Mystery Solved? The Bigfoot Conundrum Could Be At Last Solved

Is bigfoot real or is there another explanation?

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00:00does bigfoot exist it's one of the greatest questions to ever plague the

00:07minds of cryptozoologists but in recent years researchers say they might just

00:10have the answer as to why so many people believe they see something strange in

00:14the woods and they are it's just a much more common creature experts say that

00:18bigfoot sightings are much more likely black bears that are walking around on

00:21their hind legs it's a rare occurrence to capture on camera but when the bears

00:25are upright and moving they lumber around in much the same way you might

00:28expect bigfoot to in fact two papers looking at bigfoot sightings have

00:32outlined how they are much more common in areas that also have high black bear

00:35populations and when the human populations grew in those same areas

00:39sightings went up as well however in the south in states like texas and florida

00:43black bears don't live there yet there are still sightings so is this evidence of a

00:46different southern bigfoot possibility data scientist flow fox on says don't

00:51get your hopes up explaining quote although this may be interpreted as

00:54evidence for the existence of an unknown hominid in north america it is also

00:58explained by misidentification of other animals including humans among other

01:02possibilities