youtube.com/user/ParaBreakdown.

In regards to the fiasco now referred to by many as the sleeping bag Bigfoot, there has been much to do about the lack of information from the Extreme Expeditions camp. Regardless of what the ‘unknown creature’ might be, I had thought that the basis for the investigation would have been the confirmation from the source; this being the camera.

What Mr. Adam Davies and friends had essentially done with the photo evidence is to look at it without understanding it. It was obvious that the date/time stamp was wrong but that was about as far as they got. To understand or confirm why this had happened, they sent this information to The “Journal of the Bizarre” for scientifical type evaluation. The Journal confirmed that the camera had reverted back to its manufactured default settings. When asked about these settings on the Extinct Podcast last Sunday, Mr. Davies said that all of that information was available on EE’s website and the Journal’s. But that was not the case. The only other opinion offered by the Journal was in regards to the ‘thing’ in the photo and to that, they had no explanation.

So why are the camera settings so important?

Because this is the first piece of real and verifiable evidence available. We can guess and surmise as to what the ‘creature’ is but evidence is firm, testable and verifiable. And here is what I had discovered;

Introducing, the ltl Acorn Outdoors Model 5210A Scouting Camera. This camera was manufactured in 2009. This matches the Date stamp on the images and this is confirmation that it was reset to default settings. I agree. The camera was operating on its default setting throughout the night in the EE campsite.

This is quite the little camera! It’s a digital camera that uses IR illuminators that can aid in capturing night time photographs and video. What’s really impressive about this camera are the sensors.

These sensors operate off of the target’s heat signature and used to operate the camera’s trigger. On a recent podcast, Mr. Davies referred to the ‘creature’ as not being human because of its solid coloring. He equated this due to the lack of hot and cold spots due to a sleeping bag or clothing. The thing is; it’s not a thermal camera, it’s a digital camera. Where he could be confused is in the use of the heat sensors.

This camera has side sensors called prep sensors that reads a target’s heat signature. This reads an area out to 120 degrees from center image. What we see is about 50 degrees from center so this is a great advantage in capturing approaching wildlife. These prep sensors basically awaken the camera to get ready to take the shot when the target enters the visual frame. And this it does very well. Once in view it can read and trigger as quickly as 0.2 seconds.

However; in the case of the campsite, the camera probably placed itself into sleep mode to save on battery power.

In sleep mode, the prep sensors are off. The PIR sensors that face forward are in operation. In this mode, the camera can detect power on and shoot the photo all within 1 second.

Therefore, the first shot would have happened within one second of this ‘creature’ being detected by the sensor.

So what are the odds of something NOT being caught by this camera before it gets to the table? I would say the chances are slim to none.

If the activity is still being sensed, this camera, after the initial photo, will operate in a kind of grazing mode, taking one photo every minute.

This is done to save space on the memory card. This is evident on the series of shots within the camp with human activity. This can also be affected by the visual size and heat signature of the target. Heavy clothing or blankets can affect the sensitivity as well as lack of movement.

The question of the video is troublesome. It doesn’t appear to be taken by the ltl Acorn camera. The date/time stamp, although the same is in yellow and there is no ltl acorn stamp on the left. I don’t know if this is normal for that camera but we do know that the ltl Acorn camera was set to default mode. The video doesn’t record in default mode. Also; the default for video is stated as 10 sec record time, not 1 second. If the camera had been recording stills and video then it would have done so on every event, including all the human activity in camp and would have done so for 10 seconds at a time. So now we have questions as to whether another camera was used and whether the camera was set up for 1 sec and how many videos it recorded and why these have not been presented.

It looks like there is some information not being offered in EE’s “full disclosure”.

Regardless of this, we do know one thing. Whatever it was the camera caught sitting by the picnic table, more than likely - based upon real evidence – it was already there.

Phil Poling

EE's Q&A site here http://www.extreme-expeditions.net/unknown-creature-washington-state