One million dollars for Bigfoot Photo

TGregg · Jun 5, 2008

This should get the hearts of some posters pumping. A cool one million dollars for a Bigfoot photo. Get your cameras charged and head out to the back country!

No mention of a reward for Elvis though.

Bigfoot and lake monsters, beware: There's a price on your heads.

Binocular manufacturer Bushnell, along with "Field & Stream" magazine, have teamed up to offer $1 million to anyone who can "provide an unaltered photograph/video, verified and substantiated by a panel of scientific experts [including a zoologist and biologist], the evidence required to prove a Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Yeti exists."

The contest started a few days ago and ends Dec. 15, but before heading out to claim your million, note that the rules' fine print states that they are not liable for any injury incurred during a Bigfoot attack. A good quality Bigfoot image would make history; most photos are of such consistently poor quality that within the Bigfoot research community there's even a name for a typical blurry "Bigfoot" image: blobsquatch.

This is, of course, a marketing promotion and not a genuine search for Bigfoot. There's no way to authenticate a Bigfoot photograph by itself; the image is simply a two-dimensional pattern of pixels. To truly prove a Bigfoot exists, you'd need corroborating hard evidence like a body, teeth, or bones.

Bigfoot isn't the only monster whose proof of existence commands cash. Larry Nielson, a boat owner from Lake City, Minnesota, is offering a reward for their local lake monster. Pepie, the mysterious beast said to lurk in Lake Pepin, was supposedly seen on April 28, 1871, and only rarely since then. According to Nielson, you don't actually have to capture the beast: "The Lake City Tourism Bureau has announced a $50,000 reward for undisputable evidence that proves the existence of the real live creature living in Lake Pepin. The proof should include photographics (sic) and/or samples of skin or fins that can studied for a DNA analysis."
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newtoet · Jun 5, 2008

Where do I collect my money?

ph1l · Oct 13, 2023

Bigfoot spotted in Colorado!‡

‡ There is a remote possibility it's just some guy in a Chewbacca/bigfoot suit.

gwb-trading · Oct 13, 2023

TGregg said:
This should get the hearts of some posters pumping. A cool one million dollars for a Bigfoot photo. Get your cameras charged and head out to the back country!

No mention of a reward for Elvis though.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience...gfootbountyrewardofferedformysteriousmonsters
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Or just use AI.

Frederick Foresight · Oct 13, 2023

What about a photo of Smallhand? Anything for that?

gwb-trading · Oct 13, 2023

Frederick Foresight said:
What about a photo of Smallhand? Anything for that?

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Only in an orange jumpsuit and behind bars.

Frederick Foresight · Oct 13, 2023

gwb-trading said:
Only in an orange jumpsuit and behind bars.
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Which is looking more and more like his much-deserved natural habitat.