Ranchita, California Wood Ape: Mystery Solved?

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Photo credit: Hannah Steinert

Editor’s Note: Jonathan Poulsen is a cryptozoologist with a mere four years experience. But what he lacks in time he has made up for in progress.

Back in 2011, an alleged photograph of a Sasquatch was taken by an anonymous person hiking near Ranchita, California. The person claimed that they did not see the "creature" when the original picture was taken (which is a rather dubious claim). While scouring the internet for photos of silver-back gorillas that might match the heatedly debated Wood Ape photo from southern California, I came across this (image above). Case closed?

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  1. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:02:00 PM PDT

    He's right the pictures are almost identical...

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    1. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 9:01:00 PM PDT

      lol... agreed. WTF is this "case closed" business? I don't think the wood ape photo is a bigfoot, but come on... I think we all knew it could possible be a normal ape already (or statue, or photoshop job, or....)

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  2. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:09:00 PM PDT

    Huh, WTF? "I came across this"....what??? This post makes no sense at all.

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    1. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:23:00 PM PDT

      agreed!

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    2. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:57:00 PM PDT

      This was published here last week. I think it was pretty much exposed for what is was at the time. http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2012/09/possible-wood-ape-photo-from-ranchita.html

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  3. themanfromtatooineMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:13:00 PM PDT

    Has any primatologist seen that picture? I'd like to know.

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  4. Jellybean SmurfMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:15:00 PM PDT

    Embedding disabled by request? Not very blog friendly.

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  5. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:22:00 PM PDT

    I thought there was no discovered ape known in North America. Now they are acting like its no big deal?

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  6. SteveMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:26:00 PM PDT

    So what your saying is nothing?

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  7. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:40:00 PM PDT

    case closed for me....next...

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  8. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:50:00 PM PDT

    As Blondie pointed out when this was first posted here, the guy who put this out (in video form) has also released a video of apes in a zoo. Look under Mark Anders on youtube

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  9. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 1:53:00 PM PDT

    There were also a few posts that pointed out the photoshoping in the picture. I thought is was pretty much solved then.

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  10. bigfoots imaginary broskiMonday, September 24, 2012 at 2:00:00 PM PDT

    This guy is less than a hour away from two of the most famous zoos in the world. San Diego Zoo and the Safari Park in Escondido. Google pictures of the Gorillas in the parks. Pretty easy to figure out after you see the pics.

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  11. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 2:02:00 PM PDT

    Yeesh, this was obvious to most people when it was first posted so how can you close a case when it was already closed for the majority, are you living in a parallel dimension that is somehow behind our timeline.

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    1. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 9:04:00 PM PDT

      Please don't drag that supernatural parallel dimension timeline nonsense into this serious study of the Woody Ape Peoples.

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  12. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 2:16:00 PM PDT

    Never was a "mystery" Shawn.

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  13. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 2:33:00 PM PDT

    I believe the pic is probably fake, but the facial part that you can see looks a little human. They look similiar, bur exact? No. The gorilla pic is from google search gorilla pics. I just hope someday, some one gets a good picture!

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  14. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 2:36:00 PM PDT

    Was there really any doubt that it wasn't a gorilla to begin with? I just assumed anyone with a tiny bit of brain capacity could see that's all it was. Probably taken at a zoo.

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    1. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 2:47:00 PM PDT

      Yeah, I was hoping that someone found the other pictures, i.e. the freakin gorilla behind the fence in a zoo, sitting in the same branches, but lo any old gorilla image will do, as if we didn't know it was a gorilla. Why was this even posted? Another five minutes of my life down the shitter. Not many left now!

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  15. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 3:01:00 PM PDT

    So What! Lord love a duck named Drobney! Sheesh

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  16. chiefmarkMonday, September 24, 2012 at 3:15:00 PM PDT

    I wanted to know if the Loch Ness monster was real so I googled imaged it and saw some pictures that look like a monster. Case closed.

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    1. Beer-ManMonday, September 24, 2012 at 4:32:00 PM PDT

      I would love to see those pics........just out of curiousity. Hehe

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  17. mr XMonday, September 24, 2012 at 3:38:00 PM PDT

    huh! what was the mystery. case was closed before it was posted. btw any furry bipedal hominids seen lately. i don't think so.

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  18. Fury GiantMonday, September 24, 2012 at 4:09:00 PM PDT

    THE MOUTH AND NOSE ARE PHOTOSHOPED, THEY ARE TILTED LEFT, BUT THE CREATURE IS FACING TO THE RIGHT, NOW HOW CAN A MOUTH AND NOSE TILT LEFT IF ITS FACING SLIGHTLY TO THE RIGHT? EXACTLY!!!

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  19. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 4:50:00 PM PDT

    Wow...really! It was an ape? Who knew...lmao...gmafb òó this site is a joke. Can i post some pics of a chimp walking?.... yup! Thats a bf.

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  20. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 6:01:00 PM PDT

    Well at least the kid is not wearing that stupid girls wig anymore. If he was I would suggest he become one of the bigfoot chicks because this story is pretty lame. He sure seemed to get fired up at anyone who doubted the elbe tracks were real.

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  21. AnonymousMonday, September 24, 2012 at 8:33:00 PM PDT

    Little Johnny a Cryptozoologist ???? BS he's a kid in high school, here we go again with the BS.

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  22. AnonymousTuesday, September 25, 2012 at 6:58:00 PM PDT

    I was ass raped by a silver back once and my hole has never been the same since.

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  23. AnonymousFriday, April 12, 2013 at 4:15:00 PM PDT

    Please remove my photo from this blog of the silverback gorilla, or give credit where it's due. I never gave permission to use it.

    https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Hannah-Lindsay-Photography/323496224805

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  24. AnonymousSaturday, January 18, 2020 at 6:50:00 PM PST

    This is a bigfoot picture. The size and depth of eye socket says it's not an ape. Now the case is closed. Bigfoot for sure.

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