Video Shows Second Purported Bigfoot Sighting in Utah This Year
True to form, the video is shaky and brief, showing a tall dark figure lumbering up a mountain side. But given the weather conditions, altitude, and the figure’s stride, Tanner Hargis’ recent video of an alleged Bigfoot is bizarre and one of the more convincing ones we’ve seen lately.
A few weeks ago, Hargis and friends were using a portable spotting scope to observe areas around Lone Peak in the Wasatch mountain range just outside of Provo, UT, when they noticed the figure slogging up the mountain.
Pointing a video camera through the lens of his scope, he captured the entity on film and quickly submitted it to the Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization, a website that gathers extensive videos and photographic evidence of Bigfoot sightings, as well as research conducted by their own team.
“I think I have captured a video of a Sasquatch 03/23/19. At around 10:30 AM. Up on Wasatch Range. Near Lone Peak. It was high up to where I don’t think any man will hike up it. I think it’s something to check into,” Hargis said.
Coming off the heels of another recent spotting in the Provo area, this latest sighting shows a figure appearing to be somewhere in the range of 8-feet-tall, seen through the lens of a spotting scope – a high-powered portable telescope with an 80mm lens capable of extending up to 60x zoom, often used by birdwatchers and nature enthusiasts.
It’s this lengthy zoom that makes the video so shaky, as Hargis attempts to spot the being from a distance of seven miles while trying to keep it focused in the frame of his scope.
The bipedal entity in the video can be seen trudging up the crest of the mountain top, in the midst of a snowstorm, at an elevation of nearly 9,000 feet. According to Hargis, it would be rare to see a human hiking at that altitude, in those conditions, by themselves.
The vast majority of those who responded in the YouTube comments section seem to believe the video is solid evidence of the Utah Sasquatch, though a few skeptics bring up some valid contradictory points — namely, that Lone Peak is hiked by skiers, snowboarders, and hikers with snowshoes during the winter.
But despite the blurred, distant footage it’s hard to make out of the gear one would expect to see, as one would expect the figure to walk with a different gait if it were wearing snowshoes. Also, there seems to be a lack of any gear strapped to its back.
For now, Hargis and friends say they’ll keep their eyes peeled for another sighting or any other evidence to support their claims. But if one thing is for sure, those living in the Wasatch range, or anywhere near Provo, UT should be on the lookout for this elusive creature after two such convincing and consecutive sightings.
For more on the search for Bigfoot check out the documentary Bigfoot’s Reflection:
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Countless Bigfoot Sightings in Colorado Tracked at Sasquatch Outpost
If you perform a Google search for the term “Bigfoot” or “Sasquatch,” on any given day it’s likely you’ll find at least a few articles published within the past week. Sasquatch has become so ingrained in our culture, arguably more than any other cryptid, to the point that if it somehow isn’t real, we’ve practically willed it into existence.
Beyond its cultural acceptance, there’s actually overwhelming evidence of the reality of such a creature that spans centuries of sightings and lore throughout myriad cultures. Jim Meyers, a professional Sasquatch seeker and owner of the Sasquatch Outpost in Bailey, CO, cites the fact that nearly every Native American tribe has its own epithet for Sasquatch.
The Navajo call it “Ye’ Iitsoh,” meaning “Big God”; the Cherokee call it “Ketleh-Kudleh,” meaning “Hairy Savage”; and the Lakota-Sioux call it “Chiye-Tanka” meaning “Big Elder Brotha.”
Often, Native Americans refer to Sasquatch as another tribe or another people, rather than a species of ape or animal, Meyers says. And this near-universal acceptance of such a creature by indigenous peoples who have inhabited remote areas of the US, centuries before its modern development, is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for the existence of Sasquatch in his opinion.
Though Sasquatch has assimilated into our modern mythological zeitgeist, it can be found in a number of cultural traditions across the world—on nearly every continent, in fact.
Known as the Yeti, Yeren, Yowie, or the pejorative Abominable Snowman, tales of a large, hairy bipedal creature can be found in Australia, Asia, Europe, and both Americas. Interestingly though, Meyers says he’s not familiar with any instances of Sasquatch sightings in Africa, which is also where he lived much of his life.
Meyers grew up in Africa, as his parents were missionaries—a career path he would follow in his adulthood. Having moved to Kenya at age 11, he went to boarding school before attending college in the US. Feeling a desire to continue his parents’ work, Myers would spend another 20 years working as a missionary in Senegal, followed by a decade spent in France. Eventually, he returned to the states and settled in Bailey.
While he was always fascinated with Bigfoot, ever since he saw “The Legend of Boggy Creek” as a kid, Meyers said it wasn’t until a local businesswoman in Bailey recounted a very credible sighting she experienced in the area. Shortly thereafter, Animal Planet recorded an episode of Finding Bigfoot in Bailey, adding to Meyers’ interest, and the rest was history…
Searching for a new avenue of business to pursue, and hearing multitudes of stories and eyewitness sightings in the area, Meyers decided to open a Sasquatch museum in his small Colorado township in 2014. It’s now become a tourist hotspot with over 36,000 visits.
At the Sasquatch Outpost, Meyers has curated his ongoing research into the Sasquatch Encounter Museum where one finds recordings of the creature’s vocalizations, examples of the ways in which it bends, and snaps tree branches, and plaster casts of its footprints.
One of those casts happens to be from the most famous and credible Bigfoot sighting of all time: the Patterson-Gimlin film from 1967. While some skeptics claim the clip has been debunked and a deathbed confession of a hoax was made, Meyers is quick to correct that as a fallacy, pointing out that he’s talked with Patterson’s wife who said he maintained the veracity of the film up until his death.
And if that weren’t enough, Meyers has also kept a map of various levels of Sasquatch sightings and interactions people have reported experiencing throughout Colorado at the Outpost. On the map are various colored pins based on the type of encounter experienced: red denotes a visual sighting; yellow indicates tree breaks and bends; green indicates a vocalization or tree knocking; blue identifies a rock or item thrown at someone.
If you’ve had a Bigfoot encounter in Colorado, you may be able to contribute to this growing map of over 300 encounters. In the meantime, check out Meyers in the latest episode of Beyond Belief.
