went out to check my game camera today on my property and the post I have it on was knocked over
The camera had on 200 pics of the sky after it was knocked over but there was one weird photo

see the pic

Looks like a man in a winter coat coming to pick up his fallen game camera.

Here is your picture with high contrast and brightness.



Guy with blanket over his head?

Surely proof of werewolves...

a winter coat with hair on it???
come on
I have been wearing hunter orange because the hunt is on up here

that is freaky lol, it may be bigfoot

I wish they'd notice your picture. I see a fox. <3 and its so cute!

I am trying to see a fox..it would be much happier than the image I keep seeing of someone with a fuzzy blanket over their head hovering over a camera.

Thats clearly a picture of an ear. Belonging to what animal, I don't know.

I see the animals ear quite clearly. It doesn't look weird at all, maybe a small deer or even some kind of dog or something.

I was thinking deer or coyote.

Yes, an ear.

yea have to agree..possibly a deer's ear and its face is going past the lens

OH! Of course! I do see it now...thanks, guys. It looks like an animal (dog or fox) is right at the lens, and we can see the right ear, and the rest of the right side of the body, it's rear right leg being the appendage sticking out.

How silly, I lightened the picture up myself and still didn't see it.

Mystery solved?

Elementary, my dear Watson...

That picture scared the s*** out of me, but after a looking over my shoulder to make sure there wasnt some psyco with a knife , it does look like an ear of a deer or maybe a cow?

After brightening and upping the contrast a bit, i do see what looks like a fox, and you can clearly see its ear and right side.

Haha that photo definately has some Pareidolia going on there. Took me bout 30 seconds to realise it was a dear or fox

The ear was the first thing I saw. I had to squint my eyes and take some stupid pills to see a person.

It is a cow, they love knocking things over and it is checking to see if there is food in the camera.

It is no doubt a cow but that does not explain the face in the ear.

Caught red handed.

You see a face because face because you want to see a face.

at first i was like...."oh my gosh...." then i saw the brighter contrast one... i wish it could have been like the grim reaper or something O.O

Cause the grim reaper has nothing better to do then knock cameras off trees and get caught in a photo! All the while showing off the winter line of grim reaper clothing?

For some reason ----> HAHAHAHAHAH I laughed hard. Awesome.

I try.

Try is a bad word .... you do or don't ... in this case you do.

heh i see i see at first it looks like a hooded thingy. then u can see the ear. but there is still that blue void area of were it would be the mans armpit and the animals eye ridge, why is it hollow area?

-sam

i agree that looks like some sort of k-9 breed good luck with it though

I think this picture is just a fox looking into a camara...

Just so everyone can see for themselves, I have taken the liberty of collecting examples of animals who's ears are most likely to be found in the vicinity of a game camera.



A fox's head. Note the white fur inside the ear. Familiar?



The deer's ear seems a little rounder than the mysterious visitor's in the game cam.



This coyote ear's looks a little like the one in the OP's photo.


I think we have a clear winner here. Albino alpaca...obviously mistook the camera for a bag of oats. Agreed?






(p.s. if anyone takes that last comment seriously, i will lose SO much faith in U-M. )

I see a fox. Is that game? if so, then your camera is working just fine!

A firefox maybe?

After looking at it extensively I figure it is a deer ear with the hind end looking like a shoulder of the creature
Thanks
I believe the deer cam to my bait and knocked the camera over
but hey...what a weird pic!!

it is a cool pic indeed! its a shame it was just a deer or fox though, woulda been cool. but freaky if it were some grim reaper! lol u could make millions haha

-sam

looking at it, its 1000000000000000% a fox

well, it looks like the foxes we get in wales anyway

it looks like the camera fell over, and some animal walked by, a photo was taken.

I strongly urge you all to reconsider the fact that it's the ear of an animal.

1. the "ear hole" is placed too high for the ear, it should be lower, not near the point of the ear where it gets darker.
2. The general shape, from any perspective, does not connote the shape of an animal's head - no game.
3. I think if it were an ear then it would have to be relatively close to the camera meaning a significantly more out-of-focus object that the trees. The quality of the picture doesn't place the image to be THAT close to the lens in relation to identifiable objects: we can assume it's further away than an ear would have to be.
4. The white/blue blotch that sort of... exists in the middle of the "head" would imply that... no, I'm sorry, you can't have a hole like that go through an animal's head. If you could it would be a major freak of nature and this picture would be worth millions even without aliens or reapers.
5. The shoulder is clearly defined, as is the arm of the person, or alien. Any artist knows the proportions are perfectly correct for a human figure.
6. With the highlighted contrast, thank you, you can clearly see the shape of the form: it's lighter on the shoulders, dark on the torso, on the inner elbow, lighter on the lower arm, lightest on the head... follow the light (haha).

I have no clue what it is, but just the fact that the background is in the foreground where the animals head should be proves that there's no animal head there... which means no ear. It's either a costume or a disguise or a farce.

Also, the "lobe" of the supposed animal ear does not attach to the skull in the manner it does in this picture. Sorry...

yes yes yess thats wat I was talking about earlierr! the holee!! unless the white brow ridge just reflects the color of the sky clouds and edge of a tree. but it looks totally void right there!

-sam

the shape of the "ear" would imply the head is face the opposite direction, as in we'd be looking at the ear and a sharply descending back-of-the-next... with a hole go straight through. doesn't work.

Also, to add... the top of the head, to the left of the ear, ascends to join the ear supposedly whereas animals heads are flat and descend (it's the direction of their fur)... the only other option is that it's the neck of a hood.

AWESOME!! its putting the mystery back in! the idea that it was just a fox or something was boring! i like it being some mysteriouse being!

P.s its also lacking furr, the edges are to sharp.
-sam

I urge you to reconsider that it is an ear hole. For all we can see it is only a dark shadow.





That is the animal's right hind leg. The blue/white blotch is negative space between the leg and the animal's body. What you see isn't the animal's head, It's the body. The head is cut off, and you are seeing it's right ear.


Also note that the ear could be folded, inside-out, partially inside-out, blown by wind, any number of things could distort an ear on a picture of this quality.

I think this is a perfect example of parodelia, perhaps this thread should be stickied to set an example for the future.

An animal's hind leg would bend inwards, not outwards like an elbow. The width proportions on the leg are too wide. The shading doesn't support your 3D perception. Quality doesn't matter. The dark shadow is too high to represent an ear hole, it should be several units lower. Look at an ear hole in any confirmed picture and you'll see the difference. Also, any distortion would be irrelevant considering the quality of the picture. "Wind" wouldn't explain anything. It would have to be gale force winds and the trees are depicted motionless (according to their quality). Also, if the leg is supposedly further back than the ear, in relative space, there would be a differentiation in quality, there isn't... and the lighting simply doesn't support that. It is a humanoid form. Send it to professional analysts and stop drawing conclusions from the safety of your own ego.

Here I lightened the picture some. You can see that it looks more like an ear.



As for the idea that the "elbow" you're seeing couldn't be an animal, guess you don't know your animals...if you look at how it is meant to be positioned with the ear, the head looking down at something offscreen, and the body up above the head- the position for everything does in fact work. It was hard to tell before because of how dark it was, and the contrasted picture was also difficult. I really don't think this can be a humanoid creature after looking at the more likely answer.

I think your best bet is that its a curious fox who stumbled upon the camera, knocked it down, and started sniffing it. It looks just like a hunched over fox, and that blank spot where you can see the trees is just the fox's hindquarters, I would think. The only thing that gets me is that its tail isn't visible, which is odd because foxes have rather bushy tails, however it might be off to the other side. It'd be interesting if it was something paranormal, but I think its safe to say its a curious forest animal.

Of course, there is always room to theorize about it...

..mayyybee its just your average white duck?

I grew up in the woods with all sorts of animals including foxes and there's no way this is a fox. If the lighting and proportions aren't enough for you than consider the behavior of a curious wild animal: it wouldn't just walk around sniffing cameras, especially in hunter-territory. It would likely approach slowly, make circle it a few times, until eventually it was close enough... this means the probability of there being more pictures would be high, but there aren't, whereas a human would see the camera, jump in front of it, and then step off to the side out of view. One picture. Also, there's no reason why a fox would be curious of a camera unless it was laced with dead rabbits... they're don't just chill in the forest examining weird human toys.

You people are being so stubborn and short-sighted. My bet is it's a prank. someone wrapped a tube around their hood, stuck into their coat through the zipper, through something over it, maybe it was even photoshopped a little. Who cares really, except that you people think it's a fox...

Besides, foxes have really small legs, the proportions don't work,the angles don't work, the lighting doesn't work, the 3D representation doesn't work, the contrast doesn't work. If that's a fox that this picture was seriously photoshopped beyond all recognition. You guys are just lame and no one here seems to know anything useful.

Thank you for that lame and not knowing anything useful comment... So are you saying it's not a fox

Agree.



It don't even look like a person. It's an animal ... I mean all you have to do is look at it and you know this. If you did spend a lot of time in the forest you would know this. I also spent a lot of time around wildlife when I was younger a few years ago and this is just an animal. It has a big potential of being a dog or something along thoes lines. If this is a person ... well the arm and chest ratio is way out of porpotion ... he has a huge chest and then a tiny arm. Also towards our right hand side of the pic there is more definition, meaning that whatever it was was closer to the camera there, unlike the rest of it. So I don't understand how this isn't an animal ... fantasy aside, you have to think logically.

But who am I to tell you that there isn't a slightly re-tarded guy with rubber on his running around in the woods taking pics of himself?