The Latest Update in Bigfoot Lore

The Report:
Kenny Mahoney, a humble gardener living in Jefferson County, Kentucky, reports to have caught the fabled Bigfoot on camera. As possibly the most frequently sighted cryptid in the world, Bigfoot has a reputation in Kentucky, albeit closer to the Appalachian Mountains of Northern Kentucky.

Mahoney had an issue. His garden of green beans were repeatedly found trampled and dessicated presumably by the wildlife in the area. Mahoney says that he was "determined to catch the culprit", and so placed a motion-detecting camera just outside the garden to see what was going on. When he showed the tape to reporters, it showed the usual pests of Kentucky, including raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, and a large dark figure about 50 yards away which stood over five feet tall and almost as wide. Take a look at the video for yourself:



But is it Bigfoot? There seem to be a lot of theories about what the camera could have caught, including a bear, a trash bag, and of course, a legendary Bigfoot. Lets examine this situation more closely...

My Opinion:
It always kills me to force logic on a situation which would be easy to believe, and I'm sure that a large bipedal hominid exists somewhere on Earth, but in my professional opinion, this simply isn't it. Think about it. Everyone wants to protect their garden from nasty scavengers, but honestly, who puts out a camera to find out what's going on out there? The first thing you would do is buy a picket fence for the garden. Knowing what's attacking your vegetables does little good whether its a squirrel or a raccoon. The approach is the same: buy a fence. Mahoney did not buy a fence, but instead put up a camera to catch what? If he knows all the wildlife in the area, he must have had some idea of what may have been attacking the vegetables. To me it sounds like he wouldn't put up a camera unless he was expecting to find something out of the ordinary. Hmmm... my hoax senses are tingling.

Secondly, I don't know about you, but this looks an awful lot like a trash bag to me, although a local expert on wildlife said she did not think so:

"Mahoney’s wife Margaret sent the photo to a wildlife expert who specializes in black bears. She said it looks like it is fur and not a trash bag, but still cannot confirm it is a bear."

As usual, there is only one fuzzy picture for reference which leaves a lot of things to wonder about such as: why are there not more pictures of the creature, why are there no tracks from such a massive creature, why are there no signs of undergrowth tramples where "Bigfoot" was standing, etc...

Another inconclusive, but interesting report. What do you think?

Sources:
popfi.com
cryptomundo.com