Bigfoot Linked to Biblical Hairy Beings Called Seir

A fascinating deep dive into ancient scripture just dropped on YouTube, and if you've ever wondered whether the Bible holds clues about Sasquatch, this one is going to light up your night. A creator named Colyn Moore put together a seriously compelling exploration of a Hebrew word that might just change how you think about the history of hairy wild men sightings. The word in question is "Se'irim" (pronounced "seh-reem"), and it's the plural of "se'ir," which literally translates to "hairy one." Here's where it gets interesting — the same word is also the ordinary Hebrew word for a he-goat. So every time the word shows up in scripture, readers have to ask: is the writer talking about goats, or about something stranger? Moore walks through four key passages where these "hairy ones" appear in the wild places, the ruins, and the dark corners of the biblical world. The first stop is Leviticus 17:7, where God warns Israel against sacrificing to the Se'irim out in the open fields. The King James translators rendered the word as "devils," while modern translations say "goat demons" or "goat idols." Either way, something out in the wilderness was pulling the Israelites' worship away from God. Considering Egypt's long history of goat worship — including the god Pan and the city of Mendes where the he-goat itself was deified — there's a strong scholarly case that these were pagan idols imported from Egypt. But Moore points out something that should give any researcher pause: the same word keeps showing up in places where idols don't make sense, out in the desolation doing things idols can't do. Then there's the scapegoat ritual in Leviticus 16. The "goat for Azazel" gets led out into the wilderness carrying the sins of the people. Some ancient readers believed Azazel wasn't just a place-name but an actual being of the wilderness — a hairy, wild presence waiting just beyond the edge of the camp. Isaiah 13:21 paints an eerie picture of the Se'irim dancing in the ruins of fallen Babylon alongside owls and jackals. Not sacrificed to, not worshiped — just there, inheriting the desolation when civilization moves out. Isaiah 34:14 takes it further, describing the Se'irim crying out to one another in the wilderness of Edom, keeping company with jackals, desert beasts, and Lilith herself. If these were just wild goats, it's a remarkably spooky guest list. The fourth passage, 2 Chronicles 11:15, shows King Jeroboam setting up an actual organized priesthood for the worship of the Se'irim right alongside his golden calves. This isn't folklore anymore — it's state religion. Whatever these beings were, a king staked his kingdom's spiritual future on them. What really got me thinking was the translation history. When Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew scriptures into Greek around 250 BC to create the Septuagint, they chose the word "daimonia" — demons — for the Se'irim in Isaiah's wilderness passages. Not goats. Demons. These were Jews translating their own sacred texts centuries before Christ, and they read the hairy ones of the desolation as supernatural beings. That doesn't prove anything, but it tells us the ancients themselves felt something uncanny in the word. Then Moore draws the line straight to 1958 Humboldt County, where bulldozer operator Jerry Crew found those famous 16-inch prints at Bluff Creek and journalist Andrew Genzoli coined the term "Bigfoot." The parallels are hard to ignore once you see them laid out. The Se'irim are hairy. Sasquatch is defined by hair. The Se'irim live in the wilderness beyond the camp. Sasquatch lives in the deep timber beyond the trailhead. The Se'irim dance in ruins and cry out to one another. Witnesses across the Pacific Northwest have reported vocalizations and calls answered from the treeline for generations. Moore is careful to point out the gaps in the argument. Leviticus and Chronicles really do look like they're describing idols, not flesh-and-blood beings roaming the hills. And Isaiah might just be a poet using wild animals as brushstrokes to paint desolation. Fair points. But the shape of the idea — hairy wild ones just beyond the firelight — is one of the oldest shapes in human experience. And it's not just the Bible. Every culture on Earth seems to carry some memory of these beings. The Sasquatch of the Pacific Northwest tribes comes from a native word meaning "wild man" — and those tribes had their own rich traditions of encounters long before any newspaper editor got involved. The Yeti of the Himalayas. Enkidu from the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, covered in hair, running with the beasts before civilization tamed him. The Woodwose carved into medieval European churches, shaggy wild men of the deep forest. The Bible's version might simply be the oldest written one we have. This is the kind of video that stays with you. Moore handles the text with real respect and doesn't oversell the connection, which makes the parts that do land hit even harder. Definitely worth carving out some time to watch the whole thing — it opens up a whole new thread to pull on for anyone interested in the deeper history of Sasquatch research.