Recent spotting of Bigfoot in Colorado is likely just a ‘guy in a suit,’ expert claims
A Bigfoot expert has revealed that the couple who recently claimed to have seen the mythological creature in Colorado probably saw a man in a suit.
Shannon Parker and her husband Stetson Tyler said they saw the creature on Oct. 8 during a narrow-gauge train ride from Durango to Silverton.
Video taken during the trip shows the alleged creature sneaking around the hillside before crouching down and blending in with the brown undergrowth.
But specialist Michael Rugg, curator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in California, dismissed their claims.
“I have to say, I watched the video and the creature had a good chance of being a man in a suit,” Rugg said. The New York Post.
Bigfoot expert Michael Rugg has revealed that the couple who claimed to have seen the mythological creature in Colorado probably saw a man in a suit
Shannon Parker and her husband Stetson Tyler said they saw the creature on Oct. 8 during a narrow-gauge train ride from Durango to Silverton.
He couldn’t say for sure that the footage wasn’t of Bigfoot, despite his suspicions.
‘It didn’t seem right to me. It’s not muscular enough. There aren’t enough details to judge, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone from (another Bigfoot) museum wanted to build some publicity.”
Parker and her husband claimed to have seen Bigfoot during their romantic trip.
“We were looking for moose in the mountains and my husband sees something moving and can’t really explain it,” she said. ‘So he’s like “Bigfoot!”.
“He was at least six feet tall or taller. It matched the mountain sage so well that he’s almost camouflaged when he’s crouched down… if you’d asked before our trip, we would have said Bigfoot might be real, but now we’re convinced .’
The 44-year-old contractor from Cheyenne, Wyoming, shared a video of the sighting on Facebook and claimed the train conductor said there had been previous non-human sightings.
“He said he had snowshoeed in those mountains before and had seen footprints that were larger and had much longer strides than snowshoes would have been,” she said.
“He also saw unexplained things.”
The interaction was filmed by another passenger named Brandon, who saw the couple reacting and decided to take out his phone to record the mythical beast.
“The ever-elusive creature Bigfoot,” he said as he shot the video.
The alleged Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, camouflages into the dark brown bushes around him in the clip as he moves back and forth looking at the steam engine train.
Video taken during the trip shows the alleged creature sneaking around the hillside before crouching down and blending in with the brown undergrowth.
Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, has puzzled people for centuries and a decade ago it was reported that genetic testing had confirmed that Bigfoot was a human relative that originated some 15,000 years ago
Bigfoot hunters said the monkey, also known as Gigantopithecus blacki, is believed to still be out there, alive and well, hiding out in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
“Is he still moving?” said a passenger in the background.
“He can stand up,” said another passenger.
The video then loses sight of the mythical humanoid creature as the train moves along.
Parker received comments from skeptical people claiming it could have been a hunter in a camouflage suit or someone playing a prank.
“It didn’t look like a hunter, because a hunter would have had a weapon like a bow since bow season,” she said. “It didn’t look like he had anything on him.”
Rugg has insisted that Bigfoot exists and he has spoken to “hundreds of witnesses” and seen one with his own eyes.
“They’re out there,” he said. ‘I saw one when I was little. He was a very large, hairy man, about half a meter taller than my parents.
“And the one I saw had a plaid shirt on his arm. I thought he took it off the clothesline, reached the armpit and wouldn’t go any further because it was too small for him, so he left it on his arm.
“It was quite a sight to see such a bigfoot standing there with a shirt on one arm.”
But he added that he “didn’t feel threatened” at the time because he “had no prejudice.”
“I had no reason to be afraid of this because its teeth were not bared and it was not making any frightening noises or coming after me.”
“He just stood there, probably wondering how I would react to it.”
The Bigfoot expert claims he heard it scream several times while looking for it.
Rugg said, “One bigfoot screamed and others responded, then a group of coyotes joined them…. we’ve experienced that a few times.
“The dogs here learn that if Bigfoot goes through your yard, you don’t bark and wake people up because he doesn’t want people to know he’s there.”
Despite being further removed from the recent action, the Indiana Bigfoot Research Organization kicked off their fall camp on October 12 with about 40 “squatters” camping out over the weekend to connect with other believers and try their luck at getting a glimpse of the creature to catch.
Colorado, Oklahoma and Indiana are ramping up their Bigfoot search efforts, despite none of the areas being in the top 10 most likely states to find “bigfoot.”
Thousands of people claim to have proof of Bigfoot’s existence, from California to Washington State and from Utah to Mississippi
A multi-state investigation was launched after the compelling ‘Bigfoot sighting’ in Colorado prompted other US states to step up their search efforts.
Indiana and Oklahoma recently launched expeditions to find Bigfoot after the hopes of Sasquatch believers were stoked following Colorado’s viral video evidence of a “sighting.”
The Native Oklahoma Bigfoot Research Organization launched an investigation in McAlester, Oklahoma, after several reports of “Bigfoot sightings” and the groundbreaking train sightings in the neighboring state of Colorado emerged in September.
Despite being further removed from the recent action, the Indiana Bigfoot Research Organization kicked off their fall camp on October 12 with about 40 “squatters” camping out over the weekend to connect with other believers and try their luck at getting a glimpse of the to catch orphans.
Colorado, Oklahoma and Indiana are ramping up their Bigfoot search efforts, despite none of the areas being in the top 10 most likely states to “find Bigfoot.”
Washington ranks first – with 713 reported Bigfoot sightings and the other west coast states of California (461) and Oregon (257) both rank highly.
Indiana’s neighbors, Ohio (321) and Illinois (303), come in fourth and fifth respectively, but Indiana lags far behind surrounding states in sightings of the furry creature.
According to Bigfoot expert Brian Terrell, nine out of 10 Bigfoot sightings are never reported because people don’t want to be ridiculed for claiming to have seen a sasquatch.