Nat Geo's Mireya Mayor Shuts Down New Viral Bigfoot Video

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Anthropologist and "Exhibition Bigfoot" star Mireya Mayor weighs in on a recent snap of Bigfoot being spotted in Upper Colorado River ... but she tells us to hold the applause!!!

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00:00When you look a little bit closer, while you do see that there is this very large creature

00:07on two legs, which gets very exciting, you can also see that it starts to look more costumey

00:14and the way that it moves is too human-like. You know, it's definitely not a bear. It doesn't look

00:21like anything that should be out there. But unfortunately, with Bigfoot, you get a lot of

00:26pranksters, you know, which makes it really hard for us scientists looking out for that irrefutable

00:31proof. But there's just something about it that is too, too human-like. At one point, it looked

00:38almost as if it was going to wave hello, you know, just its mannerisms, the way it crouched,

00:42the way it placed its hand. I suddenly felt like it was just going to start waving at us,

00:46and then it turns around. But the other part to that video that made me question it was the terrain

00:55that it was in. You know, you expect something like the world's greatest hide-and-seek player,

01:02right, to be in this very dense vegetation, staying very hidden. This was in some pretty open brush

01:09area. And the fact that it hung around for as long as it did, I mean, I've spent years and years working

01:17with gorillas out in the Congo. And yes, they are very curious animals, and very times they'll stop to

01:24observe you because they're curious, they're smart, they're so intelligent, like we are.

01:27And so you think, okay, is the animal like just being curious? But there was almost something too

01:33relaxed about the way that this creature just hung around before it decided to take off.

01:40I'm a National Geographic explorer, and I've spent my entire life looking for creatures that

01:45are either said to be extinct, have never been photographed or studied, and we're making new

01:51scientific discoveries all of the time. So will we ever see a Bigfoot in our lifetime? I think it

01:57is certainly possible. Did we just see one? I don't think so.

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