Bigfoot hunters are employing brand new, state of the art technology to once and for all prove that the mythical creature definitely does exist
15:51, 30 Nov 2025
The mystery of Bigfoot could finally be solved(Image: Getty Images)
Bigfoot hunters are using state-of-the-art tech in a bid to solve one of the world’s greatest mysteries.
They are using sophisticated scientific methods for collecting and validating evidence to try and prove the mythical beast’s existence. Bigfoot has long been depicted as a large ape-like creature, standing up to 10ft tall, with a barrel chest.
It is usually reported as being covered with thick dark hair, a small conical head and long powerful arms – as well as the iconic large feet. Sightings have been reported across forests in the USA and Canada with hundreds of witness statements alongside grainy photographs and video, plaster casts of footprints and recordings of unexplained sounds.
Boffin Dr Jamie Lewis, from Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, has penned a new book on the rise of ‘Bigfooters’ – punters using tech to try and prove the creature is real. He spent three years conducting more than 150 interviews with those hunting for Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, working with co-author Dr Andrew Bartlett from Sheffield University.
A new illustration of Bigfoot from Dr Jamie Lewis’ book(Image: Mike Roberts / SWNS)
Dr Lewis said: “Bigfoot exists. Not necessarily as a biological creature, but certainly as an object around which thousands of Americans organise their lives, collecting and analysing evidence, and making knowledge. The idea of Bigfoot has captured the imaginations of people for decades.
“As well as drawing from scientific practices, Bigfooters use a suite of modern technologies such as drones, thermal imaging, and parabolic dishes in their investigations. They spend weekends, weeks and even months in the field.
“This work is skilful behaviour, as they need to detect, collect and analyse the merest traces, remnants and residues of the presence of an unknown-to-science animal. Sceptics might believe that Bigfooters are rejecting science by chasing an animal whose existence has never been proved.
“But what my interviews showed were the ways in which Bigfooters draw on their idea of scientific practices to piece together fragments of what they believe is tangible evidence.
Dr Lewis definitively said ‘Bigfoot exists’(Image: Cardiff University / SWNS)
“They might find what they believe is a footprint, or a disturbed areas of woodland understood to be characteristic of a Bigfoot having passed through, or hear a sound that they argue can’t be explained as being that another animal. It’s around these absences that many Bigfooters structure their arguments.”
The findings are recorded in their new book, Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: on the borderlands of legitimate science.
Dr Bartlett added: “If we are to understand how people outside of the institutions of science attempt to collect evidence and make knowledge claims – and this applies much more widely than just to Bigfooting – we are not going to get very far if we dismiss their efforts.”
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