Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Patty's Hand Follow-Up
This is a really quick, short post. I found the image I had unfortunately lost making the Patty post five days ago, it's one that displays her left hand and the potential knuckles on her right quite well. Rather than confuse people and just redo the previous post, I decided it'll be a bit more comprehensive to just upload this here.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Patty Waves To Us, 52 Years Later
My previous post had a focus on a possible profile for the hand of the sasquatch, based on finds from mainly the western coast and pacific northwest of the continental United States. It makes no attempts, of course, to argue for the validity of these finds, but it takes into consideration their similarities.
Based on those finds, as well as eyewitness reports, I believe it may be possible to build a potentially accurate model of the sasquatch hand. The image of this model I'm positing can be viewed below.
This being posited, I would like to, before we go on to comparisons, throw in a it of a disclaimer. It'd be unscientific of me to say this IS the model for a species that is, by all technicalities, not known for certain to exist. That being said, this is a seemingly fair conglomerate of reports and evidence, and should be treated as such, to whatever extent that may limit or reach to.
I'm sure many of the readers of this blog are familiar with the Patterson-Gimlin Film. For those who are not, the footage was shot by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in 1967 in Bluff Creek, California. The footage is still in debate to this day, and is believed by many to give the clearest visual look at a sasquatch ever caught on film. Affectionately, whatever the subject is, it has been given the nickname "Patty".
Throughout the years, many enhancements and other edits have been applied to the film; some less successful than others. Enhancement is a tricky process, after all, and can lead to artifacts, (bits of visual images that don't actually appear in the footage, like black spots and gray splotches) being present.
However, more recent efforts have been able to reduce the amount of artifacts while highlighting features that are, in fact, consistent throughout the film. Pertaining to this project is Patty's hands-- her left one, to be exact.
The following set of frames shows Patty extending both her arms and swinging them away from her chest, as she turns to face her right and takes a step forward with her right leg, proceeding then to swing her arms back to her sides.
The question, then, in the context of her hand is: what can be said about it? Specifically the right hand, which we have a clearer look at than her left? The animated frames of this portion of the film can be seen below.
Though it is difficult to examine in individual frames, the full portion shows that there is an object attached to the end of the subject's left arm which consistently stays with that arm in the same location. This can therefore be ruled out as an artifact, and is likely the subject's hand. This is difficult to observe in individual frames due to the motion blur that object carries with it.
As Patty swings her left arm forward and back again, this "hand" can be seen to carry a few interesting features with it. For one thing, there is a dark streak near what would be the right side of the hand, indicating it is being swung forward at an angle which blocks out the sun from hitting that end of the hand. This might be due to appendages curving, as they seem to do on the right hand, as well, and casting a shadow over the fingers.
Due to the angle, it is difficult to tell the length of each finger. However, when compared with a human hand curling at such an angle, it seems that the fingers may all have a similar end-point, due to the uniform line that can be traced across the curvature of those fingers. This is, however, the most vague detail, and should be taken with a grain of salt or two. It's exceedingly difficult to discern.
However, perhaps the clearest feature is a well-defined thumb on the left hand, which can be seen as a thin, dark shape that extend up what would be the left side of the palm. The thumb seems rather large, extending around two-thirds up the way of the fingers, whereas the average human thumb only goes up approximately one-third of the way, at most. This may suggest a wider range of motion for the subject's thumb than the average human. The thumb is also darker than the rest of the fingers, as well as the fingers that curl on the left hand of the subject.
Over all, Patty's left hand is an intriguing subject to examine. Unfortunately, a great deal cannot be gathered. That being said, the details that can be seen seem to reveal a model that isn't exceedingly far off from a conglomerate of reports and hand prints.
Aside from taking this, again, with a grain of salt, do with that what you will.
Based on those finds, as well as eyewitness reports, I believe it may be possible to build a potentially accurate model of the sasquatch hand. The image of this model I'm positing can be viewed below.
This being posited, I would like to, before we go on to comparisons, throw in a it of a disclaimer. It'd be unscientific of me to say this IS the model for a species that is, by all technicalities, not known for certain to exist. That being said, this is a seemingly fair conglomerate of reports and evidence, and should be treated as such, to whatever extent that may limit or reach to.
I'm sure many of the readers of this blog are familiar with the Patterson-Gimlin Film. For those who are not, the footage was shot by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in 1967 in Bluff Creek, California. The footage is still in debate to this day, and is believed by many to give the clearest visual look at a sasquatch ever caught on film. Affectionately, whatever the subject is, it has been given the nickname "Patty".
Throughout the years, many enhancements and other edits have been applied to the film; some less successful than others. Enhancement is a tricky process, after all, and can lead to artifacts, (bits of visual images that don't actually appear in the footage, like black spots and gray splotches) being present.
However, more recent efforts have been able to reduce the amount of artifacts while highlighting features that are, in fact, consistent throughout the film. Pertaining to this project is Patty's hands-- her left one, to be exact.
The following set of frames shows Patty extending both her arms and swinging them away from her chest, as she turns to face her right and takes a step forward with her right leg, proceeding then to swing her arms back to her sides.
The question, then, in the context of her hand is: what can be said about it? Specifically the right hand, which we have a clearer look at than her left? The animated frames of this portion of the film can be seen below.
Though it is difficult to examine in individual frames, the full portion shows that there is an object attached to the end of the subject's left arm which consistently stays with that arm in the same location. This can therefore be ruled out as an artifact, and is likely the subject's hand. This is difficult to observe in individual frames due to the motion blur that object carries with it.
As Patty swings her left arm forward and back again, this "hand" can be seen to carry a few interesting features with it. For one thing, there is a dark streak near what would be the right side of the hand, indicating it is being swung forward at an angle which blocks out the sun from hitting that end of the hand. This might be due to appendages curving, as they seem to do on the right hand, as well, and casting a shadow over the fingers.
Due to the angle, it is difficult to tell the length of each finger. However, when compared with a human hand curling at such an angle, it seems that the fingers may all have a similar end-point, due to the uniform line that can be traced across the curvature of those fingers. This is, however, the most vague detail, and should be taken with a grain of salt or two. It's exceedingly difficult to discern.
However, perhaps the clearest feature is a well-defined thumb on the left hand, which can be seen as a thin, dark shape that extend up what would be the left side of the palm. The thumb seems rather large, extending around two-thirds up the way of the fingers, whereas the average human thumb only goes up approximately one-third of the way, at most. This may suggest a wider range of motion for the subject's thumb than the average human. The thumb is also darker than the rest of the fingers, as well as the fingers that curl on the left hand of the subject.
Over all, Patty's left hand is an intriguing subject to examine. Unfortunately, a great deal cannot be gathered. That being said, the details that can be seen seem to reveal a model that isn't exceedingly far off from a conglomerate of reports and hand prints.
Aside from taking this, again, with a grain of salt, do with that what you will.
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