{"id":333626,"date":"2026-08-31T06:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333626\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T06:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:54:25","slug":"ny-bigfoot-sighting-of-syracuse-figure-my-have-gross-nsfw-explanation-inhuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333626\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Bigfoot sighting of ‘Syracuse Figure’ my have gross NSFW explanation: ‘Inhuman’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s big all right.<\/p>\n

A hiker snapped photos of what she believed was a mythical upstate New York Bigfoot<\/a> \u2014 but critics claim the so-called \u201cSyracuse Figure\u201d may just be an elderly, overweight skinny dipper. <\/p>\n

An unidentified 25-year-old snapped two photos of the pot-bellied beast as she was hiking near a pond in an undisclosed slice of wilderness in Onondaga County, though some are dismissing the eerie snaps and saying the amateur photographer may have been an unwitting Peeping Tom.<\/p>\n

\"AA creature now dubbed the \u201cSyracuse Figure\u201d is seen in a New York marshland. The photos have led to controversy over what exactly was caught on camera. Facebook\/Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization<\/p>\n

\"AA creature now dubbed the \u201cSyracuse Figure\u201d is seen in a New York marshland. The photos have led to controversy over what exactly was caught on camera. Facebook\/Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really looked inhuman,\u201d the woman reported to Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, which investigates Sasquatch sightings, according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The woman, who BFRO identified only by the initials KD, said she was alone when she arrived at the glacial pond around 1 p.m. on Aug. 10. She allegedly spotted someone wading in the water and initially assumed it was a naked man \u2014 until the figure snapped its head around and stared at her in a way she described as unnervingly strange.<\/p>\n

She left in a panic and snapped a photo on her way out, the outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A BFRO \u201cinvestigator,\u201d identified only as Ben C., later tried to recreate the photos himself but said it was nearly impossible, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It took him 10 to 15 minutes just to wade to the spot through debris, roots and waist-deep mud, while becoming scratched up from the debris in the process \u2014 a feat he argued would be tough for \u201ca presumed naked and elderly man,\u201d the report read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Using his own 6-foot frame as a reference point, Ben C. estimated the figure was about 4-feet-9 inches tall \u2014 extremely small for a normal human male \u2014 and pointed to what he called a visible brow ridge as evidence toward it being a juvenile Sasquatch rather than a skinny dipper.<\/p>\n

Fellow investigator Matthew Moneymaker \u2014 who shot down claims that another investigator, Snake the Bigfoot Hunter, found a Sasquatch corpse in New York<\/a> \u2014 went a step further, suggesting what looked like sagging skin in the photos could actually be wet fur, and cited recent reports of \u201cmini-bigfoots\u201d spotted in Pennsylvania in mid-August.<\/p>\n

Some online, however, weighed in on the photos with many displaying skepticism towards the figure being a real Sasquatch and instead believe it to be an old, hairy man skinny dipping. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a more obvious picture of an old guy,\u201d said one X user.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOh for f\u2013k\u2019s sake that\u2019s some hairy dude with man boobs doing a little catfish noodling,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s big all right. A hiker snapped photos of what she believed was a mythical upstate New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[118100,9,24,55,54,56,125453,4015,58],"class_list":["post-333626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bigfoot","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-peeping-tom","tag-social-media","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}