Has anyone actually seen Bigfoot?
Has anyone actually seen Bigfoot?
Learn more about alleged Bigfoot sightings.
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Your friend posts a low-res video while hiking. Your uncle's best friend's barber swears he saw something on his camping trip. And that History Channel special was really convincing.
Okay, so that barber may have been lying. But Bigfoot's been around for so long someone has to have seen him, right?
Native American and Indigenous Canadian folklore includes tales of animalistic hairy men stealing food and supplies. Sasquatch, Bigfoot's other name, might derive from the Salish sasq'ets, meaning "wild man."
A local newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, runs an article describing the capture of a "half man and half beast" resembling "something of a gorilla type."
Other newspapers denounce the story, but that doesn't stop readers from writing letters to the editor about their own Bigfoot theories.
Gold prospectors in Washington state allegedly kill a Sasquatch upon encountering it in the woods--and regret it later that night, when a group of the 7-foot-tall monsters pelt the miners' cabin with boulders.
Investigating park rangers declare the miners staged the scene themselves.
A construction worker says he's made a wild discovery at a job site in California: a set of huge humanoid footprints. And you know what they say about big feet - Big Foot is bound to be nearby.
Not in this case, though. In 2002 the man who had created those Bigfoot tracks died, and his family explained that the footprints had been made as a joke.
Two Bigfoot hunters capture a 59.5-second video of a humanoid gorilla monster in California. Still the clearest "sighting" caught on camera, it's never been disproved. But charging admission to view the clip on a national tour seemed pretty suspicious to skeptics.
Two Georgia men say they found a dead Bigfoot body in the woods, took it home, and put it in a freezer--and promise they'll provide the DNA evidence to prove it. (They don't.)
The "body" turns out to be a Bigfoot costume stuffed with roadkill.
We'd say there's no stopping Bigfoot, but since more than one person claims to have killed himwell, let's say there's no stopping Bigfoot hunters. The search is still on.
Okay, so that barber may have been lying. But Bigfoot's been around for so long someone has to have seen him, right?
Native American and Indigenous Canadian folklore includes tales of animalistic hairy men stealing food and supplies. Sasquatch, Bigfoot's other name, might derive from the Salish sasq'ets, meaning "wild man."
A local newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, runs an article describing the capture of a "half man and half beast" resembling "something of a gorilla type."
Other newspapers denounce the story, but that doesn't stop readers from writing letters to the editor about their own Bigfoot theories.
Gold prospectors in Washington state allegedly kill a Sasquatch upon encountering it in the woods--and regret it later that night, when a group of the 7-foot-tall monsters pelt the miners' cabin with boulders.
Investigating park rangers declare the miners staged the scene themselves.
A construction worker says he's made a wild discovery at a job site in California: a set of huge humanoid footprints. And you know what they say about big feet - Big Foot is bound to be nearby.
Not in this case, though. In 2002 the man who had created those Bigfoot tracks died, and his family explained that the footprints had been made as a joke.
Two Bigfoot hunters capture a 59.5-second video of a humanoid gorilla monster in California. Still the clearest "sighting" caught on camera, it's never been disproved. But charging admission to view the clip on a national tour seemed pretty suspicious to skeptics.
Two Georgia men say they found a dead Bigfoot body in the woods, took it home, and put it in a freezer--and promise they'll provide the DNA evidence to prove it. (They don't.)
The "body" turns out to be a Bigfoot costume stuffed with roadkill.
We'd say there's no stopping Bigfoot, but since more than one person claims to have killed himwell, let's say there's no stopping Bigfoot hunters. The search is still on.