Wooly Mammoth Alive?

[fairplay]

Originally Posted by blackb1rd

I'm not sure what the point of any video camera is that can only shoot for 10seconds before running out.....It's also difficult to believe that someone wouldn't notice a mammoth heading towards them and so start filming earlier.

Anyway, the chap who posted the clip first is a well known paranormal enthusiast who has previously posted UFO videos.

Oh, so video cameras run forever then ? Or if it runs by film or card there is no such thing as having only a few minutes left before you have used it all up ? And could not the battery have gone flat at the worst possible moment ?

Are you also saying one has eyes in the back (or side) of ones head so that you are always ready to shoot the beginning of the action ?

Yes, there is doubt over the authenticity of this clip, but do come up with some valid reasons such as your paragraph on this chap being a well known paranormal enthusiast - if true.

Neil.

[Brocakat]

Originally Posted by Farplace

This is from the Sun newspaper. A video of a Mammoth-Like animal crossing a stream in Siberia.

To be perfectly frank - this YARN isn't even about a lifeform that is in BRITAIN.
May I suggst this thread is locked - & the key buried in the permafrost of Siberia - ( a place 1000's of miles from - Britain )?

[fairplay]

I think the river has run it's course - let's put it that way.

Neil.

[pressld2]

Rather than lock it, I've moved it out of British Wildlife (which it clearly isn't) and into the Community forums under News (which it also isn't but it seems a slightly better fit!)

Dave P.

[MattPrince]

Originally Posted by fairplay

Yes, there is doubt over the authenticity of this clip, but do come up with some valid reasons such as your paragraph on this chap being a well known paranormal enthusiast - if true.

Neil.

Its not the first hoax Michael Cohen of Barcroft media has been involved in (as a quick google search would have shown)

(Warning contains adverts and will probably have you marked out as a paranoid conspiracy theorist by the local e-police )
Michael Cohen UFO report: Dead alien found in UFO hotspot, Russia - YouTube

Anyway I think this puts it to bed. The original wasn't a bear, but a bare

well there is a surprise..

Matt

[blackb1rd]

Originally Posted by fairplay

The only logical excuse is he ran out of storage space at that particular moment, depending upon the type of camera.
Neil.

This made me chuckle. "Only logical explanation", really? What about the logical explanation that the clip was cut off well before it ended because it clearly didn't show a mammoth at all and was a big hoax.

Originally Posted by fairplay

Yes, there is doubt over the authenticity of this clip, but do come up with some valid reasons such as your paragraph on this chap being a well known paranormal enthusiast - if true.

Neil.

Doubt, only a bit of doubt? There was never anything to suggest the clip was anything but a hoax. No idea why you're so outraged and patronising but I'm glad to see the original clip has surfaced, surprisingly minus the extinct mammoth, and was revealed to be just a terrible an attempt at a hoax as most sane people suspected.

You don't appear to be very sane so I can only imagine you're quite upset to discover that mammoths no longer roam the earth

[Jim Ford]

Originally Posted by blackb1rd

You don't appear to be very sane so I can only imagine you're quite upset to discover that mammoths no longer roam the earth

I think that 'fairplay' was just playing the 'Devil's Advocate' in the post.

Jim

[Jason Green]

Cool it, Blackbird! Neil never gave any reason to believe he subscribes to their continued existance - he simply explained that sometimes videos can cut-out and cards/video-tape can be depleted before you've concluded a recording.

People would have been just as amazed at the re-discovery of the prehistoric Coelocanth from the depths. Siberia is a rather large place... an absence of evidence isn't evidense of absence. I suppose I should say, it's interesting to see how this is all over something other than a fox, squirrel, cat or dog!

[Farplace]

Calm down Blackbird - its only a Sun video!

[DorsetDunk]

its often the case with camera gear letting you down at that critical moment
with batteries low and and not noticing the card is almost full or with adrenalin pumping with the encounter its all to easy to mess up the settings and produce a dodgy low rez clip like this in the heat of the moment

but i don't go with the bear theory its defiantly an Indian elephant with twitchy ears and that is a trunk not a fish as scales are highly reflective which that appendage is not
the reason you all think its a bear is because subconsciously your minds telling you it should be a bear because of the location
no doubt about it this is dumbo who packed his trunk and is off to find the circus