Has the Bigfoot Mystery Finally Been Solved?

Is bigfoot real or is there another explanation?

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00:00Does Bigfoot exist?

00:05It's one of the greatest questions to ever plague the minds of cryptozoologists.

00:09But in recent years, researchers say they might just have the answer as to why so many

00:12people believe they see something strange in the woods.

00:14And they are.

00:15It's just a much more common creature.

00:17Experts say that Bigfoot sightings are much more likely black bears that are walking around

00:21on their hind legs.

00:23It's a rare occurrence to capture on camera, but when the bears are upright and moving,

00:26they lumber around in much the same way you might expect Bigfoot to.

00:30In fact, two papers looking at Bigfoot sightings have outlined how they are much more common

00:34in areas that also have high black bear populations.

00:36And when the human populations grew in those same areas, sightings went up as well.

00:40However, in the South, in states like Texas and Florida, black bears don't live there.

00:44Yet there are still sightings.

00:46So is this evidence of a different Southern Bigfoot possibility?

00:49Data scientist Flo Foxon says don't get your hopes up, explaining, quote,

00:53Although this may be interpreted as evidence for the existence of an unknown hominid in

00:56North America, it is also explained by misidentification of other animals, including humans, among

01:02other possibilities.