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- Time of India
What! Bigfoot finally caught on camera? Rafting crew video shows a creature that looks almost like Bigfoot!
For centuries, tales of a large, hairy, human-like creature known as Bigfoot have been famous in the Native American folklore popularly calling it as 'Sasquatch' or 'wild man', and in the modern world after multiple alleged sightings of the humanoid cryptid the legend has become part of pop culture and mystery lore.
The story came into the public eye in 1958 when a letter to a California newspaper described enormous footprints found near a logging site. But the most famous moment came in 1967 with the Patterson-Gimlin film that had grainy footage showing a hulking creature moving through the trees at Bluff Creek, which still is debated today whether it was a man in a costume or genuine evidence of a creature science hasn't identified.
On May 24, 2025 alleged new sighting of Bigfoot in Colorado has once again pushed this legend into the limelight. According to a whitewater rafting crew with the Colorado River Expedition was taking a lunch break near the Upper Colorado River when something unusual caught their attention in the woods.
'Someone yelled out that they saw a bear, so we started looking at it, and that's when we realized it was something else.
It wasn't a bear. It was standing up there on the hillside,' said Logan Kirk, the lead rafting guide.
Kirk described the creature as clearly bipedal, which made it immediately catch the attention of the rafting group. 'It was definitely bipedal, which really stood out to us,' he added. The video they captured has since gone viral, showing a large, furry figure moving through dense trees. At one point, the figure seems to stop and stare directly at the camera before vanishing into the forest.
While some online are convinced it's Bigfoot, others argue it's more likely someone in a suit or a bear briefly standing on two legs.
Still, Kirk remains curious. 'We're gonna go up to see if we can find any evidence of what was going on up there, whether that's footprints or something else. Who knows? It's so hard in the rocks to actually get anything like that, but we want to see if there's anything there,' he told
This sighting isn't an isolated incident either. Colorado has seen over 100 Bigfoot-related reports since March this year. 'We're still trying to figure it out,' Kirk added. 'We've gone through the footage and zoomed in on the images, whatever it is, whether Bigfoot or some other creature.'
What is Bigfoot?
The search for Bigfoot and other unknown creatures is part of a field called cryptozoology, which isn't fully recognised as science.
Some experts think the legend might have started with a real extinct giant ape called Gigantopithecus. Fossils of this ape were found in Southeast Asia, and it may have lived alongside early humans.
According to Native American folklore, Bigfoot was known as a 'wild man' or a guardian of the forest. Many tribes believed it was a powerful, spiritual being that lived deep in nature, watching over the land and keeping balance, and it is not just a mysterious animal or creature, but a real being.
Its common name "Sasquatch" comes from the Salish word "Sasquits," while tribes like the Algonquin call a similar creature "Witiko" or "Wendigo." Many Native American tribes also have stories of a large, human-like being with special powers. The Ojibway people of the Northern Plains believed a creature called the Rugaru would appear during times of danger, acting as a warning for humans to change their behaviour and ways of living.
Other tribes also saw this hairy figure as a messenger or a sign to pay attention.
