WHY WOULD YOU WEAR A GHILLIE SUIT?

There are several things that are sure to crop up in your average bigfoot group. Most by new-comers, but some by old-timers, too. One of them is the "ghillie-suited bigfoot."

There are a couple of different photos that make the scene. They are labeled as trail cam photos. Some people state it's their trail cam they put up to monitor deer population or some such story. Others will tell you it's a good friend who was curious what it was that showed up in the photo. And yet some will say that they found this on the internet and what do we all think?

I think most of us know that it is a person in a ghillie suit. A "ghillie-suited bigfoot".

The photo is often at an angle; it is out of focus; it is usually a back view, but sometimes will throw us a side cut. 

But it's not a bigfoot.

Why would someone do this? Get 'caught' on a game cam in a ghillie suit?

Several reasons come to mind.

The most shouted out is : HOAXER!

This can be two-fold. Either the owner of the cam is hatching a hoax. Or someone pretending to be a bigfoot is making fun of the trial cam owner.

Reason? Well, not too many Hoax-callers care about a reason. They may say it's for money. But no one really makes money on these photos. Others say "fame". Possibly. The photos do sometimes go a little viral. But a lot of the time, it has been claimed by so many different people with so many different stories, it is hard to know the origin of the photo.

The third reason to hoax a photo like this is for the laughs. It tickles the person who took the photo no end when the pic and all those story lines are being shared all over Facebook and the internet. I think the icing on the cake comes when it either makes a meme or gets downloaded to Pinterest. The gold ring, so to speak.

But are there other reasons for someone to be out in the woods in a ghillie suit? 

Of course there are.

I'm sure hunters get captured on someone's trail cam all the time. While it's probably safer if they wore the hunter orange, I'm certain there are many hunters who don't. And that some of those hunters who don't, dress in a ghillie suit to sit in their blind. They want to blend in. They want to look a part of nature. 

And I know bigfoot researchers who dress in ghillie suits. They do so to camouflage themselves, hoping to blend in so that they are not seen by the bigfoot for which they are looking. 

These researchers and hunters are not out there trying to hoax anyone or cause a stir. All they want is to make themselves blend in so they can better do what they went into the woods to do.

There are some who say that to "parade" in the woods in a ghillie suit is an invitation to being shot by those thinking they are seeing a bigfoot. And they call the men stupid and say they deserve to be shot. Shooting while assuming something is a legitimate target is always wrong. Horses and cows and dogs get shot because a hunter assumes it's a deer. I had a neighbor once who had to keep his horses and cows inside all during deer hunting season because he was tired of burying his animals. It was a rather large farm. But not all hunters care about fences or property lines.

And you can't assume that every person out there in a ghillie suit is trying to hoax someone.

Which, of course, makes them innocent participants to someone who wishes to exploit the photo.

So, person in a ghillie suit. Without knowing the purpose behind that person being in a ghillie suit we are just jumping to a conclusion for which we have no facts. Could be a hoaxer, or a hunter, or a naturalist, a stalker, a bigfoot researcher. It could even be the person who put the trail cam up who caught himself on it and innocently thought it would be fun to share the only "animal" he caught on camera that week.



Nancy

"I'll spark the thought; what you do with it is up to you."