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Does This Video Show The Grim Reaper Or Bigfoot In Prospect Park?
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Jen Carlson
Published Jan 29, 2015
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A video recently uploaded to YouTube purports to shows "unbelievable footage" of a Bigfoot in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The uploader notes: "I recently started a live streaming / time lapse channel called Brooklyn Live Video to capture different parts of Brooklyn. I had set up a camera in Prospect Park on a side trail to capture the snow fall, today I went back and collected it and found this footage. It appears to me to be Bigfoot.... Seriously. Looks like it was taken at around 7 a.m." on Tuesday. Take a look:
The Brooklyn Paper asked a "leading expert in the paranormal" who, very unsurprisingly, believes this was probably fabricated.
“What a perfect composition. Could it have been much better created?” said Lee Speigel, who has written about unidentified flying objects, cryptozoological creatures, and other paranormal happenings since the 1970s. “I don’t know what the fuck this thing was, but usually if it is too good to be true, it’s too good to be true.” That thing is obviously the grim reaper, "expert."
If YOU see Death Personified, please send your photos to [email protected] then run.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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