An alleged 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 a video online that appeared to show Sasquatch traversing a rocky area before squatting in the southwestern part of the state.
“If you had asked before our trip, we would have said that maybe [Bigfoot] It could be real, but now we are convinced,” she told The Post of the “inexplicable” sighting witnessed by her and her husband, Stetson.
However, Matthew Moneymaker, head of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization and former host of the Animal Planet series “Finding Bigfoot,” told The Post that there are several indications that discredit the sighting.
One in particular stands out: The beast, he said, “looks suspiciously like a $200 Jack Link’s Beef Jerky costume.”
He also inferred that the 6- to 7-foot-tall tanned monster, filmed moving through a mountainous region of the Animas River canyon between Silverton and Durango, looked similar to a Bigfoot costume that a local company, Sasquatch Expedition Campers, is making. selling. known for its use in promotional activities.
Travelers recently claimed to have seen Bigfoot in an open field in Colorado.Shannon Parker/Facebook Video revealed what appeared to be a tall, hairy beast roaming the area.Shannon Parker/Facebook
A representative for Sasquatch Expedition Campers confirmed to The Post that they have a furry suit, 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, however.
‘There are so many sightings reported’
Crazy stories have claimed that the creature has glowing red eyes, has thrown rocks to defend itself, and is apparently able to “taser” its prey in a strange, metaphysical way.
And Moneymaker is keen to keep up with the ongoing show.
He told The Post that he actually filmed an episode of “Finding Bigfoot” in the same region of Colorado because “there are a lot of sightings reported… and some people said they’d seen them from that scenic railroad in the past,” adding that most witnesses observe much darker fur than the light brown captured on film.
The railroad company itself even wrote in a Facebook post Thursday: “Talk to any train crew or staff member and they will tell you stories about strange occurrences in the remote Animas River Canyon.”
Moneymaker (far left) appears with other “Finding Bigfoot” cast members James “Bobo” Fay, Cliff Barackman and Ranae Holland in a promotional photo for the show Animal Planet.Animal Planet
All of this leads Moneymaker and others to try to answer the million-dollar question: How has Bigfoot, a mythical creature who actually has an FBI file, been seen around the country, even around the world, and during centuries?
According to Moneymaker, he is not a lone ranger.
“It is a very basic understanding that there is more than one. Sometimes people see two at a time, and sometimes they look like adults and young people together,” she said. “The singular error that comes with the idea that we hear the word Bigfoot or Sasquatch: it sounds like one thing, which is why we all always emphasize the plurality of sasquatches and Big feet.”
Matthew Moneymaker, former host of the Animal Planet series “Finding Bigfoot,” shows a cast of a suspected Bigfoot footprint in a 2012 file photo. Zandy Mangold
Researchers at the University of Arizona have even speculated that what witnesses describe as Bigfoot dates back to an ancient giant ape known as Gigantopithecus, which existed with early humans.
“They were hunted to extinction by homo erectus,” Moneymaker theorized. “We believe these are the ones that were smart enough not to be hunted by adopting a strategy of being nocturnal and always backing down from confrontations with humans.”
‘I was looking right at him…I could see in his eyes’
However, some supposed eyewitnesses may feel more like prisoners than spectators.
A fellow BFRO member, Rick Reles, a 65-year-old retired musician from Henderson County, North Carolina, told The Post that he saw a Bigfoot on three separate occasions, and in three different states, between 2010 and 2018.
“These things have thrown stones at me. I have smelled them…he is putrid. It could be wet dog, feces, that kind of thing,” he told The Post Reles, who even recorded a song about Bigfoot. “I have left their footprints. I have seen his stick structures going through the forest. I know it’s real.”
Reles claimed that, in 2016, he was just 90 feet away from a “juvenile” Bigfoot in Colorado that he claimed was about 6½ feet tall.
“I was looking directly at it and I can see that its face was flat, there was no hair around the middle of the face, its color was black, it had no neck and it was disproportionate to humans in the legs,” he said. saying.
“I could see in his eyes. There was nothing white in her eyes: they were all dark brownish-black pupils, and the face was a flat, slightly open mouth. She swayed back and forth, almost like, ‘Oh, they’ve seen me,’ then took three steps and ran off at an angle into the woods.”
BFRO member Rick Reles claimed he has had “putrid” encounters with 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 published a report that may shed light on those theories and stories.
“Sasquatch sightings were statistically significantly associated with bear populations, such that, on average, each 1,000-bear increase in the bear population is associated with a 4% increase in Sasquatch sightings,” he wrote. Foxon.
“Therefore, as black bear populations increase, it is expected that Sasquatch sightings will also increase.”
Bigfoot and the paranormal: ‘They can hit you with what almost looks like a Taser’
Bigfoot sightings date back many years. One of the most infamous was captured in this undated photo of Roger Patterson, an image supposedly taken outside Eureka, California. Bettmann Archive
If a breed of Sasquatches does exist, they may be more paranormal than primitive, according to Moneymaker.
Witnesses have described surreal experiences in the presence of a Bigfoot, although it could simply be a primal fear coursing through their bodies.
“They can produce bioluminescence, specifically from their eyes, and make them glow red, like embers in a fire,” Moneymaker strangely stated. “People think they’re looking at the devil… It’s a very creepy thing to see in the woods.”
These things have thrown stones at me. I’ve smelled them… It’s putrid.
He also claimed that Bigfoots have evolved to a point where they can somehow create defensive electrical surges, possibly caused by noises below the human hearing range called infrasound, when approached.
“The manifestation of this is that when you’re around them, and when they want to, they can hit you with what feels almost like a Taser… It’s happened in different states, at enough different times, with enough surprising skeptics peeing themselves.” in the pants. As a result, we know they can do it,” Moneymaker said.
“We think they probably evolved to stun their prey and deer long enough so they could reach out and grab them.”
“I have left their footprints. I have seen their stick structures that go through the forest. I know it’s real,” Reles, the alleged Bigfoot observer, told The Post. Courtesy of Rick Roles
Once, up close, Reles claimed that he was engulfed by this so-called “zapping” firsthand.
“My experience is 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 that you need to escape quickly,” Reles said.
“If they don’t want you around, they have ways of making you feel uncomfortable.”
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