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Fake? Golden eagle grabs child in Montreal Park

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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:32 UTC

A massive golden eagle circles a park before swooping down and appearing to grab a toddler with its claws and trying to fly off with him in an incredible video posted on YouTube.

The clip shows the child's parent looking on in horror as the feathered beast, one of the world's deadliest birds of prey, apparently snatches the boy and lifts him a few feet off the ground.

Footage then shows the eagle dropping the child, whose name and age are unknown, on the grass a few feet away.

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Dis · 2012-12-19T05:53:04Z

Fake

Pretty sure this is CGI

Dis · 2012-12-19T05:58:16Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GjOljUMc-Nc

Joe · 2012-12-19T06:01:08Z

Don't see any hard evidence of fakery there. Can you explain?

Dis · 2012-12-19T06:23:46Z

Ok, Joe, after re-watching this and the link I posted I'm not sure either way. Surely the media in Canada have found the parent or the cameraman to confirm this.

neema · 2012-12-19T09:20:20Z

Dont be so sure.

Well I create CGI as a living and this looks incredible if its fake. The angle of the shadow of the approach is right, so is the angle of departure. The shadow also has the same texture as the background shadows. The moment of the snatch the kid and the eagle react properly, so do the corresponding shadows. The camera-mans reaction seems pretty normal, as does the father since he was busy with something else.

As for the shadow disappearing, I can tell you from experience when you shoot digital film outside and zoom in like that, there are all kinds of video glitches unless you have a very high resolution digital camera. As for the baby not reacting, well it happened so fast its perfectly understandable.

Of course the possibility exists that this is fake, I guess the story of the boy who cried wolf is relevant here. With so much fakers in our society the one time we might be seeing something real we are naturally drawn to the question of its authenticity.

To me it looks real, and it's a fact that birds of pray will attack little toddlers. Just think if this is real, the extraordinary symbolism of it.

One thing though, what the heck is up with the chariot of fire song? Must be a french thing.

Luke · 2012-12-19T06:47:06Z

Hmm, suspicious at best, outright fake at worst.

The camera mans reaction is too calm.. The father reacted too slow... All things that are unlikely to happen if this was real.

Also what are the chances that someone has a camera handy and is filming when an eagle is just about to snatch a baby?

neema · 2012-12-19T09:28:00Z

Have you seen an eagle in flight? It is incredible, if that was me and I had a camera, which most people have thanks to smart phones, I would be filming too. It's not that you know it's going to snatch something, your just awestricken by its beauty and start shooting. The rest as they say, is bonus.

Dis · 2012-12-19T06:48:01Z

Try this analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkEjcMMLqE

Dis · 2012-12-19T06:51:54Z

https://www.facebook.com/bsbobird/posts/10151115586040378

smrdox ·

seems real

· 2012-12-19T07:14:59Z

redrock12 · 2012-12-19T08:39:12Z

Looks Very Real

Looks very real.
I think the "looks fake to me" folks are jumping the gun.
The eagle's flight path was followed all the way through to actually picking up the child, then dropping him/her, probably due to the fact that she/he was too heavy.

Rowan Cocoan · 2012-12-19T08:47:48Z

Has verisimilitude.Music weakens it

Has verisimilitude.Music weakens it

Golden Eegles are HUGE and there are numerous stories of similar events. I've videotaped them when I've seen them. Who wouldn't? Also, the camerman's reaction, to forget the frame begin running and say "oh my God" is appropriate.

It seem like it should be easily provable. Ask the family, etc. Torn jacket, claw bruises, etc. (So sad one has to worry about that. The MSM lies for so many reasons. Ever met anyone who, upon looking at WTC 7 says, "Oh, that's easy to fake" and walks off before his self delusions are shattered? If this is a fake, that would be its purpose. For those who want to disbelieve WTC explosions, etc etc. ad inf, if that's the case, the proof of the fakeness will quickly be found and trumpeted far and wide.)

As far as I can tell, though, it seems real to me.

R.C.

JayMark · 2012-12-19T10:00:51Z

Well, hard to say if it's real or not but objectively speaking I don't see why this couldn't be possible. The camera guy seems like he was there filming the eagle and then it happened that it tried to catch the kid. It happened in the Parc du Mont-Royal, a few km from my place (I can see the Mont-Royal through the window).

They may not have reacted instantly but think about it, who bring his kid to a park in a big city and think about watching for prey birds stealing their babies? There must have been this fraction of a second of wtf-ness before they acted.

Anyhow, my 2 cents.

Luke · 2012-12-19T10:29:39Z

The thing is, nowadays you can't believe anything remotely incredible caught on camera... Not in this age of digital fakery...

I just think this is HIGHLY suspicious.

Why was the kid sooo far away from the dad? He looked like a toddler that could barely walk. Why would the father take him out the pram, place him meters away from him "OUT IN THE OPEN" turn his back to him?

Coincidentally, at the same time someone is stood at the right angle to capture an eagle fly in for the snatch...

If it is true that an eagle is truly majestic in flight, I expect to see other people who have videos of this event..

Until more videos come out, this whole thing remains in the suspicious, not to be blindly believed box!

Also all the people there barely made any noise or commotion after the event... I mean, the kid had just been snatched by an eagle, it's not something you see everyday!! People would have run en-masse to see if he was ok!

Finally, why doesn't the father PICK UP the kid and HOLD HIM TIGHT after he has fallen to the ground, check for injuries etc etc?

Pfft, anyways... just saying.

treesparrow · 2012-12-19T11:06:33Z

Previous records

Probably the best documented and authenticated record of this sort of thing happening in the past occurred in Norway in the 1930's involving the slightly larger and more powerful Sea Eagle. From The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats -

"Although many lurid stories of eagles carrying off human babies or young children have appeared in print over the years, most ornithologists tend to look upon such accounts with suspicion because eagles normally kill their prey before bearing it away. At least one case, however, has been fully authenticated.
On 5th June 1932 4-year-old Svanhild Hansen was playing in the yard of her parents' farmhouse in the small village of Leka, a few miles north of Trondheim, Norway when a huge white-tailed sea eagle suddenly swooped down and carried her off.
The bird headed for its eyrie, which was located 800ft (244m) up the side of a mountain more than a mile (1.6km) away, but in the end the load proved just a bit too much for it and the child was dropped on a narrow ledge about 50ft(15m) below the eagle's nest.
The frantic parents immediately organised a search-party from the village and, guided by the eagle which was still soaring over the high ledge, they eventually found little Sanhild asleep and unharmed, except for some scratches and bruises.(Storer, 1963)."

A fulsome account also here-

[Link]

treesparrow · 2012-12-19T11:13:19Z

additional comment

Fwiw, the film looks genuine to me.

OldUncleDave · 2012-12-19T12:46:17Z

I don't know if it's fake or not, but it looks a lot more real than that 9/11 video of an airliner passing through the building without any resistance.

house · 2012-12-19T13:17:15Z

word around one CGI house

...is that it's from a school in montreal that does fake hoax videos as a contest, not to mention the idea was taken from The Proposal.

I can't vouch for either claim - sorry - but IMHO, the bird splits from reality at 8 seconds, with a very slippery turn. I don't see motion blur on its shadow, which is usually indicative of 'movie magic'

Luke · 2012-12-19T13:26:59Z

I just saw it in the news where they said it was a FAKE! GODDAMN, the News DOESNT lie!

Anyways a quick google search and voila!

[Link]
"UPDATE: A blog post on the Montreal animation school Centre NAD website claims that the video was a hoax created by their students. The post states:

The “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” video, uploaded to YouTube on the evening of December 18, was made by Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre NAD, in the production simulation workshop class of the Bachelors degree in 3D Animation and Digital Design."

Now, all believers PLEASE re-examine your BELIEF-STRUCTURE!

Here is the link to the Horse's Mouth!

[Link]

Sakura Yamato · 2012-12-19T15:02:15Z

Well you were right and it was a hoax but your statement:

"the News DOESNT lie!" should be reconsidered considering the MSM does lie ALL the time!

Luke ·

...only joking

· 2012-12-19T17:01:58Z

Luke · 2012-12-19T17:04:23Z

...ok I was also being a jerk.

apologies...

SoD · 2012-12-19T20:58:04Z

Golden eagle grabs child

Rather fake or real ... these beautiful and powerful birds have been known to attack even larger prey than this assumed poor precious soul in the video ... take a look here [Link]

mugatea · 2012-12-20T14:16:56Z

It looks so real, the only thing that looked fake about it was how long it took parent to notice the giant bird grabbing the boy.

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