Source : Perth Now news
A hiker in New York state claims to have spotted an “inhuman” creature wading through a glacial pond.
The witness – named only as KD – went out for a walk through woodland in Onondaga County on August 10 when she spotted a “strange” beast in the water standing upright and seemingly wading in the shallows. She admitted the sighting “unnerved” her but she managed to snap a picture before fleeing in terror.
She reported the sighting to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), saying: “[It] was a beautiful day for a hike . So I decided to go to a remote place in upstate New York. I picked out a glacial pond and bog [in Onondaga County].
“It was about 1pm when I arrived. I was the only one there. Not too surprising for a weekday afternoon. I walked out on the path to the take in the pond view. I took some video on the way out and then when I reached the pond I looked straight out and took a picture of the whole pond with the surrounding area.”
KD went on to reveal she was shocked to see a figure standing in the water, saying: “As I looked to the left I realized there was someone like wading in the pond. I was instantly unnerved and wondering what the heck was going on.
“I snapped a couple photo’s and it seemed to snap its head around and look right at me in such a strange way that I got creeped out even more.
“I just slowly turned the other way and started walking away in the opposite direction. I walked the back to the parking lot. I passed a family of three just arriving and starting their walk on the path.”
However, KD soon realised something wasn’t right. She added: “When I got back to the parking lot. I decided to walk the other path down to the pond’s edge, closer to the spot where I had taken the photo to see if anyone was down there. There was no one down there.
“There was a sign posted that said no swimming or wading though …
“Once I got close to the parking lot I discovered another trail leading into the woods and decided to check out this trail too. I walked a little ways down trail maybe a quarter mile but I didn’t see anyone and I started to feel very creeped out so I turned around and went back to my car and went home.”
She went on to add: “When I got home and started looking at my photo’s from the day I discovered that the photo of the person I had seen wading in the pond looked very odd and strange to me. It really looked inhuman.
“I showed the pictures to a friend of mine and once he saw the pictures he immediately thought it was a Bigfoot and sent it out to some researchers.”
BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker spoke with KD and went with her to the spot where the picture was taken, even attempting to recreate the image in a bid to figure out the creature’s size.
He wrote: “I met the witness at the location of the sighting six days after she had taken the photos. I spoke with her at length about the circumstances leading up the sighting and accompanying photographs. I found her to be very credible and the pictures taken very compelling.”
He went on to add: “Looking at the photos in question, at first glance they suggest that the figure in the image is an elderly, out of shape and naked, human male …
“However, on-site investigation of the location and subsequent size comparison of the figure in the photos to known measurements make this less tenable … I determined that the height of the creature to be approximately four feet nine inches tall or 57 inches (1.44 meters) …
“The height of the creature does pose a partial challenge to the theory that the creature seen was a sasquatch. If we accept that it was a juvenile sasquatch, the small height would make sense …”
Matthew concluded: “In short, it is in this investigators opinion that the witness did see and photograph a sasquatch.
“However, due to the distance the photo was taken, we cannot rule out the extreme improbability that this was an elderly human wading in this marshy pond.
“At minimum, this investigator strongly feels that the preponderance of evidence argues against the figure in the photos being human.”
