November 7, 2012 | 12 notes

The Hunt for Bigfoot Goes High Tech

Bigfoot is pretty elusive. Humans have searched for him in earnest since 1951, when a photographer snapped a picture of a footprint that he claimed must have come from a Yeti. Since then, there have been countless sightings of the big beast.

Just yesterday, some people in Utah might have seen it (see video above).

But most likely it was a bear. Critics call something like this “blobsquatch”—a blob that your brain turns into Bigfoot since that’s what you want to see. - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com.

Video: Beard Card

Ed note: Did Bigfoot really exist at some point? How Gigantopithecus became extinct.