{"id":336789,"date":"2026-09-03T07:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336789\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:18:23","slug":"hikers-glimpse-of-mysterious-figure-prompts-bigfoot-speculation-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336789\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker&#8217;s Glimpse Of Mysterious Figure Prompts Bigfoot Speculation In New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShe stated adamantly that she had \u2018never seen anything like this before,\u2019\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator went with the witness back to the site, where they tried to recreate the photos to help determine the height and build of the figure. The witness stood where she had been, and they used walkie-talkies so she could guide the investigator to where the figure had been, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Using the investigator\u2019s known height and the diameter of a tree, the investigator concluded the unknown figure was about four feet nine inches tall, the report states.<\/p>\n<p>The location of the figure was difficult, but not impossible, for the investigator to reach, due to dense reeds, brush, deep mud and thorny plants, according to the BFRO.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator noted the figure in the photographs has a \u201cvisible brow ridge,\u201d unlike modern humans, but its height seems small for an adult sasquatch. The investigator wrote, \u201cit is just as likely, if not more so, that the figure seen was a juvenile sasquatch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShe stated adamantly that she had \u2018never seen anything like this before,\u2019\u201d the report states. The investigator went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-336789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336789","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=336789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}