Alaskan Bigfoot Encounter: New Evidence Emerges in Colorado Video
Posted Sunday, September 29, 2024
By Squatchable.com staff
A special ops team on a training exercise in the Alaskan wilderness stumbled upon something extraordinary - evidence of a Bigfoot sighting. According to a video posted on the YouTube channel Grand Discovery, the team discovered gigantic footprints in the snow, measuring 18 to 19 inches long and spaced 5 feet apart.
The team's best tracker estimated that the creature responsible for the footprints was around 9 feet tall and weighed between 500 and 700 pounds. The team followed the trail, noting the creature's intelligence as it navigated the terrain. That night, as they set up camp, a chilling howl shattered the stillness, causing the team to pack up and leave quickly.
The video has sparked discussion and gained some credibility on social media, with many Bigfoot enthusiasts pointing to alleged footprints as evidence of the creature's existence. Anthropologist Jeffrey Meldrum, who specializes in primate bipedalism, has over 300 footprint casts that he believes could not have been made by wood carvings or human feet. He argues that these casts indicate the presence of a large non-human primate in North America.
In 2005, Matt Crowley obtained a cast known as the Onion Mountain cast and meticulously recreated its dermal ridges. Primate fingerprint expert Jimmy Chilcut acknowledged that artifacts can be created in lab conditions, but indicated that some alleged Bigfoot footprint casts he examined were genuine because they showed unique dermal ridges. However, he had not published any evidence to support his claims and no independent reviews of his claims had been conducted.
In 2007, the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization claimed to have photographs of a juvenile Bigfoot taken by a camera trap in the Alagan National Forest. However, the Pennsylvania Game Commission stated that the images actually depicted a bear with mange.
In 2012, after a 5-year study of alleged Bigfoot DNA samples, veterinarian Melba Ketchum released a statement claiming to have found evidence that Sasquatch is a human relative that emerged about 15,000 years ago from a hybridization of modern humans and an unknown primate species. She urged that Sasquatch be recognized officially as an indigenous people deserving of protection against hunting and trapping. However, her research was later discovered to have been published in a journal that had been registered anonymously just 9 days before the announcement and had published only the Sasquatch article.
Despite the lack of solid evidence, many Bigfoot enthusiasts continue to believe in the existence of these elusive creatures. The video from the Grand Discovery YouTube channel provides an intriguing glimpse into the world of Bigfoot research and the ongoing search for definitive proof of their existence.