A purported Bigfoot sighting in Colorado appears to be a big step in the wrong direction, experts say.
Earlier this week, Wyoming resident Shannon Parker posted photos and videos online that appeared to show a Sasquatch traversing rocky terrain before squatting in the southwestern part of the state.
“If you had asked before our trip, we would have said maybe [Bigfoot] may be real, but now we’re convinced,” she told The Post of the “unexplainable” sighting she and her husband, Stetson, witnessed.
However, Matthew Moneymaker – head of the Bigfoot Field Research Organization and former host of the Animal Planet series “Finding Bigfoot” – told The Post that there are some gifts that disprove the sighting.
One in particular stood out: the beast, he said, “looked suspiciously like Jack Link’s $200 Beef Jerky costume.”
He also concluded that the 6- to 7-foot-tall brown monster — which was filmed moving through the mountainous terrain of the Animas River canyon between Silverton and Durango — looked identical to the Bigfoot costume that a local business, Sasquatch Expedition Campers, was wearing. known to be used in promotional activities.
Hikers recently claimed to have spotted Bigfoot in an open field in Colorado.Shannon Parker /Facebook The video reveals what appears to be a tall furry beast roaming the area.Shannon Parker /Facebook
A representative from Sasquatch Expedition Campers confirmed to The Post that they have furry suits but denied any involvement in what the Parkers saw while traveling on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
That’s not to burst the Bigfoot bubble, though.
‘There are so many reported sightings’
Wild stories claim that the creature has glowing red eyes, has thrown rocks to defend itself – and seems to be able to “carve” victims in a strange metaphysical way.
And Moneymaker is ready to keep track of the ongoing viewing.
He told The Post that he actually filmed an episode of “Finding Bigfoot” in the same Colorado region because “there are so many reported sightings … and some people say they’ve seen them from that beautiful railroad in the past,” adding that most witnesses observed fur much darker than the light brown captured on film.
The train company itself also wrote in a Facebook post Thursday: “talk to any train crew or staff member and they will have a story about the strange happenings in the Animas River Canyon.”
Moneymaker (far left) is shown with fellow “Finding Bigfoot” cast members James “Bobo” Fay, Cliff Barackman and Ranae Holland in a promotional photo for the Animal Planet show.Animal Planet
All of which prompted Moneymaker and others to try to answer the million-dollar question: How could Bigfoot — a mythical creature that actually has FBI files — be seen across the country, even around the world, and for centuries?
He’s not a lone ranger, according to Moneymaker.
“It is a very basic understanding that there is more than one. Sometimes people see two at a time, and sometimes it looks like an adult and a young one together,” he said. “The single misconception brought about by the idea that we hear the word Bigfoot or Sasquatch: it looks like one thing, that’s why we always emphasize diversity Sasquatches and Bigfoots.”
Matthew Moneymaker, former host of the Animal Planet series “Finding Bigfoot,” shows an alleged cast of Bigfoot prints in a 2012 file photo. Zandy Mangold
Researchers from the University of Arizona have even speculated that what witnesses described as Bigfoot can be traced back to an ancient giant ape known as Gigantopithecus, which coexisted with early humans.
“They were hunted to extinction by homo erectus,” Moneymaker theorized. “We believe that they are the ones who are smart enough not to be hunted by using the strategy of being nocturnal and always retreating in confrontation with humans.”
‘I looked right at him … I could see his eyes’
Some so-called eyewitnesses, however, may feel more like victims than bystanders.
Another BFRO member, Rick Reles, a 65-year-old musician and retiree from Henderson County, North Carolina, claimed to The Post that he saw Bigfoot on three separate occasions — and in three different states — between 2010 and 2018.
“I had stones thrown at me by these things. I’ve smelled them… It stinks. It could be a wet dog, feces, that kind of thing,” Reles, who also recorded a song about Bigfoot, told The Post. “I’ve left their tracks. I’ve seen their wooden structures going into the woods. I know it’s real. “
Reles claims that, in 2016, he was only 90 feet from a “juvenile” Bigfoot in Colorado that he believed stood about 6½ feet tall.
“I looked right at him, I could see his face was flat, there was no hair in the middle of the face, it was black, there was no neck, and it was not balanced with a human on the legs,” he said. said.
“I could see in his eyes. There was no white in his eyes – they were all dark brownish-black pupils, and his face was flat-mouthed, kind of open. It was swaying from side to side, almost like, ‘Oh, I’ve been spotted,’ then it took three steps and darted off at an angle into the forest.
BFRO member Rick Reles claims he once encountered the mythical creature Bigfoot. Courtesy of Rick Roles
However, a scientist named Floe Foxon – who specializes in debunking urban legends and folklore, such as the Loch Ness monster – has released a report that may contradict those theories and accounts.
“Sasquatch sightings are statistically correlated with bear populations, such that, on average, every 1,000 increase in bear population is associated with a 4% increase in Sasquatch sightings,” Foxon wrote.
“Therefore, as the black bear population increases, Sasquatch sightings are expected to increase as well.”
Bigfoot and the paranormal: ‘They can hit you with what feels almost like a taser’
Bigfoot sightings date back many years. One of the more famous was captured in this undated photograph by Roger Patterson, an image reportedly taken outside Eureka, California. Bettmann Archive
If the Sasquatches race no exist, they may be more paranormal than primitive, according to Moneymaker.
Witnesses have described the surreal experience of being in the presence of Bigfoot — though it may have just been the primal fear that engulfed them.
“They can do bioluminescence, especially from their eyes, and make them glow red, like coals on a fire,” claims Moneymaker strangely. “People think they’re seeing demons … It’s a very scary thing to see in the woods.”
‘I have had stones thrown at me by these things. I’ve smelled it … It’s rotten.’
He also claims that Bigfoots have evolved to the point where they can create defensive electrical surges – possibly caused by sounds below the range of human hearing called infrasound – when approached.
“The manifestation is that when you’re near them, and when they want to, they can hit you with what feels almost like a taser … It happens in different states, different enough times, to enough glaring skeptics that they pee their pants . as a result, we know they can do it,” said Moneymaker.
“We think they may have evolved to do that to surprise the prey and the deer long enough for them to come and grab it.”
“I have removed their tracks. I have seen their wooden structures that go into the forest. I know it’s true,” claimed Bigfoot spotter Reles told The Post.Courtesy of Rick Roles
Once, at close range, Reles claimed that he was enveloped by so-called “zapping” live.
“My experience was that it felt like an electric current went through me,” he told The Post.
“They have the ability to make you feel very, very scared and you need to get away quickly,” Reles said.
“If they don’t want you with them, they have a way of making you feel uncomfortable.”
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