Is Bigfoot in Colorado?
A Wyoming couple thinks so after recognizing what they consider to be the “ever-elusive creature” whereas they have been driving the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in southwest Colorado over the weekend.
Shannon and Stetson Parker have been in search of elk throughout their Sunday practice journey by the San Juan Mountains on the best way to Durango from Silverton when Stetson noticed what he thought may very well be Bigfoot.
“We were looking for elk in the mountains and my husband sees something moving and then can’t really explain it. So he’s like, ‘Bigfoot!’” Shannon instructed The New York Post. “It was at least six, seven feet or taller. It matched the sage in the mountains so much that he’s like camouflaged when crouching down.”
Shannon stated in a Facebook publish that she scrambled to take photographs of the beast, whereas a person sitting subsequent to Stetson took a video of the creature that has now gone viral on social media.
“Y’all, out of the hundreds of people on the train, three or four of us actually saw, as Stetson says in the video, the ever-elusive creature Bigfoot,” she wrote within the Facebook publish. “I don’t know about y’all, but we believe.”
What or who’s behind the sighting?
Theories about who — or what — was behind the Sunday sighting have gained traction on-line this week, together with on Reddit, the place customers speculated somebody from the Silverton-based RV firm Sasquatch Expedition Campers may very well be concerned.
When reached by cellphone Thursday, Sasquatch Expedition Campers co-founder Kass Kremer referred to the corporate’s assertion on Facebook, which included a denial… of types.
“We, The Sasquatch Crew, feel compelled to address recent allegations and rumors that have been circulating, suggesting our involvement in the train sighting. We want to make it unequivocally clear: It wasn’t us,” the assertion stated.
But the assertion was written on a white web page subsequent to a number of clumps of darkish hair or fur, and an accompanying picture confirmed an individual engaged on a camper whereas carrying Sasquatch arms and toes.
The firm additionally posted a promotion for brand new social media followers to win free merchandise.
“Have you seen #Sasquatch? We know of a few that have been born and raised here at our world headquarters in Silverton, CO at 9,318 (feet)!” the corporate stated in a Facebook publish.
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad runs by the mountains within the San Juan National Forest between Durango and Silverton, and in keeping with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, this isn’t the primary time the cryptid has been reported within the space.
In San Juan and La Plata counties, the place Durango and Silverton are, there have been 4 Sasquatch experiences since 1989.
The most up-to-date sighting within the space was in 2008, when a hiker outdoors Durango noticed a “large hairy figure” whereas on the Crater Lake path.
Staff author Katie Langford contributed to this story.
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